# List of adventure films of the 1920s

A list of adventure films released in the 1920s.

## 1920

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Best of Luck | Ray C. Smallwood | Jack Holt, Kathryn Adams | United States | Sea adventure |
| Caravan of Death | Josef Stein | Carl de Vogt | Germany | |
| The Deerslayer and Chingachgook | Arthur Wellin | Emil Mamelok, Béla Lugosi | Germany | Western |
| The Dragon's Net | Henry MacRae | Marie Walcamp, Harland Tucker, Otto Lederer | United States | Serial |
| Huckleberry Finn | William Desmond Taylor | Lewis Sargent, George H. Reed | United States | |
| Indian Revenge | Georg Jacoby, Leo Lasko | Harry Liedtke, Mady Christians | Germany | |
| The Last Of The Mohicans | Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown | Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall | United States | Western |
| The Leopard Woman | Wesley Ruggles | Louise Glaum, House Peters | United States | |
| The Lost City | E. A. Martin | Juanita Hansen, George Chesebro | United States | Serial |
| The Mark of Zorro | Fred Niblo | Douglas Fairbanks | United States | Swashbuckler, Western |
| On the Brink of Paradise | Josef Stein | Carl de Vogt | Germany | |
| Pirate Gold | George B. Seitz | George B. Seitz, Marguerite Courtot | United States | Serial |
| The Revenge of Tarzan | Harry Revier, George M. Merrick | Gene Pollar, Karla Schramm | United States | |
| The Sea Wolf | George Melford | Noah Beery, Mabel Julienne Scott, Tom Forman | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Son of Tarzan | Arthur J. Flaven, Harry Revier | Kamuela C. Searle, P. Dempsey Tabler, Karla Schramm | United States | Serial |
| Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Carl de Vogt, Georg John, Ressel Orla | Germany | Serial, spies |
| Terror Island | James Cruze | Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Wilton Taylor | United States | Tropical island, submarine |
| Treasure Island | Maurice Tourneur | Charles Ogle, Lon Chaney, Shirley Mason | United States | Pirate film |

## 1921

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventures of Tarzan | Robert F. Hill, Scott Sidney | Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine | United States | Serial |
| L'Atlantide | Jacques Feyder | Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska, Georges Melchior | France | Fantasy adventure |
| The Big Adventure | B. Reeves Eason | B. Reeves Eason Jr., Fred Herzog, Gertrude Olmstead, Molly Shafer, Lee Shumway | United States | Adventure |
| The Devil Worshippers | Muhsin Ertuğrul | Carl de Vogt | Germany | |
| Do or Die | J. P. McGowan | Eddie Polo | United States | Serial |
| A Gentleman of France | Maurice Elvey | Eille Norwood, Madge Stuart | United Kingdom | |
| The Indian Tomb | Joe May | Lil Dagover, Conrad Veidt, Lya De Putti, Paul Richter, Olaf Fønss | Germany | Fantasy adventure |
| The Lord of the Beasts | Ernst Wendt | Carl de Vogt | Germany | |
| Miracles of the Jungle | E. A. Martin, James Conway | Ben Hagerty, Wilbur Higby, Al Ferguson | United States | Serial |
| Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | Georg Jacoby | Harry Liedtke, Georg Alexander, Mady Christians | Germany | Serial |
| Il ponte dei sospiri | Domenico Gaido | Luciano Albertini | Italy | |
| The Sky Ranger | George B. Seitz | George B. Seitz, June Caprice | United States | Serial |
| The Three Musketeers | Fred Niblo | Douglas Fairbanks | United States | Swashbuckler |
| Les Trois Mousquetaires | Henri Diamant-Berger | Aimé Simon-Girard, Henri Rollan | France | Serial |
| The Wildcat | Ernst Lubitsch | Pola Negri | Germany | Adventure comedy |

