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Adventure Films   (908 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DUPS
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope		 1977 Lucas, George USA DS
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
34 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
51 L'Atalante 1934 Vigo, Jean France DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
76 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
98 Solaris 1972 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union D
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA DUPS
130 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Curtiz, Michael / Keighley, William USA DBS
142 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
159 Lamerica 1994 Amelio, Gianni Italy / France DS
165 The African Queen 1951 Huston, John UK / USA Y
167 The Gold Rush 1925 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA DBUS
179 The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DUPS
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA DBS
201 Goldfinger 1964 Hamilton, Guy UK DS
211 Easy Rider 1969 Hopper, Dennis USA YU
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King		 2003 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand DS
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DUS
261 Yojimbo 1961 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
265 Toy Story 1995 Lasseter, John USA DS
269 Deliverance 1972 Boorman, John USA DBUP
280 Star Wars: Episode V -
The Empire Strikes Back		 1980 Kershner, Irvin USA DS
284 Tom Jones 1963 Richardson, Tony UK D
286 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring		 2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DUS
293 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
297 Y tu mamá también 2001 Cuarón, Alfonso Mexico / USA D
306 The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers		 2002 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand / Germany DS
309 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Lloyd, Frank USA YS
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
341 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Herzog, Werner Peru / West Germany Y
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China YU
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 Costner, Kevin USA DUS
395 Sideways 2004 Payne, Alexander USA DUS
413 The Great Escape 1963 Sturges, John USA DUS
431 Gunga Din 1939 Stevens, George USA Y
439 David Copperfield 1935 Cukor, George USA D
450 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Walsh, Raoul USA DU
454 On the Town 1949 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DS
466 The Right Stuff 1983 Kaufman, Philip USA YUP
479 Walkabout 1971 Roeg, Nicolas UK YS
493 Spirited Away 2001 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan DS
502 Back to the Future 1985 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
510 The Road Warrior 1981 Miller, George Australia DBU
524 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Hawks, Howard USA D
547 Shrek 2001 Adamson, Andrew / Jenson, Vicky USA Y
549 El Norte 1983 Nava, Gregory USA / UK
557 Das Boot 1981 Petersen, Wolfgang West Germany Y
574 Lost Horizon 1937 Capra, Frank USA YS
575 Little Big Man 1970 Penn, Arthur USA Y
578 From Russia with Love 1963 Young, Terence UK / USA DS
587 Three Kings 1999 Russell, David O. USA YU
598 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Berger, Ludwig / Powell, Michael / Whelan, Tim / Korda, Alexander / Korda, Zoltan / Menzies, William Cameron UK / USA D
601 Captains Courageous 1937 Fleming, Victor USA DS
625 The King and I 1956 Lang, Walter USA DS
625 The Straight Story 1999 Lynch, David France / UK / USA Y
630 Finding Nemo 2003 Stanton, Andrew / Unkrich, Lee USA D
635 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Gilliam, Terry / Jones, Terry UK D
645 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 Cromwell, John / Cukor, George / Van Dyke, W.S. USA DS
653 Genevieve 1953 Cornelius, Henry UK
654 Oliver Twist 1948 Lean, David UK Y
655 The Ten Commandments 1956 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DUS
666 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Dmytryk, Edward USA DS
683 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 DeMille, Cecil B. USA YUP
689 Yellow Submarine 1968 Dunning, George UK / USA YS
697 A Man Escaped 1956 Bresson, Robert France Y
