Action & Adventure - Drama

Energetic combinations of suspense, exotic locations and heroic journeys blend with realistic, often non-fictional, characters and gritty themes. The results are powerful and gripping stories, epitomised by Lawrence of Arabia, The African Queen or Das Boot.

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Action & Adventure - Drama Film Listing

Edmond T Gréville, Carol Reed, 1935-42

£11.99

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Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 2

A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealin...

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Fritz Lang, 1924

£13.99

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Die Nibelungen (Masters of Cinema)

Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang’s two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelu...

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Carol Reed, Basil Dean, 1930-54

£11.99

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Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 1

A first collection of rare and classic features from the iconic British film stud...

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William A. Wellman, 1939

£12.99

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Beau Geste

An adventure epic from the golden heroic age of Hollywood, Beau Geste stars Gary Cooper, Ray Mill...

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Fritz Lang, 1955

£12.99

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Moonfleet

Fritz Lang's 18th century smuggling tale sees John Mohune (Jon Whiteley - Hunted, The Kidnappers)...

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Walter Forde, 1939

£8.99

The Four Just Men

Produced by Michael Balcon for Ealing Studios on the eve of the Second World War, The Four Just M...

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Quentin Tarantino, 2012

£17.99

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Django Unchained

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning western stars ...

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Ralph Thomas, 1968

£9.99

Nobody Runs Forever

Rod Taylor and Christopher Plummer star in this 1960s action thriller adapted from Jon Cleary's n...

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Quentin Tarantino, 2012

£13.99

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Django Unchained

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning western stars ...

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David Lean, 1962

£13.99

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Lawrence of Arabia (Director's Cut) (50th Anniversary Edition)

One of the most sumptuous of the postwar cycle of H...

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Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton, 1950

£12.99

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King Solomon's Mines

Stewart Granger takes the role of stalwart hero Allan Quartermain in this 1950 adaptation of H. R...

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Steven Spielberg, 2011

£15.99

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War Horse

Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an epic odyssey of joy, sorrow...

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Josef von Sternberg, 1932

£5.99

Shanghai Express

Notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich) is reunited with ex lover, the stiff upper...

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David Lean, 1962

£5.99

Lawrence of Arabia

One of the most sumptuous of the postwar cycle of Hollywood epics, David Lean's 7 Oscar-winning r...

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Richard Lester, 1973-74

£9.99

The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers

A pair of swashbuckling adventures set in 17th century Paris and based on the nov...

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Fritz Lang, 1924

£16.99

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Die Nibelungen (Masters of Cinema)

Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang’s two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelu...

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Various (TV), 1978

£9.99

Warrior Queen

A spectacular six-part series that brings to life the valiant yet doomed attempt by Boudicca, the...

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Harry Watt, 1946

£12.99

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The Overlanders

A drama of outback life in Australia at the end of WWII, when Australian farmers are migrating ac...

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