Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2192 Films to Buy & Rent
William Kelly's War (2014)
- Dir. Geoff Davis
Feat. Tony Bonner
- Low budget Australian WWI film following two brothers who enlist and are sent to Europe, fighting from the trenches of Gallipoli to the Western…
2 Guns (Two Guns) (2013)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton…
- A slick, serviceable buddy cop romp with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg playing begrudging partners in a high stakes drug deal – neither…
47 Ronin (2013)
- Dir. Carl Rinsch
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki…
- A rogue big screen retelling of an ancient Japanese legend, about a band of samurai determined to avenge the death of their master.
Awkwardly…
A Good Day to Die Hard (Die Hard 5) (2013)
- Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch…
- The returns have all but diminished for this once durable, gold–standard action franchise, with aging Bruce Willis winding up in the middle of…
Adventurer, The - The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
- Dir. Jonathan Newman
Feat. Aneurin Barnard, Lena Headey, Sam Neill…
- Spiffy period adventure set in Victorian England about a teenager racing to find the eponymous 'Midas Box', a treasure which can turn any object to…
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
- Dir. Arnaud des Pallières
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, David Kross…
- Mads Mikkelsen plays a Robin Hood–esque horse trader who rallies against an oppressive regime in 16th century France.
A stern medieval tale…
Atlantis (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Jack Donnelly, Mark Addy, Juliet Stevenson
- An epic drama based around the stories of Greek mythology and the lost city of Atlantis. Jason, is sucked into a vortex and transported back to the…
Berlin File, The (2013)
- Dir. Ryoo Seung-Wan
Feat. Jung-woo Ha, Gianna Jun
- After an illegal arms deal in Berlin is disrupted by unknown assailants, a South Korean intelligence agent finds himself embroiled in a vast…
Blind Detective (2013)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao
- Dir. Johnnie To has a bob each way with this entertaining policier, effortlessly combining action, comedy and slapstick romance. Andy Lau plays the…
Dead Man Down (2013)
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard…
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev (THE GIRL WITH A DRAGON TATTOO) imports an Eastern European aesthetic into this New York–set gangland revenge thriller,…