700 Our Hospitality 1923 Keaton, Buster / Blystone, John G. USA Y
705 Forbidden Planet 1956 Wilcox, Fred M. USA D
725 Around the World in 80 Days 1956 Anderson, Michael USA YU
733 Captain Blood 1935 Curtiz, Michael USA YUS
737 Star Wars: Episode VI -
Return of the Jedi		 1983 Marquand, Richard USA DS
749 The Fast Runner 2001 Kunuk, Zacharias Canada Y
767 The Black Cat 1934 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA D
771 The Princess Bride 1987 Reiner, Rob USA DU
784 Master and Commander:
The Far Side of the World		 2003 Weir, Peter USA DBU
817 The Lion King 1994 Allers, Roger / Minkoff, Rob USA YS
819 Chicken Run 2000 Lord, Peter / Park, Nick UK Y
826 The Jungle Book 1967 Reitherman, Wolfgang USA D
830 The Count of Monte Cristo 1934 Lee, Rowland V. / Lucas, Wilfred USA D
834 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Aldrich, Robert UK / USA DB
867 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Hathaway, Henry USA Y
868 The Train 1964 Frankenheimer, John / Penn, Arthur USA / France / Italy DUP
886 Yeelen 1987 Cissé, Souleymane Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany Y
891 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Mamoulian, Rouben USA YUS
910 Safety Last! 1923 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
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913 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
916 Aladdin 1992 Clements, Ron / Musker, John USA YS
917 Beat the Devil 1953 Huston, John UK / USA / Italy YB
918 Shanghai Express 1932 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
927 The Sundowners 1960 Zinnemann, Fred UK / Australia D
945 Topkapi 1964 Dassin, Jules USA Y
951 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 Fleischer, Richard USA Y
973 The Sea Hawk 1940 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
982 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 Huston, John UK / USA YS
1000 Midnight Express 1978 Parker, Alan UK / USA DUP
1010 Dr. No 1962 Young, Terence UK / USA DS
1013 A Touch of Zen 1969 Hu, King Taiwan Y
1025 Five Graves to Cairo 1943 Wilder, Billy USA
1026 The Big Sky 1952 Hawks, Howard USA
1033 Kill Bill: Volume 1 2003 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBS
1035 Jurassic Park 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
1037 Toy Story 2 1999 Lasseter, John / Brannon, Ash / Unkrich, Lee USA D
1041 Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China DS
1044 The Tarnished Angels 1958 Sirk, Douglas USA Y
1051 The Guns of Navarone 1961 Thompson, J. Lee USA DS
1058 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Salles, Walter USA / Germany / UK / Argentina / Chile / Peru / France D
1067 The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 Young, Harold UK DUP
1094 The Last Command 1928 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
1099 The Stolen Children 1992 Amelio, Gianni France / Switzerland / Germany / Italy
1106 Stand by Me 1986 Reiner, Rob USA YU
1107 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1118 Lassie Come Home 1943 Wilcox, Fred M. USA YU
1130 The Four Feathers 1939 Korda, Zoltan UK Y
1132 Mad Max 1979 Miller, George Australia YU
1139 Total Recall 1990 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBUS
1148 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Conway, Jack / Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
1157 Mogambo 1953 Ford, John USA D
1160 True Grit 1969 Hathaway, Henry USA DUS
1167 Lifeboat 1944 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
1168 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Wilder, Billy UK YUPS
1169 The Three Musketeers 1973 Lester, Richard USA / UK YS
1179 The Incredibles 2004 Bird, Brad USA D
1185 Superman 1978 Donner, Richard UK DBUPS
1186 Bad Company 1972 Benton, Robert USA DUP
1187 Sahara 1943 Korda, Zoltan USA Y
1188 The Navigator 1924 Keaton, Buster / Crisp, Donald USA Y
1194 Dersu Uzala 1975 Kurosawa, Akira Soviet Union / Japan Y
1196 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Noyce, Phillip Australia Y
1204 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan UK / France / USA Y
1214 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Keaton, Buster / Reisner, Charles USA YU
1222 The Clock 1945 Minnelli, Vincente / Zinnemann, Fred USA D
1224 The Magnificent Seven 1960 Sturges, John USA DUPS
1227 Flash Gordon 1936 Stephani, Frederick / Taylor, Ray USA Y
1236 Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 Méliès, Georges France DU
