Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Blade, The (1996)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Xin Xin Xiong, Moses Chan, Man Cheuk Chiu
- Honour and retribution are the key themes in this densely–plotted, straight–faced actioner set in a mythic–historical setting.…
Broken Arrow (1996)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis…
- When John Travolta nicks off with a couple of nuclear warheads, its enough to transform his (former) air–force buddy (Christian Slater) into…
Chain Reaction (1996)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz
- The science–slip and fugitive genres converge in this rather silly vehicle for a post–SPEED Keanu Reeves. His innocent,…
City of Industry (1996)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Famke Janssen
- A jewel heist goes wrong with double–crossings eventuating in a bitter wrangle between laconic veteran Harvey Keitel and hot–head upstart…
Daylight (1996)
- Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen…
- They do make disaster movies like they used to! Sly Stallone seeks to rescue those entrapped by a huge explosion in a NYC subway tunnel, while the…
Eraser (1996)
- Dir. Charles Russell
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa (singer/actress) Williams…
- Arnold Schwarzenegger bankrolls another effects–driven hardware epic, playing an FBI agent who 'erases' the identities of important,…
Executive Decision (1996)
- Dir. Stuart Baird
Feat. Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal
- Middle Eastern terrorists hi–jack a Jumbo and bring aboard a lethal nerve–gas capable of wiping out small nations. For a sure recipe for…
First Strike (1996)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan, Jackson Liu, Annie Wu
- Jackie Chan is back to further embarrass the Yankee action–pretenders. Some mumbo–jumbo about stolen Ukrainian warheads provides an…
Fled (1996)
- Dir. Kevin Hooks
Feat. Stephen Baldwin, Laurence Fishburne
- Violent comedy handcuffs together movie–obsessed computer whizz Stephen Baldwin with no–nonsense criminal Laurence Fishburne. Breaking a…