Movies in the Adventure genre
Legends of the Fall is the sort of epic melodrama that only Hollywood can do this well. It's a spectacle more than a show, with soaring moments of triumph and tragedy. Words like "restraint" and "subtle" are meaningless in this context. The late...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-01-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/DRAMA
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, ...
Perhaps no duo has reached farther and deeper into current pop culture than Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Their recent movies have plundered the DC Universe, an alternate version of the MCU, and even a little bit of the Galaxy Far, Far Away....
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Adventure
Director: Mike Mitchell
Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, ...
There's a little Roald Dahl in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and that leads one to wonder what a twisted director like Danny DeVito (Dahl's Matilda) or Tim Burton (Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) could have made out of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-12-17
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, ...
Life of Pi is a curious juxtaposition of the mundane and the majestic; a film that strives for something grander than what it perhaps achieves. At times, the simple story - one of spirituality and survival - exudes a quiet, hypnotic power, but ther...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Animal violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, ...
There is little doubt that the most discussed aspect of writer/director/editor John Sayles' Limbo will be the ending. Unconventional and unexpected, the conclusion will inspire outrage in some movie-goers (a patron at the showing I attended hurled...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-06-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, ...
The Lion King becomes the first mainstream animated film to be remade as an animated film. Proponents of calling the 2019 version “live action” will argue that the methods used to make this new iteration are completely different from those...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-07-19
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Adventure
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Beyoncé, ...
With the arrival of Rob Marshall’s live-action The Little Mermaid, Disney has now successfully converted all four of their major late ‘80s/early ‘90s animated musicals into updated iterations. Of the quartet (which also includes Beauty and t...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-05-26
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, ...
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi-yo Silver" - the Lone Ranger! With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early West...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-07-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: WESTERN/ADVENTURE
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, William Fichtner, ...
The Lost City of Z is an adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction book of the same name. Expanded from the author’s 2005 New Yorker article, the 2009 hardcover became a New York Times bestseller and garnered over a half-dozen major awards ...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-04-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama/Adventure
Director: James Gray
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, ...
The Lost City is probably best viewed as a romantic comedy spiced by adventure elements rather than the other way around. Regardless, it’s passably sweet entertainment but, just as it’s unlikely to stick in the craw, it won’t hold a place in...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-03-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Adventure/Romantic Comedy
Director: Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, ...