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1	The Princess Bride (1987) more movies like this directed by Rob Reiner featuring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £6.28!
2	The Last of the Mohicans (1992) more movies like this directed by Michael Mann featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the French and Indian War, the story concerns Hawkeye ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £3.38!
3	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) more movies like this directed by Kevin Reynolds featuring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman This film is a '90s version of the classic Robin Hood story, with Kevin Costner starring as the good-guy thief. Costner is joined in his efforts against the murdering Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by Morgan Freeman who plays a philosophizing Moor, and by Nick Brimble, who plays Little John (anything but little). After Robin barely survives ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.53!
4	The Sand Pebbles (1966) more movies like this directed by Robert Wise featuring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo , is ordered to patrol the Yangtze River to represent and protect American interests. While ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £2.73!
5	The African Queen (1951) more movies like this directed by John Huston featuring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the screenplay for a Huston picture. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called the ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £8.49!
6	For Your Eyes Only (1981) more movies like this directed by John Glen featuring Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover For Your Eyes Only eschews the gimmickry and campiness of earlier James Bond films, concentrating instead on telling the story and maintaining suspense. Roger Moore is back as Secret Agent 007, this time on the trail of Soviet spies while he romances the beautiful Melina, played by Carole Bouquet. Richard Maibaum's screenplay has very little to do ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £3.41!
7	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) more movies like this directed by Ang Lee featuring Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-Pei Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. In the early 19th century, martial arts master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) is about to retire and enter a ... see all copies from £1.62! new only from £2.84!
8	The Living Daylights (1987) more movies like this directed by John Glen featuring Timothy Dalton, Maryam D'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies The Living Daylights represents the first appearance by Timothy Dalton as "Bond...James Bond." Based very, very loosely on an obscure Ian Fleming short story, the film finds Bond assigned to aid in the defection of KGB agent Jeroen Krabbe. 007 must prevent an unknown sniper from killing Krabbe before he can reach the West. The mysterious assailant ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £3.07!
9	The English Patient (1996) more movies like this directed by Anthony Minghella featuring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the backdrop of World War II. In a field hospital in Italy, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a nurse from Canada, is caring for a pilot who was horribly burned in a plane wreck; he has no identification and cannot ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £9.12!
10	The Moon-Spinners (1964) more movies like this directed by James Neilson featuring Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery, Joan Greenwood, Irene Papas Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as Nikky Ferris who is spending time in Crete at a small inn called The Moon-Spinners with her Aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood). One day Nikky discovers a handsome young man, Mark Camford (Peter McEnery), wounded in an empty church ... see all copies from £4.10! new only from £7.45!
11 view cover	Mogambo (1953) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Eric Pohlmann, Philip Stainton The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but ... see all copies from £6.81! new only from £6.81!
12 view cover	Romancing the Stone (1984) more movies like this directed by Robert Zemeckis featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Joan has never had any real adventure in her life. All this changes when she receives a frantic phone call from her sister, whose is being held prisoner ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.54!
13 view cover	Father Goose (1964) more movies like this directed by Ralph Nelson featuring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good, Sharyl Locke Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds, Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and unshaven beach bum in Father Goose. During World War II, Walter keeps busy relaying radio reports of Japanese air activity. But he's no hero, and in fact volunteered for this mission only because he's been promised a ... see all copies from £1.47! new only from £7.32!
14 view cover	Hatari! (1962) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gérard Blain, Red Buttons Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks effort. John Wayne stars as the head of a daring Tanganyka-based group which captures wild animals on behalf of the world's zoos. Hardy Kruger, Gérard Blain and Red Buttons are members of Wayne's men-only contingent, all of ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.26!
15 view cover	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) more movies like this directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley featuring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times in his long career) and the "piggy-back" episode ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.52!
16 view cover	The Jewel of the Nile (1985) more movies like this directed by Lewis Teague featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focas, Avner Eisenberg The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance can one woman take?" Invited by Omar (Spiros Focas), ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.28!
17 view cover	Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) more movies like this directed by Ivan Reitman featuring Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison Ivan Reitman directed this romantic comedy-adventure that opens in New York where fast-paced magazine associate editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) and her boyfriend, Frank (David Schwimmer), leave for a week's vacation on a remote island. They've already been together for three years, so when Frank asks her to marry him, she says yes. For a one-day ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.78!
18 view cover	Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) more movies like this directed by Greg Michael, Stephen Sommers featuring Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese Twenty-seven years after turning one of Rudyard Kipling's best known works into a successful animated musical, Disney returned to the same source material for this live-action adventure, which hews slightly closer to the original source material. Mowgli (Sean Naeleli) is the five-year-old son of a wilderness guide who accompanies his father on a ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £9.65!
19 view cover	The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) more movies like this directed by Norman Jewison featuring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually meet Crown but manage to pull off the robbery ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £6.33!
20 view cover	Unconquered (1947) more movies like this directed by Cecil B. DeMille featuring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Katherine de Mille, Ward Bond Cecil B. DeMille's first postwar production, the $5 million Technicolor historical spectacular Unconquered lacks only the kitchen sink. The story begins in England in the 1760s, as Abigail Martha Hale (Paulette Goddard), unjustly accused of a crime against the Crown, is sentenced by the Lord Chief Justice (C. Aubrey Smith) to 14 years' forced ... see all copies from £3.75! new only from £7.45!
21 view cover	Robin Hood: Series 01 (2006) more movies like this see all copies from £18.44! new only from £18.44!
22 view cover	Every Which Way But Loose (1978) more movies like this directed by James Fargo featuring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, Ruth Gordon Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a bare-knuckle boxer who travels from fight to fight in a beat-up truck, accompanied by his "pal" Clyde, a orangutan with a mean right hook, and his human buddy Orville (Geoffrey Lewis). During a stopover, Philo meets and falls in ... see all copies from £3.38! new only from £5.41!
23 view cover	Around the World in 80 Days (1956) more movies like this directed by Michael Anderson featuring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production anecdotes concerning Todd's efforts to pull the wool ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £6.83!
24 view cover	Sahara (2005) more movies like this directed by Breck Eisner featuring Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz, Lambert Wilson, Glynn E. Turman Matthew McConaughey stars as explorer and adventurer Dirk Pitt in this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Clive Cussler. Pitt thinks he may have found both a fortune and the answer to a long-standing mystery when he discovers a rare coin in the waters of a river in West Africa. During the Civil War, an ironclad battleship with a valuable ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.67!
25 view cover	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) more movies like this directed by Lewis Gilbert featuring Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't make an appearance until the book is two-thirds over. This would hardly work in the film world's Bond franchise, so the original austere plotline of ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £2.73!

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