The Lone Ranger (2013)
Action | Adventure | Western
Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Armie Hammer, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Gore Verbinski
Ass Backwards (2013)
Adventure | Comedy
"Ass Backwards" is an irreverent female buddy comedy about two childhood best friends who are pushing the age of 30 and not quite where they thought they'd be in life. When they run into their former beauty pageant nemesis, they decide to go on a road trip back home to recapture the pageant crown which eluded them as children. On the road, they face some hard truths about themselves and each other as they encounter spring breakers, strip clubs, a women's militant group and their favorite reality star. This heightened comedic awakening leads us into an unforgettable third act finale that is the girls' homecoming and final reckoning with their past, present and future.
Starring: June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson, Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Brian Geraghty, Bob Odenkirk, Paul Scheer, Sandy Martin
Director: Chris Nelson
Pacific Rim (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.
Starring: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Max Martini, Ron Perlman
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Arrow (TV Series 2012- )
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Missing and presumed dead, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was the lone survivor of a shipwreck, but being stranded on a remote, uncharted island for five years has changed him. Upon returning home, Oliver is determined to fulfill his father's dying wishes; to right the wrongs of the Queen family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. To fight crime and corruption, Oliver maintains his billionaire playboy image by day, but becomes a secret vigilante by night.. Arrow, a masked crusader whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow.
Starring: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Paul Blackthorne, Willa Holland, Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes, Susanna Thompson, John Barrowman, Manu Bennett, Colin Donnell, Caity Lotz
Creator: Greg Berlanti
Ofelas / Veiviseren / Pathfinder (1987)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Around 1000 AD, the warlike people, "Tjuder", roam northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the families teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter and manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Lapps whose inhabitants are worried that he didn't hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast and the boy stays alone to avenge his families murder.
Starring: Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Henrik H. Buljo, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Director: Nils Gaup
Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series 2013-2015)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Written by David S. Goyer, the series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Starring: Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Gregg Chillin, Eros Vlahos, Blake Ritson, Elliot Cowan, Hera Hilmar, James Faulkner, Lara Pulver, David Schofield, Ian Pirie, Alexander Siddig
Creator: David S. Goyer
Knightriders (1981)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Knightriders is the story of a troupe of motorcyclists who are members of a traveling Renaissance Faire. They move from town to town staging full medieval jousting tournaments with combatants in suits of armor, wielding lances, battle-axes, maces and broadswords. The spectacle of this magnificent pageant soon garners national attention much to the dismay of the current king of this Camelot.
Starring: Ed Harris, Tom Savini, Gary Lahti, Patricia Tallman
Director: George A. Romero
The Getaway (1994)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Roger Donaldson
Almost Heroes (1998)
Adventure | Comedy | Western
Explorers Bartholemew Hunt and Leslie Edwards are setting forth against nature across the country on a journey to the Pacific Ocean against rivals Lewis and Clark. Along the way they have many mishaps and misfortunes.
Starring: Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Eugene Levy, Lisa Barbuscia, Kevin Dunn
Director: Christopher Guest
After Earth (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoe Kravitz, David Denman, Lincoln Lewis
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Krull / Dragons of Krull (1983)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
Starring: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Liam Neeson
Director: Peter Yates
After Earth (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoe Kravitz, David Denman, Lincoln Lewis
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
The Fugitive (1993)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Harrison Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Tommy Lee Jones is Sam Gerard, an unrelenting bloodhound of a U.S. Marshal. They are hunter and hunted. And as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege), their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Jeroen Krabbé, Julianne Moore
Director: Andrew Davis
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.
Starring: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Wing Commander (1999)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe.
Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow, David Suchet, David Warner
Director: Chris Roberts
Go Grandriders / Bu lao qi shi (2012)
Adventure | Documentary
Would you still dare to dream when you're 80 years old? On average, they are 81 years old, but with dreams only 18-year-old and they dare to dream. They would tell you, through life-long experience, 'Miracles do happen as long as you continue to dream!' Among these 17 'Grandriders', 2 have gone through cancers, 4 need hearing aids, 5 suffer from high blood pressure and 8 have coronary diseases. And every one of them has symptoms of joint degeneration. The challenges officially begin when they decide to straddle on their scooters: Objections from family members, taking driver's license at old age, aging bodies and bodily functions and every possible weather and road conditions along that 1178-kilometer long journey.
Director: Tian-Hao Hua
The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure (2013)
Adventure | Family
When a mythical device from ancient times is rebuilt by a group of Confederates who feel the civil war never ended, Mickey Matson and his newfound friend, Sully, must follow a series of clues left by his dead grandfather to keep the evil men away from the three mystical objects that power the device. If he fails, it could mean not only the loss of his family's home, but maybe the demise of our country as we know it.
Starring: Lee Arenberg, Derek Brandon, Patrika Darbo, Francesca Derosa, Frank Drank, Ernie Hudson, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Harold Cronk
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Adventure | Sci-Fi
An entertaining interpretation of the classic Defoe story, using an astronaut and his monkey, US astronaut Commander "Kit" Draper must fight for survival when his spaceship crash-lands on the barren waste of Mars, with a pet monkey his only companion. But is he actually alone?
Starring: Paul Mantee, Vic Lundin, Adam West
Director: Byron Haskin
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Starring: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Michael Rennie, Joan Caulfield
Director: Jean Negulesco
Crystal Fairy (2013)
Adventure | Comedy
Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman — a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy — to come along. What is meant to be a devil-may-care journey becomes a battle of wills as Jamie finds himself locking horns with his new traveling companion. But on a remote, pristine beach at the edge of the desert, the magic brew is finally imbibed, and the true adventure begins.
Starring: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann
Director: Sebastián Silva
