Movies in the Adventure genre
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Perhaps those words don’t mean as much as they did a couple of decades ago but they still have the capacity to raise goose bumps. And, although Rogue One, the first so-called &ldqu...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-12-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Felicity Jones, Peter Cushing, Jimmy Smits, ...
Although some aspects of RRR may seem foreign to mainstream North American movie-goers, the meat of the tale – an epic adventure featuring two mighty figures – is the kind of thing that American motion pictures used to do well. RRR tosses asid...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-03-25
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Cast: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, ...
Sahara takes the action/adventure story to new heights of preposterousness. In a way, that's not a bad thing, since it allows a certain level of guilty enjoyment. You're never expected to take anything in the movie seriously, because the characte...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Breck Eisner
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penelope Cruz, ...
San Andreas is exactly what one might expect it to be - no more and no less. It's as if director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and screenwriter Carlton Cuse assembled this movie after attending a Disaster 101 course. Although tec...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disaster Images, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, ...
There's something about an effective "man versus nature" film that gets the blood pumping. Maybe it's because the situation is often more dire than in a traditional thriller, or perhaps it’s the sheer implacability of the adversary, but the diffi...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-02-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Alister Grierson
Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, ...
Bigfoot legends have been around for more than a century but they had their Moment in the 1970s and 1980s (alongside the Loch Ness Monster) when a Sasquatch craze swept the nation. It eventually died down as Bigfoot hunting parties came home empty...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-04-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Prosthetic Nudity)
Genre: Adventure
Director: David Zeller, Nathan Zeller
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, ...
Watching The Scorpion King, the question that came to mind was whether Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could become a Schwarzenegger for the '00s. Having asked that, however, it's worth considering whether Schwarzenegger in his prime could have had th...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-04-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Chuck Russell
Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, ...
It's the 14th century somewhere in the middle of Europe. In the name of verisimilitude, the filmmakers of Season of the Witch have covered everyone with dirt and filmed only at night and on cloudy days. At times, it looks like Monty Python and the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-01-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, ...
One could make a compelling argument that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty does what a good remake should do: it takes the essential premise of the original and, while retaining some of the names and touchstones of its predecessor, moves in a new di...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, ...
The most popular cinematic export from Japan is inarguably the samurai movie. Whole books have been devoted to the genre, and more than one mail-order video business has made a tidy profit shipping samurai tapes and DVDs around the world. The mos...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Keiko Tsushima, ...