Top Adventure Movies


The Top Adventure Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Adventure List". Lists are calculated daily.

221. The Flight of the Phoenix

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Hardy Krüger, Ian Bannen
Plot: When a cargo plane crashes in the desert, one of the survivors says he is an airplane designer and can make a new aircraft from the wreckage - even as food and water are quickly in short supply.

222. Samurai 3: Duel on Ganryu Island aka Bushido ( Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima )

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Actors: Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Daisuke Katô, Michiko Saga
Plot: The Conclusion of the definitive Samurai trilogy, in which the ultimate warrior Musashi Miyamoto finds his true love, battles his nemesis, and continues along the path of the warrior.

223. True Lies

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Charlton Heston, Tia Carrere
Plot: Harry Trasker, his wife Helen and daughter Dana live in perfect, boring suburban happiness - but Harry is actually part of an ultra-secret organization and when he finds out his wife is having an affair with a "spy" he uses his resources to keep tabs on her, but they both end up in the hands of terrorists.

224. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Jim Sturgess, David Wenham, Emilie de Ravin, Hugo Weaving, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush
Plot: Soren, a young barn owl, is taken by force to an orphanage, which is actually a training ground for brainwashing an army. He escapes, along with a small group, and makes for the island of Ga'Hoole, where a legendary force is said to exist.

225. Thunderball

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terence Young
Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Guy Doleman, Adolfo Celi
Plot: An evil organization named SPECTRE plans on bribing NATO in exchange for
bombs to use for destroying parts of the US and UK. James Bond tries to
stop Emilio Largo (SPECTRE No. 2) in destroying Miami Beach. A mysterious
mistress assists Largo... or maybe even James Bond.

226. Foreign Correspondent

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley
Plot: A New York reporter, tired of the city grind, is assigned as the European correspondent in order to get the inside story on a new treaty. But things turn out much more exciting than expected as he finds himself in the middle of spy ring.

227. The Amazing Spider-Man

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Marc Webb
Actors: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Embeth Davidtz
Plot: On one hand, Peter Parker is your average high school student - dealing with his crush on Gwen Stacy and the direction of his life. On the other hand, Parker must also deal with his alter-ego, Spider-Man and when he discovers a briefcase that may lead to the answer behind his parents' disappearance, it leads to Dr. Curt Connors of Oscorp, who hides an alter-ego of his own.

228. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Leiner
Actors: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés, Neil Patrick Harris, David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas
Plot: Two stoner friends, one an uptight Korean American investment banker, the
other an care-free Indian American med-school student, go on a life-
altering quest in search of White Castle hamburgers.

229. Tron

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Lisberger
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Peter Jurasik
Plot: A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

230. The King and I

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Walter Lang
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson
Plot: A musical based on the story of a widow who takes a job as governess to the king of Siam's children.

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