Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2196 Films to Buy & Rent
Tarzan Collection, The (Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan Escapes, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan Secret Treasure, Tarzan's New York Adventure) (1932-1942)
- Feat. Johnny Weissmuller
- All 6 of the 'Tarzan' movies starring Johnny Weismuller.
Hell's Angels (1930)
- Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon…
- Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain) (1926)
- Dir. Arnold Fanck
Feat. Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker
- One of the landmark films of German Cinema, this is chiefly remembered as the awesome debut of Leni Riefenstahl who later became chief filmmaker for…
Eagle, The (1925)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino
- Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…
Robin Hood (1922)
- Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery
- The first memorable version of the story with the lithe Douglas Fairbanks Snr leaping around some remarkable period sets.
Initially we find Robin…
Les Vampires (1915)
- Dir. Louis Feuillade
Feat. Musidora, Edouard Mathe
- The legendary French movie serial created by the enormously prolific silent dir. Feuillade, set around a murderous crime–ring who operate in…