# List of adventure films of the 1930s

A list of adventure films released in the 1930s.

## 1930

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Big Trail | Raoul Walsh | John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power Sr., El Brendel | United States | Epic western, wagon train |
| The Black Watch | John Ford | Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy | United States | |
| Dangerous Paradise | William A. Wellman | Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz | United States | |
| A Daughter of the Congo | Oscar Micheaux | Kathleen Noisette, Lorenzo Tucker | United States | |
| General Crack | Alan Crosland | John Barrymore, Marian Nixon, Armida, Lowell Sherman | United States | |
| The Green Goddess | Alfred E. Green | George Arliss, H. B. Warner, Alice Joyce | United States | |
| Hell Harbor | Henry King | Lupe Vélez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Hell's Island | Edward Sloman | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Dorothy Sebastian | United States | |
| The Man Hunter | D. Ross Lederman | Rin Tin Tin | United States | |
| Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou | United States | Desert adventure |
| Paradise Island | Bert Glennon | Marceline Day, Kenneth Harlan | United States | |
| Renegades | Victor Fleming | Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery | United States | |
| The Sea God | George Abbott | Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Sea Wolf | Alfred Santell | Milton Sills, Raymond Hackett | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Silver Horde | George Archainbaud | Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, Blanche Sweet | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Spoilers | Edwin Carewe | Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson | United States | Western |
| Storm over Mont Blanc | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| Vengeance | Archie Mayo | Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier | United States | |
| Women Everywhere | Alexander Korda | J. Harold Murray, Fifi D'Orsay | United States | Musical |

## 1931

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventurer of Tunis | Willi Wolff | Ellen Richter, Theo Shall, Charles Puffy | Germany | |
| Beau Ideal | Herbert Brenon | Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Loretta Young | United States | |
| Corsair | Roland West | Chester Morris | United States | Sea adventure |
| Danger Island | Ray Taylor | Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Andy Devine | United States | Serial |
| Dirigible | Frank Capra | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray | United States | |
| East of Borneo | George Melford | Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Fifty Fathoms Deep | Roy William Neill | Jack Holt, Loretta Sayers, Richard Cromwell | United States | Sea adventure |
| King of the Wild | B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe | Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Dorothy Christy, Boris Karloff | United States | Serial |
| Never the Twain Shall Meet | W. S. Van Dyke | Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro | United States | Sea adventure |
| Trader Horn | W. S. Van Dyke | Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu | United States | |
| The Unholy Garden | George Fitzmaurice | Ronald Colman, Fay Wray | United States | |

## 1932

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| L'Atlantide | G. W. Pabst | Brigitte Helm | France Germany | |
| Baroud | Rex Ingram, Alice Terry | Pierre Batcheff, Rosita Garcia | France United Kingdom | |
| The Black Hussar | Gerhard Lamprecht | Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians | Germany | |
| Bring 'Em Back Alive | Clyde E. Elliott | Frank Buck | United States | Documentary |
| Chandu the Magician | William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall | United States | Secret agent |
| Devil on Deck | Wallace Fox | Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Wheeler Oakman, June Marlowe | United States | Sea adventure |
| F.P.1 | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre | Germany | |
| Hell's Headquarters | Andrew L. Stone | Jack Mulhall, Barbara Weeks | United States | |
| Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen | United States | Horror adventure |
| Jungle Mystery | Ray Taylor | Tom Tyler | United States | Serial |
| Kongo | William J. Cowen | Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce | United States | Horror adventure |
| The Mask of Fu Manchu | Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor | Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett | United States | Horror adventure |
| The Most Dangerous Game | Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson | United States | Horror adventure, desert island, jungle |
| The Mummy | Karl Freund | Boris Karloff, Zita Johann | United States | Horror adventure |
| Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | E. A. Dupont | Willi Forst, Alice Treff, Paul Hörbiger, Otto Wernicke | Germany | Adventure comedy |
| The Rebel | Curtis Bernhardt, Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich | Germany | |
| Red Dust | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Roar of the Dragon | Wesley Ruggles | Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, ZaSu Pitts, C. Henry Gordon | United States | |
| The Savage Girl | Harry L. Fraser | Rochelle Hudson, Harry Myers | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Shanghai Express | Josef von Sternberg | Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Clive Brook | United States | |
| Tarzan the Ape Man | W. S. Van Dyke | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
| The Three Musketeers | Henri Diamant-Berger | Aimé Simon-Girard, Henri Rollan, Thomy Bourdelle, Jean-Louis Allibert | France | |
| Tiger Shark | Howard Hawks | Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann | United States | Sea adventure |
| War Correspondent | Paul Sloane | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee | United States | |
| The White God | George Schnéevoigt | Paul Richter, Mona Mårtenson, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | Denmark Germany | Arctic adventure |
| White Zombie | Victor Hugo Halperin | Bela Lugosi | United States | Horror adventure |

