Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Adventure: 100 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mountains of the Moon (1990)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant…
- Ambitious saga details the quest of Sir Richard Burton to discover the source of the Nile river. Compelling personal story remains focused amid the…
- Farewell to the King (1989)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae…
- Half–successful attempt to fashion a mythic tale from the Japanese invasion of Borneo in WW2, with a US Army deserter (Nolte) and a British…
- Walker (1988)
- Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Ed Harris, Rene Auberjonois, Peter Boyle…
- Harris is William Walker in an unwieldy, idiosyncratic account of the American adventurer's takeover of Nicaragua in 1855.
- Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)
- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones…
- Proficient, if dated adventure yarn in which explorer Chamberlain and archaeologist Stone set off to Africa in search of a missing brother. Mixes…
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell
- High–tech, tongue–in–cheek adventure in which Kurt Russell kicks butt in Chinatown.
- Leading Edge, The (1986)
- Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Billy T. James
- Adventure docu–drama that's little more than an excuse to show off some wonderful South Island scenery and awesome ski theatrics. Billy T.…
- Mosquito Coast, The (1986)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
- A knock–out thriller about the woes of obsession with Harrison Ford as the idealistic inventor who drags his family into the thick of the South…
- Where the River Runs Black (1986)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Charles Durning, Dana Delany
- Compassionate eco–drama about an Amazon–raised orphan who is assimilated into civilisation by a priest (Durning).
- Burke and Wills (1985)
- Dir. Graeme Clifford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi
- True blue Aussie classic chronicling the famous journey of two ill–prepared explorers across the unforgiving outback.
- Emerald Forest, The (1985)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Powers Boothe, Meg Foster
- Sumptuous Amazon adventure story concerns an one man's struggle to find his son, kidnapped ten years earlier and initiated into a primitive society.