## 1922

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Robert F. Hill | Harry Myers, Noble Johnson, Gertrude Olmstead | United States | Serial |
| Alone in the Jungle | Ernst Wendt | Carl de Vogt | Germany | |
| Captain Kidd | Burton L. King, J. P. McGowan | Eddie Polo | United States | Serial, pirate film |
| A Dangerous Adventure | Jack L. Warner, Sam Warner | Grace Darmond | United States | Serial |
| Dick Turpin's Ride to York | Maurice Elvey | Matheson Lang | United Kingdom | |
| The Dictator | James Cruze | Wallace Reid, Lila Lee | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Hurricane's Gal | Allen Holubar | Dorothy Phillips, Robert Ellis, Wallace Beery | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Jungle Goddess | James Conway | Elinor Field, Truman Van Dyke | United States | Serial |
| The Man from Beyond | Burton L. King | Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly | United States | |
| The Man Unconquerable | Joseph Henabery | Jack Holt, Sylvia Breamer | United States | Sea adventure |
| Masters of the Sea | Alexander Korda | Victor Varconi, María Corda | Austria | Sea adventure |
| Moran of the Lady Letty | George Melford | Dorothy Dalton, Rudolph Valentino | United States | Sea adventure |
| Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | Allakariallak (Nanook), Nyla, Cunayou | United States | Arctic adventure, cinéma vérité |
| On the High Seas | Irvin Willat | Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| Perils of the Yukon | Jay Marchant, J. P. McGowan | William Desmond | United States | Serial |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Rex Ingram | Lewis Stone, Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson | United States | Swashbuckler |
| Robin Hood | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse | United States | Swashbuckler, romantic adventure |
| Shadows of the Sea | Alan Crosland | Doris Kenyon, Conway Tearle | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Three Must-Get-Theres | Max Linder | Max Linder | United States | Adventure comedy |
| To Have and to Hold | George Fitzmaurice | Betty Compson, Bert Lytell | United States | |
| Under Two Flags | Tod Browning | Priscilla Dean, James Kirkwood | United States | |
| The White Desert | Ernst Wendt | Carl de Vogt | Germany | Arctic adventure |
| With Stanley in Africa | William James Craft, Edward A. Kull | George Walsh, Louise Lorraine | United States | Serial |
| The Woman Who Believed | Jack Harvey | Walter Miller, Anna Luther | United States | |

## 1923

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Around the World in Eighteen Days | Robert F. Hill, B. Reeves Eason | William Desmond | United States | Serial |
| Beasts of Paradise | William James Craft | William Desmond, Eileen Sedgwick | United States | Serial |
| Buridan, le héros de la tour de Nesle | Pierre Marodon | Robert Valberg | France | Serial |
| The Call of the Wild | Fred Jackman | Jack Mulhall, Walter Long, Sidney D'Albrook | United States | |
| The Dangerous Maid | Victor Heerman | Constance Talmadge | United States | |
| The Fighting Blade | John S. Robertson | Richard Barthelmess | United States | |
| The Fighting Skipper | Francis Ford | Jack Perrin, Peggy O'Day, Francis Ford | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
| The Green Goddess | Sidney Olcott | George Arliss, Alice Joyce, David Powell | United States | |
| I Will Repay | Henry Kolker | Holmes Herbert, Flora Le Breton, Pedro de Cordoba | United Kingdom | |
| The Isle of Lost Ships | Maurice Tourneur | Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills, Frank Campeau | United States | Sea adventure |
| Lost and Found on a South Sea Island | Raoul Walsh | House Peters, Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Max Glass | Vladimir Gajdarov, Albert Bassermann | Germany | |
| North of Hudson Bay | John Ford | Tom Mix | United States | |
| Scaramouche | Rex Ingram | Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Lloyd Ingraham | United States | Swashbuckler |
| The Spoilers | Lambert Hillyer | Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Noah Beery Sr. | United States | |
| The Tiger's Claw | Joseph Henabery | Jack Holt, Eva Novak, Aileen Pringle | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Through Fire and Water | Thomas Bentley | Clive Brook, Flora Le Breton, Lawford Davidson | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Vengeance of the Deep | Barry Barringer | Ralph Lewis, Virginia Brown Faire, Richard Arlen | United States | Sea adventure |
| Why Worry? | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Harold Lloyd | United States | Adventure comedy |

