Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2192 Films to Buy & Rent
Shanghai Knights (2003)
- Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Owen Wilson, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen
- The successful teaming of Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson returns in a hyperreal 19th century world of Victorian threads, kung fu moves and offbeat, if…
Silmido (2003)
- Dir. Woo-Suk Kang
Feat. Ahn Sung-Ki, Kyung-gu Sol
- Korean Cold War thriller which takes the true scandal of how a team of gangsters and death–row criminals were recruited in 1968 as part of a…
Snow Walker, The (2003)
- Dir. Charles Martin Smith
Feat. Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell
- An adventure story well told about a pilot and an injured Inuit woman who struggle for survival against the harsh elements of the Canadian…
Spy Kids 3-D (Game Over) (2003)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Ricardo Montalban…
- Another installment in the successful SPY KIDS franchise, adding the gimmick of '3–D' to the family action format.
This time round, the…
Stander (2003)
- Dir. Bronwen Hughes
Feat. Tom Jane, Deborah Kara Unger
- The true story of South Africa's most famous bank–robber of the 1970s, a white police officer (Jane) who wearied of being an Apartheid enforcer…
Tears of the Sun (2003)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser…
- Bruce Willis leads the charge in a 'Special Ops' mission in war–ravaged Nigeria.
Assigned to rescue a UN doctor (Belluci!) he and his squad…
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003)
- Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes…
- The final, belated chapter of the TERMINATOR series, minus the original director and most of the original cast, Schwarzanegger excluded.
In many…
Terror Peak (2003)
- Dir. Dale G. Bradley
Feat. Lynda Carter, Antony Starr, Parker Stevenson…
- An average telemovie set in New Zealand, in which a holidaying American family venture into the mountains but are surprised by an erupting volcano…
Timeline (2003)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Frances O’Connor…
- Time–travel actioner adapted from the novel by Michael Crichton (JURASSIC PARK) in which a group of students race through a wormhole in time to…
Tomb Raider - Cradle of Life (2003)
- Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Noah Taylor, Ciaran Hinds
- Equally preposterous (and fun) sequel to the first bigscreen incarnation of computer–game adventure idol Lara Croft. In this latest collection…