A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid policeman struggle to free a princess from an evil count’s clutches, and learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to. Year 1979.
| Generes: Animation, Action, Adventure |
| Director: Hayao Miyazaki |
| Writer: Monkey Punch, Hayao Miyazaki, Haruya Yamazaki |
| Actors: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer. Year 1985.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Comedy |
| Director: J. Lee Thompson |
| Writer: H. Rider Haggard, Gene Quintano, James R. Silke |
| Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom |
Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid Nazi captivity. Year 1966.
| Generes: Adventure, Comedy, War |
| Director: Gérard Oury |
| Writer: Gérard Oury, Danièle Thompson, Marcel Jullian |
| Actors: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook |
Jackie is hired to help the UN find Nazi gold hidden in Sahara. He’s accompanied from Spain by 2 (later 3) cute women. As there are others wanting the gold, lots of kung fu fighting and comedy follows. Year 1991.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Comedy |
| Director: Jackie Chan |
| Writer: Jackie Chan, Edward Tang |
| Actors: Jackie Chan, Carol ‘Do Do’ Cheng, Eva Cobo |
A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife’s parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance. Year 1967.
| Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Jean-Luc Godard |
| Writer: Julio Cortázar, Jean-Luc Godard |
| Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon |
The adventure of Geum-Sun with her baby in one night to save her husband’s life. Year 2002.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Nam-seob Hyeon |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Bae Doona, Kim Tae-Woo, Hyeon Ju |
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. Year 1981.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Wolfgang Petersen |
| Writer: Wolfgang Petersen, Lothar G. Buchheim |
| Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann |
Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still Year 1995.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Comedy |
| Director: Álex de la Iglesia |
| Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de la Iglesia |
| Actors: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura |
An adventure by Il-ho the Satellite Girl and a shy cow to save the world from a black monster. Year 2014.
| Generes: Animation, Comedy, Family |
| Director: Hyeong-yoon Jang |
| Writer: Hyeong-yoon Jang, Eun-Kyung Jung, Amanda Céline Miller |
| Actors: Yoo Ah-in, Yu-mi Jung, Seok-jeong Hwang |
A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief. Year 1966.
| Generes: Adventure, Comedy, History |
| Director: Mario Monicelli |
| Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli |
| Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli |
A vagabond swordsman is aided by a beautiful ninja girl and a crafty spy in confronting a demonic clan of killers – with a ghost from his past as their leader – who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate. Year 1993.
| Generes: Animation, Action, Adventure |
| Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
| Writer: Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
| Actors: Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono |
Probably the most famous puppet show for children and all ages. Mice who have to leave their school and immigrate because of a wild cat who wants to eat them up. Eventually the mice defeat the cat and go back to their home. Year 1986.
| Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical |
| Director: Marzieh Boroomand, Mohammad-Ali Talebi |
| Writer: Ahmad Behbahani |
| Actors: Adel Bezdoudeh, Hamid Jebeli, Fariba Jeddikar, Fatemah Motamed-Aria |
Late 1800s Foshan, Guangdong: Wong Fei Hung/Jet Li trains men in martial arts to help defend against foreign powers already holding Hong Kong and Macau. He looks after cute 13th Aunt, who’s just returned from England. Lots of fight s Year 1991.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, History |
| Director: Hark Tsui |
| Writer: Yiu-Ming Leung, Elsa Tang, Hark Tsui |
| Actors: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen |
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires. Year 1915.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Crime |
| Director: Louis Feuillade |
| Writer: Louis Feuillade |
| Actors: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque |
Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia Year 1974.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama |
| Director: Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov, Eduard Volodarskiy |
| Actors: Yuriy Bogatyryov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Sergey Shakurov |
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda. Year 1953.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, Romance |
| Director: John Ford |
| Writer: John Lee Mahin, Wilson Collison |
| Actors: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner |