Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa | Alessandro Blasetti | | Italy | |
Brazza ou l'épopée du Congo | Léon Poirier | Robert Darène | France | |
Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot, Alan Ladd, Louise Platt | United States | Sea adventure |
Captain Fracasse | Duilio Coletti | | Italy | |
Dark Streets of Cairo | László Kardos | Ralph Byrd, George Zucco | United States | |
The Daughter of the Green Pirate | Enrico Guazzoni | | Italy | Pirate film |
The Devil's Pipeline | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | |
Drums of Fu Manchu | William Witney | | United States | Serial[1] |
Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | | United States | Romantic adventure[2] |
Fanfulla da Lodi | Carlo Duse, Giulio Antamoro | | Italy | |
The Fire Devil | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Judith Holzmeister, Hilde von Stolz | Nazi Germany | |
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | | United States | Serial, space adventure[3] |
Forty Thousand Horsemen | Charles Chauvel | Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant, Pat Twohill, Chips Rafferty | Australia | War adventure |
Green Hell | James Whale | | United States | Adventure drama[4] |
I Was an Adventuress | Gregory Ratoff | Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre | United States | |
Island of Doomed Men | Charles Barton | Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox | United States | |
The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter | United States | |
The Man from Niger | Jacques de Baroncelli | Victor Francen, Harry Baur, Jacques Dumesnil, Annie Ducaux | France | |
The Mark of Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone | United States | Western |
Moon Over Burma | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Albert Bassermann | United States | Romantic adventure |
The Mummy's Hand | Christy Cabanne | Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, George Zucco | United States | Horror adventure |
Northwest Passage | King Vidor | Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan | United States | Western |
One Million B.C. | Hal Roach | Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Fantasy adventure |
Outside the Three-Mile Limit | Lewis D. Collins | Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Ruman | United States | Sea adventure |
Il ponte dei sospiri | Mario Bonnard | | Italy | |
Road to Singapore | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn | United States | Adventure comedy |
Safari | Edward H. Griffith | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll | United States | |
Santa Fe Trail | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan | United States | [5] |
The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains | United States | Pirate film[6] |
The Son of Monte Cristo | Rowland V. Lee | Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders | United States | |
South of Pago Pago | Alfred E. Green | Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Victor McLaglen | United States | |
South to Karanga | Harold Schuster | Charles Bickford, James Craig | United States | |
Strange Cargo | Frank Borzage | Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas | United States | Adventure drama |
Swiss Family Robinson | Edward Ludwig | Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt | United States | |
Terry and the Pirates | James W. Horne | | United States | Serial |
The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram | United States
| Fantasy adventure[7] |
Torrid Zone | William Keighley | James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien | United States | |
Trenck, der Pandur | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Käthe Dorsch | Nazi Germany | |
Typhoon | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston | United States | |
Victory | John Cromwell | Fredric March, Betty Field, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | |
Zanzibar | Harold Schuster | Lola Lane, James Craig | United States | | |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Adventures of Fra Diavolo | Luigi Zampa | Enzo Fiermonte, Elsa De Giorgi | Italy | |
Arabian Nights | John Rawlins | Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson | United States
| Romantic adventure[11] |
Attack on Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen | Nazi Germany | |
En äventyrare | Gunnar Olsson | Sture Lagerwall | Sweden | |
The Black Swan | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders | United States | Pirate film[12] |
Cairo | W. S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill | United States | Musical |
Capitan Tempesta | Corrado D'Errico | | Italy Spain | |
Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Dooley Wilson, S. K. Sakall, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois, Marcel Dalio | United States | |
