Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Wonder Woman, The New Adventures of (TV Series) (1977-1979)
- Feat. Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner
- Charles Moulon’s 1940s comic strip updated to the feminist 70s, his superheroine fighting terrorist and subversive elements for undercover…
18 Bronzemen (Return of the 18 Bronzemen) (1976)
- Dir. Joseph Kuo
Feat. Tien Peng, Carter Hwang, Polly Shang-Kuan
- Two friends must fight their way out of a Shaolin temple – and 18 formidable bronze warriors – in this celebrated kung fu classic.…
21 Hours at Munich (1976)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero…
- Teledrama depiction of the infamous events at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where the terrorist group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes…
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston
- A deserted urban jail comes under siege by a ruthless gang in this contemporary reworking of RIO BRAVO. The pin–drop atmosphere is intensified…
Barney (1976)
- Dir. David Waddington
Feat. Spike Milligan, Sean Kramer, Brett Maxworthy
- Aussie family movie shipwrecks a 12 year old boy with a common criminal as they both emigrate to 19th century Australia.
Battle of Midway (1976)
- Dir. John Smight
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston
- A large–scale re–enactment of this decisive WWII naval battle. A huge all–star cast, scrap it out.
Big Bus, The (1976)
- Dir. James Frawley
Feat. Ned Beatty, Stockard Channing, Rene Auberjonois…
- One of the first and best of the 'Disaster Movie' spoofs – set aboard a nuclear–powered bus which loses its brakes somewhere along the…
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Paul Newman, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster…
- Off–key satire on 'official' American history, with Paul Newman as the charismatic fraud Bill Hickock, whose Wild West Show toured America in…
Cannonball (1976)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Paul Bartel
- A kind of contemporary sequel to DEATH RACE 2000, David Carradine and Paul Bartel reteam for this self–consciously tacky road movie. Carradine…
Challenge of the Masters (Huang Fei-hong yu liu a cai) (1976)
- Dir. Liu Chia Liang
Feat. Gordon Lau, Chan Koon Tai, Lai Lai Lee
- One of the great exponents of shaolin kung fu cinema, dir. Chia Liang, here casts his attention on the Chinese legend of Fei–hung.
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