## 1933

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The 1002nd Night | Alexandre Volkoff | Ivan Mosjoukine, Tania Fédor, Natalya Lisenko | France | |
| Below the Sea | Albert S. Rogell | Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Frank Capra | Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Dick Turpin | Victor Hanbury, John Stafford | Victor McLaglen | United Kingdom | |
| Don Quixote | G.W. Pabst | Feodor Chaliapin, George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy | France United Kingdom | Romantic adventure, adventure drama |
| The Flaming Signal | George Jeske, Charles E. Roberts | John David Horsley, Marceline Day, Noah Beery, Mischa Auer | United States | |
| King Kong | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Kiss of Araby | Phil Rosen | Maria Alba, Walter Byron, Claire Windsor | United States | |
| Laughing at Life | Ford Beebe | Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro | United States | |
| The Perils of Pauline | Ray Taylor | Evalyn Knapp, Robert Allen | United States | Serial |
| Refugees | Gustav Ucicky | Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy | Germany | |
| Savage Gold | George Miller Dyott | George Miller Dyott | United States | Documentary |
| So This Is Africa | Edward F. Cline | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston | United States | Jungle adventure |
| S.O.S. Eisberg | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet | Germany | Arctic adventure |
| Tarzan the Fearless | Robert F. Hill | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren | United States | Serial, jungle adventure |
| The Three Musketeers | Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark | John Wayne, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr. | United States | Serial |
| Timbuctoo | Walter Summers, Arthur B. Woods | Henry Kendall, Margot Grahame | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| When Strangers Marry | Clarence G. Badger | Jack Holt, Lilian Bond | United States | |
| White Woman | Stuart Walker | Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton | United States | |
| The Woman I Stole | Irving Cummings | Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Noah Beery | United States | |

## 1934

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Adventure Girl | Herman C. Raymaker | Joan Lowell | United States | Docudrama |
| The Affairs of Cellini | Gregory La Cava | Fredric March, Constance Bennett, Fay Wray, Frank Morgan | United States | |
| Beyond Bengal | Harry Schenck | Harry Schenck | United States | Documentary |
| Black Moon | Roy William Neill | Fay Wray, Jack Holt, Dorothy Burgess | United States | Horror adventure |
| Le Bossu | René Sti | Robert Vidalin | France | |
| Cartouche | Jacques Daroy | Paul Lalloz | France | |
| Colonel Blood | W. P. Lipscomb | Frank Cellier, Anne Grey, Mary Lawson, Allan Jeayes | United Kingdom | |
| The Eternal Dream | Arnold Fanck | Sepp Rist, Brigitte Horney | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| Four Frightened People | Cecil B. DeMille | Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland, William Gargan | United States | Jungle adventure, desert island |
| Le Grand Jeu | Jacques Feyder | Pierre Richard-Willm, Marie Bell, Charles Vanel, Françoise Rosay | France | |
| The Lost Jungle | David Howard, Armand Schaefer | Clyde Beatty | United States | Serial |
| The Lost Patrol | John Ford | Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny | United States | Desert |
| A Man Wants to Get to Germany | Paul Wegener | Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Horney | Germany | Sea adventure |
| Marie Galante | Henry King | Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian | United States | |
| Murder in Trinidad | Louis King | Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory | United States | Mystery |
| North Pole, Ahoy | Andrew Marton | Walter Riml, Gustav Lantschner | Germany | Arctic adventure, adventure comedy |
| Peer Gynt | Fritz Wendhausen | Hans Albers, Olga Chekhova, Otto Wernicke | Germany | |
| Pirate Treasure | Ray Taylor | Richard Talmadge | United States | Serial |
| The Private Life of Don Juan | Alexander Korda | Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon | United Kingdom | |
| Pursued | Louis King | Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, Russell Hardie | United States | |
| Red Morning | Wallace Fox | Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey, Raymond Hatton | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Riders of German East Africa | Herbert Selpin | Sepp Rist | Germany | |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Harold Young | Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce | United Kingdom | |
| Schwarzer Jäger Johanna | Johannes Meyer | Marianne Hoppe, Paul Hartmann, Gustaf Gründgens | Germany | |
| A Scream in the Night | Fred C. Newmeyer | Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Mystery |
| Sixteen Fathoms Deep | Armand Schaefer | Lon Chaney Jr., Sally O'Neil | United States | Sea adventure |
| Tarzan and His Mate | Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Treasure Island | Victor Fleming | Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce | United States | Pirate film |
| Wild Cargo | Armand Denis | Frank Buck | United States | Documentary |
| Young Eagles | Edward Laurier, Vin Moore | Bobby Cox, Jim Vance | United States | Serial, family-oriented adventure |