Don Cesare di Bazan | Riccardo Freda | Gino Cervi, Anneliese Uhlig, Paolo Stoppa | Italy | |
Drums of the Congo | Christy Cabanne | Ona Munson, Stuart Erwin, Peggy Moran | United States | Adventure drama |
The Gaucho War | Lucas Demare | Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, Sebastián Chiola, Amelia Bence | Argentina | |
Hitler – Dead or Alive | Nick Grinde | Ward Bond, Dorothy Tree, Warren Hymer | United States | War adventure[13] |
The Jester's Supper | Alessandro Blasetti | Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti | Italy | |
Jungle Book | Zoltan Korda | Sabu | United States | Family-oriented adventure[14] |
Jungle Siren | Sam Newfield | Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe | United States | |
Law of the Jungle | Jean Yarbrough | Arline Judge, John "Dusty" King, Mantan Moreland | United States | |
Il leone di Damasco | Corrado D'Errico | | Italy Spain | |
Pardon My Sarong | Erle C. Kenton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lionel Atwill | United States | Adventure comedy |
Perils of Nyoka | William Witney | | United States | Serial |
Reap the Wild Wind | Cecil B. DeMille | Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward | United States | Sea adventure[15] |
Ride Tonight! | Gustaf Molander | Lars Hanson, Oscar Ljung, Gerd Hagman | Sweden | |
Road to Morocco | David Butler | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[16] |
Simón Bolívar | Miguel Contreras Torres | | Mexico | |
| John Cromwell | | United States | |
The Spoilers | Ray Enright | Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott | United States | Western, romantic adventure[17] |
Tarzan's New York Adventure | Richard Thorpe | | United States | |
The Tuttles of Tahiti | Charles Vidor | | United States | |
A Yank on the Burma Road | George B. Seitz | | United States | War adventure | |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Action in the North Atlantic | Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey | United States | Sea adventure, war adventure |
Adventure in Iraq | D. Ross Lederman | John Loder, Ruth Ford, Warren Douglas | United States | Adventure drama |
Alaska Highway | Frank McDonald | Richard Arlen, Jean Parker | United States | |
Le Brigand gentilhomme | Émile Couzinet | Jean Weber, Robert Favart | France | |
Captain Fracasse | Abel Gance | Fernand Gravey | France Italy | |
The Desert Song | | | United States | Musical |
Il figlio del corsaro rosso | Marco Elter | | Italy | Pirate film |
Five Graves to Cairo | Billy Wilder | Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim, Akim Tamiroff, Peter van Eyck | United States | War adventure |
Flight for Freedom | Lothar Mendes | Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall | United States | |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sam Wood | Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou | United States | |
Germanin – Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat | Max W. Kimmich | Luis Trenker | | |
I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison | United States | Horror adventure |
Immortal Sergeant | John M. Stahl | Henry Fonda, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara | United States | War adventure |
Jack London | Alfred Santell | Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward | United States | |
Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Ilse Werner, Ferdinand Marian | Nazi Germany | Fantasy adventure |
Night Plane from Chungking | Ralph Murphy | Robert Preston, Ellen Drew | United States | War adventure |
The Phantom | B. Reeves Eason | | United States | Serial |
Sahara | Zoltan Korda | Humphrey Bogart, Dan Duryea, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram | United States | War adventure[18] |
Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Wilhelm Thiele | | United States | |
Tarzan Triumphs | Wilhelm Thiele | | United States | |
Tiger Fangs | Sam Newfield | | United States | |
Two Hearts Among the Beasts | Giorgio Simonelli | | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Marco Elter | | Italy | Pirate film |
White Savage | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Sidney Toler | United States | [19] | |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey | | |
| Jean Delannoy | Pierre Blanchar | France | |
Call of the Jungle | Phil Rosen | Ann Corio | United States | |
Cobra Woman | Robert Siodmak | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu | United States | [20] |
El corsario negro | Chano Urueta | Pedro Armendáriz | Mexico | Pirate film |
The Desert Hawk | B. Reeves Eason | | United States | Serial |
First on the Rope | Louis Daquin | André Le Gall, Irène Corday | France | |
Frenchman's Creek | Mitchell Leisen | Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone | United States | Romantic adventure, Pirate film[21] |
