Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
- Dir. Stuart Beattie
Feat. Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis…
- John Marsden's enduring 'Tomorrow' series of novels for young adults receives its first big screen treatment in this story of foreign (Asian!)…
Town, The (2010)
- Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm…
- Competent, briskly executed heist drama from actor/dir. Ben Affleck follows an armed robbery crew out of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, and the…
Tracker (2010)
- Dir. Ian Sharp
Feat. Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Gareth Reeves…
- Ray Winstone is lured to New Zealand in this turn–of–the–century chase movie, in which the hulking Brit plays a master South…
Unstoppable (2010)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson…
- Grunty thriller with Denzel in pursuit of a runaway train loaded with toxic chemicals that threatens to decimate a town. Pure action cinema that's…
Violent Kind, The (2010)
- Dir. Butcher Brothers
Feat. Cory Knauf, Joe Egender, Bret Roberts…
- Rockin' horror with bikers pursued by a malevolent gang of hopped up 'Rockabillies". Bloody, trashy, exploitation from directors of THE HAMILTONS.
Warlord (Warlord, The True Story Of Prince Yaroslav) (2010)
- Dir. Dmitri Korobkin
Feat. Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Svetlana Chuikina, Aleksei Kravchenko…
- Bloody epic full of swords and bears that tells the true tale of mighty Prince Yaroslav, who united the tribal lands of 11th century Russia.
Warrior's Way, The (2010)
- Dir. Sngmoo Lee
Feat. Jang Dong-Gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush…
- A ninja assassin (Jang Dong–Gun) on the run from his former clan is forced to hide in the American Badlands after refusing a mission to kill a…
Wild Target (2010)
- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint…
- Bumbling Brit comedy of a middle–aged assassin (Nighy) who spares the life of one of his targets (Blunt), only to attract the attention of a…
12 Rounds (2009)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott…
- Mindless action–flick–with–a–shtick focused on a police detective who must complete 12 gruelling puzzles in order to rescue…
2012 (2009)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandiwe Newton…
- Oh the humanity! Doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich renders the disaster movie redundant with this senseless, all–or–nothing…