Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Action/Adventure: 396 Films to Buy & Rent
- Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo…
- Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…
- Bang Rajan (2000)
- Dir. Tanit Jitnukul
- Truly ferocious action spectacular based on the true tale of how a small Siamese village tried to withstand the efforts of 100 000 invading Burmese…
- Bichunmoo (2000)
- Dir. Young-Jun Kim
- Boasting the biggest budget of any Korean film, this period epic, a kind–of "Once Upon a Time in Korea", blends the usual ingredients with…
- City of Lost Souls (2000)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Teah , Michelle Reis, Ren Osugi
- Another turbo–charged piece of blood–drenched lunacy from prolific genre stylist Takashi Miike, marked out by its Brazilian protagonist…
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi…
- A fantasy–fuelled, Chinese feudal melodrama laced with jaw–dropping combat sequences (arguably the best ever staged), this represents a…
- Dead or Alive 2 (Tobosha) (2000)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Shinya Tsukamoto
- Understated yet rewarding sequel to the mind–blowing gangster actioner follows on from the 'end of the world' with an unrelated story, with…
- JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Young-ae Lee
- A Korean military thriller of high repute that opens with a double–killing on the bitterly–tense border between North and South and…
- Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone) (2000)
- Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
- A blast of wild inspiration from the New Thai Cinema, this restages a Hollywood Western within a luridly kitschy setting using back–projection,…
- Time and Tide (2000)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai
- Healthy measures of hard–boiled alienation and gyroscopic fire–fights ignite this Hong Kong kick–butt–fest that somersaults…
- Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
- Dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Feat. Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul
- Frenetic, violent gangland tale set in the throbbing Thai capital, about a deaf–mute hitman isolated by his affliction and his profession, and…