The Great Alaskan Mystery | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | | United States | Serial |
Haunted Harbor | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak | United States | Sea adventure, adventure drama[22] |
The Lieutenant Nun | Emilio Gómez Muriel | María Félix | Mexico | |
The Mask of Dimitrios | Jean Negulesco | Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson | United States | Thriller |
Nabonga | Sam Newfield | Buster Crabbe, Julie London | United States | |
Passage to Marseille | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre | United States | |
The Princess and the Pirate | David Butler | Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Victor McLaglen, Walter Slezak, Walter Brennan | United States | Adventure comedy, Pirate film[23] |
The Tiger Woman | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Linda Stirling, Allan Lane, Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis | United States | Serial[24] |
To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | | United States | Sea adventure | |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | George Sherman, Henry Levin | Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell | United States | |
| Maurice Gleize | Charles Vanel, Lucienne Laurence, Alfred Adam | France | Sea adventure |
Black Eagle | Riccardo Freda | Rossano Brazzi, Gino Cervi, Irasema Dilián | Italy | |
The Captain | Robert Vernay | Jean Pâqui, Pierre Renoir | France | |
Caravan | Arthur Crabtree | Stewart Granger, Jean Kent | | Romantic adventure |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Fernand Rivers | Claude Dauphin | France | |
The Fighting Guardsman | Henry Levin | Willard Parker, Anita Louise, John Loder | United States | |
Harald Handfaste | Hampe Faustman | George Fant, Georg Rydeberg, Elsie Albiin | Sweden | Adventure comedy |
Lost City of the Jungle | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | | United States | Serial |
Monsieur Beaucaire | George Marshall | Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield | United States | Adventure comedy |
Night Boat to Dublin | Lawrence Huntington | Robert Newton | United Kingdom | Thriller, sea adventure |
The Overlanders | Harry Watt | Chips Rafferty | Australia United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | Karl Anton | Viktor de Kowa, Else von Möllendorff, Karl Schönböck | East Germany | Adventure comedy |
Road to Utopia | Hal Walker | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Max Calandri | | Italy | |
A Scandal in Paris | Douglas Sirk | | United States | |
Son of the Guardsman | Derwin Abrahams | | United States | Serial |
Strange Voyage | Irving Allen | Eddie Albert | United States | |
Swamp Fire | William H. Pine | | United States | |
Tangier | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Preston Foster | United States | [25] |
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman | Kurt Neumann | | United States | |
Two Years Before the Mast | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald | United States | Sea adventure |
The Wife of Monte Cristo | Edgar G. Ulmer | | United States | | |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventure Island | Sam Newfield | Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming | United States | |
Bethsabée | Léonide Moguy | Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Jean Murat | France | |
Blonde Savage | Steve Sekely | | United States | |
Brick Bradford | Spencer Gordon Bennet | | United States | Serial, space adventure |
Bullet for Stefano | Duilio Coletti | Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese | Italy | [26] |
Bush Christmas | Ralph Smart | Chips Rafferty, John Fernside | Australia
| Family-oriented adventure |
Calcutta | John Farrow | | United States | |
Captain from Castile | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb | United States | |
The Captain's Daughter | Mario Camerini | Cesare Danova, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman, Irasema Dilián | Italy | |
Don Quixote | Rafael Gil | Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo Domenech | Spain | |
The Exile | Max Ophüls | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Henry Daniell | United States | |
Forever Amber | Otto Preminger | Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders | United States | Romantic adventure |
Jungle Flight | Sam Newfield | Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Bing Crosby | United States | |
The Macomber Affair | Zoltan Korda | Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston | United States | Adventure drama |
The Man Within | Bernard Knowles | Richard Attenborough, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
Mandrin | René Jayet | José Noguero | France | |
Meet Me at Dawn | Thornton Freeland | William Eythe, Hazel Court, Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway | United Kingdom | |
