Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
Samurai Assassin (1965)
- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratana…
- Sharply delivered samurai epic based on the infamous Sakurada Gate Incident of 1860 in which a high–ranking shogunite official was assassinated…
Samurai Spy (1965)
- Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
Feat. Koji Takahashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Kei Sato
- This atypical samurai saga ventures from the norm through overenthusiastic plotting, a Latin–infused score, and arresting…
Thunderball (1965)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Sean Connery, Adolfo Celi, Claudine Auger
- Connery's Bond goes below the call of duty to the shark–infested depths of the ocean to battle crime organisation Spectre headed by a…
War Lord, The (1965)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth…
- Charlton Heston stars in this muscular historical adventure as an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy.…
Black God White Devil (1964)
- Dir. Glauber Rocha
Feat. MaurÃcio do Valle, Geraldo Del Rey, Othon Bastos
- A landmark of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, fusing discordant sound and imagery with the embittered folktale of a…
Daniel Boone (TV Series) (1964)
- Feat. Fess Parker, Albert Salmi
- Daniel Boone was a big man, and Fess Parker was a huge television star as the coon–skin wearing frontier hero of this iconic TV series set in…
Devilship Pirates (1964)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, John Cairney, Ernest Clark…
- Taking a non–horror tack, this Hammer offering concerns a Spanish galleon, 'Diablo' (captained by Christopher Lee)which comes ashore in…
Goldfinger (1964)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman
- The third Bond film, and the first to really fire the public's imagination.
Connery develops his charismatic appeal as he fights the evil genius…
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter…
- Set in New Mexico in the wake of the Civil War, a small bigoted town is beset by racist prejudices despite being outwardly pro–Union. Yul…
Tarzan the Fearless (1964)
- Dir. Robert F. Hill
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Julie Bishop
- Feature–film adaptation of the 1933 serial sees Edgar Rice Burroughs classic creation rescue the wayward father of the beautiful Mary Brooks,…