Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
Tango and Cash (1989)
- Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell
- Enjoyable buddy–cop caper with Stallone and Russell as rugged, competitive partners with a sense of humour.
Tiger On the Beat (1989)
- Dir. Liu Chia Liang
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Conan Lee
- Chow Yun Fat buddies up with martial artiste Conan Lee as a pair of mismatched cops in hot pursuit of an international drug syndicate, climaxing in a…
Zatoichi 26 (Darkness Is His Ally) (1989)
- Dir. Shintaro Katsu
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- An enjoyable, autumnal revival of the 1960s–70s samurai movie franchise, with a much older Katsu reprising his role of the blind swordsman and…
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.