1240 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Wood, Sam USA Y
1243 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1257 The Black Swan 1942 King, Henry USA D
1258 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
1265 King Solomon's Mines 1950 Bennett, Compton / Marton, Andrew USA YU
1267 The Court Jester 1956 Frank, Melvin / Panama, Norman USA Y
1270 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Chomet, Sylvain France / Belgium / Canada / UK DUS
1273 The High and the Mighty 1954 Wellman, William A. USA DS
1283 Princess Mononoke 1997 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan DS
1289 Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
1312 How the West Was Won 1962 Ford, John / Hathaway, Henry / Marshall, George / Thorpe, Richard USA DBS
1316 Northwest Passage 1940 Vidor, King / Van Dyke, W.S. / Conway, Jack USA
1321 Cabiria 1914 Pastrone, Giovanni Italy D
1322 Road to Morocco 1942 Butler, David USA Y
1338 Black Robe 1991 Beresford, Bruce Canada / Australia YUPS
1345 Big Fish 2003 Burton, Tim USA DBS
1345 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Neame, Ronald USA DUS
1347 The Three Musketeers 1948 Sidney, George USA D
1353 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 1952 Buñuel, Luis Mexico DS
1354 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Chaffey, Don UK / USA YS
1356 A Christmas Carol 1951 Hurst, Brian Desmond UK D
1360 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Hutton, Brian G. UK / USA D
1363 Island of Lost Souls 1933 Kenton, Erle C. USA
1365 The League of Gentlemen 1959 Dearden, Basil UK V
1367 Papillon 1973 Schaffner, Franklin J. France / USA DU
1368 Children of Men 2006 Cuarón, Alfonso UK / USA DBU
1372 Operation Crossbow 1965 Anderson, Michael UK D
1381 Apocalypto 2006 Gibson, Mel USA DB
1384 Harry & Tonto 1974 Mazursky, Paul USA Y
1385 Billy Budd 1962 Ustinov, Peter UK D
1396 The Overlanders 1946 Watt, Harry Australia / UK Y
1400 Born Free 1966 Hill, James / McGowan, Tom UK / USA YS
1411 The Hurricane 1937 Ford, John / Heisler, Stuart USA
1411 Pollyanna 1960 Swift, David USA D
1411 The Sea Wolf 1941 Curtiz, Michael USA
1411 Song of the South 1946 Foster, Harve / Jackson, Wilfred USA
1411 Treasure Island 1950 Haskin, Byron UK / USA D
1430 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Wise, Robert USA DBS
1436 Alice 1988 Svankmajer, Jan Czechoslovakia / Switzerland / UK / West Germany D
1438 utu 1983 Murphy, Geoff New Zealand V
1448 The Little Fugitive 1953 Engel, Morris / Ashley, Ray / Orkin, Ruth USA D
1449 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Mann, Michael USA YU
1451 The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
1462 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1465 a bug's life 1998 Lasseter, John / Stanton, Andrew USA DS
1474 101 Dalmatians 1961 Geronimi, Clyde / Luske, Hamilton / Reitherman, Wolfgang USA D
1474 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Conran, Kerry USA / UK / Italy DBUS
1477 Barbarella 1968 Vadim, Roger France / Italy YU
1482 Naughty Marietta 1935 Van Dyke, W.S. / Leonard, Robert Z. USA Y
1484 The Black Pirate 1926 Parker, Albert USA D
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1488 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Fleischer, Richard USA D
1506 The Last Samurai 2003 Zwick, Edward USA / New Zealand / Japan DBUPS
1507 Trafic 1971 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
1509 King Kong 2005 Jackson, Peter / Singer, Bryan New Zealand / USA DUS
1524 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Stuart, Mel USA DS
1535 Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959 Stevenson, Robert USA D
1542 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong D
1545 Heavy Traffic 1973 Bakshi, Ralph USA Y
1551 Wings 1927 Wellman, William A. USA Y
1558 Stanley and Livingstone 1939 King, Henry / Brower, Otto USA V
1567 Into the Wild 2007 Penn, Sean USA DUP
1578 Fire Over England 1937 Howard, William K. UK D
1579 Midnight Run 1988 Brest, Martin USA YUS
1583 Drums Along the Mohawk 1939 Ford, John USA D
1586 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Cuarón, Alfonso UK / USA DBS
1588 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan D
1590 The Lost Patrol 1934 Ford, John USA DS
1601 The Great Race 1965 Edwards, Blake USA Y
1605 The Black Stallion 1979 Ballard, Carroll USA Y
