Action & Adventure Movies

The Hard Way

The Hard Way

Action & Adventure

Michael J. Fox and James Woods team up for hilarious action-adventure from director John Badham. Nick Lang (Fox) is a popular movie star who joins forces with a tough New York detective (Woods) in order to break out of his "nice guy" screen image. On the trail of a ruthless serial killer, the last thing Moss needs is a pampered Hollywood sidekick.

Target

Target

Action & Adventure

Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon are the distant father and son suddenly swept into a world of international intrigue in this action-packed spy drama. Texas teenager Chris Lloyd (Dillon) finds his father Walter (Hackman) unremarkable, ordinary... and sometimes exasperating. But with his mother's mysterious disappearance in Paris, Chris finds himself entangled in an incredible web of danger, suspense and deception. Determined to find her, father and son must put aside their differences and begin a deadly race against time in an odyssey across Europe.

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

Action & Adventure

47 Meters Down: Uncaged follows the diving adventure of four teenage girls (Corinne Foxx, Sistine Stallone, Sophie Nélisse, and Brianne Tju) exploring a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Action & Adventure

Screen legend Gregory Peck ("To Kill A Mockingbird") brings to life C.S. Forester's classic nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. Hornblower battles the French and the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic wars, but also finds time for romance in this spectacle from director Raoul Walsh ("White Heat," "High Sierra"). Co-starring Virginia Mayo ("The Best Years of Our Lives"). Leonard Maltin calls this an "exciting, well-produced sea epic.

Deck the Halls (2011)

Deck the Halls (2011)

Action & Adventure

Based on the bestselling book by superstar mystery authors Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, Deck the Halls tells the story of Detective Regan Reilly who is hit with a bombshell just before the holiday season when her wealthy father vanishes, along with his female driver. Determined to ensure their safe return, she teams up with an amateur sleuth in order to uncover the truth.

The Legend of Johnny Lingo

The Legend of Johnny Lingo

Action & Adventure

When a fierce storm strikes Malio Island, the islanders ask for a miracle. What they receive instead is an ornate canoe complete with a little boy. At first the boy, named Tama, is thought to be a gift from the gods and taken in by the Malio chief to be raised as his own son. However, when gossip spreads that Tama is to blame for all the island's misfortunes, the chief denounces him. The boy is passed between families on the island until he ends up in the poorest house, that belonging to Mahana and her father. Like Tama, Mahana is an outcast and the two form a strong bond.

Gotti

Gotti

Action & Adventure

John Travolta stars as the legendary mobster, John Gotti, head of the largest and most powerful crime organization in North America, the Gambino Family. His flamboyant style, charm and ruthless persona made him the most famous mobster of the 20th Century. The story, told through the eyes of his eldest son John Gotti Jr., delves into the past and explores Gotti’s epic rise and fall in the mob.

Coast of Skeletons

Coast of Skeletons

Action & Adventure

Dead men tell no tales in this action-packed search for a lost treasure in gold starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson, produced by legendary exploitation filmmaker Harry Alan Towers (The Face of Fu Manchu). Suspicious of the loss of a diamond dredger off the coast of South Africa, an insurance company sends inspector Harry Sanders (Richard Todd) to investigate A.J. Magnus (Dale Robertson), the ship's wealthy owner. Joining the crew on its next expedition, Sanders soon uncovers the startling truth: the operation is merely a front to recover a half-million pounds in sunken gold bullion, a fortune Magnus would kill to keep all for himself. Loosely based on Edgar Wallace's 1911 novel Sanders of the River, Coast of Skeletons is 1960s' escapism at its two-fisted best and marks Richard Todd's second and final appearance as Harry Sanders, a character he first played in Death Drums Along the River in 1963.

Gone Tomorrow

Gone Tomorrow

Action & Adventure

Five years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to find his kidnapped baby niece. One step ahead of the police, and one behind an unraveling criminal syndicate, he must once again sacrifice everything in the name of family.

