Top 100 Adventure Movies List

#20 Adventure Movie

Titanic (1997) PG-13

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director:

James Cameron

Writers:

James Cameron

Stars:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

#19 Adventure Movie

Time Bandits (1981) PG

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time traveling dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Writers:

Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam

Stars:

Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese

#18 Adventure Movie

Cast Away (2000) PG-13

A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island.

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Writers:

William Broyles Jr.

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Paul Sanchez

#17 Adventure Movie

The Maze Runner (2014) PG-13

Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.

Director:

Wes Ball

Writers:

Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers

Stars:

Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter

#16 Adventure Movie

The Revenant (2015) R

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Director:

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Writers:

Mark L. Smith, Alejandro González Iñárritu

Stars:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter

#15 Adventure Movie

The Martian (2015) PG-13

An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Director:

Ridley Scott

Writers:

Drew Goddard, Andy Weir

Stars:

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig

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#14 Adventure Movie

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) PG-13

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Director:

Gore Verbinski

Writers:

Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio

Stars:

Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

#13 Adventure Movie

Romancing the Stone (1984) PG

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Writers:

Diane Thomas

Stars:

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

#12 Adventure Movie

Interstellar (2014) PG-13

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Director:

Christopher Nolan

Writers:

Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan

Stars:

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

#11 Adventure Movie

Tomorrowland (2015) PG

Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.

Director:

Brad Bird

Writers:

Damon Lindelof, Brad Bird

Stars:

George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie

#10 Adventure Movie

The Fifth Element (1997) PG-13

In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

Director:

Luc Besson

Writers:

Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Stars:

Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman

#9 Adventure Movie

Red Sonja (1985) PG-13

A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her.

Director:

Richard Fleischer

Writers:

Robert E. Howard, Clive Exton

Stars:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman

#8 Adventure Movie

The Goonies (1985) PG

In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure.

Director:

Richard Donner

Writers:

Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus

Stars:

Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen

#7 Adventure Movie

Back to the Future (1985) PG

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Writers:

Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Stars:

Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

#6 Adventure Movie

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) PG

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers:

Melissa Mathison

Stars:

Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote

#5 Adventure Movie

Gladiator (2000) R

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Director:

Ridley Scott

Writers:

David Franzoni, David Franzoni

Stars:

Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen

#4 Adventure Movie

The Great Escape (1963)

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Director:

John Sturges

Writers:

Paul Brickhill, James Clavell

Stars:

Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough

#3 Adventure Movie

Stand by Me (1986) R

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

Director:

Rob Reiner

Writers:

Stephen King, Raynold Gideon

Stars:

Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring dvd

#2 Adventure Movie

The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) PG-13

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Director:

Peter Jackson

Writers:

J.R.R. Tolkien (novel), Fran Walsh

Stars:

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom

#1 Adventure Movie

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) PG

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers:

Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas

Stars:

Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

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