Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. 50 Cent, Terrence Howard
- Gangster–rap star "Fiddy" Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) tells the rags–to–riches tale of his Queens, NYC upbringing and how he saved…
Gisaku (2005)
- Dir. Baltasar Pedrosa
- Spanish–anime hybrid concerns an alliance of samurai warriors pitted against a demonic ‘Master of Darkness’ hell–bent on destroying…
Great Raid, The (2005)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen…
- Forthright retell of one of WWII's most daring missions, where a group of US Army Rangers plotted to rescue 511 American POWs from a Japanese prison…
Harsh Times (2005)
- Dir. David Ayer
Feat. Christian Bale, Freddy Rodríguez, Eva Longoria
- An urban masculine tale of crime, violence and staunch brotherhood in seedy South Central L.A., this is raw yet highly implicative about wasted male…
Hostage (2005)
- Dir. Florent Emilio Siri
Feat. Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker…
- Bruce Willis negotiates familiar territory as a SWAT agent drawn into a messy siege in a high–security mansion, where three white–trash…
Initial D (Tau Man Jid) (2005)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau
Feat. Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong…
- Sleak and light, this adaptation of the Shuichi Shigeno's famous 'manga' comic by the makers of INFERNAL AFFAIRS, concerns a boy–racer (played…
Into the Blue (2005)
- Dir. John Stockwell
Feat. Jessica Alba, Paul Walker, Scott Caan…
- Four youthful free–divers plunge into the waters of the Bahamas in search of supposed sunken treasure, but instead discover a planeload of pure…
Kidnapped (TV Mini Series) (2005)
- Feat. Adrian Dunbar, John Bach, Paul McGann…
- A stirring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn, set around a young boy's entanglement with the Scottish Jacobite rebellion…
King Kong (2005)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black…
- Peter Jackson's colossal remake lavishes one of the cinema's greatest legends in 21st century technology and ratchets up the emotional stakes to…
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Eva Green…
- Arch–epic of the 12th century crusades, this follows an honourable French blacksmith (Bloom) into the maelstrom of Jerusalem,…