Best drama adventure films - Charts
Best drama adventure films
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
3. Gladiator (2000)
USA / UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
4. Dances with Wolves (1990)
USA / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Kevin Costner
Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell
5. Dune: Part Two (2024)
USA / Canada, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya
6. Django Unchained (2012)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz
7. The Bear (1988)
France / USA, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear
8. Thirteen Lives (2022)
UK, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Ron Howard
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell
9. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
USA / Germany, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent
10. The Lion King (1994)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
UK / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness
12. The Great Escape (1963)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner
13. First Blood (1982)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
14. Into the Wild (2007)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Sean Penn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden
15. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
West Germany / USA, Fantasy / Adventure
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway
16. Interstellar (2014)
USA / UK, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway
17. Ben-Hur (1959)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins
18. Little Big Man (1970)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway
19. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe
20. The Last Samurai (2003)
USA / New Zealand, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise
21. Planet of the Apes (1968)
USA, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall
22. Jaws (1975)
USA, Thriller / Adventure
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw
24. Big Fish (2003)
USA, Fantasy / Adventure
Directed by: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney
25. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness
26. The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
New Zealand / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
27. Barry Lyndon (1975)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
28. Dersu Uzala (1975)
Soviet Union / Japan, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin
29. The Mission (1986)
UK / France, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
30. Touching the Void (2003)
UK, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking
31. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
32. Mulan (1998)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft
Cast: Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong
34. Out of Africa (1985)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
35. Blood Diamond (2006)
USA / Germany, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou
36. The Wages of Fear (1953)
France / Italy, Thriller / Adventure
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel
37. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Japan, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Minami Takayama, Akio Ōtsuka
38. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Will Geer
39. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
Japan, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Mirai Shida
40. White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
German Empire, Drama / Action
Directed by: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl
41. Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002)
Canada / USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Bob Gale
Cast: James Marsden, Gary Oldman
42. Born Free (1966)
UK / USA, Family / Drama
Directed by: Tom McGowan, James Hill
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers
43. The Big Blue (1988)
France / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Luc Besson
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr
44. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
UK / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson
45. E.T. l'extraterrestre (1982)
USA, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace
46. Where the Trail Ends (2012)
USA / Argentina, Documentary / Adventure
Directed by: Jeremy Grant
Cast: Darren Berrecloth, James Doerfling
47. The Martian (2015)
USA / UK, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain
48. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw
49. The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
France / Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Vernay
Cast: Jean Marais, Lia Amanda
50. La Montée de la planète des singes (2011)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Cast: James Franco, Andy Serkis
52. My Father's Glory (1990)
France, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Yves Robert
Cast: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel
54. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: 若山富三郎, Kayo Matsuo
55. Jánošík I., II. (1963)
Czechoslovakia, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Paľo Bielik
Cast: František Kuchta, Ctibor Filčík
56. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Hong Kong, Action / Historical
Directed by: Chia-Liang Liu
Cast: Chia-Hui Liu, Norman Chu
57. Up (2009)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer
58. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
59. The Boys of Paul Street (1969)
Hungary / USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Zoltán Fábri
Cast: Anthony Kemp, Mari Törőcsik
60. Hero (2002)
China / Hong Kong, Action / Drama
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Cast: Jet Li, Tony Chiu-wai Leung
61. The Right Stuff (1983)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn
62. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
West Germany, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy
63. Himalaya (1999)
France / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Eric Valli
Cast: Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap
64. Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama (1992)
India / Japan, Animation / Fantasy
Directed by: Yugo Sako, Ikkô Kobayashi
Cast: James Earl Jones, Shatrughan Sinha
65. Inside Out (2015)
USA, Animation / Fantasy
Directed by: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
Cast: Diane Lane, Amy Poehler
66. Mes vies de chien (2017)
USA / India, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid
68. La Guerre du feu (1981)
Canada / France, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman
69. Excalibur (1981)
UK / USA, Fantasy / Adventure
Directed by: John Boorman
Cast: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren
70. The Last Valley (1971)
UK / USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: James Clavell
Cast: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif
71. Oliver Twist (1948)
UK, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness
72. Black Beauty (1994)
USA / UK, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Caroline Thompson
Cast: Docs Keepin Time, Sean Bean
73. North Face (2008)
Germany / Switzerland, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Philipp Stölzl
Cast: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas
74. Stand by Me (1986)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Cast: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix
75. Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Japan, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
76. 127 Hours (2010)
USA / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn
77. The Plague Dogs (1982)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Martin Rosen
Cast: John Hurt, James Bolam
78. Samurai Assassin (1965)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
79. The Last Adventure (1967)
France / Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Enrico
Cast: Lino Ventura, Alain Delon
80. Lost - Epilogue: The New Man in Charge (2010)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Paul A. Edwards
Cast: Michael Emerson, Jorge Garcia
81. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Taiwan / China, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Ang Lee
Cast: Yun-fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh
82. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
UK / USA, Fantasy / Family
Directed by: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint
83. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
USA / Germany, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham
84. The Trap (1966)
Canada / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Sidney Hayers
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed
85. The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Japan, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Mamoru Hosoda
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Kōji Yakusho
86. Apocalypto (2006)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández
87. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman
88. The Ten Commandments (1956)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner
89. Le Revenant (2015)
USA / Hong Kong, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy
90. Togo (2019)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Ericson Core
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Julianne Nicholson
91. L'Oracle (2013)
Germany, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Philipp Stölzl
Cast: Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård
92. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
West Germany, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo
93. A Dog's Journey (2019)
USA, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Gail Mancuso
Cast: Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid
94. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
USA, Short / Animation
Directed by: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
95. Von Ryan's Express (1965)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
96. Hostiles (2017)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Cast: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike
97. Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Japan, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Cast: Aya Okamoto, Kōichi Yamadera
98. The Jungle Book (2016)
USA / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray
99. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
German Empire, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Theodor Loos, Bernhard Goetzke
100. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Hardy Martins, Dmitriy Astrakhan
Cast: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm