Best Adventure Movies

Great adventure movies promise one thing: somewhere you've never been. Treasure hunts, jungle expeditions, impossible journeys and reluctant heroes far from home - this ranking collects the films that made audiences want to pack a bag. See where to watch each one and build your own expedition list.

The Black Pirates

1954

Outcast of the Islands

1951

Clive of India

1935

Dangerous Passion

1990

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

1971

The Greening of Whitney Brown

2011

Dr. Strange

1978

Cannon for Cordoba

1970

Camilla

1994

Mercy Streets

2000

Fakiren fra Bilbao

2004

Adventures of Captain Fabian

1951

The Tale of Despereaux

2008

The Daydreamer

1966

Journey of Honor

1991

Madison

2005

Category 5

2014

The Hawaiians

1970

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception

1999

Super Stooges vs the Wonder Women

1974

The Frisco Kid

1979

Master of the World

1961

The Lone Runner

1986

The Mysterious Island

1973

Trouble at Timpetill

2008

Welcome to Woop Woop

1998

South Sea Woman

1953

Girl in the Cadillac

1995

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

1957

The Flying Machine 3D

2011

Lost Treasure

2003

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)

2025

Magic Island

1995

U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force

2001

Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw

1988

Monte Carlo or Bust!

1969

Call of the Wild

2009

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!

2006

Beat Bugs: All Together Now

2017

Thieves

2007

The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover

2017

Jamaica Inn

1939

Pee-wee's Big Holiday

2016

Swiss Family Robinson

1940

Sinful Davey

1969

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

1987

The Last Dragonslayer

2016

Muppets from Space

1999

Blood Alley

1955

Knights of the Round Table

1953

Gnome Alone

2017

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008

Blonde Savage

1947

The Capture of Bigfoot

1979

Bordello

1981

The King and Four Queens

1956

Green Mansions

1959

Seize Them!

2024

The Prey

2018

The Iron Mask

1962