Subgenre Sampler
Family > Adventure: 175 Films to Buy & Rent
Tom's Midnight Garden (2006)
- Dir. Willard Carroll
Feat. Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright
- A handsome screen version of children's novel by Phillipa Pearce, in which a young boy in the 1950s is sent to live with his aunt and uncle because…
Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl, The (2005)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Kristin Davis, David Arquette
- Colourful fantasy involves a 10–year old boy, who to escape parental neglect and the attentions of school bullies, invents his own…
MirrorMask (2005)
- Dir. Dave McKean
Feat. Gina McKee, Stephanie Leonidas
- Inventive fantasy drama in which a teenage girl – born into a circus family – is traumatised by her mother's sudden illness and retreats…
Masai - The Rain Warriors (2004)
- Dir. Pascal Plisson
- Simple and visually–sweeping, this African epic follows a group of teenage warriors from their drought–stricken village out into the…
Pride (2004)
- Dir. John Downer
Feat. Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Sean Bean…
- Quaintly original and rather winning BBC production about a lionness who rebels against her home 'pride', first, by thinking of becoming a…
Shoebox Zoo (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Justin Molotnikov
Feat. Vivien Endicott Douglas, Jason Connery, Rik Mayall…
- An imaginative British fantasy series for children, has a Canadian exchange student (Douglas) living in Edinburgh inherit a box of toy animals, that…
Treasure Island Kids (2004)
- Dir. Gavin Scott
- Hearty adventure series for kids, based around an island and its most interesting inhabitant: the wacky inventor Conrad Dawson, who has spent his…
Two Brothers (2004)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Guy Pearce, Jean Claude Dreyfus
- One of the most compelling 'wildlife' films of recent years proffers the tale of two Bengal tiger cubs, orphaned and separated by a remorseless…
Pirate Islands (2003)
- Feat. Dan Chesterman, Brooke Harmon
- A freak accident sends three Australian kids into a computer–generated world of pirates and swashbuckling heroes.
Star Wars - The Clone Wars (TV Series) (2003)
- Animated Star Wars 'micro' series set between EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH, detailing the grand–scale…