Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure > Foreign Cinema: 390 Films to Rent
- Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) (2007)
- Dir. José Padilha
Feat. Wagner Moura, Andre Ramiro, Caio Junqueira…
- Brawny South American policier centred on a special division of Brazilian drug enforcement at war with the drug lords of Rio de Janeiro.
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- Fighting Beat (2007)
- Dir. Piti Jaturaphat
- Agile martial arts action flick based in a Thai street fighting bar renowned for its local competitors, who find themselves in a deadly fight for…
- Kung Fu Dunk (Gong fu guan lan) (2007)
- Dir. Yen-ping Chu
Feat. Charlene Choi, Jay Chou, Eric Tsang…
- Inane sporting comedy about a skilled martial artist recruited to play basketball at the local university in return for help in finding his birth…
- Mad Detective (2007)
- Dir. Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Kelly Lin
- Flawed yet watchable policier in which a faultily–wired, one–eared detective with psychic leanings (Lau) is brought in to help on a cold…
- Mongol (2007)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Tadanobu Asano
- A fiercely–mounted early history of Genghis Khan, from the Mongol leader’s childhood years through to his all–conquering warpath across…
- Monkey Magic (2007)
- Enjoyable Japanese action based on the cult MONKEY! TV series, rejoining our adventurers as they travel into the mountains to recover a magical orb…
- Severed Ways (2007)
- Dir. Tony Stone
Feat. Tony Stone, Fiore Tedesco, Gaby Hoffmann
- On the coast of North America in AD 1007, two Norsemen are stranded when their expedition is attacked and they are left for dead. As they struggle to…
- Siyama: Village of Warriors (2007)
- Dir. Preecha Songsakul
- Three teenagers travel back to the 18th century in their Toyota to lend a helping hand to villagers engaged in an epic battle with a callous Burmese…
- Sovereign's Servant, The (2007)
- Dir. Oleg Ryaskov
Feat. Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov
- Two French aristocrats are sent by Louis XIV to observe the Swedish and Russian armies just before the Battle of Poltava in this sweeping Russian…
- Sword Of Alexander (Taitei no ken) (2007)
- Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, Riki Takeuchi
- Camp sword and sorcery pastiche mines the Japanese tradition for bizarre humour, genre–mincing, and spectacular overacting, with…