Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
Twister (1996)
- Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Big kids and little kids will be enthralled by the special effects on offer here, though let it be said the script suffers under its obligation to…
Victory (1996)
- Dir. Mark Peploe
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Irene Jacob, Sam Neill…
- Adventure film set in 1913 and based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad. After attempting to rape a woman, a man living in Dutch occupied…
Assassins (1995)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore
- A dark, protracted tale of two hitmen, old hand Sylvester Stallone who wants out of the racket, and new kid on the block Antonio Banderas out for…
Bad Boys (1995)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Will Smith, Martin Lawrence
- Will Smith and Martin Lawrence ride their wave of their current popularity with this buddy cop movie that maximises their likeable personas. A…
Braveheart (1995)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan…
- Mel Gibson stars in and directs this illustrious historical account of the struggle of William Wallace, a common Scot who initiated a revolt against…
Clockers (1995)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo…
- Spike Lee lights up another joint from Richard Price's fiery urban crime best–seller. In the wake of a drugland murder, detective Harvey Keitel…
Congo (1995)
- Dir. Frank Marshall
Feat. Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry
- This Jurassic turkey from the usually–golden pen of Michael Crichton follows a mis–matched motley crew into the African jungle to…
Crying Freeman (1995)
- Dir. Christophe Gans
Feat. Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra
- Originally a Manga comic character, potter–turned–lethal martial–artist Freeman here becomes three–dimensional in the form of…
Cutthroat Island (1995)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella…
- One of Hollywood's biggest financial disaster's, Geena Davis and husband/director Harlin thought the public were begging for a pirate epic of…
D'Artagnan's Daughter (Revenge of the Musketeers) (1995)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret
- This gleefully French swashbuckler checks in as a loose sequel to the Three Muskeeters. The magnetic Sophie Marceau stars as the feisty titular…