Top Adventure Movies


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

391. Silent Running

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Actors: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks
Plot: This is an old-school sci-fi flick from the 1970s. The story involves a series of spaceships carrying and preserving various ecosystems from earth, waiting for the day when they can return and repopulate the polluted planet. A crew member (Bruce Dern) from one of the ships becomes attached to the forest ecosystem, and is chooses to defend it when the program is canceled and the order comes to destroy the preserved ecosystems.

392. Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Paul Reubens, Mark Holton, Elizabeth Daily, Daryl Roach, Diane Salinger
Plot: An "interesting" man has his bike stolen from under his nose as he must investigate and travel around the country following clues to regain his state of the art bike.

393. Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
Actors: Steve Burton, Rachel Leigh Cook, Mena Suvari, Crispin Freeman, George Newbern, Christy Carlson Romano
Plot: A planet is ravaged by the "Geostigma" disease and an ex-mercenary decides to fight again when three mysterious men begin kidnapping children sticken with the sickness.

394. Quigley Down Under

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Simon Wincer
Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner
Plot: A sharpshooter from Montana, Matt Quigley, is hired by an Australian. But,
when he arrives in Australia, there is something very wrong.

395. The Mummy Returns

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Arnold Vosloo, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, John Hannah, Dwayne Johnson
Plot: An American soldier who is capture during a raid near an Egyptian landmark is later released because of his knowledge of a strange happening that could be linked to famous tombs.

396. Rambo: First Blood Part 2

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Martin Kove, George Cheung
Plot: Rambo is needed to take pictures of a POW camp, so that the POW's can eventually be rescued. But, he ends up trying to rescue them himself.

397. Turbo

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Soren
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Michelle Rodriguez
Plot: A snail tired of living a snail-paced life dreams of speed, just like his
hero five-time Indy 500 champion Guy Gagne - much to the horror of the
snail community, especially his cautious older brother Chet. A freak
accident suddenly gives him the chance to live his dream and starts him on
an extraordinary journey that proves nothing is impossible.

398. Time Bandits

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin
Plot: A pack of midgets steal the Supreme Being's map of the universe and go on a looting spree across human history, aided by a British 12 year old and pursued by Pure Evil.

399. Innerspace

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis
Plot: A cocky pilot is miniaturized in revolutionary experiment, but when terrorists intervene, he gets injected into a hypochondriac instead of a rabbit. Inside the meek man, he has to foil the plot while trying to keep them both alive.

400. The Ghost and the Darkness

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Actors: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Bernard Hill, Emily Mortimer
Plot: In the late 1800s an engineer in East Africa faces a pair of man-eating lions that are so insatiable and violent they are nicknamed "The Ghost" and "The Darkness" by the natives. A famous hunter is brought in to bring the beasts down, but even his presence cannot stop the carnage.

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