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ACTION FILMS

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes undergoes a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended Rights and frenetic chases. They occasionally have a resourceful charcater struggling against incredible odds such as, life-threatening situations, an evil villain, and/or being chased in several ways of transportation (car, bus, truck, etc), with victory achieved at the end after difficult physical efforts and violence.

While action films have traditionally been a reliable source of revenue for movie studios, relatively few action films obtain critical praise. Although action films have traditionally been aimed at male audiences from the early teens to the mid-30s, many action filmmakers from the 1990s and 2000s added female heroines in response to the expanding social conceptions of gender, glorifying the strong female archetype.

THE FRENCH CONNECTION


The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin.
The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore.
It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. Egan and Grosso also appear in the film, as characters other than themselves.
It was the first R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture since the introduction of the MPAA film rating system.

This is an intense, unremitting, intelligent and incredibly fast-paced film which blends action, cinematic realism, art and humor into a masterwork of hard-edged crime drama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Connection_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/