Subgenre Sampler
Television > Action/Adventure: 72 Films to Buy & Rent
Sinking of the Laconia, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
- Dir. Uwe Janson
Feat. Andrew Buchan, Brian Cox, Franke Potente
- Gripping reenactment of the events surrounding the ill–fated Laconia, a British ocean liner crippled by a German U–boat, who in turn…
24 - Season 8 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Final season of the high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
Covert Affairs (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Anne Dudek…
- Compulsive spy caper with Piper Perabo vamping it up as a CIA trainee inexplicably thrust into the front line and order to hunt down her…
Justified (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter…
- Slick urban western with an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal–mining towns in…
Nikita (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca…
- Luc Besson's original female assassin lives on in this slick, aggressive TV spin–off fronted by leggy Canto star Maggie Q as a deadly escapee…
Pacific, The (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Joseph Mazzello, James Badge Dale, John Seda…
- Searing, no–expense–spared follow–up to the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg–produced BAND OF BROTHERS shifts its epic perspective…
Strike Back (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Andrew Lincoln, Richard Armitage, Michelle Lukes…
- An overheated action series centred on the intersecting operations of an SAS Sergeant (Armitage) and an SIS Agent (Lincoln) over the course of…
24 - Redemption (2008)
- Dir. Jon Cassar
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle, Gil Bellows…
- Solid feature–length primer for 24's seventh season finds the ever–durable Jack Bauer on the lam from American authorities, hiding out in…
24 - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
Comanche Moon (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Adam Beach, Linda Cardellini, Rachel Griffiths…
- Clunky prequel to the Lonesome Dove franchise, with Steve Zahn and Karl Urban filling the younger shoes of Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones…