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10,000 BC (film)
10,000 BC is a 2008 Roland Emmerich prehistoric adventure film (Warner Bros.) starring Steven Strait and Camilla Belle as D'Leh and Evolet; a box-office number-one opener that scored 10% on Rotten Tomatoes and 34 on Metacritic.
A Dog's Way Home
A Dog's Way Home is a 2019 American family adventure drama directed by Charles Martin Smith, based on W. Bruce Cameron's novel, starring Ashley Judd and the voice of Bryce Dallas Howard as Bella, a dog on a 400-mile journey home; it grossed about $80.7 million worldwide.
Alone Across the Pacific (太平洋ひとりぼっち)
Alone Across the Pacific (太平洋ひとりぼっち, Taiheiyo Hitoribocchi), also released as Alone on the Pacific, is Kon Ichikawa's 1963 Nikkatsu film dramatizing Kenichi Horie's 94-day solo 1962 yacht crossing, the first production of Yujiro Ishihara's Ishihara Productions.
Alpha (2018 film)
Alpha (2018) is a prehistoric survival adventure directed by Albert Hughes, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee as Keda, an Ice Age hunter who allies with a lone wolf; produced by Columbia Pictures and Studio 8, distributed by Sony Pictures.
Anaconda (1997 film)
Anaconda (1997 film) is a creature-feature thriller directed by Luis Llosa. It stars Jennifer Lopez and Jon Voight, and features a giant animatronic anaconda on the Amazon River.
Apocalypto
Apocalypto, also known as Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, is a 2006 American action-adventure film directed by Mel Gibson, set in the declining days of the Maya civilization and spoken entirely in Yucatec Maya.
Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) is Michael Todd's Best Picture-winning Todd-AO adaptation of Jules Verne, directed by Michael Anderson, starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, and Robert Newton, released October 17, 1956.
As Deep as the Grave
As Deep as the Grave is a 2026 American independent historical drama about archaeologists Ann and Earl Morris, featuring an AI recreation of Val Kilmer, who filmed no scenes.
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic romantic adventure film directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, set in northern Australia on the eve of World War II.
Autumn and the Black Jaguar
Autumn and the Black Jaguar (Le Dernier Jaguar) is a 2024 family adventure film by Gilles de Maistre about a girl returning to the Amazon to save her jaguar friend Hope from traffickers, shot with real jaguars, grossing $22 million worldwide.
Beau Geste (1939 film)
Beau Geste (1939) is William A. Wellman's Paramount adventure film starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as brothers in the French Foreign Legion, a remake of the 1926 Ronald Colman silent based on P.C. Wren's 1924 novel, with Brian Donlevy as Sergeant Markoff.
Belle et Sébastien
Belle et Sébastien is a 2013 French family adventure film directed by Nicolas Vanier, about a boy in the Second World War-era French Alps who tames a large white dog, Belle.
Born to Fly
Born to Fly (长空之王) is a 2023 Chinese drama-action film directed by Liu Xiaoshi, starring Wang Yibo and Hu Jun as air force test pilots flying prototype fighters including the J-20; it earned 850 million yuan and won the Golden Rooster Best Directorial Debut.
Buffalo Kids
Buffalo Kids is a 2024 Spanish 3D-animated family western directed by Pedro Solís García and Juan Jesús García Galocha, about Irish orphans Mary and Tom riding an 1886 orphan train west with Nick, a boy with cerebral palsy inspired by Solís's late son.
Candleshoe
Candleshoe (1977) is a Walt Disney comedy-adventure directed by Norman Tokar, adapted from Michael Innes's Christmas at Candleshoe, starring Jodie Foster, David Niven in four roles, Helen Hayes, and Leo McKern.
Captain Blood (1935 film)
Captain Blood (1935) is a Warner Bros. swashbuckler directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Basil Rathbone, adapted from Rafael Sabatini's novel; Flynn's first lead and Oscar-nominated Best Picture.
Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, based on Robert E. Howard's 1930s pulp stories.
Conan the Barbarian (2011 film)
Conan the Barbarian (2011) is a Marcus Nispel sword-and-sorcery film starring Jason Momoa as Robert E. Howard's Conan, with Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, and Ron Perlman; shot entirely in Bulgaria on a roughly $90 million budget and released August 2011 to negative reviews.
Congo (film)
Congo is a 1995 American jungle adventure film directed by Frank Marshall, based on Michael Crichton's novel, about a diamond expedition to the Lost City of Zinj.
Cutthroat Island
Cutthroat Island is a 1995 Renny Harlin pirate adventure starring Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella; a $98 million Carolco production that grossed about $16 million, bankrupted its studio, and was certified by Guinness as the biggest box office flop.
Deathstalker (2025 film)
Deathstalker (2025) is a Canadian sword-and-sorcery film written and directed by Steven Kostanski, a reimagining of Roger Corman's 1983 cult film, starring Daniel Bernhardt with Patton Oswalt voicing Doodad, released October 10, 2025, and holding a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Desert Warrior (2025 film)
Desert Warrior (2025) is a Rupert Wyatt historical action epic set in 7th-century Arabia, starring Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, and Ben Kingsley. Shot in NEOM on a $150 million Saudi MBC budget, it premiered at Zurich 2025, earned 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, and grossed under $800,000 worldwide.
Dinosaur (2000 film)
Dinosaur, also known as Disney's Dinosaur, is a 2000 animated adventure film following Aladar, an iguanodon raised by lemurs, as he joins a herd searching for nesting grounds.
Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado
Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado is a 2025 live-action Nickelodeon/Paramount+ family adventure film, a standalone reboot of Dora the Explorer starring Samantha Lorraine, directed by Alberto Belli, filmed entirely in Colombia, and released July 2, 2025.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider (1969) is Dennis Hopper's independent road movie starring Fonda, Hopper, and Jack Nicholson, a low-budget counterculture landmark of New Hollywood that grossed over $60 million worldwide.
Fear Below
Fear Below is a 2025 Australian adventure-horror film directed by Matthew Holmes, also known as a period gangster-shark thriller. Set in 1946, it follows divers hired by criminals to recover sunken gold bullion while a bull shark stalks them; 85 minutes, Saban Films.
Flesh and Blood (1985 film)
Flesh and Blood, aka Flesh+Blood, is Paul Verhoeven's 1985 English-language debut: an American-Dutch-Spanish medieval epic starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, shot in Spain, a Golden Calf winner and commercial flop.
Fountain of Youth (film)
Fountain of Youth (2025) is a Guy Ritchie action-adventure film for Apple TV+, written by James Vanderbilt, starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as estranged siblings hunting the mythical Fountain of Youth; filmed in Bangkok, Liverpool, Vienna, and Giza; 125 minutes, PG-13, 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.
George and the Dragon (film)
George and the Dragon is a 2004 fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Tom Reeve. It stars James Purefoy and was retitled Dragon Sword for Syfy in 2006.
Gunga Din (film)
Gunga Din (1939) is a George Stevens RKO adventure film loosely based on Kipling's poem, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Sam Jaffe as a water carrier facing the Thuggee cult in colonial India.