Top Adventure Movies


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

41. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Gary Lockwood, Douglas Rain
Plot: Set in the future, mankind discovers a mysterious buried object on the moon. A set of astronauts and a super intelligent computer are sent off on a quest to discover its origin.

42. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Yates
Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson
Plot: Entering the sixth year of Hogwarts, Harry Potter has a lot to contend with. While Voldemort continues his rise in power, Harry must confront the past to assure his future. And then there's relationships, Draco Malfoy and Quidditch to deal with as well.

43. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Bruce Bennett, Tim Holt
Plot: Two poor men meet up with a man in Mexico as he convinces them to search for gold. They all start off as friends, will they return home that way?

44. Inglourious Basterds

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz
Plot: A group of Jewish-American soldiers called "The Basterds" plan to throw fear into the Third Reich with a wave of brutal tactics and merciless killing in Nazi-occupied France.

45. The Revenant

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson
Plot: Based on a true story: In the 1820s, in the uncharted wilderness of America, Hugh Glass set out with a hunting party on an expedition. Glass was mauled by a bear and left for dead but through sheer will and to get back to his family, Glass survived - but that wasn't the only thing on his mind as he set out to payback the men who left him behind.

46. Tombstone

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott
Plot: Wyatt, a legendary lawman, moves to Tombstone with his family to start over. The cowboys have different plans.

47. Goldfinger

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton
Plot: After finding someone is stockpiling gold, James Bond is sent on the trail of Auric Goldfinger. He soon uncovers a plot "Operation Grand Slam" for Goldfinger to rob Fort Knox and throw the world's economy into turmoil.

48. Howl's Moving Castle ( Hauru no ugoku shiro )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hayao Miyazaki, Rick Dempsey
Actors: Christian Bale, Jean Simmons, Billy Crystal, Lauren Bacall
Plot: A young woman finds herself the receipient of a curse and seeks out the secretive wizard Howl in order to break the spell.

49. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Warren J. Kemmerling
Plot: A blue collar worker trucks stops working while he encounters a UFO and is drawn to a mountain for unknown reasons and continues to hear certain notes over and over.

50. Aladdin

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Actors: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman
Plot: Street urchin Aladdin has run-in with Princess Jasmine and decides to do whatever it takes to win her heart, even if it means working with the underhanded Vizard Jafar to steal a mysterious lamp. He soon learns the importance of this item as it contains a genie that can grant three wishes - wishes he can use to make his dreams come true.

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