The Way Back (2010)
Adventure | Drama | History
A small group of multi-national prisoners escapes from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and travel in a journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Peter Weir
The Wages of Fear / Le salaire de la peur (1953)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France's legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Starring: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Dumb & Dumber (1994)
Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Lloyd and Harry: One’s dumb, the other’s dumber. You pick which is which. Jim Carrey (Lloyd) and Jeff Daniels (Harry) deliver a delirious no-brainer as they hit the road to return a misplaced briefcase to its owner (Lauren Holly). The fellas don’t know the case is crammed with ransom money. Maybe that’s why smash-mouth lowlifes are trailing them, you think? Best to leave the thinking aside as the boys and the filmmaking brothers Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary) invent something really dumb…and really, really funny.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Teri Garr, Karen Duffy
Director: Peter Farrelly
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman
Director: David Yates
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The Pacific (TV mini-series 2010)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
The Pacific is a sister to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers. It focuses on the United States Marine Corps' actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War. Whereas Band of Brothers followed one Army infantry company through the European Theater, The Pacific follows three Marines (Eugene Sledge, Robert Leckie and John Basilone) in separate combat actions.
Starring: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Ben Chisholm, Chris Milligan
Creator: Bruce McKenna
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Band of Brothers (TV mini-series 2001)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Steven E. Ambrose. The Series dramatically re-creates the path of Easy Company, an elite paratrooper unit, from their basic training at Camp Toccoa in Georgia in 1942, to D-Day, to their critical involvement in the Battle of the Bulge, through their triumph at the close of the war.
Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor, Donnie Wahlberg, Peter Youngblood Hills
Creator: Erik Jendresen
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV mini-series 2011)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Before Spartacus struck down his first opponent in the arena, there were many gladiators who passed though the gates onto the sand.'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena' tells the story of the original Champion of the House of Batiatus: Gannicus in a more ruthless time before Spartacus' arrival where honor was just finding it's way into the arena.
Starring: John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Dustin Clare, Nick Tarabay, Lucy Lawless, Craig Walsh Wrightson
Creater: Steven S. DeKnight
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series 2010-2013)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus, a Thracian warrior captured by Romans, is enslaved into a gladiator training school owned by Batiatus and his wife Lucretia. He is forced to fight daily for his life against deadly foes, under the brutal whip of trainer Doctore. Against all odds, Spartacus' rebellious instincts, his intense love for his wife Sura and his powerful fighting skills drive him to win a series of near-impossible battles – setting in motion a revolution against the tyranny of Rome. To survive, he must become more than a man, more than a gladiator. He must become a legend.
Starring: Andy Whitfield, Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, John Hannah, Peter Mensah, Nick Tarabay, Viva Bianca
Creator: Steven S. DeKnight
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
Starring: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, Michael Jeter
Director: Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park (1993)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero
Director: Steven Spielberg
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for the Trio, and the rest of the Wizarding World, so everything they do must go as planned.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy, Richard Griffiths
Director: David Yates
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Adventure | Crime | Mystery
Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan, Morton Lowry
Director: Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Adventure | Crime | Drama
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon
Director: Roy William Neill
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mom, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves
Starring: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Pierce Brosnan, Rosario Dawson
Director: Chris Columbus
Inception (2010)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Dom Cobb is a professional thief with a difference: the spoils he goes after are not material objects but the thoughts, dreams and secrets buried in the minds of other people. This rare talent has cost him dear, rendering him a solitary fugitive stripped of everything he ever really cared about. When he is offered a chance for redemption by reversing the process and planting an idea rather than stealing it, he and his team of specialists find themselves pitted against a dangerous enemy that appears to pre-empt their every move.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Michael Gaston, Russ Fega, Jean-Michel Dagory
Director: Christopher Nolan
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Adventure | Comedy
Harold and Kumar are in their apartment after they've successfully completed their White Castle quest. It's only an hour or two later, and the guys are preparing for an epic adventure to Amsterdam so that Harold can win the heart of his crush, Maria. At the airport, Kumar runs into his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, and he's shocked to discover she's about to get married. Before they even get on the plane, Kumar threatens to botch the mission by mixing it up with airport security personnel, insisting on protesting a random search. Though they do make it onto the plane, Kumar eventually succeeds in getting them into more trouble than they bargained for. Unable to wait six hours to get to Amsterdam, Kumar takes a home-made "smokeless bong" into the airplane bathroom. Turbulence strikes, the bathroom door swings open, the bong's mistaken for a bomb, and the guys are mistaken for terrorists. The plane is turned around and the guys are detained in Guantanamo Bay.
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Jack Conley, Roger Bart
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Adventure | Comedy
Harold (John Cho) is a young Korean American with office work to catch up on. Kumar (Kal Penn) is a young Indian American, who has an interview for med school to attend in the morning. And these two flatmates both have a bad case of the munchies. Not just any munchies but a desperate desire for White Castle hamburgers. When they discover that the only White Castle joint in town has closed, they decide it's worth driving any distance to sate their fast-food fixation. As long as they have plenty of weed to smoke on the way of course.
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés, Neil Patrick Harris, David Krumholtz
Director: Danny Leiner
Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Adventure
A small plane crashes in the sweltering deserts of South Africa hundreds of miles from civilization. As parallels are drawn between the group of humans and a nearby pack of savage baboons, one of the men's survivalist nature gets the better of him, as he decides his chances of survival would be better if the others were eliminated one-by-one.
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport
Director: Cy Endfield
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five – Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. It is up to Po and The Furious Five to journey across China to face this threat and vanquish it. But how can Po stop a weapon that can stop kung fu? He must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.
Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu
Director: Jennifer Yuh
