Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 482 Films to Buy & Rent
Everest: Beyond the Limit (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
- A gruelling Discovery Channel mini–series following a group of ambitious mountaineers, led by Kiwi climber Russell Brice, on their quest to…
Golden Door, The (Nuovomondo) (2006)
- Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato
- Award–winning Italian drama from the dir. of RESPIRO follows the fortunes of a family of dirt–poor Sicilian peasants, from their homeland…
Guardian, The (2006)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Costner, Sela Ward
- Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner get wet as trainee coast guard and salty swim legend respectively in this broad–chested adventure about an…
Lost Children, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Hudson Mills, Beatrice Joblin, Rhys Castle-Hughes…
- Well–crafted adventure series follows three children washed ashore from a shipwreck as they search for their parents..
Merlin's Apprentice (2006)
- Feat. Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson
- Fantastical sequel to the popular mini–series version of MERLIN, this also stars Sam Neill as the legendary wizard, now mentoring a young…
Stormbreaker (2006)
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy…
- A British–oriented spin on the kid super–agent premise, with gadgets and evil masterminds galore, based on the popular Alex Rider series…
Tom's Midnight Garden (2006)
- Dir. Willard Carroll
Feat. Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright
- A handsome screen version of children's novel by Phillipa Pearce, in which a young boy in the 1950s is sent to live with his aunt and uncle because…
Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl, The (2005)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Kristin Davis, David Arquette
- Colourful fantasy involves a 10–year old boy, who to escape parental neglect and the attentions of school bullies, invents his own…
Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley
- A rousing medieval adaptation of the Anglo–Saxon epic poem in sweeping fantasy tones. Filled with constant action in a strange, otherworldly…
Everything is Illuminated (2005)
- Dir. Liev Schreiber
Feat. Elijah Wood
- An ambitious debut for dir. Schreiber, telling the deadpan, yet wistful tale of an earnest NYC Jew (Wood) who travels to the Ukraine to find the…