## 1924

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Aelita: Queen Of Mars | Yakov Protazanov | Nikolai Batalov, Varvara Massalitinova, Yuliya Solntseva, Mikhail Zharov | Russia | Science fiction |
| Captain Blood | David Smith | J. Warren Kerrigan, Jean Paige | United States | Swashbuckler, pirate film |
| The Chechahcos | Lewis H. Moomaw | Gladys Johnson, William Dills, Albert Van Antwerp | United States | |
| Claude Duval | George A. Cooper | Nigel Barrie, Fay Compton | United Kingdom | |
| The Fortieth Door | George B. Seitz | Allene Ray, Bruce Gordon, Anna May Wong | United States | Serial, romantic adventure |
| Lure of the Yukon | Norman Dawn | Eva Novak, Spottiswoode Aitken, Buddy Roosevelt, Arthur Jasmine | United States | |
| Mandrin | Henri Fescourt | Romuald Joubé | France | |
| Le Miracle des loups | Raymond Bernard | Romuald Joubé, Vanni Marcoux, Charles Dullin | France | |
| Monsieur Beaucaire | Sidney Olcott | Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels | United States | |
| Mountain of Destiny | Arnold Fanck | Hannes Schneider, Luis Trenker | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| The Navigator | Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire | United States | Desert island, ship board adventure |
| Die Nibelungen | Fritz Lang | Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | Germany | Fantasy adventure |
| The Sea Hawk | Frank Lloyd | Milton Sills, Enid Bennett | United States | Swashbuckler, pirate film |
| The Sword of Valor | Duke Worne | Snowy Baker, Dorothy Revier | United States | |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong | United States | Fantasy adventure |

## 1925

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Adventure | Victor Fleming | Tom Moore, Pauline Starke, Wallace Beery | United States | |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Fred Niblo | Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson | United States | |
| Le Bossu | Jean Kemm | Gaston Jacquet, Claude France, Marcel Vibert | France | |
| Dick Turpin | John G. Blystone | Tom Mix | United States | |
| Don Q, Son of Zorro | Donald Crisp | Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald | United States | Swashbuckler |
| The Eagle | Clarence Brown | Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser | United States | |
| Fanfan la Tulipe | René Leprince | Aimé Simon-Girard | France | Serial |
| Flight Around the World | Willi Wolff | Ellen Richter, Reinhold Schünzel | Germany | Serial |
| Forbidden Cargo | Tom Buckingham | Evelyn Brent, Robert Ellis, Boris Karloff | United States | Sea adventure |
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Hubert Moest | Eugen Klöpfer, Paul Hartmann, Gertrude Welcker, Erna Morena | Germany | |
| The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray | United States | Adventure comedy, western |
| Grass | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan | United States | Documentary |
| El Húsar de la Muerte | Pedro Sienna | Pedro Sienna | Chile | |
| Lady Robinhood | Ralph Ince | Evelyn Brent, Robert Ellis, Boris Karloff | United States | |
| The Lady Who Lied | Edwin Carewe | Lewis Stone, Virginia Valli, Nita Naldi | United States | |
| Living Buddhas | Paul Wegener | Paul Wegener, Asta Nielsen, Gregori Chmara | Germany | |
| The Lost World | Harry Hoyt, Lewis Stone | Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Perils of the Wild | Francis Ford | Joe Bonomo, Margaret Quimby | United States | Serial |
| Peter the Pirate | Arthur Robison | Paul Richter, Aud Egede-Nissen, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | Germany | |
| The Revenge of the Pharaohs | Hans Theyer | Suzy Vernon, Gustav Diessl | Austria | |
| Satan's Sister | George Pearson | Betty Balfour | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| She | Leander de Cordova, G. B. Samuelson | Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell, Heinrich George | United Kingdom Germany | Fantasy adventure |
| Surcouf | Luitz-Morat | Jean Angelo | France | Serial, pirate film |
| The Winding Stair | John Griffith Wray | Edmund Lowe, Alma Rubens, Warner Oland | United States | |
| Zigano | Harry Piel, Gérard Bourgeois | Harry Piel, Denise Legeay, Dary Holm, Fritz Greiner | Germany | |

