# List of adventure films of the 1950s

A list of adventure films released in the 1950s.

## 1950

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Adventurers of the Air | René Jayet | Ginette Leclerc, Yves Furet, Jean Murat, Elina Labourdette | France | |
| The Avengers | John H. Auer | John Carroll, Adele Mara | United States | |
| The Bandit Queen | William Berke | Barbara Britton | United States | Western |
| Bitter Springs | Ralph Smart | Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson | Australia United Kingdom | |
| Black Jack | Julien Duvivier | George Sanders, Patricia Roc, Herbert Marshall, Agnes Moorehead, Marcel Dalio | France United States Spain | Sea adventure |
| The Black Rose | Henry Hathaway | Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins | United States | |
| Bomba 3: The Lost Volcano | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Bomba 4: The Hidden City | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| The Breaking Point | Michael Curtiz | John Garfield, Patricia Neal | United States | Sea adventure |
| Buccaneer's Girl | Fred de Cordova | Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas | United States | Pirate film |
| Captain China | Lewis R. Foster | John Payne, Gail Russell | United States | Sea adventure |
| Cargo to Capetown | Earl McEvoy | Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Ellen Drew | United States | Sea adventure |
| Cartouche, King of Paris | Guillaume Radot | Roger Pigaut | France | |
| The Count of Saint Elmo | Guido Brignone | Massimo Serato, Anna Maria Ferrero, Nelly Corradi | Italy | [20][unreliable source?] [21][unreliable source?] |
| The Desert Hawk | Fred de Cordova | Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene | United States | |
| Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson | United States | Space adventure |
| Don Juan | José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | António Vilar, Annabella, María Rosa Salgado | Spain | |
| The Eagle and the Hawk | Lewis R. Foster | John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis O'Keefe | United States | Western |
| The Elusive Pimpernel | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins | United Kingdom | |
| The Flame and the Arrow | Jacques Tourneur | Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas | United States | |
| Forbidden Jungle | Robert Emmett Tansey | Don C. Harvey, Forrest Taylor, Alyce Lewis | United States | |
| Fortunes of Captain Blood | Gordon Douglas | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready | United States | Pirate film |
| Golden Salamander | Ronald Neame | Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Walter Rilla | United Kingdom | |
| The Iroquois Trail | Phil Karlson | George Montgomery, Brenda Marshall | United States | Western |
| Killer Shark | Budd Boetticher | Roddy McDowall | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Man from Jamaica | Maurice de Canonge | Pierre Brasseur, Véra Norman | France | [33][unreliable source?] [34][unreliable source?] |
| Jungle Jim 3: Mark of the Gorilla | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 4: Captive Girl | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 5: Pygmy Island | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller, Ann Savage | United States | |
| Kim | Victor Saville | Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas | United States | |
| King Solomon's Mines | Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton | Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl | | Norway Sweden | Documentary, sea adventure |
| Last of the Buccaneers | Lew Landers | Paul Henreid | United States | Pirate film |
| The Lion of Amalfi | Pietro Francisci | Vittorio Gassman, Milly Vitale | Italy | |
| The Mark of the Fox | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Germán Valdés, Silvia Pinal | Mexico | Adventure comedy |
| The Mystery of the Snakeskin Belt [pt] | Frank Cadman | Colin Barlow, Ursula Strachey | United Kingdom | Serial, family-oriented adventure |
| Mystery Submarine | H. Bruce Humberstone | Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond | United States | |
| On the Isle of Samoa | William Berke | Jon Hall | United States | |
| Operation Haylift | William Berke | Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown | United States | |
| Pirates of the High Seas | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Buster Crabbe | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
| Prehistoric Women | Gregg G. Tallas | Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon | United States | |
| The Reluctant Widow | Bernard Knowles | Jean Kent, Guy Rolfe | United Kingdom | |
| Rocketship X-M | Kurt Neumann | Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian | United States | Space adventure |
| Rogues of Sherwood Forest | Gordon Douglas | John Derek, Diana Lynn | United States | |
| Shadow of the Eagle | Sidney Salkow | Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese | United Kingdom Italy | |
| Sinbad the Seasick | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Germán Valdés | Mexico | Adventure comedy |
| South Sea Sinner | H. Bruce Humberstone | Shelley Winters, Macdonald Carey | United States | |
| State Secret | Sidney Gilliat | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Walter Rilla, Karel Stepanek, Herbert Lom | United Kingdom | |
| Tarzan and the Slave Girl | Lee Sholem | Lex Barker, Denise Darcel | United States | |
| Timber Fury | Bernard B. Ray | David Bruce | United States | |
| The Thief of Venice | John Brahm | Maria Montez, Paul Hubschmid, Massimo Serato | Italy United States | |
| Treasure Island | Byron Haskin | Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure, pirate film |
| Tripoli | Will Price | Maureen O'Hara, John Payne | United States | |
| Two Lost Worlds | Norman Dawn | James Arness, Kasey Rogers, Bill Kennedy | United States | Sea adventure, fantasy |
| Tyrant of the Sea | Lew Landers | Rhys Williams, Ron Randell | United States | Sea adventure |
| The White Hell of Pitz Palu | Rolf Hansen | Hans Albers, Liselotte Pulver, Adrian Hoven | West Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| The White Tower | Ted Tetzlaff | Glenn Ford, Claude Rains, Lloyd Bridges, Alida Valli, Oskar Homolka | United States | Mountaineering adventure |
| Women and Brigands | Mario Soldati | Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Paolo Stoppa | Italy France | |
| Young Daniel Boone | Reginald Le Borg | David Bruce, Kristine Miller | United States | Western |

## 1951

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Across the Wide Missouri | William A. Wellman | Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalbán, Adolphe Menjou, María Elena Marqués | United States | Western |
| The Adventurers | David MacDonald | Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price, Grégoire Aslan | United Kingdom | |
| Adventures of Captain Fabian | William Marshall | Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead | United States France | |
| The African Queen | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley | United States United Kingdom | |
| Anne of the Indies | Jacques Tourneur | Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall | United States | |
| Atoll K | Léo Joannon, John Berry | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair | France Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Barefoot Mailman | Earl McEvoy | Robert Cummings, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Big Gusher | Lew Landers | Wayne Morris, Preston Foster, Dorothy Patrick | United States | |
| Bird of Paradise | Delmer Daves | Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Jeff Chandler | United States | |
| The Black Captain | Giorgio Ansoldi, Alberto Pozzetti | Steve Barclay, Marina Berti, Paul Muller | Italy | |
| Bomba 5: The Lion Hunters | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Bomba 6: Elephant Stampede | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Captain Ardant | André Zwoboda | Yves Vincent, Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Danet | France | |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty | United Kingdom United States | Sea adventure |
| The Captain of Venice | Gianni Puccini | Leonardo Cortese, Mariella Lotti, Andrea Checchi | Italy | [86][unreliable source?] [87][unreliable source?] |
| China Corsair | Ray Nazarro | Jon Hall, Lisa Ferraday, Ron Randell, Ernest Borgnine | United States | Sea adventure |
| Crosswinds | Lewis R. Foster | John Payne, Rhonda Fleming | United States | Sea adventure |
| Dakota 308 | Jacques Daniel-Norman | Jean Pâqui, Suzy Carrier, Louis Seigner, Ketty Kerviel | France | |
| Darling Caroline | Richard Pottier | Martine Carol, Jacques Dacqmine, Marie Déa, Raymond Souplex, Jacques Clancy, Pierre Cressoy, Alfred Adam | France | |
| Dawn of America | Juan de Orduña | António Vilar | Spain | Sea adventure |
| Dick Turpin's Ride | Ralph Murphy | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina | United States | |
| Double Crossbones | Charles Barton | Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Duel in Dakar | Georges Combret, Claude Orval | Maurice Régamey, Lysiane Rey, Pierre Cressoy | France | |
| Flame of Araby | Charles Lamont | Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler | United States | |
| Flight to Mars | Lesley Selander | Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz | United States | Space adventure |
| The Golden Horde | George Sherman | Ann Blyth, David Farrar | United States | |
| The Highwayman | Lesley Selander | Philip Friend, Charles Coburn | United States | |
| Hurricane Island | Lew Landers | Jon Hall, Marie Windsor | United States | |
| Jungle Headhunters | Lewis Cotlow | | United States | Documentary |
| Jungle Jim 6: Fury of the Congo | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 7: Jungle Manhunt | Lew Landers | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| The King's Mail | Ricardo Gascón | Cesare Danova | Spain | |
| Lorna Doone | Phil Karlson | Barbara Hale, Richard Greene | United States | |
| Lost Continent | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Acquanetta | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| The Magic Carpet | Lew Landers | Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| The Mark of the Renegade | Hugo Fregonese | Ricardo Montalbán, Cyd Charisse, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish | United States | |
| Mask of the Avenger | Phil Karlson | John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance | United States | |
| Mysterious Island | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Richard Crane | United States | Serial |
| Outcast of the Islands | Carol Reed | Trevor Howard, Kerima, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller | United Kingdom | |
| Peking Express | William Dieterle | Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn | United States | |
| The Prince Who Was a Thief | Rudolph Maté | Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie | United States | |
| Quebec | George Templeton | John Drew Barrymore, Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles | United States | |
| Revenge of Black Eagle | Riccardo Freda | Rossano Brazzi, Gianna Maria Canale | Italy | [117][unreliable source?] [118][unreliable source?] [119][unreliable source?] |
| Revenge of the Pirates | Primo Zeglio | Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Milly Vitale, Paul Muller | Italy | |
| Sadan miekan mies | Ilmari Unho | Kalervo Nissilä | Finland | [121][unreliable source?] [122][unreliable source?] [123][unreliable source?] |
| Savage Drums | William Berke | Sabu | United States | |
| The Sea Hornet | Joseph Kane | Rod Cameron | United States | Sea adventure |
| Sirocco | Curtis Bernhardt | Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Zero Mostel, Märta Torén | United States | |
| Smuggler's Gold | William Berke | Cameron Mitchell, Amanda Blake | United States | Sea adventure |
| Smuggler's Island | Edward Ludwig | Jeff Chandler | United States | Sea adventure |
| Soldiers Three | Tay Garnett | Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton | United States | |
| Un sourire dans la tempête [fr] | René Chanas | Roger Pigaut, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Richard Ney, Michèle Martin | France West Germany | Arctic adventure |
| Strange World | Franz Eichhorn | Angelika Hauff, Helmuth Schneider | Brazil West Germany | |
| Superman and the Mole Men | Lee Sholem | George Reeves, Phyllis Coates | United States | |
| The Sword of Monte Cristo | Maurice Geraghty | Rita Corday, George Montgomery | United States | |
| Tales of Robin Hood | James Tinling | Robert Clarke, Mary Hatcher | United States | |
| Tarzan's Peril | Byron Haskin | Lex Barker, Dorothy Dandridge | United States | |
| Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck | Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland | United States | |
| Where No Vultures Fly | Harry Watt | Anthony Steel | United Kingdom | |
| Yellow Fin | Frank McDonald | Wayne Morris | United States | Sea adventure |

