Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2197 Films to Buy & Rent
U.S. Marshals (1998)
- Dir. Stuart Baird
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes
- Tommy Lee Jones rebirths his role in THE FUGITIVE for this informal sequel, sending out an APB for the armed, dangerous and mysterious Wesley Snipes.…
Who Am I? (1998)
- Dir. Jackie Chan, Bennie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan
- A standard opening soon flowers into one of Jackie Chan's crazier flights of action–ballet, playing an amnesiac commando who can't work out why…
Air Force One (1997)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman
- Patriot tripe of the first order in which the private plane of the US president is infiltrated and held to ransom by Russkie terrorists.
Without…
Black Mask (1997)
- Dir. Daniel Lee
Feat. Jet Li, Lau Ching-wan
- Mild–mannered librarian by day – pain–resistant, cool–garbed crime–fighter by night – Jet Li's engaging…
Con Air (1997)
- Dir. Simon West
Feat. Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich…
- The prison genre meets the airborne thriller(!) but invigorated no end by super–slick production and direction and the ever–dependable…
Cop Land (1997)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel…
- Brooding, shadowy conception of the American Dream gone rotten, pivots on a smouldering role for Sly Stallone, as a shell–shocked cop gone to…
Curdled (1997)
- Dir. Reb Braddock
Feat. Angela Jones, William Baldwin
- Confident black comedy with an uncurdled premise – an innocent yet morbidly–fascinated senorita joins a Miami cleaning agency…
Dangerous Ground (1997)
- Dir. Darrell James Roodt
Feat. Ice-Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames
- Lowbrow blaxploitation pic masquerading as politically impassioned drama sees Ice–Cube returning to less–than–stable South African…
Dante's Peak (1997)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton
- Ex–pat Kiwi Donaldson ushers the lava in this pretty engaging, effects–laden update of the '70s disaster movie. Pierce Brosnan and Linda…
Dobermann (1997)
- Dir. Jan Kounen
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci…
- Frenetic French crime thriller filled with over the top gun play and colourful yet grimy characters.
Vincent Cassel plays a bank robber known as…