Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Action/Adventure: 396 Films to Buy & Rent
- Sleepless Night (2011)
- Dir. Frederic Jardin
Feat. Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier…
- A stonking, white–knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to…
- Smuggler (2011)
- Dir. Katsuhito Ishii
Feat. Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masatoshi Nagase, Yasuko Matsuyuki…
- An entertainingly schizophrenic black comedy by way of cult Japanese dir. Katsuhito Ishii, whose penchant for the wacky and surreal drives this…
- This Girl is Badass!! (2011)
- Dir. Mum Jokmok
Feat. JeeJa Yanin
- Jija Yanin (CHOCOLATE) stars in this martial arts comedy about a girl whose family life is turned upside–down when she gets mixed up with…
- War of the Arrows (2011)
- Dir. Han-min Kim
Feat. Hae-il Park, Ryoo Seung-beom
- A fast–paced period epic centred on the resistance of a group of villagers against the Manchurian invasion of Korea. Like THE HUNGER GAMES, an…
- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)
- Dir. Te-Sheng Wei
Feat. Ching-Tai Lin, Umin Boya, Masanobu Ando
- An indigenous clan–based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture…
- 13 Assassins (2010)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Yamada Takayuki, Yusuke Iseya…
- Takashi Miike turns in perhaps his most entertaining and accomplished film yet with this rollicking SEVEN SAMURAI–inspired adventure, centred…
- 14 Blades (2010)
- Dir. Daniel Lee
Feat. Donnie Yen, Chun Wu, Sammo Hung…
- A secret agent of the emperor’s court is betrayed by his colleagues in this spectacular Ming Dynasty–set thriller. Something of a return to…
- 22 Bullets (L' Immortel) (2010)
- Dir. Richard Berry
Feat. Jean Reno, Marina Fois, Richard Berry…
- Violent gangland thriller has Jean Reno out for revenge after his former friend shoots 22 bullets into him.
- Bangkok Knockout (BKO) (2010)
- Dir. Panna Rittikrai
Feat. Chatchapol Kulsiriwoottichai, Sarawoot Kumsorn, Sorapong Chatree
- Ordinary production values and mediocre performances are beside the point in this off–the–wall Thai martial arts, centred on a motley…
- Blades of Blood (2010)
- Dir. Jun-ik Lee
Feat. Seong-hyeon Baek, Seung-Won Cha
- The dir. of THE KING AND THE CLOWN returns to the Chosun era with an energetic tale of working class uprising in the shadow of Japanese invasion. A…