## 1952

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton | United States | Adventure comedy, pirate film |
| Against All Flags | George Sherman | Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn | United States | Pirate film |
| Aladdin and His Lamp | Lew Landers | Patricia Medina, Johnny Sands | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Arctic Flight | Lew Landers | Wayne Morris, Alan Hale Jr., Lola Albright | United States | Arctic adventure |
| At Sword's Edge | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Frank Latimore, Milly Vitale | Italy | [148][unreliable source?] [149][unreliable source?] |
| At Sword's Point | Lewis Allen | Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo | Pietro Germi | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy | |
| The Big Sky | Howard Hawks | Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt | United States | Western |
| The Black Mask | Filippo Walter Ratti | Cesare Danova | Italy | [153][unreliable source?] [154][unreliable source?] |
| Blackbeard the Pirate | Raoul Walsh | Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix | United States | Pirate film |
| The Blazing Forest | Edward Ludwig | John Payne, Agnes Moorehead | United States | |
| Bomba 7: African Treasure | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Bomba 8: Bomba and the Jungle Girl | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| The Brigand | Phil Karlson | Anthony Dexter, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance | United States | |
| Buridan, héros de la tour de Nesle [fr] | Émile Couzinet | Jacques Torrens, Clarisse Deudon, Georges Rollin | France | |
| Bwana Devil | Arch Oboler | Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce | United States | |
| California Conquest | Lew Landers | Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright | United States | Western |
| A Caprice of Darling Caroline | Jean Devaivre | Martine Carol, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jacques Dacqmine | France | Romantic adventure |
| Captain Pirate | Ralph Murphy | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina | United States | Pirate film |
| Caribbean Gold | Edward Ludwig | John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | |
| The Crimson Pirate | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat | United States United Kingdom | |
| Desperate Search | Joseph H. Lewis | Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina, Keenan Wynn | United States | |
| The Dream of Zorro | Mario Soldati | Walter Chiari, Vittorio Gassman | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Fanfan la Tulipe | Christian-Jaque | Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand | France Italy | |
| The Fighter | Herbert Kline | Richard Conte, Vanessa Brown, Lee J. Cobb | United States | |
| La figlia del diavolo | Primo Zeglio | Marina Vlady, Massimo Serato | Italy | [175][unreliable source?] [176][unreliable source?] |
| The Golden Coach | Jean Renoir | Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Paul Campbell, Jean Debucourt, Odoardo Spadaro, Riccardo Rioli | France Italy | Romantic adventure |
| The Golden Hawk | Sidney Salkow | Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden | United States | Pirate film |
| Hong Kong | Lewis R. Foster | Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming | United States | |
| Hurricane Smith | Jerry Hopper | John Ireland, Yvonne de Carlo | United States | Sea adventure |
| Ivanhoe | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Robert Douglas | United States United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair | Mario Soldati | May Britt, Marc Lawrence, Renato Salvatori | Italy | [182][unreliable source?] [183][unreliable source?] [184][unreliable source?] |
| Jungle Jim 8: Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land | Lew Landers | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 9: Voodoo Tiger | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Kaadu | William Berke | Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero, Marie Windsor | United States India | Fantasy adventure |
| King of the Congo (The Mighty Thun'da) | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Buster Crabbe | United States | Serial |
| Klettermaxe | Kurt Hoffmann | Liselotte Pulver, Albert Lieven, Hubert von Meyerinck | West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Lady in the Iron Mask | Ralph Murphy | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina | United States | |
| Last Train from Bombay | Fred F. Sears | Jon Hall | United States | |
| Lost in Alaska | Jean Yarbrough | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Lure of the Wilderness | Jean Negulesco | Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan | United States | |
| Lydia Bailey | Jean Negulesco | Anne Francis, Dale Robertson | United States | |
| Macao | Josef von Sternberg | Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame | United States | [195][unreliable source?] [196][unreliable source?] [197][unreliable source?] |
| Manina, the Girl in the Bikini | Willy Rozier | Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé, Howard Vernon | France | Sea adventure |
| Mara Maru | Gordon Douglas | Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr | United States | Sea adventure |
| Milady and the Musketeers | Vittorio Cottafavi | Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Lebon, Armando Francioli, Massimo Serato | Italy France | [200][unreliable source?] [201][202][unreliable source?] |
| The Mute of Portici | Giorgio Ansoldi | Flora Mariel, Doris Duranti, Paolo Carlini | Italy | |
| Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Pathfinder | Sidney Salkow | George Montgomery, Jay Silverheels | United States | Western |
| The Phantom Musketeer | Max Calandri | Vasito Bastino, Rossana Podestà, Tamara Lees | Italy | [206][unreliable source?] [207][unreliable source?] |
| The Planter's Wife | Ken Annakin | Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel | United Kingdom | |
| Plymouth Adventure | Clarence Brown | Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Richard Thorpe | Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Robert Douglas, Jane Greer | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Red Shirts | Goffredo Alessandrini, Francesco Rosi | Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone, Serge Reggiani, Alain Cuny, Jacques Sernas | Italy France | |
| Red Skies of Montana | Joseph M. Newman | Richard Widmark, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith | United States | |
| Road to Bali | Norman Z. McLeod | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Scaramouche | George Sidney | Stewart Granger, Mel Ferrer, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh | United States | |
| Sea Tiger | Frank McDonald | Marguerite Chapman, John Archer, Harry Lauter | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Secret of Three Points | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Massimo Girotti, Tamara Lees | Italy | |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Henry King | Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef | United States | |
| Son of Ali Baba | Kurt Neumann | Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie | United States | |
| Son of the Hunchback | Fernando Cerchio | Rossano Brazzi, Milly Vitale | Italy France | |
| Storm Over Tibet | Andrew Marton | Rex Reason, Diana Douglas | United States | Mountaineering adventure |
| The Story of Robin Hood | Ken Annakin | Richard Todd, Peter Finch, Joan Rice, James Robertson Justice | United States | |
| Tarzan's Savage Fury | Cy Endfield | Lex Barker, Patric Knowles | United States | |
| Thief of Damascus | Will Jason | Paul Henreid | United States | |
| The Three Pirates | Mario Soldati | Ettore Manni, Marc Lawrence, Renato Salvatori, Cesare Danova | Italy | Pirate film |
| Thunder in the East | Charles Vidor | Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer | United States | |
| Towers of Silence | Hans Bertram | Philip Dorn, Gisela Uhlen, Carl Raddatz | West Germany | [230][unreliable source?] [231][unreliable source?] |
| The Treasure of Lost Canyon | Ted Tetzlaff | William Powell | United States | |
| Untamed Women | W. Merle Connel | Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick | United States | |
| Velké dobrodružství | Miloš Makovec | Otomar Krejča | Czechoslovakia | |
| Viva Zapata! | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman | United States | |
| Way of a Gaucho | Jacques Tourneur | Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney | United States | [236][unreliable source?] [237][unreliable source?] |
| Wings of Danger | Terence Fisher | Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty | United Kingdom | |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino | Pietro Francisci | Gino Leurini, Leonora Ruffo, Tamara Lees | Italy | [239][unreliable source?] [240][unreliable source?] |
| The World in His Arms | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Ann Blyth | United States | Sea adventure |
| A Yank in Indo-China | Wallace Grissell | John Archer | United States | |
| Yankee Buccaneer | Fred de Cordova | Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady | United States | Sea adventure |

