Subgenre Sampler
Television > Action/Adventure: 120 Films to Buy & Rent
Robin Hood (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Jonas Armstrong, Lucy Griffiths, Richard Armitage…
- The latest reincarnation of Robin Hood is a lavish, broadly appealing small screen BBC revival of the Sherwood legend. All of Robin’s friends and…
Tiger Brigades, The (2006)
- Dir. Jerome Cornuau
Feat. Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer…
- Splashy French adventurism, in the spirit of THE UNTOUCHABLES, pits a high–minded inspector and his hard knocks 'Tiger Brigade' of crimebusters…
Unit, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. David Mamet, various
Feat. Dennis Haysbert, Scott Foley, Robert Patrick…
- The brainchild of David Mamet, this riveting black–ops suspenser serialises the daring assignments of a covert special forces team who, under…
24 - Season 4 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
Deadwood - Season 2 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker…
- Further tales from the troubled Arizona town of Deadwood. Season Two: 12 episodes across four discs.
Disc 1: A Lie Agreed Upon – Part 1, A…
Empire (2005)
- Feat. Colm Feore, Emily Blunt, Jonathon Cake
- Glossy and occasionally patchy drama which reconstructs the events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar (Freore) and the succession of…
Kidnapped (TV Mini Series) (2005)
- Feat. Adrian Dunbar, John Bach, Paul McGann…
- A stirring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn, set around a young boy's entanglement with the Scottish Jacobite rebellion…
Over There (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
- Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
Shakugan No Shana (TV Series) (2005)
- Yuji is returning from school when suddenly time stops and monsters appear to devour people. He is not frozen, however. When one of the monsters…
To The Ends of the Earth (TV mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. David Attwood
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris, Sam Neill…
- Based on William Golding's epic trilogy, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a young aristocrat who travels to Australia on a journey of…