# List of adventure films of the 1940s

The following is a list of adventure films released in the 1940s.

## 1940

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| An Adventure of Salvator Rosa | Alessandro Blasetti | Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa | 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 | Giorgio Costantini, Elsa De Giorgi | Italy | |
| Dark Streets of Cairo | László Kardos | Ralph Byrd, George Zucco | United States | |
| The Daughter of the Green Pirate | Enrico Guazzoni | Doris Duranti, Fosco Giachetti | Italy | Pirate film |
| The Devil's Pipeline | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | |
| Drums of Fu Manchu | William Witney | Henry Brandon, William Royle, Olaf Hytten, Luana Walters | United States | Serial |
| Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, George Lynn | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Fanfulla da Lodi | Carlo Duse, Giulio Antamoro | Ennio Cerlesi, Germana Paolieri | Italy | |
| The Fire Devil | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Judith Holzmeister, Hilde von Stolz | Nazi Germany | |
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Roland Drew | United States | Serial, space adventure |
| Forty Thousand Horsemen | Charles Chauvel | Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant, Pat Twohill, Chips Rafferty | Australia | War adventure |
| Green Hell | James Whale | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, George Sanders | United States | Adventure drama |
| 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 | Otello Toso, Mariella Lotti, Paola Barbara | 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 | |
| The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains | United States | Pirate film |
| 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 | William Tracy, Granville Owen, Joyce Bryant, Sheila Darcy | United States | Serial |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram | United States United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| 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 | |

## 1941

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 49th Parallel | Powell and Pressburger | Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Raymond Massey | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| The Blonde from Singapore | Edward Dmytryk | Florence Rice, Leif Erickson | United States | |
| Bombay Clipper | John Rawlins | William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey | United States | |
| Burma Convoy | Noel M. Smith | Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey | United States | |
| Caravaggio | Goffredo Alessandrini | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy | |
| Carl Peters | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers | Nazi Germany | |
| Il cavaliere senza nome | Ferruccio Cerio | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy | |
| The Corsican Brothers | Gregory Ratoff | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
| Forced Landing | Gordon Wiles | Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther | United States | |
| The Hero of Venice | Carlo Campogalliani | Rossano Brazzi, Gustav Diessl, Paola Barbara, Valentina Cortese | Italy | |
| Hudson's Bay | Irving Pichel | Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price | United States | |
| I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island | Lew Landers | Sally Eilers, Donald Woods | United States | |
| The Iron Crown | Alessandro Blasetti | Massimo Girotti, Gino Cervi, Elisa Cegani | Italy | Fantasy adventure |
| Jungle Girl | John English, William Witney | Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr | United States | Serial |
| Jungle Man | Harry L. Fraser | Buster Crabbe, Charles B. Middleton, Sheila Darcy | United States | |
| Law of the Tropics | Ray Enright | Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn | United States | |
| Marco Visconti | Mario Bonnard | Carlo Ninchi, Mariella Lotti | Italy | |
| The Mask of Cesare Borgia | Duilio Coletti | Osvaldo Valenti, Carlo Tamberlani | Italy | |
| Mutiny in the Arctic | John Rawlins | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | Arctic adventure |
| Pirates of Malaya | Enrico Guazzoni | Luigi Pavese, Massimo Girotti | Italy | |
| Raiders of the Desert | John Rawlins | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Road to Zanzibar | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Sea Wolf | Michael Curtiz | Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield | United States | Sea adventure |
| South of Tahiti | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Brian Donlevy, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine | United States | Sea adventure |
| Sundown | Henry Hathaway | Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders | United States | |
| Swamp Water | Jean Renoir | Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews | United States | |
| Tarzan's Secret Treasure | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | |
| They Met in Bombay | Clarence Brown | Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre | United States | |

## 1942

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Adventurer | Gunnar Olsson | Sture Lagerwall | Sweden | |
| 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 United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Attack on Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen | Nazi Germany | |
| The Black Swan | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders | United States | Pirate film |
| Cairo | W. S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill | United States | Musical |
| Captain Tempest | Corrado D'Errico | Doris Duranti, Carla Candiani, Carlo Ninchi, Adriano Rimoldi | 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 |
| The Jester's Supper | Alessandro Blasetti | Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti | Italy | |
| Jungle Book | Zoltan Korda | Sabu | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| 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 | |
| The Lion of Damascus | Corrado D'Errico | Doris Duranti, Carla Candiani, Carlo Ninchi, Adriano Rimoldi | Italy Spain | |
| Pardon My Sarong | Erle C. Kenton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lionel Atwill | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Perils of Nyoka | William Witney | Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Lorna Gray, Charles Middleton | 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 |
| 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 |
| Simón Bolívar | Miguel Contreras Torres | Julián Soler | Mexico | |
| Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | John Cromwell | Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders | United States | |
| The Spoilers | Ray Enright | Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott | United States | Western, romantic adventure |
| Tarzan's New York Adventure | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | |
| The Tuttles of Tahiti | Charles Vidor | Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Curt Bois | United States | |
| A Yank on the Burma Road | George B. Seitz | Barry Nelson, Laraine Day, Keye Luke | United States | War adventure |

