Action & Adventure - Movies

The Bodyguard

Action & Adventure

In a small town bordering China and Russia, a retired bodyguard with early dementia (Sammo Hung) makes friends with a young girl. But when she and her father disappear, he must recall long-abandoned skills to take down the mob and save her.

Rambo III

Action & Adventure

When Col. Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) is captured during a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo erupts into a one-man firestorm to rescue his former commanding officer and decimate the enemy. This intense, heart-pounding adventure boasts unrelenting action and suspense from start to finish.

Khartoum

Action & Adventure

A spectacular historical epic set in 1885... Commanded by a determined religious leader called "The Mahdi" (Laurence Olivier), 80,000 fierce Sudanese warriors massacre 8,000 untrained, British-led Egyptian troops in the desert, 100 miles beyond Khartoum. British Prime Minister Gladstone (Sir Ralph Richardson) learns of the slaughter and that The Mahdi is determined to claim the great city of Khartoum to prove his divine mission and power. General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) is persuaded to try to make peace. He must also find a way to evacuate the Egyptian army defending Khartoum and protect its inhabitants. Directed by Basil Dearden. The stunning action sequences were directed by Yakima Canutt.

Porco Rosso (Subtitled)

Action & Adventure

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above the scenic port towns of the Adriatic Sea. "Porco Rosso" is a world-weary flying ace-turned-bounty-hunter, whose face has been transformed into that of a pig by a mysterious spell. When he infuriates a band of sky pirates with his heroics, the pirates hire Curtis, a hotshot American rival, to get rid of him. But with the help of the teenage girl Fio, an aspiring airplane designer, and a sultry lounge singer named Gina, Porco takes to the skies for what may be his final high-flying showdown.

Section 8

Action & Adventure

After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.

Soldiers of Fortune

Action & Adventure

Captain Craig McCenzie (Christian Slater) – a former US special forces soldier – is hired to protect a group of millionaires who want to experience the kicks and thrills of war. However, the millionaires’ mission goes horribly wrong, and their bodyguards are all killed. Lost and hunted in enemy territory, the egotistical millionaires have to learn to be a unit, and Craig eventually leads them to victory.

Rescue Me (1993)

Action & Adventure

In this adventure spoof, nerdy high school camera aficionado Fraser (Stephen Dorff) worships teen queen Ginny (Ami Dolenz) from afar. He fantasizes about performing some sort of noble act to impress her. But when she's kidnapped before his very eyes, he's too busy taking pictures to do anything. With the help of scuzzy Vietnam veteran Daniel "Mac" MacDonald (Michael Dudikoff), Dorff goes to the girl's rescue. Peter DeLuise and Dee Wallace Stone also star.

Tycoon (1947)

Action & Adventure

An engineer is employed to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain in order to reach the mines. Complications occur when the engineer falls in love with his boss's daughter. Starring Oscar and Golden Globe-winner John Wayne (Hondo, True Grit) and Laraine Day (I Married a Communist, Without Honor)

Speed Racer (2008)

Action & Adventure

Lilly and Lana Wachowski bring a classic anime to the big screen: Matthew Fox, John Goodman, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandon star with Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer! Fearlessly hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition in his thundering Mach 5, Speed Racer was born to race cars. But when Speed turns down a lucrative offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret--some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls! The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival the mysterious Racer X to win the race that took his brother, Rex Racer’s, life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic

Action & Adventure

Maggie Nelson (voiced by Academy-Award®-winner Anna Paquin of THE PIANO, X-MEN) is a student at the High School of Dramatic Arts and a rising star of the New York stage. But when she is caught between a freak electrical storm and a mysterious rune stone, Maggie discovers that she has the uncanny ability to shape-shift like a chameleon. Now Maggie must stop the plot of an alchemic madman from an ancient race that walk hidden among us. Why has her Interpol agent father been abducted? What can a sexy teenage actress dare to do with the powers of DNA replication? And will the world's most unlikely new superhero save the day without flunking her midterms?

Point Blank (1967)

Action & Adventure

Two years after he is double-crossed and left for dead by his dirty partner, gangster Lee Marvin seeks deadly revenge. This action-packed thriller stars Oscar-winner Marvin ("Cat Ballou," "The Dirty Dozen"), Angie Dickinson ("Dressed to Kill," TV's "Police Woman"), Emmy-winner Carroll O'Connor (TV's "All in the Family," "In the Heat of the Night"), and Keenan Wynn ("Mary Poppins," "Dr. Strangelove"). Directed by Academy Award-nominee John Boorman ("Deliverance," "Hope and Glory"). Produced by Oscar-winner Robert Chartoff ("Rocky," "Raging Bull").

