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Rental > Action/Adventure: 2159 Films to Rent
Real Steel (2011)
- Dir. Shawn Levy
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie…
- Hugh Jackman seeks redemption as a boxing trainer for an all–robot fighting league in this silly, but triumphant sci–fi sports movie.
Season of the Witch (2011)
- Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy…
- Sword–and–sorcery tosh with Cage as an honorable knight charged with transporting a witch who may be the cause of the bubonic plague.
Seeking Justice (2011)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce…
- Nicholas Cage enters into an agreement with an organization of vigilantes who offer to avenge a violent crime committed on his wife, only to demand…
Shaolin (2011)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jackie Chan…
- Feuding warlords threaten to tear China apart and only a group of Shaolin monks stand in the way of annihilation.
Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows (2011)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace…
- Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively in this high–wire sequel to Guy Ritchie's blockbuster…
Sinking of the Laconia, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
- Dir. Uwe Janson
Feat. Andrew Buchan, Brian Cox, Franke Potente
- Gripping reenactment of the events surrounding the ill–fated Laconia, a British ocean liner crippled by a German U–boat, who in turn…
Sleepless Night (2011)
- Dir. Frederic Jardin
Feat. Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier…
- A stonking, white–knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to…
Smuggler (2011)
- Dir. Katsuhito Ishii
Feat. Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masatoshi Nagase, Yasuko Matsuyuki…
- An entertainingly schizophrenic black comedy by way of cult Japanese dir. Katsuhito Ishii, whose penchant for the wacky and surreal drives this…
Source Code (2011)
- Dir. Duncan Jones
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga…
- The dir. of MOON helms this smart sci–fi thriller, about a soldier (Gyllenhaal) thrust ‘neurologically’ into the shoes of a dead eyewitness…
Special Forces (2011)
- Dir. Stéphane Rybojad
Feat. Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Benoit Magimel
- A kidnapped war correspondent is rescued by an elite unit of French soldiers, only to be relentlessly pursued by her Taliban captors. Grunty and…