## 1926

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | | Germany | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Bardelys the Magnificent | King Vidor | John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy | United States | |
| Beau Geste | Herbert Brenon | Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce | United States | War adventure |
| Black Paradise | Roy William Neill | Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton, Edmund Lowe | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Black Pirate | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott | United States | Swashbuckler, pirate film |
| Breed of the Sea | Ralph Ince | Margaret Livingston, Ralph Ince, Dorothy Dunbar | United States | Sea adventure |
| Cruise of the Jasper B | James W. Horne | Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris, Snitz Edwards | United States | Swashbuckler, adventure comedy |
| Danger Quest | Harry Joe Brown | Reed Howes, Ethel Shannon | United States | |
| Don Juan | Alan Crosland | John Barrymore, Jane Winton, Warner Oland, Myrna Loy, Mary Astor | United States | |
| The Eagle of the Sea | Frank Lloyd | Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez | United States | Pirate film |
| Forbidden Cargoes | Fred LeRoy Granville | Peggy Hyland, Clifford McLaglen, James Lindsay | United Kingdom | |
| Holy Mountain | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| The Love of the Bajadere | Géza von Bolváry | Ellen Kürti | Germany | |
| Maciste in the Lion's Cage | Guido Brignone | Bartolomeo Pagano | Italy | |
| Michel Strogoff | Victor Tourjansky | Ivan Mosjoukine | France | |
| Old Ironsides | James Cruze | Wallace Beery, Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Charles Farrell, Johnnie Walker | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Sea Beast | Millard Webb | John Barrymore, Dolores Costello | United States | Sea adventure |
| Sea Horses | Allan Dwan | Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, William Powell, George Bancroft | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Sea Wolf | Ralph Ince | Ralph Ince, Claire Adams, Theodore von Eltz | United States | Sea adventure |
| Volcano! | William K. Howard | Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery | United States | |

## 1927

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Beloved Rogue | Alan Crosland | John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day | United States | |
| The Blood Ship | George B. Seitz | Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, Richard Arlen | United States | Sea adventure |
| Chang | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Kru, Chantui, Nah | United States | Documentary |
| The Devil Dancer | Fred Niblo | Gilda Gray, Clive Brook | United States | |
| The Fighting Eagle | Donald Crisp | Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver, Sam De Grasse | United States | |
| The Gaucho | F. Richard Jones | Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Vélez, Gustav von Seyffertitz | United States | |
| Isle of Sunken Gold | Harry S. Webb | Anita Stewart | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
| King of the Jungle | Webster Cullison | Elmo Lincoln, Sally Long | United States | Serial |
| The King's Highway | Sinclair Hill | Matheson Lang, Joan Lockton, James Carew | United Kingdom | |
| The Loves of Casanova | Alexandre Volkoff | Ivan Mosjoukine, Diana Karenne, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | France | |
| Nameless Woman | Georg Jacoby | Elga Brink, Jack Trevor, Georg Alexander | Germany | |
| Perils of the Jungle | Ray Taylor, Jack Nelson | Eugenia Gilbert, Frank Merrill, Bobby Nelson | United States | Serial |
| Rinaldo Rinaldini | Max Obal, Rudolf Dworsky | Luciano Albertini | Germany | |
| The Road to Romance | John S. Robertson | Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day | United States | Pirate film |
| Senorita | Clarence G. Badger | Bebe Daniels, James Hall, William Powell | United States | |
| Shanghai Bound | Luther Reed | Richard Dix, Mary Brian | United States | Sea adventure |
| Tarzan and the Golden Lion | J. P. McGowan | James Pierce, Edna Murphy | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Two Arabian Knights | Lewis Milestone | William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim | United States | |
| The Warning | George B. Seitz | Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier | United States | |

