Swords & Sorcery
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge. Stars: Christpher Lambert Rhona Mitra Oliver Cotten Gotz Otto Vincent Hammond Patricia Velasquez Graham Baker David Chappe
After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
Stars: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Laura Fraser
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. Stars: Russell Crowe Richard Harris David Schofield Joaquin Phoenix Connie Nielson Djimon Hounsou Tony Scott David Franzoni John Mathieson
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by the leader of a murderous gang who's after the water they control.
Stars: Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Anthony Zerbe, Christopher Neame, Brion James, John Fujioka, Lance Hool, Doug Lefler, Brian May
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata, Kinji Fukasaku
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess. Stars: Sandahl Bergman Arnold Schwarzenegger Grace Jones Olivia d'Abo Mako Andre Rene Roussimoff Richard Fleischer Robert E. Howard
A lone warrior nicknamed Deathstalker is sent by a witch on a quest to find a sword, a chalice, and an amulet, two of which are held by the wicked king and sorcerer, Munkar.
A team of skilled fighters navigate a house rigged with an array of ingenious and deadly traps.
Stars: Feng Lu, Li Wang, Tien-Hsiang Lung, Cheh Chang
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart. Stars: Liam Neeson Helen Mirren Gabriel Byrne Nigel Terry Patrick Stewart Cherie Lunghi John Boorman Trevor Jones
When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled Japan for 300 years. They suspect a traitor in their midst, and their suspicions fall on Niiro, an impoverished ronin who dreams of samurai status, and Kurihara, an aristocratic samurai who befriends Niiro. Niiro longs to identify his father, knowing he is a high-ranking official who will disclose himself only if Niiro achieves samurai status.
Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Kihachi Okamoto