Jig-Saw

Jig-Saw

Action & Adventure

Romain (Lino Ventura) lost his wife in a forest fire, and his son, who blamed him for the death, left France for Canada. Romain is called to Canada to identify the corpse of a murder victim believed to be his son. When the murdered man turns out to be someone else, his son automatically becomes the chief suspect in the murder. Romain decides to try and get the young man to turn himself in and searches through the underground and underworld life in Canadian cities with the help of Karen (Angie Dickinson), a lady with an unsavory past.

A Murder of Crows

A Murder of Crows

Action & Adventure

A Murder of Crows is the story of one man's struggle with his responsibilities as a lawyer and with the appetite of his ego. Prominent New Orleans attorney Lawson Russell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) puts his name on a best seller he didn't write. However, the novel he stole was a factual account of a series of murders. Hunted by the detective Clifford Dubose (Tom Berenger) and the FBI, Lawson Russell must discover who framed him and why.

Fixed

Fixed

Action & Adventure

When low-level gambler, Daz Clemence, is caught fixing a back street boxing match, he is stabbed and confined where he awaits his fate. Armed only with his phone and wits, he must escape before his boss reaps revenge.

One-Armed Swordsman

One-Armed Swordsman

Action & Adventure

Even non-kung-fu lovers will be mesmerized by Jimmy Wang Yu in the role that made him a superstar. As the mysterious swordsman whose one arm is more powerful than his two-armed rivals, Wang and director Chang Cheh revolutionized the Hong Kong kung-fu genre and broke box office records across Asia. The female leads, Pan Yin-tse and Chiao Chiao, went on to become some of Shaw Brothers most important lady fighters, and Wang followed up his "One-Armed Swordsman" triumph with numerous sequels. A film that always makes the “top ten” list of martial arts masterpieces, this 1967 classic is as timeless today as upon its original release.

Dragon Kingdom

Dragon Kingdom

Action & Adventure

To save their Kingdom from the Dark Lord's army, a mighty and courageous legion of warriors must travel through the forbidden lands fighting the fearsome fire breathing monsters of The Dark Kingdom, a land that swallows all who enter, in order to rescue their King.

Dragon Inn

Dragon Inn

Action & Adventure

The art of martial-arts filmmaking took a leap into bold new territory with this action-packed tale of Ming-dynasty intrigue. After having the emperor’s minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim’s children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent. The first film King Hu made after moving to Taiwan from Hong Kong in search of more creative freedom, Dragon Inn combines rhythmic editing, meticulous choreography, and gorgeous widescreen compositions with a refinement that was new to the wuxia genre. Its blockbuster success breathed new life into a classic formula and established Hu as one of Chinese cinema’s most audacious innovators.

National Treasure

National Treasure

Action & Adventure

From Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of Pirates Of The Caribbean, and Jon Turteltaub, director of Phenomenon, comes National Treasure. It's the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat adventure starring Academy Award (R) winner Nicolas Cage (1995 Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) as Benjamin Franklin Gates. Ever since he was a boy, Gates has been obsessed with finding the legendary Knights Templar Treasure, the greatest fortune known to man. As Gates tries to find and decipher ancient riddles that will lead him to it, he's dogged by a ruthless enemy (Sean Bean, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy) who wants the riches for himself. Now in a race against time, Gates must steal one of America's most sacred and guarded documents -- the Declaration of Independence -- or let it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands. Heart-pounding chases, close calls, and the FBI turn Gates's quest into a high-stakes crime caper and the most exciting treasure hunt you've ever experienced.

States

States

Action & Adventure

Inspired by daring works of independent adventurism, particularly in the Slacker spirit, States was made with nothing but a camera, two microphones, a credit card, and a passion for the open road. The film is a neorealist collaboration with carefully selected, very talented strangers - actors and non-actors recruited along the way - that tells an ensemble tale of drifters, ramblers, sirens and gamblers. A transient road film featuring an array of young nomads wandering throughout the U.S. with varying degrees of purpose, or lack-thereof, “States” is a multifaceted meditation on freedom via Twain/Altman/Homer and an outsider's love letter to America and the searchers of its endless highways.