Graduation

Action & Adventure

As high school graduation draws near, four high school seniors put their futures on the line to help a friend in desperate need of financial assistance. With a key to the bank and a foolproof plan, how difficult could it be to simply waltz right in, collect a quick $200,000, and disappear before anyone even realized what happened? Unfortunately for these criminally-inclined teens, the local police are quicker to respond than they ever anticipated.

Little Dead Rotting Hood

Action & Adventure

For years, the old woman in the woods has secretly kept the wolves of the forest at bay. But when the woman dies, the creatures suddenly attack the residents of a nearby small town. As more and more people turn up dead, the townsfolk discover something far more sinister than wolves lurking in the backwoods, and fight to save their home from evil by waging a bloody battle against the ruthless creatures. But as the wolves begin to overpower the town, only the woman’s granddaughter may have the key to stopping the bloodbath before it’s too late.

Freetown

Action & Adventure

Caught in the middle of a brutal civil war, six Liberian missionaries in Monrovia flee the widespread violence of their native country. Their destination: Freetown, Sierra Leone. With the help of local Church leader Phillip Abubakar (Henry Adofo), the missionaries make the difficult journey only to have their troubles compounded by a rebel fighter bent on killing one of their own. Based on true events, Freetown is a thrilling and inspiring story of hope and survival.

Shaft (2000)

Action & Adventure

Who delivers ten times out of ten? Samuel L. Jackson is Shaft, the man and the movie. With his uncle John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, reprising his original role) as his mentor, it's no surprise that today's Shaft is the coolest dude and the hottest action around. To stop a racist killer (Christian Bale), Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness (Toni Collette) that can put the perpetrator behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Armed with attitude and up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords, he's out to make crime pay up! John Singleton ("Boys 'n' the Hood") directs this gritty action-packed thriller.

The Best Man

Action & Adventure

Luke Wilson (3:10 to Yuma) and Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables) star in this pulse-pounding, action-packed thriller. When a team of ruthless mercenaries violently seize control of a remote resort hotel, former Special Ops soldiers attending their best friend's wedding must rely only on their wits and training to combat the terrorists and save the hostages held for ransom.

Mercenary for Justice

Action & Adventure

Legendary action icon Steven Seagal (“Exit Wounds,” “Under Siege”) plays a mercenary that gets entangled in a deadly mission that threatens the lives of his wife and son. In order to succeed, he must break into one of Eastern Europe’s most impenetrable prisons and free the son of a powerful and notorious drug lord.

Initiation

Action & Adventure

Five strangers are kidnapped and brought to a mysterious house in the woods, thrown into a cell and stripped of their belongings. They soon learn that the house is occupied by a bizarre, violent brotherhood, in the last phase of initiating five new recruits. The final test of initiation? To fight a man to the death. Led by Simon, an ex-Marine haunted by past failures, each hostage must fight a recruit in order to gain his freedom. Kill...or be killed.

Armed and Dangerous

Action & Adventure

John Candy and Eugene Levy charge into the world of private security in the outrageous action-comedy ARMED AND DANGEROUS. Unfortunately, they're usually charging in the wrong direction! When Candy, abungling cop, and Levy, an inept lawyer, lose their jobs, they wind up together at the Guard Dog Security Company. After thorough training in the use of firearms (for two hours), they're raring to go. But even as security guards they can't cut it, and rip-offs take place right under their noses. Eventually they figure out the robberies aren't coincidental, and that their company is in cahoots with the security union's mobster president (Robert Loggia, "Jagged Edge"). Eager to snag the crooks, Candy and Levy set out as spies, and in a wild car chase turn a million-dollar heist into an armored carnival! When the dust finally settles, Candy and Levy save the day as the hilarious rent-a-cop duo who are never more funny than when they're ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

Flash Gordon (1980)

Action & Adventure

Prepare to save the universe with the King of the Impossible! Alex Raymond's famous comic strip blasts to life in the timeless sci-fi cult adventure Flash Gordon! When energy waves pull the moon out of orbit, New York Jets quarterback Flash Gordon unwittingly finds himself heading for the planet Mongo, where—with assistance from beautiful Dale Arden—he'll take on Ming the Merciless and rescue humankind.

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