Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Adventure: 100 Films to Buy & Rent
- Zorro (1974)
- Dir. Luciano Martino
Feat. Alain Delon, Sir Stanley Baker
- Transposed from California to South America, the masked, sword–wielding hero (Alain Delon) maintains his reputation for exciting…
- Tarzan (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Ron Ely, Sally Kellerman, Diana Ross
- Ron Ely maintains jungle justice in this TV series from 1972. Two episodes include guest star turns from Sally Kellerman and Diana Ross!
- Horsemen, The (1971)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance…
- An ambitious historical epic concerns the quest of an Afghani tribal horseman (Sharif) to regain his honour after losing a ritual Buzkashi…
- Robinson Crusoe (1954)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Dan O'Herlihy
- Daniel Defoe's classic novel of a shipwreck's sole survivor. Luis Bunuel directs with a few surrealist flourishes.
- Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953)
- Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland…
- Adventure yarn about a Greek father and son team off the coast of Florida who dive for living sponges in dangerous waters. Brought down a little by a…
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
- Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson…
- Adventure film based on 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights' about a boy prince who takes revenge on the Mongol invaders who murdered his father…
- Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William…
- Early, often imitated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' musketeer legend, with Louis Hayward as the eponymous man in the mask.
- Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934)
- Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer…
- Exemplary version of Alexandre Dumas' classic swashbuckler. Robert Donat plays the imprisoned officer seeking revenge with steel and panache.
- Tarzan The Fearless / Tarzan And The Trappers (1933-1958)
- Dir. Charles Haas, Robert F. Hill
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Gordon Scott
- "Tarzan The Fearless" is feature film stitched together in the 1960's from the first four chapters a 12–part 1933 serial starring Buster Crabbe…
- Tarzan Collection, The (Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan Escapes, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan Secret Treasure, Tarzan's New York Adventure) (1932-1942)
- Feat. Johnny Weissmuller
- All 6 of the 'Tarzan' movies starring Johnny Weismuller.