Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2163 Films to Rent
Action Jackson (1988)
- Dir. Craig R. Baxley
Feat. Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Sharon Stone
- Sports hero turned actor Carl Weathers lends charisma as the titular Detroit cop driven by vengeance to stay on the trail of dastardly auto magnate…
Bat 21 (1988)
- Dir. Peter Markle
Feat. Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed…
- Gene Hackman is shot down over enemy lines deep in war–torn Vietnam; Danny Glover is the Air Force pilot charged with saving his skin. Expect…
Beast, The (the Beast Of War) (1988)
- Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Stephen Baldwin…
- Laying aside the usual sympathies, this American war–drama pursues a tense running–battle between a Soviet tank–crew and Afghani…
Cohen and Tate (1988)
- Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin
- A nine–year–old witness to a gangland murder is kidnapped by two neurotic thugs who can't bear each other. Inventive road–movie…
Colors (1988)
- Dir. Dennis Hopper
Feat. Sean Penn, Robert Duvall
- A grim portrait of law enforcement. Mismatched police partners are assigned to the rife gang–related problems in South–Central L.A.
Dead Pool, The (1988)
- Dir. Buddy Van Horn
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey…
- Dirty Harry investigates a series of bizarre death threats.
Deceivers, The (1988)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor
- Fact–based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825. Based on the novel by John Masters.
Die Hard (1988)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman…
- Star–making role for Bruce Willis as an ordinary cop who runs into international terrorism at the top of a skyscraper on Christmas Eve. …
Dragons Forever (1988)
- Dir. Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- Final martial–arts rumble for the 'three brothers' team of Chan, Hung and Biao (see PROJECT–A), here playing three spokes in a nefarious…
Flaming Brothers (Jiang hu long hu men) (1988)
- Dir. Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Alan Tang, Pat Ha
- Two close friends from the island of Macao (Tang and Yun–Fat) become dangerously involved in the Chinese triads through decades of prosperity…