Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2197 Films to Buy & Rent
Future Cops (1994)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok
- Good dumb fun is the pure agenda of this kitsch, kinetic fantasy–comedy based on the popular ‘Streetfighter’ arcade game.
On the trail…
Geronimo (1994)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Wes Studi, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman…
- Intelligent, if unremarkable, big–budget Western that chronicles the U.S. Army's attempt to bring down the great Apache warrior,…
God of Gamblers Return (1994)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Chow Yun–Fat returns as a charming poker player who enjoys the quiet life until a challenger kills his wife and begins to target his friends. …
Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994)
- Dir. Bill L. Norton
Feat. Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Michael Hurst…
- Made–for–TV caper has our brawny hero's plans for a wedding celebration come to ruin as he must defend his village against a marauding…
Heroic Trio 2 - Executioners (1994)
- Dir. Johnnie To, Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung…
- Downbeat sequel returns the trio of feisty femmes to combat the evil mega–corporation that taken a stranglehold on the world's…
Killing Zoe (1994)
- Dir. Roger Avary
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy
- A heist movie as grim and graceless as its title bears the Tarantino monicker (as executive producer) but director Avary only proves he has much to…
Last Outlaw, The (1994)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine…
- Kiwi director's bloody Western with Rourke as a psychopathic confederate hunting down the remnants of his white trash gang.
Legends of the Fall (1994)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas…
- American folk melodrama spans the decade around World War I in which the three sons of righteous patriarch Anthony Hopkins become divided over the…
Leon The Professional, The (Professional, The) (1994)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman
- The director of NIKITA revamps his French hit with American money and the English language. An Italian hitman in New York reluctantly adopts a…
Love and a 45 (1994)
- Dir. C.M. Talkington
Feat. Rory Cochrane, Michael Bowen
- A Tarantino knock–off in which lovers–on–the–run go wild at heart in a world of eccentric misfits, ultra–violence,…