## 1953

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventurer of Chad | Willy Rozier | Madeleine Lebeau, Jean Danet | France | [245][unreliable source?] [246][unreliable source?] |
| Alarm in Morocco | Jean Devaivre | Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck | France | |
| All the Brothers Were Valiant | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth | United States | Sea adventure |
| Appointment in Honduras | Jacques Tourneur | Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Jack Elam | United States | |
| Back to God's Country | Joseph Pevney | Rock Hudson, Steve Cochran, Hugh O'Brian, Marcia Henderson | United States | |
| The Bandits of Corsica | Ray Nazarro | Richard Greene, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre | United States United Kingdom Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Beggar's Opera | Peter Brook | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Robert D. Webb | Robert Wagner, Gilbert Roland, Terry Moore | United States | Sea adventure, adventure Drama |
| Blowing Wild | Hugo Fregonese | Gary Cooper, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman | United States | |
| Bomba 9: Safari Drums | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Botany Bay | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | Sea adventure |
| O Cangaceiro | Lima Barreto | Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico | Brazil | [262][263][unreliable source?] [264][unreliable source?] |
| Captain John Smith and Pocahontas | Lew Landers | Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance | United States | Western, romantic adventure |
| Captain Phantom | Primo Zeglio | Frank Latimore, Maxwell Reed, Anna Maria Sandri | Italy | Sea adventure |
| Captain Scarface | Paul Guilfoyle | Barton MacLane, Leif Erickson | United States | |
| Captain Scarlett | Thomas Carr | Richard Greene, Leonora Amar | United States | |
| Cat-Women of the Moon | Arthur D. Hilton | Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor | United States | Space adventure |
| City Beneath the Sea | Budd Boetticher | Robert Ryan, Anthony Quinn | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | León Klimovsky | Jorge Mistral | Argentina | [273][unreliable source?] [274][unreliable source?] [275][unreliable source?] |
| Decameron Nights | Hugo Fregonese | Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan | United States United Kingdom | |
| Desert Legion | Joseph Pevney | Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
| The Desert Song | H. Bruce Humberstone | Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey | United States | Musical |
| Destination Gobi | Robert Wise | Richard Widmark | United States | War adventure |
| The Diamond Queen | John Brahm | Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Gilbert Roland | United States | |
| East of Sumatra | Budd Boetticher | Jeff Chandler, Anthony Quinn | United States | Sea adventure |
| Endless Horizons | Jean Dréville | Gisèle Pascal | France | |
| Fair Wind to Java | Joseph Kane | Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas | United States | Sea adventure |
| Flame of Calcutta | Seymour Friedman | Denise Darcel, Patric Knowles | United States | |
| Flight to Tangier | Charles Marquis Warren | Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas, Marcel Dalio | United States | |
| Forbidden | Rudolph Maté | Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru | United States | |
| Fort Algiers | Lesley Selander | Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| Fort Ti | William Castle | George Montgomery | United States | Western |
| Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck | Wolfgang Staudte | Thomas Schmidt | East Germany | Fantasy adventure |
| The Glorious Avenger [it] | Vittorio Cottafavi | Armando Francioli, Yvette Lebon, Renée Saint-Cyr, Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy France | |
| The Golden Blade | Nathan H. Juran | Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie | United States | |
| The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd | Derwin Abrahams, Charles S. Gould | Richard Crane, David Bruce, John Crawford, George Wallace | United States | Serial, pirate film |
| The Heart of the Matter | George More O'Ferrall | Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell | United Kingdom | |
| Island in the Sky | William A. Wellman | John Wayne | United States | |
| Ivan, Son of the White Devil | Guido Brignone | Paul Campbell, Nadia Gray, Arnoldo Foà | Italy | |
| Jamaica Run | Lewis R. Foster | Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles | United States | Sea adventure |
| Jonny Saves Nebrador | Rudolf Jugert | Hans Albers, Margot Hielscher | West Germany | |
| Jungle Drums of Africa | Fred C. Brannon | Clayton Moore, Phyllis Coates, Roy Glenn, Don Blackman, John Cason | United States | Serial |
| Jungle Jim 10: Savage Mutiny | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 11: Valley of the Head Hunters | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 12: Killer Ape | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| King of the Khyber Rifles | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Michael Rennie, Terry Moore | United States | |
| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer | United States United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Laughing Anne | Herbert Wilcox | Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Legione straniera [it] | Basilio Franchina | Viviane Romance, Marc Lawrence, Alberto Farnese, Irène Galter, John Kitzmiller | Italy France | |
| Little Fugitive | Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin | Ricky Brewster, Richie Andrusco, Winifred Cushing | United States | Adventure drama |
| Lovers of Toledo | Henri Decoin | Alida Valli, Pedro Armendáriz, Françoise Arnoul, Gérard Landry | France Italy Spain | |
| The Man from Cairo | Ray Enright | George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Irene Papas | United States Italy | |
| The Master of Ballantrae | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux | United Kingdom | |
| Men Against the Sun | Brendan J. Stafford | John Bentley, Zena Marshall | United Kingdom | |
| The Mississippi Gambler | Rudolph Maté | Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julie Adams | United States | |
| Mogambo | John Ford | Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly | United States | |
| Our Girl Friday | Noel Langley | Joan Collins, Kenneth More | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| The Pagans | Ferruccio Cerio | Pierre Cressoy, Hélène Rémy | Italy | |
| A Perilous Journey | R. G. Springsteen | Vera Ralston, David Brian, Scott Brady | United States | |
| Perils of the Jungle | George Blair | Clyde Beatty | United States | |
| Peter Pan | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| I Piombi di Venezia [it] | Gian Paolo Callegari | Massimo Serato, Armando Francioli | Italy | |
| Plunder of the Sun | John Farrow | Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina | United States | Adventure drama |
| Port Sinister | Harold Daniels | James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh | United States | |
| Prince of Pirates | Sidney Salkow | John Derek, Barbara Rush | United States | |
| Prisoner in the Tower of Fire | Giorgio Walter Chili | Milly Vitale, Rossano Brazzi | Italy | [329][unreliable source?] [330][unreliable source?] |
| Prisoners of the Casbah | Richard L. Bare | Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero, Turhan Bey | United States | |
| Raiders of the Seven Seas | Sidney Salkow | John Payne, Donna Reed | United States | Pirate film |
| Return to Paradise | Mark Robson | Gary Cooper | United States | |
| Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue | Harold French | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice | United States | [334][unreliable source?] [335][336][unreliable source?] |
| Rogue's March | Allan Davis | Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule | United States | |
| The Royal African Rifles | Lesley Selander | Louis Hayward | United States | |
| Saadia | Albert Lewin | Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Michel Simon | United States | [339][unreliable source?] [340][341][unreliable source?] [342][unreliable source?] |
| Sadko | Alexander Ptushko | Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Mikhail Troyanovsky | Soviet Union | |
| Sangaree | Edward Ludwig | Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina | United States | |
| Sea Devils | Raoul Walsh | Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| The Ship of Condemned Women | Raffaello Matarazzo | May Britt, Kerima, Ettore Manni | Italy France | Sea adventure |
| Sins of Rome | Riccardo Freda | Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina, Gianna Maria Canale | Italy | |
| Siren of Bagdad | Richard Quine | Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Slaves of Babylon | William Castle | Richard Conte, Linda Christian | United States | |
| South of Algiers | Jack Lee | Van Heflin | United Kingdom | |
| The Steel Lady | E. A. Dupont | Rod Cameron, Tab Hunter | United States | |
| The Sword of Granada | Edward Dein, Carlos Véjar hijo | Cesar Romero, Katy Jurado | Mexico United States | |
| Sword of Venus | Harold Daniels | Robert Clarke, Catherine McLeod, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| Tangier Incident | Lew Landers | George Brent, Mari Aldon | United States | |
| Target Hong Kong | Fred F. Sears | Richard Denning | United States | |
| Tarzan and the She-Devil | Kurt Neumann | Lex Barker, Monique van Vooren, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| The Three Musketeers | André Hunebelle | Georges Marchal, Gino Cervi, Yvonne Sanson, Bourvil | France Italy | |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea | United States | |
| The Treasure of Bengal | Gianni Vernuccio | Sabu, Luisella Boni | Italy France | |
| Treasure of the Golden Condor | Delmer Daves | Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith | United States | |
| The Veils of Bagdad | George Sherman | Victor Mature | United States | |
| The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, Folco Lulli | France Italy | Adventure drama |
| White Witch Doctor | Henry Hathaway | Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, Walter Slezak | United States | |
| Wings of the Hawk | Budd Boetticher | Van Heflin, Julie Adams | United States | Western |

