Top Adventure Movies


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

221. 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.

222. Madagascar

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Actors: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer
Plot: A mid-life crisis strikes Marty the zebra at New York's Central Park Zoo
and he makes a break for freedom. Followed by star Alex the lion, Gloria
the brash hippo and Melman the hypochondriac giraffe, the four are
captured and sent to a wildlife reserve in Kenya. Due to a quartet of
meddling penguins, they instead end up in Madagascar where true freedom
brings about some surprising changes.

223. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

229. 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.

230. TRON: Legacy

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain, Michael Sheen
Plot: After his father, Kevin Flynn, goes missing, Sam Flynn follows clues and information leading to an old arcade his father used to run. But in order to find his father, Sam will be transported to a digital world where he will have to survives a series of deadly games and rely on new friends in order to find the truth.

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