60 Sylvester Stallone Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Rocky Balboa, an amateur boxer employed as a debt collector for a loan shark, is unexpectedly selected by heavyweight boxing world champion, Apollo Creed, to fight him in the upcoming United States Bicentennial. Rocky, though, initially unwilling, later sees this as an opportunity to prove himself to everyone. Meanwhile, he also finds love in Adrian Pennino, who works at a local fish pet shop.

World heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa is on a winning spree and is enjoying his life when he is challenged by strong new competitor, James Clubber Lang. Rocky accepts and is defeated by Lang. His manager Mickey, too dies and he sinks into depression. This is when Apollo Creed offers to train him for his next match to reclaim the heavyweight championship.

In this sequel, boxer Rocky Balboa decides to retire to recover his health and get married to Adrian despite holding his own against world champion Apollo Creed. However, he considers returning to the ring after struggling with financial problems, just as Creed becomes fixated on a rematch after receiving hate mails for allegedly fixing their previous fight.

A Vietnam War veteran John Rambo enters the small town of Hope while travelling and is apprehended by the arrogant Sheriff Teasle. He is tortured which reminds him of the torture he suffered as POW. Hence, he escapes and is aggressively chased by the Sheriff’s men. Colonel Trautman, Rambo's old commander, is now the only one who can stop the chase as well as Rambo’s rampage.

Blaming himself for the accidental death of a mountain-climber, experienced mountain rescuer, Gabe Walker, wishes to quit. After receiving a distress call from stranded hikers, he returns to the mountains. However, his life is at risk as the ‘hikers’ are a group of criminals trying to use his skills to locate their $100million loot scattered around Rocky Mountains during a plane crash. 

LAPD elite Lieutenant Marion Cobretti, codename Cobra finds himself having to contend with a series of murders by a social Darwinist radical group of supremacists called the ‘The New World’, who want to eliminate the weak. A witness Ingrid Knudsen is placed in his protection. Ingrid and Cobra fall in love and must survive The New World. 

Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Balboa, who is ready to retire, is enraged and overcome with guilt after his old friend Apollo Creed is brutally killed in a bout against Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Holding himself responsible, he challenges Drago to a payback match and travels to Russia to face him in a Christmas Day fight.

Two narcotics detectives – Tango and Cash – are always at odds with each other. Meanwhile crime lord, Yves Perret, is annoyed with the two for busting his illegal activities. He frames them for murder and the two end in a prison where a majority of convicts are those they themselves caught. Left with no other option, they join hands to prove their innocence.

Ray Quick is a former CIA demolition expert, who has left the organization after savagely beating his colleague Ned Trent for killing of an innocent child. Now working as a hit man, he is hired by a young lady, determined to take revenge for her parents’ death at the hands of a mobster family. He does not know that Ned now works for the same family. 

Vietnam War veteran John Rambo is brought out of the prison for an assignment of gathering evidence that American POWs are still kept captive in Vietnam jungles. Apparently, the assignment is only a façade, as the superiors don’t believe that he would make it. Let down in foreign jungles, Rambo fights his way out as well as rescues the POWs.  

Former Vietnam veteran John Rambo, now living peacefully in a Thai village near the Burmese border, is convinced to ferry a group of missionaries into war-torn Burma on a humanitarian mission. After the group gets kidnapped by ruthless SPDC officer Major Tint, he joins a group of mercenaries hired by the church officials for a rescue operation.

The sixth installment in the Rocky series finds an aging and retired Rocky Balboa running an eatery in the memory of his wife Adrian. He is goaded into one final match with reigning yet unpopular world champion Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon. The match serves as a swan song of Rocky’s legendary career. 

A trucker tries to mend his relationship with his son after losing his wife. Eventually, he also ends up participating in an arm-wrestling championship in order to rebuild his life. 

In 1996, police officer John Spartan and crime lord Simon Phoenix are cryogenically frozen after the former blows up a building to capture the latter, allegedly killing hostages. In 2032, Phoenix escapes while thawed for parole hearing and goes on rampage in a futuristic pacifist city, prompting Lieutenant Lenina Huxley to thaw Spartan and ask for help.

The Expendables boasts an all-star cast of action heroes, who play mercenaries that are double crossed while on a mission to overthrow a ruthless South American dictator. They decide to continue the operation anyway and get the job done.

Conrad Stonebanks, who was an original co-founder of the Expendables with Barney Ross and was supposedly killed by Ross after going rogue and becoming a dangerous arms dealer, is back and aims to destroy the mercenary group. Ross disbands the Expendables and assembles a group of young tech-savvy recruits to face his old colleague and enemy Stonebanks.

A sequel to Rambo: First Blood Part II, the film Rambo III focuses on Vietnam War veteran John Rambo as he navigates through the fictional events taking place during the Soviet-Afghan War. A major commercial hit, it was the most expensive film ever made at the time.

