Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
Project A ('A' gai waak) (1983)
- Dir. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- A famous peak period work from martial art maestro Jackie Chan in turn of the century Hong Kong, with Chan in pursuit of vicious buccaneers. Famous…
Return of Captain Invincible, The (1983)
- Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Bill Hunter…
- Campy superhero comedy starring Captain Invincible – a chunky ex superhero who now prefers chopping back the lagers to fighting crime in white…
Right Stuff, The (1983)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Fred Ward
- A richly detailed, down–to–earth account of the lives of the first Americans to travel into space. Top ensemble cast.
Savage Islands (Nate and Hayes) (1983)
- Dir. Ferninand Fairfax
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe
- Tommy Lee Jones runs amok in the Pacific, clashing with pirates, missionaries, and a cannibalistic tribesman (played by Prince Tui Teka). Its clunky…
Scarface (1983)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Al Pacino
- Sweat–breakingly violent portrait of a contemporary mobster with Pacino in top gear as the ruthless megalomaniac. Stunning, if you can hack…
Sudden Impact (1983)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Eastwood directs this fourth Dirty Harry outing with magnum force.
Superman 3 (Superman III) (1983)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper…
- Further adventures of the 'man of steel' (Reeve) this time the victim of a personality reversal, which complicates his fight against a meglomaniac…
Ultimate Luc Besson Boxset (Le Dernier Combat, Subway, The Big Blue, Nikita, Atlantis, The Professional, The Fifth Element) (1983-1997)
- Dir. Luc Besson
- A seven–film boxset of Luc Besson's most memorable blockbusters.
Uncommon Valor (1983)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown…
- Gene Hackman plays an American marine who believes his son is still being held in Laos in the aftermath of The Vietnam War. From the director of the…
Under Fire (1983)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman…
- A sterling drama concerning journalistic ethics in the mire of the Nicaraguan civil war.
Nick Nolte is a photographer who is tempted into taking…