Curated category
English-language action adventure films
- The Mandalorian and GroguThe Mandalorian and Grogu had its world premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on the 14th of May 2026. It was the first Star Wars film to open in…
- Justice League (film)Justice League spent part of its 2017 reshoot schedule removing a mustache. Henry Cavill, who played Superman, had grown facial hair for Mission: Impossible…
- Avengers: Age of UltronAvengers: Age of Ultron arrived on the 1st of May 2015, carrying a price tag that few films in history had matched: a net production budget of $365 million.
- RoboCopRoboCop arrived in American theaters on the 17th of July 1987, and it was not what anyone expected. The title alone put people off.
- Transformers: Dark of the MoonTransformers: Dark of the Moon opens with a secret. In 1962, according to the film's premise, a spacecraft called the Ark crash-lands on the far side of the…
- InceptionInception begins with a question that Christopher Nolan first put to paper around 2001: what if someone could steal your secrets while you slept?
- Rogue OneRogue One: A Star Wars Story ends with two lead characters trapped in a citadel on Scarif, unable to escape a demolition beam.
- Highlander (film)Highlander, the 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy, opens on a parking garage beneath Madison Square Garden where a sword fight…
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves premiered at South by Southwest on the 10th of March 2023. The film's existence owed as much to legal history as to…
- Solo: A Star Wars StorySolo: A Star Wars Story premiered in Los Angeles on the 10th of May 2018. It carried a budget of nearly $300 million, one of the largest ever committed to a…
- The 13th WarriorMichael Crichton published his novel Eaters of the Dead in 1976. This book merged two distinct historical threads into a single narrative.
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reached theaters in 2023, decades after Paramount Pictures signed a deal in 1979 for five Indiana Jones films.
- Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)Conan the Barbarian arrived in North American theaters on the 14th of May 1982, opening in 1,400 theaters simultaneously.