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American cinema: Action/Adventure

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Nathan Juran

Sinbad the Sailor is returning to Baghdad with the Princess Parisa, whom he intends to marry to secure a lasting peace between their two countries...   [More...]

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Richard Attenborough

September, 1944. D-Day has come and gone but the allied advance has slowed to a crawl owing to over-extended supply lines...   [More...]

Alien 3 (1992)
David Fincher

When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space...   [More...]

Aliens (1986)
James Cameron

57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth...   [More...]

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola

Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard, an American special operations agent, is in Saigon recuperating after a successful mission when intelligence officers approach him with a new assignment...   [More...]

Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Richard Fleischer

Dave Purvis leads a gang of hardened criminals who plan to ambush an armoured car when it makes a collection outside a baseball station in Los Angeles...   [More...]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Jay Roach

In 1967, Britain's top secret agent and number one hipster, Austin Powers, is on the trail of his deadly archenemy Dr Evil, the world's greatest criminal mastermind...   [More...]

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Eugène Lourié

In the aftermath of an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle, physicist Tom Nesbitt catches a glimpse of a gigantic prehistoric reptile, which seems to have been released by the blast after being trapped in the ice for millions of years...   [More...]

Ben-Hur (1959)
William Wyler

Jerusalem, 27 AD. Recently appointed commander of a Roman garrison, the Tribune Messala greets his old friend Judah Ben-Hur with warmth and affection, but their reunion turns cold when their political differences become apparent...   [More...]

Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott

Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans...   [More...]

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
John Guillermin

March 1945. The war in Europe has entered its final phase, with German troops retreating eastwards, driven back by a relentless Allied assault...   [More...]

Bullitt (1968)
Peter Yates

What starts out as a routine assignment for San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Bullitt soon turns into something far deadlier...   [More...]

Captain Blood (1935)
Michael Curtiz

England, 1685. Dr Peter Blood is convicted of treason when he treats a wounded man who took part in an uprising against King James II...   [More...]

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Michael Curtiz

In the early 1850s, Geoffrey Vickers and his brother Perry are British officers in the 27th Lancers, a regiment stationed in the Indian city of Chukoti...   [More...]

Clash of the Titans (1981)
Desmond Davis

The Greek god Zeus is outraged when King Acrisius of Argos sends his daughter Danaë and her newborn son Perseus out to sea in a sealed coffin...   [More...]

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
George A. Romero

The world is in the grip of an unexplained pandemic. The bodies of the dead have become reanimated and are preying on the flesh of the living, creating worldwide pandemonium...   [More...]

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich

England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment...   [More...]

Dirty Harry (1971)
Don Siegel

When a young woman is shot dead by a rooftop sniper, San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan is tasked with finding the killer...   [More...]

Duel (1971)
Steven Spielberg

David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction...   [More...]

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Irvin Kershner

The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance is followed by a swift retaliation from the Galactic Empire, with Darth Vader leading the offensive...   [More...]

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Don Taylor

In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge...   [More...]

Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski

Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper...   [More...]

The General (1927)
Clyde Bruckman

America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee...   [More...]

The Getaway (1972)
Sam Peckinpah

Carter McCoy is serving a ten-year stretch in prison. After he is refused parole, he sends his wife Carol to make a deal with crooked businessman Jack Benyon...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Francis Ford Coppola

In 1979, Michael Corleone appears to be a reformed character. As he nears his 60th birthday, he has almost completely severed his links with the Mafia and now presides as the head of a wholly legitimate business empire...   [More...]

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Gordon Hessler

Sinbad is out sailing one sunny afternoon when a strange bat-like creature appears from nowhere and accidentally drops a gold ornament at his feet...   [More...]

GoldenEye (1995)
Martin Campbell

British agent James Bond is sent to Monte Carlo to tail Xenia Onatopp, a member of the mysterious Janus crime syndicate. Bond fails to prevent Onatopp and her associate General Ourumov from stealing a revolutionary new helicopter which is capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse...   [More...]

The Great Escape (1963)
John Sturges

During the Second World War, German High Command decides to place all of the most troublesome Allied prisoners of war in a single camp managed by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger...   [More...]

Gunga Din (1939)
George Stevens

The Northwest Frontier of India, 1880. When contact is lost with a colonial outpost at Tandipur, three sergeants in the British Army are sent to investigate...   [More...]

The Guns of Navarone (1961)
J. Lee Thompson

It is 1943. Two thousand British soldiers are stranded on the island of Keros in the Aegean Sea and face certain death when the Germans launch an all-out assault on the region in a bid to draw neutral Turkey into the war...   [More...]



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