Action-packed + Clever + Adventurous Movies
Hitman (2007) RT 14% / Audience 57%
DVD release: Mar 2008
The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Xavier Gens
CAST: Timothy Olyphant • Dougray Scott • Olga Kurylenko • Robert Knepper
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems. (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Gore Verbinski
CAST: Johnny Depp • Orlando Bloom • Keira Knightley • Chow Yun-Fat
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Family
DIRECTION: Duwayne Dunham
CAST: Kevin Chevalia • Anne Christianson • Ted D'Arms • Kim Greist
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Chris Columbus
CAST: Daniel Radcliffe • Rupert Grint • Emma Watson • Richard Harris
Silverado (1985) RT 76% / Audience 80%
DVD release: May 1999
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama • Western
DIRECTION: Lawrence Kasdan
CAST: Kevin Kline • Scott Glenn • Kevin Costner • Danny Glover
The Rock (1996) RT 66% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Dec 1997
FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Thriller
DIRECTION: Michael Bay
CAST: Sean Connery • Nicolas Cage • Ed Harris • John Spencer
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) RT 93% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Oct 1998
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Jonathan Frakes
CAST: James Cromwell • Alfre Woodard • Alice Krige • Neal McDonough
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) RT 91% / Audience 91%
DVD release: Oct 2014
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Bryan Singer
CAST: Patrick Stewart • James McAvoy • Michael Fassbender • Ian McKellen
Hang 'Em High (1968) RT 92% / Audience 73%
DVD release: Jun 2001
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. ... (more)
GENRES: Western
DIRECTION: Ted Post
CAST: Clint Eastwood • Inger Stevens • Ed Begley • Pat Hingle
Game Change (2012) RT 65% / Audience 76%
DVD release: Jan 2013
Documentary focusing on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • TV movie
DIRECTION: Jay Roach
CAST: Julianne Moore • Woody Harrelson • Ed Harris • Peter MacNicol
Hellboy (2004)
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Fantasy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Guillermo del Toro
CAST: Ron Perlman • Selma Blair • Rupert Evans • John Hurt
Total Recall (1990) RT 82% / Audience 78%
DVD release: Aug 2000
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Paul Verhoeven
CAST: Arnold Schwarzenegger • Sharon Stone • Rachel Ticotin • Ronny Cox
The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Joss Whedon
CAST: Chris Hemsworth • Robert Downey Jr. • Scarlett Johansson • Jeremy Renner
Conan the Barbarian (1982) RT 70% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Feb 1998
A film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Fantasy
DIRECTION: John Milius
CAST: Arnold Schwarzenegger • James Earl Jones • Max von Sydow • Sandahl Bergman
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Animation • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Shinichiro Watanabe
CAST: Koichi Yamadera • Unshō Ishizuka • Aoi Tada • Ai Kobayashi
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang. (more)
GENRES: Western
DIRECTION: Sergio Leone
CAST: Clint Eastwood • Lee Van Cleef • Gian Maria Volonté • Klaus Kinski
Mulan (1998) RT 86% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Nov 1999
A tomboyish girl disguises herself as a young man so she can fight with the Imperial Chinese Army against the invading Huns. With help from wise-cracking dragon Mushu, Mulan ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Family
DIRECTION: Barry Cook • Tony Bancroft
CAST: Lea Salonga • Eddie Murphy • BD Wong • Ming-Na Wen
The Abyss (1989) RT 89% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Nov 2000
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: James Cameron
CAST: Ed Harris • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio • Michael Biehn • Leo Burmester
Starship Troopers (1997) RT 63% / Audience 69%
DVD release: May 1998
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Paul Verhoeven
CAST: Casper Van Dien • Dina Meyer • Denise Richards • Jake Busey
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, ... (more)