## 1954

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre | United States | Sea adventure, science fiction adventure |
| The Adventures of Hajji Baba | Don Weis | John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rosemarie Bowe | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Adventures of the Barber of Seville | Ladislao Vajda | Luis Mariano | Spain | Musical, adventure comedy |
| Africa Adventure | Robert Ruark | Robert Ruark | United States | Documentary |
| Alaska Seas | Jerry Hopper | Robert Ryan, Brian Keith, Jan Sterling, Gene Barry | United States | Arctic adventure |
| Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Jacques Becker | Fernandel, Dieter Borsche, Samia Gamal | France | Adventure comedy |
| Attila | Pietro Francisci | Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren | Italy France | |
| The Beachcomber | Muriel Box | Robert Newton, Glynis Johns, Donald Sinden | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Bengal Brigade | László Benedek | Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Thiess, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| The Black Knight | Tay Garnett | Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Peter Cushing | United Kingdom | |
| The Black Pirates | Allen H. Miner | Anthony Dexter, Martha Roth | United States | Pirate film |
| The Black Shield of Falworth | Rudolph Maté | Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Bomba 10: Killer Leopard | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Bomba 11: The Golden Idol | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Cadet Rousselle | André Hunebelle | François Périer, Bourvil, Dany Robin | France | Adventure comedy |
| Cannibal Attack | Lee Sholem | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl | Lew Landers | Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor | United States | Romantic adventure, pirate film |
| Charge of the Lancers | William Castle | Paulette Goddard, Jean-Pierre Aumont | United States | |
| Conchita and the Engineer | Franz Eichhorn, Hans Hinrich | Paul Hartmann, Vanja Orico, Robert Freitag | Brazil West Germany | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Robert Vernay | Jean Marais | France Italy | |
| Crossed Swords | Milton Krims | Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Cesare Danova, Nadia Gray | Italy United States | |
| Dangerous Mission | Louis King | Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price | United States | |
| Drums of Tahiti | William Castle | Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan | United States | |
| Duel in the Jungle | George Marshall | Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, David Farrar | United Kingdom | |
| Elephant Walk | William Dieterle | Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch, Dana Andrews | United States | |
| Fire Over Africa | Richard Sale | Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey | United Kingdom | |
| Flesh and the Woman | Robert Siodmak | Jean-Claude Pascal, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter van Eyck, Arletty, Raymond Pellegrin | France Italy | |
| Garden of Evil | Henry Hathaway | Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward, Cameron Mitchell | United States | Western |
| Golden Ivory | George Breakston | Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen | United Kingdom | |
| The Golden Mistress | Abner Biberman | John Agar | United States | |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Sergei Yutkevich | Akaki Khorava | Soviet Union Albania | |
| Green Fire | Andrew Marton | Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly | United States | |
| Hell Below Zero | Mark Robson | Alan Ladd | United Kingdom | Sea adventure, arctic adventure |
| His Majesty O'Keefe | Byron Haskin | Burt Lancaster | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Iron Glove | William Castle | Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess | United States | |
| The Island Princess | Paolo Moffa | Silvana Pampanini, Marcello Mastroianni, Gustavo Rojo | Italy Spain | [406][407][unreliable source?] [408][unreliable source?] |
| Jivaro | Edward Ludwig | Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Fleming, Brian Keith | United States | |
| Jungle Jim 13: Jungle Man-Eaters | Lee Sholem | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Khyber Patrol | Seymour Friedman | Richard Egan, Dawn Addams, Patric Knowles, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| King of the Coral Sea | Lee Robinson | Chips Rafferty, Charles Tingwell | Australia | Sea adventure |
| King Richard and the Crusaders | David Butler | Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey, Robert Douglas | United States | |
| The King's Prisoner | Giorgio Venturini, Richard Pottier | Andrée Debar, Pierre Cressoy | Italy France | |
| Kongeligt besøg [da] | Erik Balling | Grethe Thordahl, Kai Holm, Bjørn Watt-Boolsen | Denmark | |
| Long John Silver | Byron Haskin | Robert Newton | Australia | Family-oriented adventure, pirate film |
| Malaga | Richard Sale | Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Men of Sherwood Forest | Val Guest | Don Taylor | United Kingdom | |
| Miss Robin Crusoe | Eugene Frenke | Amanda Blake, Rosalind Hayes, George Nader | United States | |
| I misteri della giungla nera [it] | Ralph Murphy, Gian Paolo Callegari | Lex Barker, Fiorella Mari, Paul Muller | Italy United States | |
| La moza de cántaro | Florián Rey | Paquita Rico | Spain | Adventure comedy |
| Naked Amazon | Zygmunt Sulistrowski | Zygmunt Sulistrowski | Brazil | |
| The Naked Jungle | Byron Haskin | Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer | United States | Adventure drama |
| La Patrouille des sables [fr] | René Chanas | Michel Auclair, Emma Penella, Marcel Dalio | France Spain | |
| La prigioniera di Amalfi [it] | Giorgio Cristallini | Luciana Vedovelli, Piero Lulli, Narciso Parigi, Marisa Merlini, Paul Muller | Italy | |
| Prince Valiant | Henry Hathaway | Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, James Mason, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen | United States | |
| La rebelión de los colgados | Alfredo B. Crevenna | Pedro Armendáriz | Mexico | Adventure drama |
| Return to Treasure Island | E. A. Dupont | Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams | United States | Sea adventure |
| Les Révoltés de Lomanach [fr] | Richard Pottier | Dany Robin, Amedeo Nazzari | France Italy | [432][unreliable source?] [433][unreliable source?] [434][unreliable source?] |
| Robinson Crusoe | Luis Buñuel | Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández | Mexico United States | |
| Sabaka | Frank Ferrin | Nino Marcel, Boris Karloff | United States | |
| The Saracen Blade | William Castle | Ricardo Montalbán | United States | |
| The Scarlet Spear | George Breakston | John Bentley, Martha Hyer | United Kingdom | |
| Secret of the Incas | Jerry Hopper | Charlton Heston, Yma Sumac, Robert Young | United States | |
| Serpent Island | Tom Gries | Sonny Tufts | United States | |
| Sign of the Pagan | Douglas Sirk | Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler | United States | |
| The Snow Creature | W. Lee Wilder | Paul Langton | United States | |
| La Soupe à la grimace [fr] | Jean Sacha | Georges Marchal, Maria Mauban, Dominique Wilms | France | |
| Star of India | Arthur Lubin | Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Herbert Lom | United Kingdom | |
| Tam tam nell'oltre Giuba | Carlo Sandri | Sandra Silvani, Bruno Tomei, Salvatore Cuffaro | Italy | |
| Tanganyika | Andre DeToth | Van Heflin, Ruth Roman | United States | |
| They Were So Young | Kurt Neumann | Scott Brady, Raymond Burr, Johanna Matz | United States West Germany | |
| Track of the Cat | William A. Wellman | Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter | United States | |
| Trader Tom of the China Seas | Franklin Adreon | Harry Lauter, Aline Towne, Lyle Talbot, Robert Shayne, Fred Graham | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
| Ulysses | Mario Camerini | Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà | Italy | Fantasy adventure, sea adventure |
| Untouched | Roberto Gavaldón | Ricardo Montalbán, Ariadna Welter | Mexico | |
| Valley of the Kings | Robert Pirosh | Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Carlos Thompson | United States | |
| La vendetta dei Tughs [it] | Ralph Murphy, Gian Paolo Callegari | Lex Barker, Fiorella Mari, Paul Muller | Italy United States | |
| Vera Cruz | Robert Aldrich | Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster | United States | Western |
| Le Vicomte de Bragelonne | Fernando Cerchio | Georges Marchal, Dawn Addams, Jacques Dumesnil | Italy France | |
| West of Zanzibar | Harry Watt | Anthony Steel | United Kingdom | |
| The White Orchid | Reginald Le Borg | William Lundigan, Peggie Castle, Armando Silvestre | United States | |
| World for Ransom | Robert Aldrich | Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Marian Carr | United States | |
| Yankee Pasha | Joseph Pevney | Jeff Chandler, Rhonda Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Lee J. Cobb | United States | |

