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Adventure movies

Epic journeys into the unknown, featuring daring quests, treasure hunts, and explorations of new worlds.

Subgenres include: Adventure Epic, Globetrotting Adventure, Exploration Adventure.

Days of Thunder

1511. Days of Thunder

Adventure Action Drama
6.1

19901h 47min

United States

Director: Tony Scott

Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. But with the help of his doctor, Cole just might overcome his injuries-- and his fear.


Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality.

Themes

Deception and trust, Memory manipulation, Corporate monopoly, False identity, Rebellion and resistance, Air supply control

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The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

Themes

Duty vs desire during locomotive, Loyalty under outlaw threat, Nostalgia vs progress time travel, Time travel ethics, Frontier justice under train threat, Romance amid indigenous peoples

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Bird on a Wire

1514. Bird on a Wire

Action Adventure Comedy Romance
6.0

19901h 50min

United States

Director: John Badham

An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.


White Hunter, Black Heart

1515. White Hunter, Black Heart

Adventure Drama
6.5

19901h 52min

United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.


Dick Tracy

1516. Dick Tracy

Adventure Comedy Crime
6.2

19901h 45min

United States

Director: Warren Beatty

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.


Dances with Wolves

1517. Dances with Wolves

Adventure Drama Western
8.0

19903h 1min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Kevin Costner

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1518. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy Family
6.8

19901h 33min

Hong Kong SAR China, United States

Director: Steve Barron

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.


Lord of the Flies

1519. Lord of the Flies

Adventure Drama Thriller
6.4

19901h 31min

United States

Director: Harry Hook

When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.


The Voice of the Moon

1520. The Voice of the Moon

Adventure Comedy Fantasy
6.3

19902h

France, Italy

Director: Federico Fellini

Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.