Queen of the Amazons | Edward Finney | Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison | United States | |
Road to Rio | Norman Z. McLeod | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard | United States | Adventure comedy |
The Royalists | Henri Calef | Jean Marais, Madeleine Robinson | France | |
The Sea Hound | W. B. Eason, Mack V. Wright | Buster Crabbe, Jimmy Lloyd, Pamela Blake | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
Sinbad the Sailor | Richard Wallace | | United States | Action adventure |
Singapore | John Brahm | | United States | |
Slave Girl | Charles Lamont | Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford | United States | Adventure comedy |
Song of Scheherazade | Walter Reisch | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy | United States | Musical |
Tarzan and the Huntress | Kurt Neumann | | United States | |
Unconquered | Cecil B. DeMille | | United States | Western |
The White Devil | Nunzio Malasomma | Rossano Brazzi | Italy | | |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventures of Sir Galahad | Spencer Gordon Bennet | | United States | Serial |
Africa Screams | Charles Barton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck | United States | Adventure comedy |
Arctic Fury | Norman Dawn, Fred R. Feitshans Jr. | Alfred Delcambre | United States | |
Bagdad | Charles Lamont | Maureen O'Hara, Paul Hubschmid, Vincent Price | United States | Desert adventure |
Barbary Pirate | Lew Landers | Donald Woods, Trudy Marshall | United States | |
The Big Cat | Phil Karlson | Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker | United States | |
The Blue Lagoon | Frank Launder | Jean Simmons, Donald Houston | | Romantic adventure |
Bomba, the Jungle Boy | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | [29] |
Bomba 2: Bomba on Panther Island | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | [30] |
The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price | United States | |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix | United States | Fantasy adventure |
Down to the Sea in Ships | Henry Hathaway | Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell | United States | Sea adventure |
The Duchess of Benameji | Luis Lucia | Amparo Rivelles, Jorge Mistral | Spain | |
| Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Jacques Sernas, Tamara Lees, Paul Muller | Italy | |
The Fighting O'Flynn | Arthur Pierson | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helena Carter, Richard Greene, Patricia Medina | United States | |
The Jack of Diamonds | Vernon Sewell | Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Joan Carroll | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
The Lost Tribe | William Berke | | United States | |
Lust for Gold | S. Sylvan Simon | Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino, Gig Young | United States | Western |
Malaya | Richard Thorpe | Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet | United States | |
Malice in the Palace | Jules White | Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard | United States | |
Mighty Joe Young | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh | United States | Jungle adventure |
The Mutineers | Jean Yarbrough | Jon Hall, Adele Jergens, George Reeves | United States | |
Outpost in Morocco | Robert Florey | George Raft, Marie Windsor, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
| Georges Lampin | Henri Vidal, Michel Auclair, Andrée Debar, Daniel Gélin | France | Desert adventure |
The Pirates of Capri | Edgar G. Ulmer | Louis Hayward, Massimo Serato | United States Italy | |
Prince of Foxes | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Orson Welles | United States | |
Reign of Terror | Anthony Mann | Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Basehart | United States | |
Rope of Sand | William Dieterle | Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre | United States | Desert adventure |
Rose of the Yukon | George Blair | Steve Brodie, Myrna Dell, William Wright | United States | |
Samson and Delilah | Cecil B. DeMille | | United States | |
The Secret of St. Ives | Phil Rosen | Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell | United States | |
Sicilian Uprising | Giorgio Pastina | | Italy | |
Siren of Atlantis | Gregg G. Tallas | | United States | |
Song of India | Albert S. Rogell | Sabu, Turhan Bey, Gail Russell | United States | [31] |
| Sam Newfield | | United States | |
Sword in the Desert | George Sherman | | United States | War adventure |
Tarzan's Magic Fountain | Lee Sholem | | United States | |
The Walking Hills | John Sturges | | United States | Western |
We Were Strangers | John Huston | | United States | |
William Tell | Giorgio Pastina, Michał Waszyński | | Italy | |
Zamba | William Berke | Jon Hall | United States | [32] | |