Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
Running Scared (1986)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer
- Two street–wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed…
Salvador (1986)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. James Woods, James Belushi
- A potent dramatisation of a journalist's experiences in El Salvador, with Woods in his usual dynamic form. Never one for fence–sitting, the…
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
- Dir. Jim Goddard
Feat. Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman…
- Universally panned adventure flick stars Madonna as a missionary (!) on the hunt for medicinal opium (!) and then–husband Penn plays the…
Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. David Rasche, Harrison Page, Anne-Marie Martin
- GET SMART meets DIRTY HARRY in this riotous late–night spoof detailing the exploits of unorthodox Inspector 'Sledge Hammer', a loose cannon of…
Tai Pan (1986)
- Dir. Daryl Duke
Feat. Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, Kyra Sedgwick
- Colourful though largely missed attempt at adapting James Clavell's novel about the adventures of a rogue trader in 19th century Hong Kong . Despite…
Top Gun (1986)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer…
- Star–making film for Cruise, who goes through all the right motions to get millions of bums on seats. The routine plot is overcome by the…
View to a Kill, A (1986)
- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts…
- Roger Moore's final outing as agent 007. Evil billionaire industrialist Max Zorin (Walken) and his lethal associate May Day (Jones) plan to take over…
Where the River Runs Black (1986)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Charles Durning, Dana Delany
- Compassionate eco–drama about an Amazon–raised orphan who is assimilated into civilisation by a priest (Durning).
Wraith, The (1986)
- Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn…
- Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
2019: The New Barbarians (Nuovi barbari, I) (1985)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Fred Williamson, Giancarlo Prete
- Third and final episode in the post–apocalyptic BRONX WARRIORS series, escapes the bloody rubble of New York City for a MAD MAX–style…