Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 482 Films to Buy & Rent
A Thousand Skies (1985)
- Dir. David Stevens
- Television mini–series about the life of rugged Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, who pushed the bounds of aircraft performance in…
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
- Dir. Bill L. Norton
Feat. William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan
- Adventure fantasy film about a paleontologist and her husband who discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from a…
Burke and Wills (1985)
- Dir. Graeme Clifford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi
- True blue Aussie classic chronicling the famous journey of two ill–prepared explorers across the unforgiving outback.
Emerald Forest, The (1985)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Powers Boothe, Meg Foster
- Sumptuous Amazon adventure story concerns an one man's struggle to find his son, kidnapped ten years earlier and initiated into a primitive society.
Explorers, The (1985)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix
- Imaginative space adventure film also has enormous fun at the expense of American popular culture. Among the explorers are a very baby–faced…
Flesh and Blood (1985)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh are mercenary soldier and captive who fall in love amid rampant flesh and blood–letting in medieval…
Goonies, The (1985)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton
- Junior edition of 'Indiana Jones', from a Steven Speilberg story, has seven bored kids on the Oregon coast hunting for pirate booty after they…
Jewel of the Nile, The (1985)
- Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny De Vito
- Sequel to ROMANCING THE STONE again teams Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, this time for a rollicking adventure in the Middle East. Mostly…
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom…
- Fairly lively adaptation of H Rider Haggard's classic African adventure yarn (filmed several times before), with Chamberlain and Stone dodging…
Ladyhawke (1985)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Enjoyable sword–and–sorcery yarn filmed in the Dolomites pits Matthew Broderick as a Medieval tyke who must unlock the evil spell cast on…