Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2192 Films to Buy & Rent
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 RodrÃguez, 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,…
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- Dir. Shane Black
Feat. Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jnr., Corbin Bernsen…
- Reflexively vulgar and enjoyably vicious, this comic–thriller has fumbling thief Downey Jnr. by chance winning an audition for a film part,…
Kokoda (2005)
- Dir. Alister Grierson
Feat. Jack Finsterer, Simon Stone, Travis McMahon…
- Visceral, against–the–odds WWII flick revisits the legendary story of inexperienced Aussie battlers taking on the mighty Japanese army in…