## 1943

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 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 | Robert Florey | Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot | United States | Musical |
| 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 | Nazi Germany | |
| 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 | Tom Tyler, Jeanne Bates, Kenneth MacDonald, Joe Devlin, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial |
| Sahara | Zoltan Korda | Humphrey Bogart, Dan Duryea, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram | United States | War adventure |
| The Son of the Red Corsair | Marco Elter | Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy | Pirate film |
| Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Wilhelm Thiele | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Tarzan Triumphs | Wilhelm Thiele | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Tiger Fangs | Sam Newfield | Frank Buck, June Duprez | United States | |
| Two Hearts Among the Beasts | Giorgio Simonelli | Totò | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Gli ultimi filibustieri [it] | Marco Elter | Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy | Pirate film |
| White Savage | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Sidney Toler | United States | |

## 1944

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey | United States | |
| Le Bossu [fr] | 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 | |
| El corsario negro | Chano Urueta | Pedro Armendáriz | Mexico | Pirate film |
| The Desert Hawk | B. Reeves Eason | Gilbert Roland, Mona Maris | 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 |
| The Great Alaskan Mystery | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Ralph Morgan, Marjorie Weaver, Fuzzy Knight, Edgar Kennedy, Milburn Stone | United States | Serial |
| Haunted Harbor | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Kane Richmond, Kay Aldridge | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
| Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak | United States | Sea adventure, adventure drama |
| 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 |
| The Tiger Woman | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Linda Stirling, Allan Lane, Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis | United States | Serial |
| To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan | United States | Sea adventure |

## 1945

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Black Cavalier | Gilles Grangier | Georges Guétary | France | |
| Captain Eddie | Lloyd Bacon | Fred MacMurray | United States | |
| Captain Kidd | Rowland V. Lee | Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland | United States | Pirate film |
| A Game of Death | Robert Wise | John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier | United States | |
| Jungle Queen | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Edward Norris, Eddie Quillan, Douglass Dumbrille, Lois Collier, Ruth Roman, Tala Birell, Clarence Muse | United States | Serial |
| Jungle Raiders | Lesley Selander | Kane Richmond, Eddie Quillan, Veda Ann Borg | United States | Serial |
| The Naughty Nineties | Jean Yarbrough | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | Errol Flynn | United States | War adventure |
| Savage Pampas | Lucas Demare, Hugo Fregonese | Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil | Argentina | |
| The Spanish Main | Frank Borzage | Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak | United States | Pirate film |
| Tarzan and the Amazons | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| A Thousand and One Nights | Alfred E. Green | Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| The Wicked Lady | Leslie Arliss | Margaret Lockwood, James Mason | United Kingdom | |

## 1946

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | George Sherman, Henry Levin | Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell | United States | |
| Le Bateau à soupe [fr] | 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 | United Kingdom | 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 | Russell Hayden, Jane Adams, Lionel Atwill, Keye Luke | 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 |
| Sangue a Ca' Foscari [it] | Max Calandri | Massimo Serato | Italy | |
| A Scandal in Paris | Douglas Sirk | George Sanders, Akim Tamiroff, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis | United States | |
| Son of the Guardsman | Derwin Abrahams | Bob Shaw, Daun Kennedy, Charles King, John Merton | United States | Serial |
| Strange Voyage | Irving Allen | Eddie Albert | United States | |
| Swamp Fire | William H. Pine | Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe | United States | |
| Tangier | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Preston Foster | United States | |
| Tarzan and the Leopard Woman | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller, Acquanetta | 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 | Lenore Aubert, John Loder, Fritz Kortner, Martin Kosleck | United States | |

## 1947

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 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 | Gale Sherwood | United States | |
| Brick Bradford | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, Linda Johnson, Pierre Watkin | United States | Serial, space adventure |
| Bullet for Stefano | Duilio Coletti | Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese | Italy | |
| Bush Christmas | Ralph Smart | Chips Rafferty, John Fernside | Australia United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure |
| Calcutta | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez | 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 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Walter Slezak | United States | Action adventure |
| Singapore | John Brahm | Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner | 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 | Johnny Weissmuller, Patricia Morison | United States | |
| Unconquered | Cecil B. DeMille | Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Boris Karloff | United States | Western |
| The White Devil | Nunzio Malasomma | Rossano Brazzi | Italy | |

