Choosing a movie that the whole family loves and can watch together isn’t always easy, but this list of best action movies for tweens is perfect for a movie night together!
When you have tweens at home, one of the best ways to keep them entertained is with a little bit of action! That means these action movies for tweens are sure to be hit at your next family movie night!
Pair any of these movies with these Movie Night Snacks, fun dinner ideas, or desserts for an extra special night.
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Action Movies for Teens & Tweens
These fun action movies are perfect for keeping your teenagers entertained at your next movie night.
From super hero features to apocalyptic dramas, there’s something for every tween on this big list of movie ideas.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
With Spider-Man’s identity now revealed, Peter Parker finds he’s no longer able to separate his normal life as a high school student from his secret life as a superhero. When Peter asks for help from Doctor Strange, the two open a rift that threatens space and time.
Ready Player One
In a dystopian future, the planet is on the brink of collapse. But people find salvation in an expansive virtual reality universe created by an eccentric billionaire. When the billionaire dies, he promises to give his fortune to the first person to discover a digital Easter egg that’s hidden somewhere in the virtual world, sparking a treasure hunt through a world of mystery and danger.
Hunger Games Series
A tyrannical capital maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as their children fight to the death until only one remains in this dystopian action movie series perfect for tweens.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
After discovering an old video game console in a basement, four high school kids are magically drawn into the game’s jungle setting. In order to save themselves, the group must beat every level or risk being stuck in the video game forever.
The Maze Runner Trilogy
When a teenager awakens at the center of a giant labyrinth with no memory of his previous life, he’s forced to run through an always-changing maze to find an escape route. While working with the other captured teens, the group attempts to make their escape and uncover the conspiracy behind their imprisonment in this action trilogy for teens.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Space adventurer Peter Quill finds himself being stalked by relentless bounty hunters after he steals a magical orb. To escape the hunters and save the universe from a powerful villain, Quill is forced into an alliance with four alien misfits.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his young allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and the First Order in the new chapter of an action movie classic.
Transformers
The fate of Earth is on the line when two races of robots with the ability to change into different mechanical objects bring their war to Earth. Only a human teenager can save the world from total destruction.
Divergent Trilogy
In a future world, society is divided into five factions. As each teenager enters adulthood, he or she must choose a faction and commit to it for life. But after making her choice, one teen discovers she’s Divergent and will never be able to fit into just one category, pulling her into a looming war that threatens everyone she loves.
Black Panther
Following the death of his father, T’Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his place as king. But when a powerful enemy appears, T’Challa’s role as leader gets tested when he’s drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk.
The Kid Who Would Be King
When a bullied kid stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur, he and his friends become knights who join forces with the legendary wizard Merlin to save mankind from a wicked enchantress.
The Avengers
When Thor’s evil brother Loki gains unlimited power, Nick Fury begins recruiting superheroes to defeat the threat to Earth. Joining Fury’s team of avengers are Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, Thor, the Black Widow and Hawkeye.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
A teen living in a South London housing estate and seemingly headed for a life behind bars, is recruited into an elite secret service. During his training, a villain launches a diabolical plan to solve the problem of climate change by going on a worldwide killing spree.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
After learning he’s the son of the Greek god Poseidon, a teenager is drawn into the mythical world of the children of deities. While attending a magical school, Percy Jackson learns to harness his divine powers and prepare for the adventure of a lifetime.
See You Yesterday
Two science loving teens spend every minute they can working on their invention: time travel backpacks. After one of their older brothers is killed, they put their backpack project to the test to change the past and save him.
Wonder Woman
Raised on a sheltered island paradise as a princess of a tribe of Amazonian warriors, Diana meets an American pilot who tells her about the war that’s raging in the outside world. Convinced that she can stop the threat, the princess leaves her home for the first time to fight alongside men, where she finally discovers her full powers and true destiny.
Zombieland
After a virus turns most people into zombies, the world’s surviving humans are stuck in a never-ending battle with the undead. Four unlikely survivors are able to avoid the turn by sticking to a list of survival rules and zombie-killing strategies as they make their way to a safe haven in Los Angeles in this action comedy.
Shazam!
With the help of a magical spell, a 14 year old boy is granted the power to transform into a super hero. But his super fun is short-lived when the evil Dr. Thaddeus Sivana tries to get his hands on Shazam’s magical abilities.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
When Captain Jack Sparrow arrives in the Caribbean without a ship or crew, he must assemble a team to help save the governor’s daughter from kidnappers in hopes of getting his hands on a valuable coin that is linked to a curse that has transformed the pirates into the undead.
National Treasure
Historian Ben Gates has spent his entire life searching for a rumored treasure dating back to the creation of the United States. But after finding a frozen Colonial ship in the Arctic Circle that contains a clue linking the treasure to the Declaration of Independence, his treasure hunting cohorts turn on him. It’s up to him to save the historical document and find the treasure himself.
Jurassic World
Jurassic World is a luxury resort filled with genetically engineered dinosaurs, including the vicious Indominus rex. When the massive carnivore escapes, it’s up to an animal expert to use his special skills to save the tourists from a prehistoric assault.
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings
The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. But fate has placed the ring in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins. When Frodo becomes the Ringbearer, he learns he must destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.
Enola Holmes
When her mother goes missing, enterprising teen Enola Holmes uses her detective skills to outsmart her older brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Love these ideas? We also have a list of comedies and coming-of-age movies that your tween may love!
Grab the full list of the 50 best movies for tweens for more ideas!
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