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Best Adventure Movies of the 20th Century
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h04After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.
Seven Samurai (1954)
Not RatedAction, Adventure, Drama3h27A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h01Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Back to the Future (1985)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h56Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
The Lion King (1994)
GAnimation, Adventure, Drama1h28Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PGAction, Adventure1h55In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13Animation, Action, Adventure2h14On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
GAdventure, Sci-Fi2h29After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
Aliens (1986)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h17Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.
Das Boot (1981)
RAdventure, Drama, Thriller2h29The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
PGAdventure, Biography, Drama3h48The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
North by Northwest (1959)
ApprovedAdventure, Mystery, Thriller2h16A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h11After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.
Toy Story (1995)
GAnimation, Adventure, Comedy1h21A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13Action, Adventure2h07In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Fantasy1h31King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
The Gold Rush (1925)
TV-GAdventure, Comedy, Drama1h35A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
The Great Escape (1963)
ApprovedAdventure, Drama, History2h52Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
PassedAdventure, Drama, Western2h06Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
PGAdventure, Drama, History3h05An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Ben-Hur (1959)
GAdventure, Drama, History3h32After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Jurassic Park (1993)
PG-13Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h07A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
PGAnimation, Adventure, Fantasy1h57Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Stand by Me (1986)
RAdventure, Drama1h29After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PGAdventure, Drama, War2h41British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.
The General (1926)
PassedAction, Adventure, Comedy1h07When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
Aladdin (1992)
GAnimation, Adventure, Comedy1h30A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Castle in the Sky (1986)
PGAnimation, Adventure, Drama2h05A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13Adventure, Drama, Western3h01Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Jaws (1975)
PGAdventure, Thriller2h04When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Planet of the Apes (1968)
GAdventure, Sci-Fi1h52An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
The Iron Giant (1999)
PGAnimation, Action, Adventure1h26A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
The Princess Bride (1987)
PGAdventure, Family, Fantasy1h38While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
GAdventure, Family, Fantasy1h42Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
King Kong (1933)
PassedAdventure, Horror, Sci-Fi1h40A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
Spartacus (1960)
PG-13Adventure, Biography, Drama3h17The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
The Blues Brothers (1980)
RAction, Adventure, Comedy2h13Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
The Searchers (1956)
PassedAdventure, Drama, Western1h59An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches.
The Ten Commandments (1956)
GAdventure, Drama3h40Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.
The Wild Bunch (1969)
RAction, Adventure, Western2h15An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.