## 1955

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Adventures of Captain Africa | Spencer Gordon Bennet | John Hart | United States | Serial |
| The Adventures of Quentin Durward | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley | United States United Kingdom | |
| African Manhunt | Seymour Friedman | Myron Healey, Karin Booth, John Kellogg | United States | |
| The Americano | William Castle | Glenn Ford, Cesar Romero, Ursula Thiess | United States | Western |
| Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova | Steno | Gabriele Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet, Irène Galter, Nadia Gray, Mara Lane, Marina Vlady | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Bengazi | John Brahm | Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson, Mala Powers | United States | |
| Blood Alley | William A. Wellman | John Wayne, Lauren Bacall | United States | |
| Bomba 12: Lord of the Jungle | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | |
| Captain Lightfoot | Douglas Sirk | Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Caroline and the Rebels | Jean Devaivre | Jean-Claude Pascal, Sophie Desmarets, Brigitte Bardot, Magali Noël | France | Romantic adventure |
| Cartouche | Steve Sekely | Richard Basehart, Patricia Roc, Massimo Serato, Akim Tamiroff | Italy | |
| Chéri-Bibi | Marcello Pagliero | Jean Richard | Italy France | |
| Contraband Spain | Lawrence Huntington | Richard Greene, Anouk Aimée | United Kingdom Spain | |
| The Corsican Brothers | Leo Fleider | António Vilar | Argentina | |
| The Coyote | Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, Fernando Soler | Abel Salazar | Spain Mexico | Western |
| Cross Channel | R. G. Springsteen | Wayne Morris, Yvonne Furneaux | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Dark Avenger | Henry Levin | Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Yvonne Furneaux | United Kingdom United States | |
| Desert Sands | Lesley Selander | Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine | United States | |
| Devil Goddess | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| Duel on the Mississippi | William Castle | Lex Barker, Patricia Medina | United States | |
| Escape to Burma | Allan Dwan | Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar | United States | |
| The Far Horizons | Rudolph Maté | Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale | United States | Western |
| Fortune carrée [fr] | Bernard Borderie | Pedro Armendáriz, Folco Lulli | France Italy | |
| Hell's Island | Phil Karlson | John Payne, Mary Murphy | United States | |
| Heroes and Sinners | Yves Ciampi | Yves Montand, Curd Jürgens, María Félix, Jean Servais, Gert Fröbe | France | |
| Les Hussards | Alex Joffé | Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Giovanna Ralli, Louis de Funès | France | Adventure comedy |
| Jungle Hell | Norman A. Cerf | Sabu | United States | |
| Jungle Moon Men | Charles S. Gould | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
| El Juramento de Lagardere | León Klimovsky | Carlos Cores, Elsa Daniel | Argentina | |
| The Kentuckian | Burt Lancaster | Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn, Walter Matthau | United States | Western |
| King Dinosaur | Bert I. Gordon | William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson | United States | Space adventure |
| The King's Thief | Robert Z. Leonard | Edmund Purdom, Roger Moore, David Niven, Ann Blyth, George Sanders | United States | |
| Kismet | Vincente Minnelli | Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone | United States | Musical, romantic adventure |
| Kiss of Fire | Joseph M. Newman | Jack Palance, Barbara Rush, Martha Hyer | United States | |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | Arthur Lubin | Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen | United States | [510][unreliable source?] [511][unreliable source?] |
| The Left Hand of God | Edward Dmytryk | Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb | United States | |
| The Looters | Abner Biberman | Rory Calhoun, Julie Adams, Ray Danton | United States | |
| Many Rivers to Cross | Roy Rowland | Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Russ Tamblyn | United States | Western |
| Moana, Virgin of the Amazon | Elia Marcelli | Lua Manoa, Germano Longo, Luisa Rivelli | Italy | |
| Moonfleet | Fritz Lang | Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood | United States | |
| Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Patricia Medina, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff, Grégoire Aslan, Mischa Auer, Michael Redgrave, Suzanne Flon, Katina Paxinou, Peter van Eyck | France Spain Switzerland | |
| Nagana | Hervé Bromberger | Barbara Laage, Renato Baldini | France Italy | |
| Oasis | Yves Allégret | Michèle Morgan, Cornell Borchers, Pierre Brasseur | France West Germany | |
| Panther Girl of the Kongo | Franklin Adreon | Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey | United States | Serial |
| Passage Home | Roy Ward Baker | Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Pearl of the South Pacific | Allan Dwan | Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar | United States | Sea adventure |
| Pirates of Tripoli | Felix E. Feist | Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina | United States | |
| Il principe della maschera rossa | Leopoldo Savona | Frank Latimore, Maria Fiore, Yvonne Furneaux | Italy | |
| A Prize of Gold | Mark Robson | Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling | United Kingdom | |
| The Purple Mask | H. Bruce Humberstone | Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Angela Lansbury, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| The Red Cloak | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Patricia Medina, Fausto Tozzi, Bruce Cabot, Jean Murat | Italy France | |
| Rommel's Treasure | Romolo Marcellini | Dawn Addams, Paul Hubschmid, Isa Miranda, Bruce Cabot | Italy | |
| The Sea Chase | John Farrow | John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar | United States | War adventure, sea adventure |
| Seven Cities of Gold | Robert D. Webb | Anthony Quinn, Richard Egan, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter, Rita Moreno | United States | |
| Simba | Brian Desmond Hurst | Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna | United Kingdom | |
| Soldier of Fortune | Edward Dmytryk | Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie | United States | |
| Son of Sinbad | Ted Tetzlaff | Dale Robertson, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, Lili St. Cyr, Mari Blanchard | United States | |
| The Spoilers | Jesse Hibbs | Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Ray Danton | United States | Western |
| Storm Over the Nile | Terence Young, Zoltan Korda | Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure | United Kingdom | |
| Tangier Assignment | César Fernández Ardavín, Ted Leversuch | Fernando Rey, June Powell | Spain United Kingdom | |
| Tarzan's Hidden Jungle | Harold D. Schuster | Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter van Eyck, Jack Elam | United States | |
| That Lady | Terence Young | Olivia de Havilland, Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Françoise Rosay, Dennis Price | United Kingdom Spain | Romantic adventure |
| Timberjack | Joseph Kane | Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou | United States | |
| Top of the World | Lewis R. Foster | Dale Robertson, Evelyn Keyes, Frank Lovejoy | United States | Arctic adventure |
| Tower of Lust | Abel Gance | Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers | France Italy | |
| The Treasure of Pancho Villa | George Sherman | Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland | United States | Western |
| Underwater! | John Sturges | Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Gilbert Roland | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Virgin Queen | Henry Koster | Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Douglas | United States | |
| Yellowneck | R. John Hugh | Lin McCarthy, Stephen Courtleigh, Berry Kroeger, Harold Gordon, Bill Mason | United States | |

