Eragon (
2006) | IMDb:
5.1
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Starring:
Ed Speleers
,
Jeremy Irons
,
Sienna Guillory
,
Robert Carlyle
,
John Malkovich
,
Garrett Hedlund
Directed by:
Stefen Fangmeier
Oliver Twist (
2005) | IMDb:
6.8
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Van Helsing (
2004) | IMDb:
6
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Starring:
Hugh Jackman
,
Kate Beckinsale
,
Richard Roxburgh
,
David Wenham
,
Shuler Hensley
,
Elena Anaya
The Mummy Returns (
2001) | IMDb:
6.4
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
Starring:
Brendan Fraser
,
Rachel Weisz
,
John Hannah
,
Arnold Vosloo
,
Oded Fehr
,
Patricia Velásquez
Proof of Life (
2000) | IMDb:
6.3
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Sleepy Hollow (
1999) | IMDb:
7.3
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Christina Ricci
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Michael Gambon
,
Casper Van Dien
,
Jeffrey Jones
The Saint (
1997) | IMDb:
6.2
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Starring:
Val Kilmer
,
Elisabeth Shue
,
Rade Šerbedžija
,
Henry Goodman
,
Alun Armstrong
,
Michael Byrne
Directed by:
Phillip Noyce
Braveheart (
1995) | IMDb:
8.3
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Catherine McCormack
,
Sophie Marceau
,
Patrick McGoohan
,
Angus Macfadyen
,
Brendan Gleeson
Patriot Games (
1992) | IMDb:
6.8
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
White Hunter, Black Heart (
1990) | IMDb:
6.5
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
,
Jeff Fahey
,
Charlotte Cornwell
,
George Dzundza
,
Alun Armstrong
,
Norman Lumsden
Krull (
1983) | IMDb:
6.1
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
Starring:
Ken Marshall
,
Lysette Anthony
,
Freddie Jones
,
Francesca Annis
,
Alun Armstrong
,
David Battley
Directed by:
Peter Yates
A Bridge Too Far (
1977) | IMDb:
7.4
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.