The first installment of the Escape Plan film series, the movie follows Ray Breslin, a structural engineer who is incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison. Breslin befriends fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer who eventually helps him in escaping.

While investigating the murder of Ritchie, his brother, in his hometown, a gangster discovers some dark secrets which turn his life upside down.

Elite assassin Robert Rath is on assignment when his target is taken down by rival assassin Miguel Bain, who wants to kill Rath and become number one. However, when Rath falls in love with Electra, his final target, the two try to survive Bain and whoever hired them both to kill Electra.

Adonis Johnson is the illegitimate son of former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. He wishes to become a great boxer and therefore meets Rocky Balboa, a former heavyweight champion, who agrees to train him. His real identity is soon revealed and when a chance to fight a world champion presents itself, all he needs to do is to add his father’s surname.

In the future, with humanity in chaos and the Earth in decay, Joseph Dredd and other Judges, act as the police office, judge, jury, and executioner to keep order. When Dredd is framed for murder by former judge Rico and Griffin, he must wage a war to clear his name and uncover conspiracies. 

This action crime thriller film tells the story of a hitman and a detective, who join forces to bring down their common enemy, after they both lose their partners. 

Barney Ross reunites with his band of old-school mercenaries for an easy assignment from Mr. Church; however, their newest colleague, Billy the Kid, is taken hostage and killed during the mission. Driven by vengeance, the group races to stop international criminal and arms dealer Jean Vilain from acquiring five tons of refined plutonium.

Frank Leone is a skilled mechanic and model prisoner nearing the end of his sentence in a low security prison in New Jersey. One day he is forcibly shifted to a maximum security prison where he learns the warden has a vendetta against him.

As a getaway car of robbers hits truck carrying explosives, the resulting blast in the underground New Jersey tunnel blocks both the exits. The disgraced ex-chief of Emergency Medical Services, Kit Latura, the only one with skill and experience required for such rescue, enters the tunnel in an attempt to bring the survivors out. Can he achieve it before the weakened tunnel collapses?

Apollo Creed, renowned boxer, is killed during a match by Ivan Drago in 1985. Several years later, his son Adonis, with the help of his mentor Rocky, confronts Drago’s son in an ultimate boxing match.

Rambo: Last Blood is an action thriller film which revolves around the story of John Rambo, a former soldier, whose peaceful life is interrupted after his friend’s granddaughter disappears in Mexico. Rambo therefore heads to Mexico immediately, to free her from the local cartels.

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 finds Peter Quill and his gang of misfits Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Baby Groot going on a journey across the cosmos to learn more about Quill’s father Ego. Quill eventually defeats Ego, the main antagonist of the movie and is saved by Yondu Udonta who sacrifices his own life in doing so. 

After suffering brain damage, Rocky Balboa is compelled to retire; he then learns that his money has been misspent by an incompetent accountant. Rocky starts mentoring a promising fighter, Tommy Gunn, which strains his relationship with his own son. Tommy achieves success but provoked by other promoters, he betrays Rocky and challenges him for a street-fight, which could prove risky for Rocky.

Corrupt NYPD police officers under Lt. Ray Donlan are running free in Garrison, New Jersey when Internal Affairs investigator, Lt. Moe Tilden, arrives to investigate. He approaches local sheriff, Freddy Heflin,who is reluctant to help. But Heflin is forced to go up against Donlan’s team when Donlan’s nephew, Officer Babitch, kills two African-American teenagers. 

During the Second World War, a group of Allied prisoners agrees to play a football match against the Nazis. However, the Nazis are unaware of the fact that the prisoners want to use it as a way to escape from their captivity.

On his deathbed, Angelo promises to his dying father that he will leave the world of crime, and live an honest life. Although he has no experience in making money legally, he tries to keep his father’s promises.

Back in 1980s, boxers Henry "Razor" Sharp and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen were fierce rivals until Razor suddenly announced his retirement, leaving a three match series unresolved, thus effectively ending their career. 30 years later, a boxing promoter approaches him to face Kid in one last bout and he grudgingly accepts the challenge. 

In order to rescue his sister trapped inside, Juni Cortez decides to play a virtual reality-based game which is designed by the Toymaker. 

Avenging Angelo is an action crime comedy film which tells the story of a woman who discovers that she is the daughter of a murdered mafia chief. With the help of Frankie, his loyal bodyguard, she decides to take revenge.

Joe, a cop decides to break up with his girlfriend. Shortly after, his mother pays him a visit. However, she starts to interfere in all his activities, and even gets involved in his career. 

Jimmy is a young talented racecar driver. However, his ranking starts dropping when he gets involved romantically. Therefore, a former CART champion is asked to train him and get him back to his winning ways. 

