Action & Adventure - Movies

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

Action & Adventure

Marlon Brando stars with Val Kilmer in this update of H.G. Wells' classic novel about a brilliant but deranged scientist who performs genetic experiments melding humans and animals — with horrific results.

Last Supper

Action & Adventure

New York City, late night. Two hitmen share a meal. Vincent, the mark, has from appetizers to dessert to convince McCarthy not to kill him. In this game of cat and mouse, situations aren't always as they appear, and people aren't always who they seem be.

Assault on a Queen

Action & Adventure

A woman adventurer and her ruthless companion talk an ex-submarine officer into joining them in raising a sunken German submarine. Their plan succeeds only to have the U.S. Coast Guard race to the scene. Against this story is woven the love story of Sinatra and Virna Lisi, with the jealousy of Tony Franciosa.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Action & Adventure

Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must face the past he thought he left behind and confront his father, leader of the dangerous Ten Rings organization. The film also stars Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy, Meng’er Zhang, Fala Chen, and Florian Munteanu, with Michelle Yeoh as Ying Nan and Tony Leung as Xu Wenwu. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and produced by Kevin Feige and Jonathan Schwartz, with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and Charles Newirth serving as executive producers. Screenplay by Dave Callaham & Destin Daniel Cretton & Andrew Lanham. Screen Story by Dave Callaham & Destin Daniel Cretton.

Taken 2 (Unrated Cut)

Action & Adventure

Brace yourself for the Unrated Edition of Taken 2, with even more explosive action and thrilling suspense. Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself “taken” hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.

Proud Mary

Action & Adventure

Taraji P. Henson is Mary, a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.

Sanctum

Action & Adventure

From executive producer James Cameron (Avatar) comes a thrilling underwater adventure based on true events. Master diver Frank McGuire leads a team—including his 17-year-old son—to explore the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. But when a tropical storm cuts off their only escape route, the team must work together to find their way through an uncharted and dangerous underwater labyrinth to make it out alive. With time running out, can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?

Destination Gobi

Action & Adventure

A group of navy servicemen sent to the Gobi Desert to take weather measurements during World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongolian nomads when their ship comes under attack from the Japanese. The Mongolian chieftain agrees, but only under the condition the men supply him with enough saddles for his horses, about sixty. With no other options, the group agrees, and the confused Pentagon is forced to deliver a truckload to saddles to the middle of the Gobi desert, to the delight of the native people.

Arena Wars

Action & Adventure

In 2045, convicted criminals have a shot at redemption in the bloodthirsty spectacle of Arena Wars, a brutal futuristic game show produced by the ruthless business magnate Desmond Belladonna. Innocent death row inmate Luke Bender is forced into the deadly competition, where survival means outlasting seven vicious killers in seven arenas loaded with deadly surprises. With alliances formed and moral dilemmas faced, Luke and his fellow contestants must confront their sordid pasts and defy the odds to reclaim their freedom and win over the audience. But as tensions rise and Belladonna tightens his grip on the competition, Luke and the surviving inmates embark on a daring plan to expose his corruption and end the barbaric spectacle once and for all. In a showdown of epic proportions, the battle for justice and freedom tests not only their strength but also their willingness to sacrifice everything for the greater good.

Superman: Doomsday

Action & Adventure

The most shocking showdown in Superman history! When Lexcorp accidentally unearths the intergalactic serial killer Doomsday, Superman battles the creature head on in the fight of his life...literally. The world collectively mourns their fallen hero; humanity realizes it will never feel truly safe again. Superman's enemies rejoice all but Lex Luthor, who grieves the loss in his own demented manner, setting off a chilling chain of events that even he couldn't have foreseen. Inspired by the bestselling graphic novel of all time, DC Comics' The Death of Superman, this feature-length animated adventure boasts exciting action sequences that rivals anything you've ever seen starring the Man of Steel!

A Score to Settle

Action & Adventure

Diagnosed with a fatal condition, Frankie Carver (Nicolas Cage) is released from prison after serving 19 years of hard time. With only a short time left to live, Frankie must desperately try to make amends with the son he left behind while he plots a bloody course of revenge - tracking down his old gang to make them pay one by one.

Rift

Action & Adventure

Sr. Special Agent Jason Cole is a man of morals, statutes, and principles but when faced with the ultimate decision, will he do the right thing even if it costs him everything?

Among the Beasts

Action & Adventure

The daughter of a criminal enlists a former Marine who must overcome his demons to find her kidnapped cousin.

The World Is Not Enough

Action & Adventure

When the suave Agent 007 (Pierce Brosnan) is assigned to protect a beautiful billionaire oil heiress (Sophia Marceau), he is catapulted into a passionate, adrenaline-charged adventure against one of his most deadly adversaries: Renard (Robert Carlyle), a nuclear-obsessed ruthless anarchist whose total imperviousness to pain makes him a virtually unstoppable enemy who is seeking to control the world's oil supply.

The Mad Monk (1993)

Action & Adventure

One of Hong Kong’s top directors reunited with its biggest comedy star after several previous hits (Royal Scoundrel, Justice, My Foot) – only this time their subject was the gods themselves. Internationally proclaimed comic genius Stephen Chow plays petty, arrogant god Dragon Fighter Lo Han, who is changed into “Monk Chai” and ordered to alter the fates of three bad people on Earth, lest he be retransmigationized. Unfortunately for him (but to any viewer’s delight), the trio he finds are a prostitute (played by the radiant, remarkably talented Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a beggar (played by award-winning actor Anthony Wong), and a cold-blooded killer. Chow and To wring honest pathos and many laughs from this wonderful scenario, ably supported by the star’s welcome sidekick Ng Man-tat and vaunted action director Ching Siu-tung (the director of A Chinese Ghost Story and the producer of The Heroic Trio).

Dead or Alive

Action & Adventure

Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the Dead or Alive films cemented Miike's reputation overseas as one of the most provocative enfants terrible of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers.In Dead or Alive, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnically Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. But he meets his match in detective Jojima (Show Aikawa), who will do everything to stop them.

An Eye for an Eye

Action & Adventure

A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.

The Ledge

Action & Adventure

A rock climbing adventure between two friends turns into a terrifying nightmare. After Kelly (Brittany Ashworth) captures the murder of her best friend on camera, she becomes the next target of a tight-knit group of friends who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence and anyone in their way. Desperate for her safety, she begins a treacherous climb up a mountain cliff and her survival instincts are put to the test when she becomes trapped with the killers just 20 feet away.

Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman

Action & Adventure

Chu Liuxiang, the charming, capable, and sentimental, swordsman is back in action for this extremely well-named third installment of the hit box-office series -- which won majestic star Ti Lung a whole new legion of fans. The titanic team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung wisely chose to give their hero a whole new, non-stop, cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mystery swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a Ghost Mansion, the Bat Island, a booby-trapped tunnel, double crosses, and secret missions. No fewer than three martial arts choreographers are on hand to guide the amazing mayhem, featuring such favorites as award-winning kung-fu actor Ku Feng and Shaw’s first international star, Lo Lieh.

Time Pirates

Action & Adventure

A teen music group (TikTok sensations SM6) finds half a treasure map and is thrust into a world where pirates rule the seas... and will also stop at nothing to find the map's treasure. To get back home, the group must form unlikely alliances and take on Blackbeard (Richard Grieco, '22 Jump Street'), the world's most dangerous pirate. From The Asylum, directed by Anthony C. Ferrante ('Sharknado').

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