Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television > Action/Adventure: 117 Films to Rent
- Scarlet Pimpernel, The (Mini Series) (1999)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern
- A lively television adaptation of the Baroness Orczy's famous novel set around the bloody chaos of post–revolutionary France and one English…
- Martial Law (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Feat. Sammo Hung, Arsenio Hall
- Action–comedy series starring prolific Hong Kong actor/director/producer Sammo Hung (and frequent Jackie Chan collaborator) as a Chinese law…
- Trigun (TV Series) (1998)
- The $60,000,000,000 Man – Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a…
- Andersonville (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Jarrod Emick
- TV western set during the American Civil War, about a group of Union soldiers who are sent to a Confederate prison camp near Andersonville, Georgia…
- J.A.G. (TV Series) (1995)
- Feat. David James Elliott, Tracey Needham, Catherine Bell
- Hold on to your hairpiece, it's JAG! (U.S. military acronym for Judge Advocate General!) Predominantly follows a lieutenant called "Harm", who used…
- M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV Series) (Mantis) (1994)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Carl Lumbly, Roger Rees
- A wheelchair–bound scientist becomes a crime–fighter after building himself a powerful exo–skeleton that gives him superhuman…
- Ocean Girl (TV Series) (1994-1997)
- Feat. Marzena Godecki, Jeffrey Walker, Kerry Armstrong
- Environmentally conscious Australian cult adventure series based around a mystical girl from under the sea who has the ability to communicate with…
- Adventures of Brisco County Jr., The (TV Series) (1993-1994)
- Dir. Bryan Spicer
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson
- Wacky TV western following a Harvard–educated lawyer–turned–bounty hunter who goes after an outlaw using a range of curiously…
- Sharpe (TV Series) (1993-1998)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Sean Bean, Brian Cox
- Various teledramas adapting Bernard Cornwall's famous novels about the adventures of an officer in the 19th century British Army. In perhaps his best…
- Flash, The (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. John Wesley Shipp, Amanda Pays, M. Emmet Walsh…
- Vastly underrated TV adaptation of the DC comicbook hero, in which a forensic detective (Shipp) has a laboratory accident which causes the molecules…