Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 488 Films to Buy & Rent
Dogwatch (2000)
- Dir. Laurie McInnes
Feat. Steven Vidler, John Brumpton
- A tale of lost souls set on a drifting merchant–ship in the Triad–infested South China Sea during the 1960s, this floats over some clunky…
Gladiator (2000)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris…
- As good a Roman Sandal epic as ever there was, with a stoic and be–sandalled Russell Crowe refusing to carry over his loyalty to the new…
Les Miserables (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, John Malkovich…
- Well mounted and faithful adaptation of Victor Hugo's tale of persecution and revenge set in early 19th century France, with Gerard Depardieu playing…
Perfect Storm, The (2000)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane…
- Fishing boat captain George Clooney gets his crew back to sea, just in time for the biggest storm in recorded history.
Dividing into two distinct…
Prince and the Pauper, The (2000)
- Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Alan Bates
- Admirable, entertaining adaptation of Mark Twain's classic story of lookalikes who get caught up in imperial intrigue when a young Prince and a…
Proof of Life (2000)
- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse
- South American ransom thriller with Meg Ryan seeking to extricate her rich husband (David Morse) from the jungle, and Russell Crowe as the…
Railway Children, The (2000)
- Dir. Catherine Morshead
Feat. Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Richard Attenborough
- Reviving Edith Nesbit’s classic turn–of–the–century tale of three siblings displaced to the English countryside is this freshly…
Vertical Limit (2000)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney…
- With Queenstown convincingly CGI–ed into the Himalayas, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton and Robin Tunney less solid as the mountaineers, this…
Beach, The (1999)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton
- Tapping the moods of young travellers of today and their restless wanderlust, this adaptation of Alex Garland's Gen–X novel is both…
Crossing, The (1999)
- Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roche
- Acclaimed telemovie recreation of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware during the American War of Independence. Jeff Daniels lives up to the…