1619 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Meyer, Nicholas USA YUS
1621 Time Bandits 1981 Gilliam, Terry UK Y
1629 The Sound Barrier 1952 Lean, David UK S
1639 Anthony Adverse 1936 LeRoy, Mervyn / Curtiz, Michael USA YS
1640 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Newell, Mike UK / USA DB
1641 Bulldog Drummond 1929 Jones, F. Richard / Howard, Sidney USA Y
1641 El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
1663 The Great Adventure 1953 Sucksdorff, Arne Sweden
1680 Tarzan the Ape Man 1932 Van Dyke, W.S. USA Y
1693 City Slickers 1991 Underwood, Ron USA YBU
1699 The Young One 1960 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / USA D
1711 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 Hunt, Peter R. UK / USA DS
1713 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Greengrass, Paul USA DU
1718 Broken Flowers 2005 Jarmusch, Jim USA / France D
1719 Baran 2001 Majidi, Majid Iran D
1725 Cocoon 1985 Howard, Ron USA YS
1736 Quest for Fire 1981 Annaud, Jean-Jacques Canada / France / USA YU
1748 The Hunt 1966 Saura, Carlos Spain Y
1753 Tropical Malady 2004 Weerasethakul, Apichatpong Thailand / France / Germany / Italy D
1759 Cast Away 2000 Zemeckis, Robert USA DBS
1777 Ariel 1988 Kaurismäki, Aki Finland D
1792 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 Kramer, Stanley USA YU
1792 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 Gibbons, Cedric / Conway, Jack / McKay, James C. USA Y
1795 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
1799 The Bourne Identity 2002 Liman, Doug USA / Germany / Czech Republic DUS
1801 Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1802 Doctor Dolittle 1967 Fleischer, Richard USA YU
1805 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Anderson, Wes USA DUP
1807 Sanjuro 1962 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
1811 Last of the Mohicans 1920 Brown, Clarence / Tourneur, Maurice USA Y
1811 Peter Pan 1924 Brenon, Herbert USA Y
1812 The Circus 1928 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
1813 Mulan 1998 Cook, Barry / Bancroft, Tony USA DS
1814 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
1818 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1938 Taurog, Norman / Cukor, George / Potter, H.C. / Wellman, William A. USA Y
1820 Benji 1974 Camp, Joe USA D
1820 Cartouche 1962 de Broca, Philippe France / Italy D
1820 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Hamilton, Guy UK / USA DS
1820 Emperor of the North 1973 Aldrich, Robert USA D
1820 Hatari! 1962 Hawks, Howard USA DU
1820 Hell's Angels 1930 Hughes, Howard / Goulding, Edmund USA D
1820 Help! 1965 Lester, Richard UK D
1820 The Love Bug 1968 Stevenson, Robert USA D
1820 The Mark of Zorro 1920 Niblo, Fred USA DU
1820 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Gilbert, Lewis UK / USA DS
1820 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Annakin, Ken USA D
1820 Treasure Island 1934 Fleming, Victor USA D
1820 Viva María! 1965 Malle, Louis France / Italy D
1820 Why Worry? 1923 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
1821 Bite the Bullet 1975 Brooks, Richard USA D
1824 Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl		 2003 Verbinski, Gore USA DBS
1825 Journey of Hope 1990 Koller, Xavier Switzerland / Turkey / UK Y
1827 Track of the Cat 1954 Wellman, William A. USA YU
1828 El Dorado 1967 Hawks, Howard USA DUP
1830 Male and Female 1919 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
1830 Robin Hood 1922 Dwan, Allan USA DU
1832 Ice Cold in Alex 1958 Thompson, J. Lee UK
1834 Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK Y
1835 The Alamo 1960 Wayne, John USA YS
1837 Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 Milestone, Lewis / Reed, Carol USA DS
1840 The Muppet Movie 1979 Frawley, James UK / USA D
1844 Pathfinder 1987 Gaup, Nils Norway Y
1847 Batman Begins 2005 Nolan, Christopher USA DBUPS
1848 The Game 1997 Fincher, David USA DUS
1852 The Drum 1938 Korda, Zoltan UK Y
1854 Captain from Castile 1947 King, Henry USA D
1854 The Jungle Book 1942 Korda, Zoltan USA D
1854 Lord Jim 1965 Brooks, Richard UK / USA D
1854 Peter Pan 1953 Geronimi, Clyde / Jackson, Wilfred / Luske, Hamilton USA DS
1854 The Time Machine 1960 Pal, George USA DUS
1867 Witchfinder General 1968 Reeves, Michael UK D
1869 Mountains of the Moon 1990 Rafelson, Bob USA YU
1878 True Lies 1994 Cameron, James USA Y
1879 Test Pilot 1938 Fleming, Victor USA Y
1880 Scaramouche 1952 Sidney, George USA D