Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Fast Company (1979)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon
- Dir. Cronenberg's least typical movie – a straightforward car racing actioner – about a team of drag racers who must overcome their…
From Hell to Victory (1979)
- Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz…
- Italian exploitation hack Umberto Lenzi directs this serviceable WWII epic, about six friends who vow to reunite despite going their separate ways…
G.I. Samurai (Sengoku jieitai; Time Slip) (1979)
- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Sonny Chiba, Jun Eto
- A squadron of Japanese soldiers, together with their weaponry, helicopter and gunboat, are accidentally caught in a 'time slip' and transported back…
Hart to Hart (TV Series) (1979-1984)
- Feat. Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers
- Classic TV fluff from the 1980s, this erstwhile detective series features a wealthy married couple (Wagner and Powers) spending their spare time as…
Heroes Of The East (Zhong hua zhang fu) (1979)
- Feat. Chia Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno
- Graceful martial arts film focused around a Chinese man who must prove the superiority of Chinese kung fu over Japanese to his disillusioned Japanese…
Jaguar Lives! (1979)
- Dir. Ernest Pintoff
Feat. Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…
- A Spanish–American actioner featuring "three Bond villains" and "one Bond beauty" in the cast but who, in true exploitation fashion, barely…
Magnificent Butcher (Lin shi rong) (1979)
- Dir. Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo Ping
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- Peak Samo Hung martial artistry, collaborating here with with action legend Yuen Woo Ping for a tale based on the true–life exploits of Lam Sai…
Meteor (1979)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden…
- Clumsy disaster movie with the USA and the USSR forming an unlikely alliance during the Cold War to prevent a giant asteroid from destroying the…
Moonraker (1979)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Roger Moore, Richard Kiel, Lois Chiles…
- Roger Moore as Bond pursues a megalomaniac billionaire into outer space in one of the more outlandish entries of the series.
Memorable scenes…
Resurrection of Golden Wolf (1979)
- Dir. Toru Murakawa
Feat. Yusaku Matsuda, Sonny Chiba
- A moderately subversive actioner which revolves around an apparently mild–mannered 'salary man' (Matsuda), who by night sheds wig and glasses…