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Rental > Foreign Cinema > Action/Adventure: 344 Films to Rent
Bomber, The (Ballada o bombere (Ballad Of A Bomber)) (2011)
- Dir. Vitaliy Vorobyov
Feat. Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova, Aleksandr Davydov
- Hum–drum war film – originally a television series – has a Russian aircraft crashing in Nazi occupied territory and the three…
Chinese Ghost Story, A (2011)
- Dir. Wilson Yip
Feat. Louis Koo, Yifei Liu, Shao-gun Yu…
- A lowly scholar falls in love with a beautiful ghost, but in order to win her freedom must do battle with the supernatural. Kinetic remake of the…
Front Line, The (2011)
- Dir. Hun Jang
Feat. Ha-kyun Shin, Soo Go
- Big battles clash with big themes in this sizable war epic set during the last days of the Korean war, where soldiers from both the North and South…
Legend of the Millennium Dragon (2011)
- Dir. Hirotsugu Kawasaki
- An impressively animated young–adult fantasy, centred on a 15–year–old school kid who is transported back to medieval Japan, and…
Lost Bladesman, The (2011)
- Dir. Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Feat. Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang
- Yet another big screen reinvention of the 'Three Kingdoms' legend, this time from the perspective of talismanic figure Guan Yu, whose exploits on the…
My Kingdom (2011)
- Dir. Xiaosong Gao
Feat. Chun Wu, Geng Han
- A commercial, action–inflected rendering of Peking Opera (a la Tsui Hark's PEKING OPERA BLUES), centred on the rivalry between two “wusheng”…
My Way (2011)
- Dir. Kang Je-Gyu
Feat. Jang Dong-Gun, Joe Odagiri, Bingbing Fan
- The director of BROTHERHOOD OF WAR raises the stakes with this louder, bloodier, more spectacular WWII epic, centred on the true story of rival…
Quick (2011)
- Dir. Beom-gu Cho
Feat. Min-Ki Lee, Ye-won Kang
- A motorcycle courier must complete a series of near–impossible deliveries in order to save his girlfriend whose cycle helmet has been rigged…
Raid, The (The Raid: Redemption) (2011)
- Dir. Gareth Evans
Feat. Iko Uwais
- The finest Asian action export since ONG–BAK, pitting an out–of–their–depth SWAT team against a tenement of drug dealers,…
Shaolin (2011)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jackie Chan…
- Feuding warlords threaten to tear China apart and only a group of Shaolin monks stand in the way of annihilation.