Action & Adventure
Wolf Totem
In 1967, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads’ traditional enemies – the marauding wolves – to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
Playtime: 121 minutes
Production country / language: China, France / Mandarin, Mongolian
Production year: 2015
Director(s): Jean-Jacques Annaud
Producer(s): Jean-Jacques Annaud, Yin Cao, Xavier Castano, William Kong, Peikang La, Alan Wang, Jianshai Xu, Duojia Zhao
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Epic
Cast: Shaofeng Feng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa
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Rough Stuff
An activist group makes a deal with treasure-seeking Rovers and their modified four-wheel-drives for an expedition through treacherous Australian terrain. Tensions rise and ulterior motives are revealed with exciting off-road chases, daring rescues and amazing discoveries to follow.
Playtime: 120 minutes
Production country / language: Australia / English
Production year: 2017
Director(s): Jonathan Adams
Producer(s): Nicole Johnschwager, Kelly Tomasich
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Cast: Gareth Rickards, Vincent Andriano, Sam Glissan
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Delinquent
Joey is a high school senior who finds the idea of joining the family business as a small-time crook both romantic and alluring. But after a routine robbery gone wrong, he witnesses a grave injustice, the murder of an innocent man performed by this group. They swear to keep it a secret and to ‘neutralize’ anyone who will reveal the truth. Something must be done and it must be done quickly to end the series of violent events which Joey knows they are ultimately responsible for. He decides to set things straight, but his ‘colleagues’, once-friends and even his father are starting to get suspicious, and he must act quickly before they kill him as well.
Playtime: 97 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2016
Director(s): Kieran Valla
Producer(s): Daniel Marks, Levi Smock, Kieran Valla
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
Cast: Kim Director, Erin Darke, Bill Sage
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Preppie Connection, The
Based on a true story of a prep school student who smuggled $300k of uncut cocaine into the US in 1984. THE PREPPIE CONNECTION chronicles the exploits of a group of private school students who ran a drug distribution operation in the early 1980s. The story centers on Toby, the lower-class scholarship student, who uses his street cred and access to drugs to make friends with the popular kids, eventually allowing him to cultivate a drug trafficking network. Toby gets in far over his head as he leads his friends into the dangerous world of Colombian drug cartels.
Playtime: 95 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2015
Director(s): Joseph Castelo
Producer(s): Joseph Mensch, Eric Schultz, Carlo Sirtori
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Thomas Mann, Lucy Fry, Logan Huffman
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Contract to Kill
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team–seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp–he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time–and his luck–run out.
Playtime: 90 minutes
Production country / language: USA, Monaco / English
Production year: 2018
Director(s): Keoni Waxman
Producer(s): Binh Dang, Keoni Waxman, Steven Seagal
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Cast: Steven Seagal, Russell Wong, Jemma Dallender
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Abandoned
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, for Tonga with four men on board. After a freak wave turned the boat upside down, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
Battling the forces of nature, cabin fever, and crippling desperation this is the true story of survival against all odds.
Playtime: 86 minutes
Production country / language: New Zealand / English
Production year: 2015
Director(s): John Laing
Producer(s): Liz DiFiore
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Cast: Dominic Purcell, Peter Feeney, Owen Black
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Killing Salazar
A drug lord is captured and held “secretly” by 6 US agents at a hotel in Constanta, Romania. He agreed to testify against others in the drug business. They send lots of armed men to the hotel. Lots of shooting follows.
Playtime: 95 minutes
Production country / language: USA, Monaco / English
Production year: 2017
Director(s): Keoni Waxman
Producer(s): Binh Dang
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Cast: Steven Seagal, Luke Goss, Georges St-Pierre
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Minds Eye, The
Zack Connors and Rachel Meadows were born with incredible psychokinetic capabilities. When word of their supernatural talents gets out, they find themselves the prisoners of Michael Slovak, a deranged doctor intent on harvesting their powers. After a daring escape, they are free from his sinister institution, but the corrupt doctor will stop at nothing to track them down so that he may continue to siphon their gifts for his own use.
Playtime: 87 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2016
Director(s): Joe Begos
Producer(s): Graham Skipper, Zak Zeman, Josh Ethier, Joe Begos
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Cast: Graham Skipper, Lauren Ashley Carter, John Speredakos
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Wildlike
After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness.
Playtime: 104 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2014
Director(s): Frank Hall Green
Producer(s): Julie Christeas, Frank Hall Green, Joseph Stephans, Schuyler Weiss
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Cast: Ella Purnell, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, Diane Farr
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Vigilante Diaries
The Vigilante Diaries is a high octane action-adventure following The Vigilante (Paul Sloan) and The Kid (Kevin L. Walker) on dangerous adventures, from the mega-mansions and the underbelly of Los Angeles to far away places like Iraq, Armenia, Russia, and The United Kingdom. All of which are streamed online by film maker Mike Hanover (Jason Mewes). A trio of Asian femme fatales, to ruthless Armenian mobsters, to a pair of deep cover super spies hell bent on throwing the world into chaos.
Playtime: 107 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English, French
Production year: 2016
Director(s): Christian Sesma
Producer(s): Mike Hatton, Christian Sesma, Nick Vallelonga
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Cast: Paul Sloan, Michael Madsen, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, Jason Mewes
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