15 best adventure movies of all time

Stephen King’s iconic Rob Reiner adaptation The body serves as a coming-of-age story, anything but ordinary, set in 1959. River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton and Jerry O’Connell play a group of young boys determined to discover the body missing a local boy for a cash reward. The film is a mix of hilarious teenage humor, scenes saturated with nostalgia, and meditations on innocence, maturity and friendship.

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Few sea voyages begin with a shipwreck, but so do Pi’s life, based on the novel of the same name by Yann Martel. Directed by Ang Lee and starring the late Irrfan Khan and Suraj Sharma, the film weaves a spectacular tale of spiritual discovery as a castaway young man sails the Pacific Ocean while stranded on a lifeboat. (Think Castaway, but trade volleyball for a Bengal tiger.)

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The first installment of Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s iconic epic novels, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring presents us with the fictitious appendix which is all of Middle-earth and its inhabitants. Viewers join in the serious quest for young hobbit Frodo and his caravan of companions, with performances by Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom.

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Nothing says adventure like two twelve-year-olds who fall in love and run away together to an island off the coast of New England. This whimsical and peculiar comedy is as Wes Anderson as Wes Anderson can get: maximum aesthetic delight in his set and costume design, obsessively precise cinematography and writing, and, of course, massive celebrity cast.

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From beloved Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, The hidden fortress follows two peasants who find themselves on an unexpected quest to escort a man and woman through enemy lines in the midst of a war. The shared journey, however, finds comedic and dramatic slowdowns when it is revealed that the two are actually escorting a war general and a princess.

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Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen play the roles of a local outlaw and a young man with Down’s Syndrome, respectively, who, upon finding themselves on the run, form an unlikely bond. The latter left his care facility determined to pursue the career of his dreams in professional wrestling, and one of his nurses eventually caught up with the two fleeing friends. However, she just might end up being a perfect third mate.

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In the first part of the famous Indiana Jones franchise, Harrison Ford plays the titular archaeologist in his quest to stop a group of Nazis from stealing the precious religious relic, the Ark of the Covenant. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this epic is a classic Hollywood archetype of the hero’s journey, with his Jones wearing an iconic whip and, of course, an Achilles heel for snakes.

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Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s adaptation of Clarke’s “The Sentinel” 2001: A Space Odyssey is a sort of monolith in itself in the history of cinema, which still serves us as a subject of analysis today. The enigmatic sci-fi thriller, amidst its gripping ingenuity in filmmaking, serves as a disturbing man-versus-machine meditation that will make you feel like you are staring straight into the bright red monitor of your own existence. .

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Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a FedEx engineer who finds himself stranded on a desert island while on a mission. In a true man versus savage case, Noland’s chalk days with his volleyball companion become more than a test of willpower. They become a test of humanity and of the world as he knows it.

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Another larger-than-life blockbuster from Steven Spielberg, jurassic park follows what one would expect if a billionaire found a way to recreate dinosaurs for a theme park. Surprisingly, even movie billionaires don’t think about the ethics of their latest ventures. What some characters in the film lack in technological know-how, the cinema itself makes up for with special effects and animatronics that made the standards of its time seem prehistoric.

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The prototypical adventure film, The treasure of the Sierra Madre is a western-tinged story of two outlaws who meet a veteran prospector, then travel together to the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico to find gold. Although they find treasures, they quickly become besieged by bandits and internal strife. Directed by the inimitable John Huston, The treasure of the Sierra Madre is the film that launched the genre.

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In the film that catapulted Ang Lee to the director’s superstar rank, Lee sets the scene for 19th-century China, where a warrior hands his legendary sword to his beloved, only for the sword to fall into the wrong hands. Come for adventure through a bygone era in Chinese history, but stick with the jaw-dropping martial arts sequences, which remain unprecedented even two decades later.

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In this adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s acclaimed climate fiction novel, five female scientists travel to Zone X, a sinister and unexplained ecological phenomenon that is consuming the Florida coastline. Starring a star-studded cast including Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Oscar Isaac, the journey into the unknown pushes these scientists to the limits of their bodies and reason.

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Nothing says “adventure” like an intergalactic adventure through junk-covered planets, does it? The third Marvel movie Thor The sequence is the loosest in the series, centered around a mad adventure through space, which leaves a helpless Thor stranded on a wacky planet ruled by sadist Jeff Goldblum. Directed by Taika Waititi, Ragnarok remains a one-of-a-kind piece in Marvel filmology.

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Not all adventures have to be serious. Melissa McCarthy is feasting on her juiciest role yet in this underrated gem of Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, with a tumultuous cast that also stars Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Allison Janney, Jason Statham and 50 Cent. McCarthy plays a shy CIA office jockey catapulted onto the field by the sudden death of her partner, sending him on a savage journey of revenge and discovering herself from the slums of Paris to the casinos of Rome.

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