Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 482 Films to Buy & Rent
Mighty Joe Young (1999)
- Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton
- Good natured eco–action movie, a remake of the 1949 film of the same name (KING KONG lite, if you will), follows the re–habitation of an…
Mummy, The (1999)
- Dir. Stephen Sommers
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah…
- The old Universal horror wrapped in Indiana Jones–style adventure with 1920s archeologists and treasure hunters (led by Brendan Fraser)…
Tarzan (1999)
- Dir. Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
Feat. Tony Goldwyn, Rosie O'Donnell, Minnie Driver…
- Sticking faithfully to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story, Disney return to the top of the animated game.
No–nonsense, traditional…
To Walk with Lions (1999)
- Dir. Carl Shultz
Feat. Richard Harris, Kerry Fox
- Eventual sequel to BORN FREE, which picks–up the true life quest of conservationist/game–keeper George Adamson (Richard Harris) amid…
Watership Down (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Andrew Falvey
- Extended adaptation of Richard Adam's bestselling novel following a group of rabbits leaving their endangered warren in search of a new home, and the…
Wild Blue (1999)
- Dir. Dale G. Bradley
Feat. Nicola Murphy, Judge Reinhold
- The wilds of Otago serve as a backdrop for this modern drama, with young Nicola Murphy (MAGIK AND ROSE) returning to NZ to assume a postponed role of…
Body Troopers (1998)
- Dir. Vibeke Idsoe
Feat. Adolf Bjerke, Sigve Boe, Leif Dubard
- An adventure of the non–precocious variety, in which an 8–year–old boy is shrunk and injected into his sick grandfather's…
Borrowers, The (1998)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. John Goodman, Jim Broadbent
- Inhabiting the wall and floor–spaces of our houses, colonies of tiny people eek out an existence 'borrowing' food–scraps and those items…
Everest (1998)
- The most commercially successful documentary of all time is an astonishing technical achievement, filmed in the giant IMAX format for exhibition in…
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
- Dir. Todd Holland
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Lily Tomlin
- Bristled anthropologist Richard Dreyfuss commits scientific fraud to help out with the career and mortgage, making films of an undiscovered New…