Point Break
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Johnny Utah, a young FBI agent, goes undercover with a group of surfers he suspects of robbing banks in Los Angeles. There, he befriends Bodhi, who, like him, is constantly seeking new thrills.
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She made her directorial film debut with the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1981), and rose to prominence directing the thrillers Near Dark (1987), Blue Steel (1990), Point Break (1991), starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, as well as Strange Days (1995), from a screenplay by her ex-husband, James Cameron. For directing the war drama The Hurt Locker (2008), she became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She has since directed the spy thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012), the crime drama Detroit (2017), and the political thriller A House of Dynamite (2025).
