Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Adventure: 100 Films to Buy & Rent
- Valhalla Rising (2009)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen
- Mads Mikkelsen plays an enslaved warrior drawn into a viking crusade in this gritty, visceral primordial adventure from dir. Nicolas Winding Refn…
- Australia (2008)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham…
- Aussie golden boy Baz Luhrmann's larger–than–life epic sees an English aristocrat and cattle driver attempt to save an inherited outback…
- Mummy, The - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
- Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello…
- Veteran adventurer Rick O’Conner (Fraser) returns with family in tow to battle Jet Li’s ‘Dragon Emperor’ in this bloated third installment of…
- Sovereign's Servant, The (2007)
- Dir. Oleg Ryaskov
Feat. Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov
- Two French aristocrats are sent by Louis XIV to observe the Swedish and Russian armies just before the Battle of Poltava in this sweeping Russian…
- Apocalypto (2006)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Dalia Hernandez, Rudy Youngblood
- Dir. Mel Gibson’s oft–enthralling action adventure follows a young tribesman living in a jungle village who is taken prisoner by Mayan…
- Guardian, The (2006)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Costner, Sela Ward
- Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner get wet as trainee coast guard and salty swim legend respectively in this broad–chested adventure about an…
- Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley
- A rousing medieval adaptation of the Anglo–Saxon epic poem in sweeping fantasy tones. Filled with constant action in a strange, otherworldly…
- 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…
- Mangal Pandey (2005)
- Dir. Ketan Mehta
Feat. Aamir Khan, Toby Stephens
- Accomplished and stirring Hindi epic based on the life and times of Mangal Pandey (Khan), leader of the 1857 'Indian Mutiny' which severely…
- King Solomon's Mines (TV Mini-series) (2004)
- Feat. Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody, Roy Marsden…
- Two–part miniseries based on H. Rider Haggard's timeless tale of Allan Quartermain's quest to find the fabled mines of King Solomon, and the…