## 1948

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 16 Fathoms Deep | Irving Allen | Lon Chaney, Arthur Lake, Lloyd Bridges | United States | Sea adventure |
| Adventures of Casanova | Roberto Gavaldón | Arturo de Córdova | United States Mexico | |
| Adventures of Don Juan | Vincent Sherman | Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas | United States | Swashbuckler |
| Angel on the Amazon | John H. Auer | George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Black Arrow | Gordon Douglas | Louis Hayward | United States | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | Anthony Kimmins | David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins | United Kingdom | |
| Broken Journey | Ken Annakin | Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Margot Grahame, Francis L. Sullivan, Guy Rolfe | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
| I cavalieri dalle maschere nere | Pino Mercanti | Otello Toso, Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato | Italy | |
| Congo Bill | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Don McGuire, Cleo Moore, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley, Leonard Penn | United States | Serial |
| Daughter of the Jungle | George Blair | Lois Hall | United States | |
| Du Guesclin | Bernard de Latour | Fernand Gravey | France | |
| The Gallant Blade | Henry Levin | Larry Parks | United States | |
| Idol of Paris | Leslie Arliss | Beryl Baxter, Michael Rennie, Christine Norden | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Juan Moreira | Luis Moglia Barth | Floren Delbene, Dora Ferreyro, Nedda Francy, Fernando Ochoa | Argentina | |
| Jungle Goddess | Lewis D. Collins | Wanda McKay, George Reeves, Ralph Byrd | United States | |
| Jungle Jim | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Kidnapped | William Beaudine | Roddy McDowall, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| Louisiana Story | Robert J. Flaherty | | United States | Docufiction |
| Man-Eater of Kumaon | Byron Haskin | Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page, Morris Carnovsky | United States | |
| Miraculous Journey | Sam Newfield | Rory Calhoun, Audrey Long, Virginia Grey | United States | |
| The Mysterious Rider | Riccardo Freda | Vittorio Gassman, María Mercader, Yvonne Sanson, Gianna Maria Canale | Italy | |
| The Prince of Thieves | Howard Bretherton | Jon Hall, Patricia Morison | United States | |
| Rogues' Regiment | Robert Florey | Dick Powell, Marta Toren, Vincent Price | United States | War adventure |
| Saigon | Leslie Fenton | Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake | United States | |
| Scott of the Antarctic | Charles Frend | John Mills | United States | Adventure drama |
| Le Secret de Monte-Cristo [fr] | Albert Valentin | Pierre Brasseur | France | |
| Snowbound | David MacDonald | Dennis Price, Robert Newton, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio, Mila Parély, Stanley Holloway | United Kingdom | |
| The Swordsman | Joseph H. Lewis | Larry Parks | United States | |
| Tarzan and the Mermaids | Robert Florey | Johnny Weissmuller, Linda Christian, George Zucco | United States | |
| The Three Musketeers | George Sidney | Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Vincent Price | United States | |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt | United States | Adventure drama, western |
| Unknown Island | Jack Bernhard | Virginia Grey, Philip Reed, Richard Denning | United States | |
| Wake of the Red Witch | Edward Ludwig | John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter | United States | Western |

## 1949

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Adventures of Sir Galahad | Spencer Gordon Bennet | George Reeves | 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 | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Bomba, the Jungle Boy | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Bomba 2: Bomba on Panther Island | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| 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 | |
| Il falco rosso [it] | 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 | Johnny Weissmuller | 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 | |
| Le Paradis des pilotes perdus [fr] | 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 | Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon | United States | |
| The Secret of St. Ives | Phil Rosen | Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell | United States | |
| Sicilian Uprising | Giorgio Pastina | Marina Berti, Clara Calamai, Roldano Lupi, Steve Barclay, Paul Muller | Italy | |
| Siren of Atlantis | Gregg G. Tallas | Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O'Keefe | United States | |
| Song of India | Albert S. Rogell | Sabu, Turhan Bey, Gail Russell | United States | |
| State Department: File 649 | Sam Newfield | William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce | United States | |
| Sword in the Desert | George Sherman | Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally | United States | War adventure |
| Tarzan's Magic Fountain | Lee Sholem | Lex Barker | United States | |
| The Walking Hills | John Sturges | Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland | United States | Western |
| We Were Strangers | John Huston | Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro | United States | |
| William Tell | Giorgio Pastina, Michał Waszyński | Gino Cervi, Paul Muller | Italy | |
| Zamba | William Berke | Jon Hall | United States | |