## 1928

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Balaclava | Maurice Elvey, Milton Rosmer | Cyril McLaglen, Benita Hume | United Kingdom | |
| Beau Sabreur | John S. Waters | Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Noah Beery | United States | Adventure drama |
| The Charge of the Gauchos | Albert H. Kelley | Francis X. Bushman, Jacqueline Logan | United States Argentina | |
| The Cossacks | George W. Hill, Clarence Brown | John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence, Nils Asther | United States | |
| The First Kiss | Rowland V. Lee | Gary Cooper, Fay Wray | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Gateway of the Moon | John Griffith Wray | Dolores del Río, Walter Pidgeon | United States | |
| The Great Adventuress | Robert Wiene | Lili Damita, Georg Alexander, Fred Solm, Félix de Pomés | Germany | |
| Haunted Island | Robert F. Hill | Jack Dougherty, Helen Foster, Al Ferguson | United States | Serial |
| Modern Pirates | Manfred Noa | Jack Trevor | Germany | Sea adventure |
| The Prince of Rogues | Curtis Bernhardt | Hans Stüwe | Germany | |
| Scarlet Seas | John Francis Dillon | Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, Loretta Young | United States | Sea adventure |
| Secrets of the Orient | Alexandre Volkoff | Iván Petrovich, Gaston Modot | Germany France | |
| Struggle for the Matterhorn | Mario Bonnard, Nunzio Malasomma | Luis Trenker | Germany Switzerland | |
| Tarzan the Mighty | Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor | Frank Merrill, Natalie Kingston | United States | Serial |
| The Trail of '98 | Clarence Brown | Dolores del Río, Ralph Forbes, Harry Carey, Karl Dane | United States | Adventure drama |
| The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel | T. Hayes Hunter | Matheson Lang, Juliette Compton | United States | |
| Two Lovers | Fred Niblo | Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Noah Beery | United States | |
| The Viking | Roy William Neill | Donald Crisp, Pauline Starke, LeRoy Mason | United States | Adventure drama |
| West of Zanzibar | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter | United States | |
| White Shadows in the South Seas | W. S. Van Dyke, Robert Flaherty | Monte Blue, Raquel Torres | United States | |
| Won in the Clouds | Bruce M. Mitchell | Al Wilson, Helen Foster, Frank Rice | United States | |

## 1929

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Call of the North | Nunzio Malasomma, Mario Bonnard | Luis Trenker | Germany | Arctic adventure |
| Captain Fracasse | Alberto Cavalcanti | Pierre Blanchar, Lien Deyers, Charles Boyer | France | |
| The Delightful Rogue | Leslie Pearce | Rod La Rocque | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Desert Song | Roy Del Ruth | John Boles, Louise Fazenda, Myrna Loy | United States | Musical |
| Emerald of the East | Jean de Kuharski | Joshua Kean, Mary Odette, Jean de Kuharski | United Kingdom | |
| The Four Feathers | Merian C. Cooper | Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell, Noah Beery Sr. | United States | |
| Hurricane | Ralph Ince | Hobart Bosworth, Johnny Mack Brown, Leila Hyams, Alan Roscoe | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Iron Mask | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite de la Motte | United States | |
| The Isle of Lost Ships | Irvin Willat | Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Valli, Clarissa Selwynne, Noah Beery Sr. | United States | Sea adventure |
| The King of the Kongo | Richard Thorpe | Jacqueline Logan, Walter Miller, Boris Karloff | United States | Serial |
| The Lost Zeppelin | Edward Sloman | Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli, Ricardo Cortez | United States | |
| Noah's Ark | Michael Curtiz | George O'Brien, Dolores Costello | United States | Flood |
| The Pagan | W. S. Van Dyke | Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis, Donald Crisp | United States | |
| The Pirate of Panama | Ray Taylor | Jay Wilsey, Natalie Kingston, Al Ferguson | United States | Serial |
| The Rescue | Herbert Brenon | Ronald Colman, Lili Damita | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Smuggler's Bride of Mallorca | Hans Behrendt | Jenny Jugo, Friedrich Benfer, Clifford McLaglen | Germany | Sea adventure |
| Stark Mad | Lloyd Bacon | H. B. Warner | United States | |
| Tarzan the Tiger | Henry MacRae | Frank Merrill, Natalie Kingston | United States | Serial |
| The White Hell of Pitz Palu | Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| Woman in the Moon | Fritz Lang | Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp | Germany | Space adventure |