## 1956

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Alexander the Great | Robert Rossen | Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux | United States Spain | [557][unreliable source?] [558][unreliable source?] |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Michael Anderson | David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine | United States United Kingdom | Romantic adventure, adventure comedy |
| Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle | Gérard Philipe, Joris Ivens | Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Nicole Berger, Jean Carmet, Erwin Geschonneck | France East Germany | |
| Back from Eternity | John Farrow | Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger | United States | Adventure drama |
| Bandido | Richard Fleischer | Robert Mitchum, Gilbert Roland | United States | Western |
| Bermuda Affair | A. Edward Sutherland | Kim Hunter, Gary Merrill, Ron Randell, Zena Marshall | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Beyond Mombasa | George Marshall | Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn | United States | |
| Bhowani Junction | George Cukor | Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger | United States United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| The Black Tent | Brian Desmond Hurst | Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, Anna Maria Sandri | United Kingdom | |
| Carib Gold | Harold Young | Coley Wallace, Ethel Waters, Geoffrey Holder | United States | Sea adventure |
| Congo Crossing | Joseph Pevney | George Nader, Virginia Mayo, Peter Lorre | United States | Adventure drama |
| The Conqueror | Dick Powell | John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Pedro Armendáriz | United States | |
| The Court Jester | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Curucu, Beast of the Amazon | Curt Siodmak | John Bromfield, Beverly Garland | United States | Horror adventure |
| Dark Venture | John Calvert | John Calvert, Ann Cornell, John Carradine | United States | |
| Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | Norman Foster | Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Kenneth Tobey, Clem Bevans | United States | Western |
| Death in the Garden | Luis Buñuel | Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal, Michel Piccoli | France Mexico | Adventure drama |
| Diane | David Miller | Lana Turner, Roger Moore, Pedro Armendáriz, Marisa Pavan, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Don Juan | John Berry | Fernandel, Carmen Sevilla, Fernando Rey | France | Adventure comedy |
| Escape in the Sun | George Breakston | John Bentley, Vera Fusek | United Kingdom | |
| Flame of the Islands | Edward Ludwig | Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Zachary Scott, James Arness | United States | |
| Flight to Hong Kong | Joseph M. Newman | Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush | United States | |
| Forbidden Planet | Fred Wilcox | Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen | United States | Space adventure |
| Gorilla [sv] | Lorens Marmstedt, Sven Nykvist, Lars-Henrik Ottoson | Georges Galley, Gio Petré | Sweden | |
| The Great Locomotive Chase | Francis D. Lyon | Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York | United States | Western |
| Helen of Troy | Robert Wise | Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher | United States Italy France | |
| Huk! | John Barnwell | George Montgomery, Mona Freeman | United States | [595][unreliable source?] [596][unreliable source?] [597][unreliable source?] |
| Ilya Muromets | Aleksandr Ptushko | Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva | Soviet Union | Fantasy adventure |
| Jaguar | George Blair | Sabu | United States | |
| The Knight of the Black Sword | László Kish, Luigi Capuano | Marina Berti, Steve Barclay | Italy | [601][unreliable source?] [602][unreliable source?] |
| The Lebanese Mission | Richard Pottier | Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Omar Sharif, Jean Servais, Juliette Gréco | France | |
| Liane, Jungle Goddess | Eduard von Borsody | Marion Michael, Hardy Krüger, Reggie Nalder | West Germany | |
| Lisbon | Ray Milland | Ray Milland, Maureen O'Hara, Claude Rains | United States | Sea adventure |
| Magnificent Roughnecks | Sherman A. Rose | Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney | United States | |
| Man Beast | Jerry Warren | Rock Madison, Virginia Maynor | United States | Horror adventure, mountaineering adventure |
| Manfish | W. Lee Wilder | John Bromfield, Lon Chaney Jr., Victor Jory | United States | Sea adventure |
| Michel Strogoff | Carmine Gallone | Curd Jürgens, Geneviève Page, Sylva Koscina | Italy France | |
| Moby Dick | John Huston | Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Mole People | Virgil W. Vogel | John Agar | United States | Horror adventure, science fiction adventure |
| The Mountain | Edward Dmytryk | Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor | United States | Mountaineering adventure |
| Odongo | John Gilling | Rhonda Fleming, Macdonald Carey | United Kingdom | |
| On the Threshold of Space | Robert D. Webb | Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak, Dean Jagger, Ken Clark | United States | |
| Port Afrique | Rudolph Maté | Pier Angeli, Philip Carey, Dennis Price | United Kingdom | |
| Roland the Mighty | Pietro Francisci | Rik Battaglia, Rosanna Schiaffino | Italy | [622][623][unreliable source?] [624][unreliable source?] [625][unreliable source?] [626][unreliable source?] |
| Run for the Sun | Roy Boulting | Richard Widmark, Jane Greer, Trevor Howard, Peter van Eyck | United States | |
| Safari | Terence Young | Victor Mature, Janet Leigh | United Kingdom | |
| Santiago | Gordon Douglas | Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà | United States | |
| Secret of Treasure Mountain | Seymour Friedman | Valerie French, Raymond Burr, William Prince, Lance Fuller | United States | Western |
| Lo spadaccino misterioso | Sergio Grieco | Frank Latimore, Fiorella Mari, Gérard Landry, Tamara Lees | Italy | [633][634][unreliable source?] [635][unreliable source?] |
| Swamp Women | Roger Corman | Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors | United States | |
| The Violent Patriot | Sergio Grieco | Vittorio Gassman, Constance Smith, Anna Maria Ferrero, Gérard Landry | Italy | |
| Walk into Paradise | Lee Robinson, Marcello Pagliero | Chips Rafferty, Françoise Christophe, Reg Lye, Pierre Cressoy | Australia France | |
| Wetbacks | Hank McCune | Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Women of Pitcairn Island | Jean Yarbrough | Lynn Bari, James Craig, John Smith, Arleen Whelan | United States | Sea adventure |

## 1957

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Abominable Snowman | Val Guest | Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker | United Kingdom | |
| Action of the Tiger | Terence Young | Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo, Sean Connery | United Kingdom United States | Sea adventure |
| The Admirable Crichton | Lewis Gilbert | Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy, sea adventure |
| Barnacle Bill | Charles Frend | Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Maurice Denham | United Kingdom | |
| The Black Devil | Sergio Grieco | Gérard Landry, Milly Vitale, Nadia Gray | Italy | |
| Blaue Jungs [de] | Wolfgang Schleif | Karlheinz Böhm, Claus Biederstaedt, Walter Giller | West Germany | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| Boy on a Dolphin | Jean Negulesco | Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Clifton Webb, Jorge Mistral | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden, Jack Hawkins | United Kingdom United States | War adventure |
| Campbell's Kingdom | Ralph Thomas | Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray | United Kingdom | |
| Cape Horn | Tito Davison | Jorge Mistral, Silvia Pinal | Mexico | Sea adventure |
| Ces dames préfèrent le mambo | Bernard Borderie | Eddie Constantine, Lino Ventura, Pascale Roberts, Jean Murat | France Italy | Sea adventure |
| China Gate | Samuel Fuller | Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat King Cole, Lee Van Cleef | United States | War adventure |
| Dangerous Exile | Brian Desmond Hurst | Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell | United Kingdom | |
| The Deerslayer | Kurt Neumann | Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker | United States | Western |
| Desert Warrior | Fernando Cerchio, León Klimovsky, Goffredo Alessandrini, Gianni Vernuccio | Ricardo Montalbán, Carmen Sevilla, Gino Cervi | Italy Spain | |
| Don Quixote | Grigori Kozintsev | Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuri Tolubeyev | Soviet Union | |
| The Dragon's Blood | Giacomo Gentilomo | Sebastian Fischer, Katharina Mayberg, Ilaria Occhini | Italy | Fantasy adventure |
| East of Kilimanjaro | Arnold Belgard, Edoardo Capolino | Marshall Thompson, Fausto Tozzi, Gaby André | Italy United States United Kingdom | |
| Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War | Kunio Watanabe | Kanjûrô Arashi | Japan | |
| Fire Down Below | Robert Parrish | Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Flucht in die Tropennacht [de] | Paul May | Bernhard Wicki, Claus Holm, Erica Beer | West Germany | |
| Ghost Diver | Richard Einfeld, Merrill G. White | James Craig, Audrey Totter | United States | Sea adventure |
| Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Huston | Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr | United States | War adventure |
| Hell Ship Mutiny | Lee Sholem, Elmo Williams | Jon Hall, John Carradine, Peter Lorre | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Incredible Petrified World | Jerry Warren | John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates | United States | Sea adventure, science fiction adventure |
| Istanbul | Joseph Pevney | Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers | United States | |
| Jet Pilot | Josef von Sternberg | John Wayne, Janet Leigh | United States | |
| Jungle Heat | Howard W. Koch | Lex Barker, Mari Blanchard, James Westerfield | United States | |
| The Land Unknown | Virgil W. Vogel | Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Legend of the Lost | Henry Hathaway | John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi | Italy United States Panama | Adventure drama |
| The Living Idol | Albert Lewin | Liliane Montevecchi, James Robertson Justice, Steve Forrest | United States | |
| Love Slaves of the Amazons | Curt Siodmak | Don Taylor, Gianna Segale | United States | |
| Manuela | Guy Hamilton | Trevor Howard, Elsa Martinelli, Pedro Armendáriz, Donald Pleasence | United Kingdom | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| Miles of Fire | Samson Samsonov | Igor Savkin, Margarita Volodina, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Vladimir Kenigson | Soviet Union | War adventure |
| Monster from Green Hell | Kenneth G. Crane | Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Barbara Turner | United States | Horror adventure |
| The Mysteries of Paris | Fernando Cerchio | Frank Villard, Yvette Lebon, Jacques Castelot, Lorella De Luca, John Kitzmiller | Italy France | |
| Nature Girl and the Slaver [de] | Hermann Leitner | Marion Michael, Adrian Hoven, Rik Battaglia | West Germany Italy | |
| The New World | René Cardona | Lorena Velázquez, René Cardona Jr. | Mexico | Sea adventure |
| Omar Khayyam | William Dieterle | Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey | United States | |
| The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | Hardy Krüger | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| Pharaoh's Curse | Lee Sholem | Mark Dana, Ziva Rodann | United States | Horror adventure |
| Pirate of the Half Moon | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | John Derek, Gianna Maria Canale, Ingeborg Schöner | Italy | |
| The Pride and the Passion | Stanley Kramer | Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren | United States | |
| Robbery Under Arms | Jack Lee | Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Maureen Swanson, David McCallum, Jill Ireland | United Kingdom | |
| S.O.S. Noronha | Georges Rouquier | Jean Marais, Vanja Orico, José Lewgoy | France | |
| Sabu and the Magic Ring | George Blair | Sabu | United States | |
| The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent | Roger Corman | Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Brad Jackson, June Kenney, Richard Devon | United States | Sea adventure, fantasy adventure |
| Sail into Danger | Kenneth Hume, Ricardo Gascón | Dennis O'Keefe, Kathleen Ryan | United Kingdom Spain | Sea adventure |
| Something of Value | Richard Brooks | Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller | United States | |
| The Spirit of St. Louis | Billy Wilder | James Stewart | United States | |
| Tarzan and the Lost Safari | H. Bruce Humberstone | Gordon Scott | United States | |
| Three and a Half Musketeers | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Germán Valdés | Mexico | Adventure comedy |
| Tip on a Dead Jockey | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Marcel Dalio | United States | |
| Undersea Girl | John Peyser | Mara Corday, Pat Conway | United States | Sea adventure |
| Voodoo Island | Reginald Le Borg | Boris Karloff | United States | Horror adventure |
| Voodoo Woman | Edward L. Cahn | Marla English, Tom Conway, Mike Connors | United States | Horror adventure |
| Woman and the Hunter | George Breakston | Ann Sheridan, David Farrar | United States | |
| Zarak | Terence Young | Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Michael Wilding | United Kingdom | |
| Zombies of Mora Tau | Edward L. Cahn | Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes | United States | Sea adventure |

