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Action comedy [4] Clan of the White Lotus: Lo Lieh: Gordon Liu, Lo Lieh, Hui Ya-hung: Hong Kong [5] [6] Delitto a Porta Romana: Bruno Corbucci: Tomas Milian: Italy: Action thriller [7] The Empire Strikes Back: Irvin Kershner: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams: United States: Science fiction action [8] Encounters of ...
Action thriller [2] Brothers Five: Lo Wei: Cheng Pei-pei, Chin Han, Chang Yi: Hong Kong: Martial arts film [3] The Chinese Boxer: Jimmy Wang Yu: Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Wang Ping: Hong Kong Martial arts film Cold Blade: Yuen Chor: Hong Kong [citation needed] Cold Sweat: Terence Young: Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland: France Italy ...
Charles Bronson at the Cannes Film Festival in the late 1980s.. Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor.. Known for his "granite features and brawny physique," [1] he gained international fame for his starring roles in action, western, and war films; initially as a supporting player and later a leading
This is chronological list of action films split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between action and other genres (including, horror , comedy , and science fiction films ); the lists should attempt to document films which are more closely related to action, even if they bend genres.
More of the successful films were those based in the harsh truths of war, rather than the excesses of the 1960s. Films like the Francis Ford Coppola -scripted Patton , starring George C. Scott as the World War II general, and Robert Altman 's MASH , about a Korean War field hospital, were major box-office draws in 1970.
The decade of the 1980s in Western cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. [1] The period was when the "high concept" picture was established by producer Don Simpson, [2] where films were expected to be easily marketable and understandable.
A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team at the 1936 Summer Olympics by Japanese martial artist Miyagi, who bribed the judges with diamonds at the time.
Fox Fire Child Watch: Stan Brakhage: United States: Hand Grenade: Gill Eatherley United Kingdom Soundtrack by Neu! I'm Too Sad to Tell You: Bas Jan Ader: United States A Journey to Avebury: Derek Jarman: United Kingdom Meditation: Jordan Belson: United States: Abstract, color [8] N. a pris les dés (N. Took the Dice) Alain Robbe-Grillet