Action/Adventure
see all genres ›Heroes test their skill and courage. Stunts and special effects paint a kinetic picture of valor on the "action" side while exotic settings and romantic subplots often spice the "adventure" pot. A final showdown may just separate the men from the boys, and, in some cases, the women from the girls.
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Genres / Action/Adventure
SUB-GENRES · Biker · Combat · Disaster · Manhunt · Martial Arts · Seafaring · Serial · Sword & Sandal · Treasure Hunting · Wilderness
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Escape to Burma
When a local British Burma prince is found murdered, his grieving father seeks vengeance and Jim Brecan (Robert Ryan) becomes the prime suspect. Fleeing for his life, he finds temporary sanctuary in a teak plantation managed by a wealthy colonial woman (Barbara Stanwyck). She believes in his innocence and the two fall in love...Start your free trial to watch -
European Rest Cure
This spoof on the popular travelogue genre follows an American tourist across Europe and the Middle East on a "rest cure," in which one physically or emotionally wrenching disaster follows another. Foreign locales were actually pasteboard sets of pyramids, Roman ruins and a French cafe, while additional...Start your free trial to watch -
The Exterminator
Christopher George, Robert Ginty and Samantha Eggar star in THE EXTERMINATOR, James Glickenhaus’ explosive story of Vietnam vet John Eastland, a man who launches a bloody vendetta against the New York underworld when his best friend is brutally beaten by a vicious street gang. Eastland becomes a vigilante...Start your free trial to watch
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The False Magistrate
In THE FALSE MAGISTRATE, Louis Feuillade's fifth and final film in the Fantômas series, Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) once again battles false accusations from behind bars (though this time in a plan of his own devising). It is all part of a fiendish plot of multiple disguised identities in order to...Start your free trial to watch -
Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine
Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade's outrageous, ambitious FANTOMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade's own LES VAMPIRES and Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE films. In the first of...Start your free trial to watch -
Fantômas vs. Fantômas
Evildoer Fantômas (René Navarre) operates uninhibited as his rival, Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon), battles false accusations in prison in FANTOMAS VS. FANTOMAS, the fourth film in the series. Director Louis Feuillade's five Fantômas films feature surrealistic horror, cold-blooded murder and startling plot...Start your free trial to watch
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Female Convict: Scorpion
When a band of assassins invade the home of their target, they find only his bride-to-be Nami and give her a cruel choice: either she kills her fiance's sister or they kill her fiance. Trapped, Nami becomes a killer and is sent to prison where she can only survive by becoming more ruthless than those...Start your free trial to watch -
Fighter in the Wind
A young Korean Taekwondo competitor arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist. He retires to the wilderness for two years to...Start your free trial to watch
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Fists and Guts
Gordon Liu stars in this kung fu comedy directed by the legendary Chia Yung Liu and co-starring the great Lo Lieh (FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH). While searching for a fugitive, the Master (Lui) uncovers a scheme to steal the priceless Jade Buddha. But in order for him to stop the theft, the Master must fight his way through a...Start your free trial to watch -
Four Fast Guns
Against a backdrop of Arizona landscapes, this offbeat Western spins the yarn of a wanted man (James Craig) who turns unofficial lawman to tame the town of Purgatory but finds that the main troublemaker is a crippled saloon owner whose infirmity, according to the Western code, keeps him safe from gun justice. Craig becomes...Start your free trial to watch
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La France
Winner of the "Prix Jean Vigo" for the best French debut film, Serge Bozon's LA FRANCE is "a WWI movie like none other" (NY Times). An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world. French farm girl Camille (Sylvie Testud) is awaiting news of her husband (the late...Start your free trial to watch -
Frontier
Based on the surrealist novel "Froktog" by famed author Mulnar Typsthat, FRONTIER is an epic saga set against the aftermath of the Klornsthog Revolution. Two members of the Expansionist Research Corps embark on a journey to civilize the most uncharted of territories. But the more these wartorn soldiers attempt to tame the...Start your free trial to watch -
Full Contact
Unsurpassed action-packed set pieces, dazzling direction and one of Chow Yun-Fat's most explosive performance fuel FULL CONTACT, a first-rate, high-octane tale of revenge and retribution. To help his buddy Sam (Anthony Wong) settle a gambling debt, Jeff (Chow Yun-Fat) reluctantly agrees to join forces with Judge (Simon Yam)...Start your free trial to watch
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Gallants
In a remote village, Dragon (Chen Kuan Tai) and Tiger (Leung Siu-Lung) run Law's Teahouse, which was once a celebrated martial arts school. The middle-aged pair's skills have diminished in the thirty years they have waited for their Kung Fu master to awaken from his coma. When real estate associate Cheung arrives in the...Start your free trial to watch -
The Girl and Her Trust
A telephone operator (Dorothy Bernard) working an isolated railroad outpost is besieged when two tramps try to steal a cash delivery. After telegraphing for help, she heroically gives chase to the thieves on their getaway handcar. A thrilling railroad chase commences when her engineer love interest...Start your free trial to watch