## 1958

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan H. Juran | Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher | United States | Fantasy adventure, sea adventure |
| The Amorous Corporal | Robert Darène | François Périer, Rossana Podestà, Robert Hirsch | France | Adventure comedy |
| Les Aventuriers du Mékong [fr] | Jean Bastia | Dominique Wilms, Jean Gaven, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Reinhard Kolldehoff | France | |
| The Buccaneer | Anthony Quinn | Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston | United States | Pirate film |
| Captain Falcon | Carlo Campogalliani | Lex Barker, Rossana Rory, Massimo Serato, Anna Maria Ferrero, Paul Muller | Italy France | |
| Il Conte di Matera | Luigi Capuano | Virna Lisi, Otello Toso, Paul Muller, Giacomo Rossi Stuart | Italy | |
| The Decks Ran Red | Andrew L. Stone | James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford | United States | Sea adventure |
| Desert Hell | Charles Marquis Warren | Brian Keith, Barbara Hale | United States | |
| Diamond Safari | Gerald Mayer | Kevin McCarthy, André Morell | United States South Africa | |
| Enchanted Island | Allan Dwan | Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Ted de Corsia | United States | Sea adventure |
| Escape from Sahara | Wolfgang Staudte | Hildegard Knef, Bernhard Wicki, Hannes Messemer, Joachim Hansen | West Germany | |
| The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub | Czechoslovakia | Science fiction adventure |
| La Fille de feu [fr] | Alfred Rode | Claudine Dupuis, Erno Crisa, Raymond Souplex, Armand Mestral, William Marshall, Yoko Tani | France | |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget | United States | Space adventure |
| Ghost of the China Sea | Fred F. Sears | David Brian | United States | War adventure, sea adventure |
| The Gun Runners | Don Siegel | Audie Murphy | United States | Sea adventure |
| Harry Black | Hugo Fregonese | Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush, Anthony Steel | United Kingdom | |
| Hercules | Pietro Francisci | Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale | Italy Spain | |
| The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara | Japan | |
| High Hell | Burt Balaban | John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Patrick Allen | United Kingdom | |
| Un homme se penche sur son passé [fr] | Willy Rozier | Jacques Bergerac, Barbara Rütting | France | |
| Ice Cold in Alex | J. Lee Thompson | John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| Island Women | William Berke | Marie Windsor, Vince Edwards | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding | United States | Space adventure |
| La Tour, prends garde! | Georges Lampin | Jean Marais, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Nadja Tiller | France Italy Yugoslavia | |
| Legion of the Doomed | Thor L. Brooks | Bill Williams | United States | |
| Manhunt in the Jungle | Tom McGowan | Robin Hughes | United States | |
| Maracaibo | Cornel Wilde | Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace | United States | |
| Me and the Colonel | Peter Glenville | Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff | United States | War adventure, adventure comedy |
| The Mighty Crusaders | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Francisco Rabal, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia | Italy | |
| Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | Nina Bara, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook | United States | Space adventure |
| The Moonraker | David MacDonald | George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Gary Raymond | United Kingdom | |
| The Naked Earth | Vincent Sherman | Richard Todd, Juliette Gréco, John Kitzmiller | United Kingdom | |
| Nor the Moon by Night | Ken Annakin | Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan | United Kingdom | |
| The Old Man and the Sea | John Sturges | Spencer Tracy | United States | Adventure drama, sea adventure |
| La Passe du diable [fr] | Pierre Schoendoerffer, Jacques Dupont | | France | Docudrama |
| Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | Wolfgang Becker | O.W. Fischer, Ingrid Andree, Walter Giller | West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Pia de' Tolomei [it] | Sergio Grieco | Jacques Sernas, Bella Darvi | Italy France | |
| Pirate of the Black Hawk | Sergio Grieco | Gérard Landry, Mijanou Bardot, Ettore Manni | Italy France | Pirate film |
| Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Laurie Mitchell | United States | Space adventure |
| Raw Wind in Eden | Richard Wilson | Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler, Rossana Podestà, Carlos Thompson, Rik Battaglia, Eduardo De Filippo | United States | Romantic adventure, sea adventure |
| Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen [de] | Harald Reinl | Carola von Kayser, Joachim Hansen, Reggie Nalder | West Germany | |
| The Roots of Heaven | John Huston | Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles | United States | |
| Der Schinderhannes | Helmut Käutner | Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell | West Germany | |
| Sea Fury | Cy Endfield | Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Sea of Sand | Guy Green | Michael Craig, John Gregson, Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| She Gods of Shark Reef | Roger Corman | Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell | United States | Sea adventure |
| Die Sklavenkarawane [de] | Georg Marischka, Ramón Torrado | Viktor Staal, Georg Thomalla, Theo Lingen, Fernando Sancho | West Germany Spain | |
| The Son of Robin Hood | George Sherman | Al Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar, Marius Goring, Philip Friend | United States United Kingdom | |
| The Spessart Inn | Kurt Hoffmann | Liselotte Pulver, Carlos Thompson | West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| The Stowaway | Ralph Habib, Lee Robinson | Martine Carol, Karlheinz Böhm, Serge Reggiani, Arletty, Roger Livesey | France Australia | Sea adventure |
| Street of Darkness | Robert G. Walker | Robert Keys, John Close | United States | |
| Tarzan's Fight for Life | H. Bruce Humberstone | Gordon Scott | United States | |
| Tempest | Alberto Lattuada | Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Silvana Mangano, Geoffrey Horne, Vittorio Gassman, Agnes Moorehead, Oskar Homolka | Italy France Yugoslavia | Romantic adventure |
| Ten Days to Tulara | George Sherman | Sterling Hayden | United States | |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry | United States | |
| Twilight for the Gods | Joseph Pevney | Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh | United States | Sea adventure |
| Villa!! | James B. Clark | Brian Keith, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. | United States | Western |
| Violent Road | Howard W. Koch | Brian Keith, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | United States | |
| Wind Across the Everglades | Nicholas Ray | Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer | United States | |
| Windjammer | Louis De Rochemont III | | United States | Documentary, sea adventure |
| Wolf Larsen | Harmon Jones | Barry Sullivan, Peter Graves, Gita Hall | United States | Sea adventure |