Jake is a country singer who is stuck in a long-term contract performing at a nightclub in New York City. She makes a bet with Freddie, the manager of her club that she can turn anyone into a singer in a matter of two weeks. If she wins, her contract becomes nullified, and if she loses she will need to sleep with him. Freddie chooses an obnoxious cab driver named Nick for the task, a man who not only lacks musical talent, but also dislikes country music.

D-Tox is an American psychological thriller film which revolves around an FBI Agent Jake Malloy, whose girlfriend is killed by the serial killer whom he is pursuing. He becomes depressed and soon descends into alcoholism, and attempts suicide. He is admitted into a rehab but soon it appears that the killer has begun his killing spree again.

After several successful stings, three con artists plan a last job, which goes horribly wrong, and they find themselves pursued by a gangster.

Death Race 2000 is a science fiction sports film which takes us to a dystopian future where a cross country automobile race takes place, which requires its contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points.

Moose is a paroled convict who hires a private detective named Phillip Marlowe to find his long-lost girlfriend Velma. She used to work in a lounge, but the lounge owner’s wife claims that she is dead, but Marlowe isn’t convinced. Meanwhile, during a routine ransom exchange for a necklace, Marlowe gets knocked out and framed for murder.

Viraj is a stuntman who is quite successful in Hollywood, but he is unable to find love. He meets a doctor named Simrita, and after the first meeting itself, she develops a strong dislike towards him. Later, she performs her first surgery on Viraj. Things seem to go well, until she later realizes that she dropped her watch inside his body during the operation. In order to save her career, she tries to come up with ways to get the watch back, even if it means seducing him.

In this sequel, boxer Rocky Balboa decides to retire to recover his health and get married to Adrian despite holding his own against world champion Apollo Creed. However, he considers returning to the ring after struggling with financial problems, just as Creed becomes fixated on a rematch after receiving hate mails for allegedly fixing their previous fight.

The sixth installment in the Rocky series finds an aging and retired Rocky Balboa running an eatery in the memory of his wife Adrian. He is goaded into one final match with reigning yet unpopular world champion Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon. The match serves as a swan song of Rocky’s legendary career. 

Former Vietnam veteran John Rambo, now living peacefully in a Thai village near the Burmese border, is convinced to ferry a group of missionaries into war-torn Burma on a humanitarian mission. After the group gets kidnapped by ruthless SPDC officer Major Tint, he joins a group of mercenaries hired by the church officials for a rescue operation.

Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Balboa, who is ready to retire, is enraged and overcome with guilt after his old friend Apollo Creed is brutally killed in a bout against Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Holding himself responsible, he challenges Drago to a payback match and travels to Russia to face him in a Christmas Day fight.

World heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa is on a winning spree and is enjoying his life when he is challenged by strong new competitor, James Clubber Lang. Rocky accepts and is defeated by Lang. His manager Mickey, too dies and he sinks into depression. This is when Apollo Creed offers to train him for his next match to reclaim the heavyweight championship.

The Expendables boasts an all-star cast of action heroes, who play mercenaries that are double crossed while on a mission to overthrow a ruthless South American dictator. They decide to continue the operation anyway and get the job done.

Anthony works as a dance instructor and waiter at a club, and he aspires for a career in Broadway. However, in pursuit of his dreams, he ends up hurting his friends and his family.

Griffin Keyes is the best keeper at Franklin Park Zoo.  When the woman he loves declares that it is his career as zookeeper which is keeping her away. he decides to leave his job and join his brother’s car dealership. But the animals at the zoo are not ready to let him go and break their code of silence in order to help him. Will he finally be able to win his love? 

Z, a worker ant striving to break away from his monotonous routine and express his individuality, falls in love with beautiful princess Bala when she visits a bar to escape suffocating royal life. He switches places with soldier friend Weaver to see her again, and unwittingly becomes the colony's only hope against a coup d'état by General Mandible.

A mechanic joins forces with a robot to save the galaxy from an evil scientist.

After his girlfriend leaves him, a New Yorker travels to a tiny Latin American nation and gets involved in its latest rebellion.

Despite completing his graduation from a prestigious college, Jonathan, a rebellious young man is forced by circumstances to work as a cab driver in New York. In order to vent out his frustrations, he chooses to abuse pigeons in a park.

Taxi 3 is an action comedy film, which tells the story of a police inspector and a detective who take the help of a taxi driver so that he can assist them stop a gang of thieves who are wreaking havoc in the city. Meanwhile, they need to sort out their personal problems as well. 

A coy Buckman participates in the Trans-American Grand Prix, an underground road racing spanning the continent with his Pontiac. The rules are clear, that there are no rules, no heed for law and no speed limits. The participants will do anything to win this race which includes dirty tricks and low-down.

Anthony works as a dance instructor and waiter at a club, and he aspires for a career in Broadway. However, in pursuit of his dreams, he ends up hurting his friends and his family.