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The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American comedy-drama-western directed by Sydney Pollack, in which former rodeo champion Robert Redford steals a drugged racehorse, pursued by television reporter Jane Fonda.
The Elusive Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel: 1950 British Technicolor adventure by Powell and Pressburger, also released in the US cut and in black and white as The Fighting Pimpernel; David Niven stars as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine.
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 Paramount adventure film by Stephen Hopkins and William Goldman, starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas as hunters of the 1898 Tsavo man-eating lions of Kenya.
The Goonies
The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Richard Donner from a story by Steven Spielberg, in which children in Astoria, Oregon hunt pirate treasure to save their homes.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard sur le toit) is Jean Giono's 1951 adventure novel about Angelo Pardi, an exiled Italian hussar crossing cholera-ravaged Provence in 1832; adapted by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1995.
The Incredible Journey (film)
The Incredible Journey (1963) is a Walt Disney live-action family adventure film directed by Fletcher Markle, based on Sheila Burnford's 1961 novel, following dogs Bodger and Luath and cat Tao on a 200-250 mile trek across Canadian wilderness, narrated by Rex Allen, remade in 1993 as Homeward Bound.
The Journey of Natty Gann
The Journey of Natty Gann (also Natty Gann) is a 1985 Walt Disney family adventure film directed by Jeremy Kagan, starring Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, and Ray Wise, about a Depression-era girl riding the rails from Chicago to Washington State; it earned an Academy Award costume design nomination.
The Jungle Book (1994 film)
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) is Disney's live-action adventure directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, and John Cleese; released December 25, 1994, 111 minutes, PG, $30 million budget.
The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) is Michael Mann's historical adventure film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, adapted from Cooper's 1826 novel and the 1936 screenplay, set in the 1757 French and Indian War; released September 25, 1992, grossing $72.2 million.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Wes Anderson's 2004 adventure-comedy, co-written with Noah Baumbach, starring Bill Murray as a Cousteau-inspired oceanographer hunting the jaguar shark that ate his friend.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)
The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1998 American adventure film directed by Randall Wallace, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as King Louis XIV and his twin.
The Mask of Zorro
The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 American swashbuckler set in 19th-century California, where Antonio Banderas trains a bandit to take up the mask of Zorro.
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy Returns (2001) is Stephen Sommers' sequel to The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, and Dwayne Johnson as the Scorpion King. It grossed about $433 million worldwide and is followed by the 2027 sequel The Mummy: The Book of the Dead.
The Scorpion King
The Scorpion King is a 2002 American action-adventure fantasy film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Dwayne Johnson as assassin Mathayus, a spin-off of The Mummy franchise.
The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
The Sea Hawk (1940) is a Warner Bros. swashbuckler directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn as privateer Geoffrey Thorpe. Despite the title, it is not an adaptation of Sabatini's novel; Koch and Miller wrote an original story with a 1940 anti-appeasement message.
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men is Disney's 1952 live-action Robin Hood film, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Richard Todd, Joan Rice, and Peter Finch, shot in England with blocked funds.
The Sword and the Rose
The Sword and the Rose (1953) is a Walt Disney live-action adventure romance directed by Ken Annakin, based on Charles Major's 1898 novel When Knighthood Was in Flower, starring Glynis Johns and Richard Todd as Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, shot in Technicolor at Pinewood Studios.
The Three Musketeers (1973 live-action film)
The Three Musketeers (1973), also released in the US as The Queen's Diamonds, is Richard Lester's slapstick swashbuckler adapted by George MacDonald Fraser from Dumas, shot in Spain and split into two films with The Four Musketeers (1974), starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, and Charlton Heston.
The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion (1975) is John Milius's MGM adventure film starring Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, and Brian Keith, loosely fictionalizing the 1904 Perdicaris kidnapping crisis in Morocco under Theodore Roosevelt.
The Wizard (1989 film)
The Wizard (1989) is a Universal Pictures family film directed by Todd Holland, starring Fred Savage, about boys traveling to a video game championship; it revealed Super Mario Bros. 3 to US audiences and was criticized as a Nintendo advertisement.
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise (1991) is Ridley Scott's feminist road film, written by Callie Khouri, starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as fugitives in a 1966 Thunderbird; it earned six Oscar nominations and won Best Original Screenplay.
Two Brothers (2004 film)
Two Brothers (French: Deux frères) is a 2004 French-British family adventure drama directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Guy Pearce, about twin tiger cubs separated in 1920s French Indochina.
Umizaru (海猿)
Umizaru (海猿) is a 2004 Japanese film, Eiichiro Hasumi's debut, adapted from Shuho Sato's manga about Coast Guard trainees seeking to become rescue divers; it launched a four-film series and drama, later unavailable on streaming after a rights dispute.
White Sun of the Desert (Белое солнце пустыни)
White Sun of the Desert (Белое солнце пустыни), 1969 Soviet "Eastern" by Vladimir Motyl: Red Army soldier Sukhov guards a bandit's harem in the Civil War desert; 34 million viewers, cosmonaut good-luck film.