Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Escape From Sobibor (1987)
- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula
- An unsettling and chilling account of an attempt by Jews to escape the Sobibor concentration camp in Eastern Poland in 1944.
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Extreme Prejudice (1987)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso…
- Former childhood friends Boothe and Nolte find themselves on opposite sides of the law, and in love with the same woman in this gritty modern…
Fatal Beauty (1987)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades
- Whoopi Goldberg stars in this action–comedy thriller as a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Clearly modelled after the BEVERLY…
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio…
- Disturbing account of the recruitment, training and combat of young Americans in Vietnam. A powerful indictment of the senselessness of war, superbly…
Hamburger Hill (1987)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Anthony Barrile, Don Cheadle, Courtney B. Vance…
- Matter–of–fact depiction of a particularly costly battle of the Vietnam War, in which US troops repeatedly tried to capture 'Hill 937' in…
Lethal Weapon (1987)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
- Enjoyable caper–comedy, teaming up Gibson and Glover as partners–in–crime–fighting, struck a winning formula and inspired a…
Lighthorsemen, The (1987)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Peter Phelps, Jon Blake, Sigrid Thornton…
- Gung–ho and melodrama collide in this WWI adventure of Australian–mounted infantry (and a few Gallipoli veterans) in Palestine. The tone…
Living Daylights, The (1987)
- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe
- Timothy Dalton in his debut as Bond delivers up an impressively slick performance as he struggles to disenable an evil Russian general from igniting…
Masters of the Universe (1987)
- Dir. Gary Goddard
Feat. Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster…
- Brain–deadening adaptation of the TV cartoon has Dolph Lundgren stepping into the furry loincloth to take on Skeletor and his robotic guards.
Over the Top (1987)
- Dir. Menahem Golan
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely
- Over the top in more ways than one, this ripely macho action–drama, set around the world of competitive arm wrestling, has Stallone play a…