## 1959

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 800 leguas por el Amazonas | Emilio Gómez Muriel | Carlos López Moctezuma, Rafael Bertrand, Elvira Quintana | Mexico | |
| The Angry Red Planet | Ib Melchior | Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden | United States | Space adventure |
| L'arciere nero | Piero Pierotti | Gérard Landry | Italy | |
| The Atomic Submarine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway | United States | Sea adventure, arctic adventure, science fiction adventure |
| Attack of the Moors | Mario Costa | Rik Battaglia, Chelo Alonso, Gérard Landry | Italy | |
| The Bandit of Zhobe | John Gilling | Victor Mature | United Kingdom | |
| La Battaglia di Maratona | Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava | Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni | Italy France | |
| Ben-Hur | William Wyler | Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet | United States | Historical drama, epic film |
| Le Bossu | André Hunebelle | Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann, Hubert Noël | France Italy | |
| Caltiki – The Immortal Monster | Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava | John Merivale | Italy France | Horror adventure |
| Un canto nel deserto [it] | Marino Girolami | Claudio Villa, Valeria Fabrizi, Paul Muller | Italy | Musical |
| Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna [it] | Giorgio Walter Chili | Virna Lisi | Italy | |
| Cavalier in Devil's Castle | Mario Costa | Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc, Luisella Boni, Pierre Cressoy | Italy France | |
| Conspiracy of the Borgias | Antonio Racioppi | Frank Latimore, Constance Smith | Italy | |
| Cuban Rebel Girls | Barry Mahon | Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland | United States | |
| The Death Ship | Georg Tressler | Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf, Elke Sommer | West Germany | Sea adventure, adventure drama |
| Desert Desperadoes | Steve Sekely | Ruth Roman, Akim Tamiroff | Italy United States | |
| Devil's Cavaliers | Siro Marcellini | Frank Latimore, Gianna Maria Canale, Emma Danieli | Italy | |
| The Devil's Disciple | Guy Hamilton | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom United States | |
| Due selvaggi a corte | Ferdinando Baldi | Erno Crisa, Leonora Ruffo, Fiorella Mari, Paul Muller, John Kitzmiller | Italy | |
| Ferry to Hong Kong | Lewis Gilbert | Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Forbidden Island | Charles B. Griffith | Jon Hall | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Giant of Marathon | Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava | Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot | Italy France | |
| Goliath and the Barbarians | Carlo Campogalliani | Steve Reeves, Chelo Alonso, Bruce Cabot | Italy | |
| Green Mansions | Mel Ferrer | Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Hannibal | Edgar G. Ulmer, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti | Italy | |
| Hercules Unchained | Pietro Francisci | Steve Reeves, Sylvia Lopez, Sylva Koscina | Italy France Spain | |
| The House of the Seven Hawks | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey, Linda Christian | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| The Indian Tomb | Fritz Lang | Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, René Deltgen, Valéry Inkijinoff, Claus Holm, Walter Reyer, Luciana Paluzzi, Sabine Bethmann | West Germany France Italy | Romantic adventure |
| Island of Lost Women | Frank Tuttle | Jeff Richards, Venetia Stevenson, John Smith, Diane Jergens, June Blair, Alan Napier | United States | |
| John Paul Jones | John Farrow | Robert Stack, Bette Davis, Charles Coburn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Macdonald Carey, Marisa Pavan, Erin O'Brien | United States | Sea adventure |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Henry Levin | James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Kapitanskaya Dochka | Vladimir Kaplunovsky | Oleg Strizhenov, Sergei Lukyanov, Iya Arepina | Soviet Union | Romantic adventure |
| Killers of Kilimanjaro | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor | United Kingdom | |
| Knight Without a Country | Giacomo Gentilomo | Gérard Landry, Constance Smith | Italy | |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | Mario Bonnard | Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey, Barbara Carroll | Italy | |
| El Lazarillo de Tormes | César Fernández Ardavín | Marco Paoletti, Juanjo Menéndez, Carlos Casaravilla, Memmo Carotenuto | Spain Italy | |
| The Little Savage | Byron Haskin | Pedro Armendáriz | United States | Pirate film |
| Der Löwe von Babylon [de] | Johannes Kai, Ramón Torrado | Helmuth Schneider, Georg Thomalla, Theo Lingen, Fernando Sancho | West Germany Spain | |
| Der lustige Krieg des Hauptmann Pedro [de] | Wolfgang Becker | Carlos Thompson | West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Marie of the Isles | Georges Combret | Belinda Lee, Alain Saury, Darío Moreno, Magali Noël, Folco Lulli | France Italy | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| The Nights of Lucretia Borgia | Sergio Grieco | Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas, Michèle Mercier | Italy France | |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason | United States | Thriller |
| North West Frontier | J. Lee Thompson | Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More, Herbert Lom | United Kingdom | |
| La notte del grande assalto | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Agnès Laurent, Fausto Tozzi, Kerima | Italy France | |
| Peter Voss, Hero of the Day | Georg Marischka | O.W. Fischer, Linda Christian, Walter Giller | West Germany | Adventure comedy, crime film |
| Pier 5, Havana | Edward L. Cahn | Cameron Mitchell | United States | |
| The Pirate and the Slave Girl | Piero Pierotti | Lex Barker, Chelo Alonso, Massimo Serato, Graziella Granata | Italy France | |
| Prisoner of the Volga | Victor Tourjansky | John Derek, Elsa Martinelli, Dawn Addams, Gert Fröbe, Charles Vanel, Wolfgang Preiss, Rik Battaglia | Italy France West Germany | |
| Prisonniers de la brousse [fr] | Willy Rozier | Georges Marchal, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nadine Alari | France | |
| SOS – Gletscherpilot [de] | Victor Vicas | Hermann Geiger, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag | Switzerland | Mountaineering adventure |
| SOS Pacific | Guy Green | Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Eva Bartok, John Gregson | United Kingdom | |
| The Scavengers | John Cromwell | Vince Edwards, Carol Ohmart, Vic Diaz | Philippines United States | |
| Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon | Jacqueline Audry | Andrée Debar, Bernard Blier, Dany Robin, Gabriele Ferzetti, Isa Miranda | France Italy | |
| Son of the Red Corsair | Primo Zeglio | Lex Barker, Sylvia Lopez | Italy | Pirate film |
| Sonatas | Juan Antonio Bardem | Francisco Rabal, María Félix, Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey | Spain | |
| Stars at Noon | Jacques Ertaud, Marcel Ichac | Roger Blin, Pierre Perret, Lionel Terray, René Desmaison | France | Mountaineering adventure |
| The Stranglers of Bombay | Terence Fisher | Guy Rolfe | United Kingdom | Horror adventure |
| Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | John Guillermin | Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sean Connery | United States | |
| Tarzan, the Ape Man | Joseph M. Newman | Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Robert Douglas | United States | |
| Third Man on the Mountain | Ken Annakin | Michael Rennie, Janet Munro, James Donald, Herbert Lom | United States United Kingdom | Mountaineering adventure, family-oriented adventure |
| The Tiger of Eschnapur | Fritz Lang | Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, René Deltgen, Valéry Inkijinoff, Claus Holm, Walter Reyer, Luciana Paluzzi, Sabine Bethmann | West Germany France Italy | Adventure drama |
| Timbuktu | Jacques Tourneur | Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo | United States | |
| Tumulto de Paixões | Zygmunt Sulistrowski | John Sutton, Richard Olizar, Gina Albert | Brazil | |
| Tunis Top Secret | Bruno Paolinelli | Elsa Martinelli, Giorgia Moll, Massimo Serato, Willy Fritsch, Claus Biederstaedt, Chelo Alonso | Italy West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Le vent se lève [fr] | Yves Ciampi | Curd Jürgens, Mylène Demongeot | France | Sea adventure |
| Virgin Sacrifice | Fernando Wagner | David DaLie, Angélica Morales, Antonio Gutiérrez | United States | |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar | United States | |
| The White Warrior | Riccardo Freda | Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, Scilla Gabel | Italy Yugoslavia | |
| The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Michael Anderson | Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston | United Kingdom United States | Sea adventure |