Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2164 Films to Rent
Dragonslayer (1981)
- Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson…
- Highly under–rated medieval fantasy in which a young wizard defies substantial and often thrilling odds to defeat a malevolent dragon.…
Fall Guy, The (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas
- Post–SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN vehicle for Lee Majors, with the burly TV star balancing freelance work as a bounty hunter with a day job as a…
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet
- Roger Moore as Bond in the film which attempted a return to the minimalist roots of Fleming's writing.
Gone, for now, are the mountains of gadgets…
For Your Height Only (1981)
- Dir. Eddie Nicart
Feat. Weng Weng, Yehlen Catral, Carmi Martin…
- Schlocky riff on the 007 franchise with pint sized ass–kicker Weng Weng as the world's smallest super spy, Agent 00, doing battle with mad…
Force Five (1981)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Joe Lewis
- Ultraviolent action, with Joe Lewis leading a skilled quintet of martial artists to rescue a girl from an island fortress ruled over by a religious…
Game of Death 2 (1981)
- Dir. Ng See Yuan
Feat. Bruce Lee
- Posthumous reworking of Bruce Lee's uncompleted final film utilises a lookalike and found footage to pad out the fight sequences already…
Loveless, The (1981)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter
- A brooding, fetishised love–letter to the motorcycle movies of the 1950s (THE WILD ONE et al), with a bike gang having a troubled interlude in…
My Young Auntie (1981)
- Dir. Liu Chia Liang
Feat. Kara Hui, Liu Chia Liang
- Screwball comedy fits like a glove in this kung fu farce concerning a family inheritance and the sexual tension between a side–kicking Aunt…
Night Hawks (1981)
- Dir. Bruce Malmuth
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer…
- Two undercover NYC cops are faced with the unenviable task of tracking down Europe's number one terrorist in this underrated 80's action flick.…
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence…
- Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasance and George Peppard cavort on and over the South Island in search of a 'McGuffin'.