## 1935

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| La Bandera | Julien Duvivier | Jean Gabin, Annabella | France | |
| The Best Man Wins | Erle C. Kenton | Jack Holt, Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Black Room | Roy William Neill | Boris Karloff | United States | Horror adventure |
| The Call of the Jungle | Harry Piel | Harry Piel, Gerda Maurus | Germany | |
| The Call of the Savage | Lew Landers | Noah Beery Jr. | United States | Serial |
| The Call of the Wild | William A. Wellman | Clark Gable, Loretta Young | United States | |
| Captain Blood | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill | United States | Pirate film |
| China Seas | Tay Garnett | Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
| Clive of India | Richard Boleslawski | Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive | United States | |
| The Crusades | Cecil B. DeMille | Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith | United States | |
| Demon of the Himalayas | Andrew Marton | Gustav Diessl | Switzerland | Mountaineering adventure |
| Drake of England | Arthur B. Woods | Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler, Jane Baxter | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| East of Java | George Melford | Charles Bickford | United States | |
| Fang and Claw | Frank Buck | Frank Buck | United States | Documentary |
| Last of the Pagans | Richard Thorpe | Ray Mala, Lotus Long | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Last Outpost | Louis J. Gasnier, Charles Barton | Cary Grant, Claude Rains | United States | |
| The Live Wire | Harry S. Webb | Richard Talmadge | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Henry Hathaway | Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Lost City | Harry Revier | William Boyd | United States | Serial, fantasy adventure |
| McGlusky the Sea Rover | Walter Summers | Jack Doyle, Tamara Desni, Henry Mollison | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Midshipman Easy | Carol Reed | Hughie Green, Roger Livesey, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Adams | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| Mutiny Ahead | Thomas Atkins | Neil Hamilton, Kathleen Burke | United States | Sea adventure |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd | Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Movita | United States | Sea adventure, adventure drama |
| The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | Denison Clift | Bela Lugosi | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| The New Adventures of Tarzan | Edward A. Kull | Herman Brix | United States | Serial |
| ... nur ein Komödiant | Erich Engel | Rudolf Forster, Paul Wegener | Austria | |
| Oil for the Lamps of China | Mervyn LeRoy | Pat O'Brien | United States | |
| Professional Soldier | Tay Garnett | Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew | United States | |
| Queen of the Jungle | Robert F. Hill | Mary Kornman, Reed Howes | United States | Serial |
| La Route impériale | Marcel L'Herbier | Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Richard-Willm, Pierre Renoir | France | |
| Sanders of the River | Zoltan Korda | Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney | United Kingdom | |
| Savage Fury | Lew Landers | Noah Beery Jr., Walter Miller, Dorothy Short | United States | Jungle adventure |
| She | Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce | United States | |
| Storm Over the Andes | Christy Cabanne | Jack Holt | United States | |
| The Three Musketeers | Rowland V. Lee | Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Paul Lukas | United States | |
| Under the Pampas Moon | James Tinling | Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian | United States | Romantic adventure |

## 1936

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Across the Desert | Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla | Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt | Germany | |
| The Adventures of Frank Merriwell | Cliff Smith | Donald Briggs | United States | Serial |
| The Black Coin | Albert Herman | Ralph Graves | United States | Serial |
| Black Gold | Russell Hopton | Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Gloria Shea | United States | Action adventure |
| The Bold Caballero | Wells Root | Robert Livingston | United States | |
| Captain Calamity | John Reinhardt | George F. Houston | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, David Niven | United States | |
| Dangerous Waters | Lambert Hillyer | Jack Holt, Robert Armstrong | United States | Sea adventure |
| Darkest Africa | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Clyde Beatty, Manuel King, Elaine Shepard | United States | Serial |
| Down to the Sea | Lewis D. Collins | Russell Hardie, Ben Lyon, Ann Rutherford | United States | Sea adventure |
| L'Esclave blanc | Jean-Paul Paulin | George Rigaud, Sanlure | France Italy | |
| Flash Gordon | Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial, space adventure |
| The General Died at Dawn | Lewis Milestone | Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
| Isle of Fury | Frank McDonald | Humphrey Bogart, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay | United States | |
| Juan Moreira | Nelo Cosimi | Antonio Podestá, Domingo Sapelli, Guillermo Casali, María Esther Podestá | Argentina | |
| The Jungle Princess | Wilhelm Thiele | Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
| The Last Four on Santa Cruz | Werner Klingler | Hermann Speelmans, Françoise Rosay, Valéry Inkijinoff | Germany | |
| The Last of the Mohicans | George B. Seitz | Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes | United States | Western |
| The Leathernecks Have Landed | Howard Bretherton | Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell | United States | |
| A Legionnaire | Christian-Jaque | Fernandel | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Lion Man | John P. McCarthy | Jon Hall, Kathleen Burke, Ted Adams | United States | |
| Michel Strogoff | Jacques de Baroncelli, Richard Eichberg | Anton Walbrook, Charles Vanel | France | |
| The Mine with the Iron Door | David Howard | Richard Arlen, Cecilia Parker, Henry B. Walthall | United States | |
| North of Nome | William Nigh | Jack Holt | United States | |
| Port Arthur | Nicolas Farkas | Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel | France | |
| Revolt of the Zombies | Victor Hugo Halperin | Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger | United States | Horror adventure |
| Rhodes of Africa | Berthold Viertel | Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka | United Kingdom | |
| Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island | Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright | Ray Mala, Mamo Clark, Herbert Rawlinson | United States | Serial, US spies in Polynesia |
| Le Roman d'un spahi | Michel Bernheim | George Rigaud, Mireille Balin, Princesse Khandou | France | |
| Sea Spoilers | Frank R. Strayer | John Wayne, Nan Grey | United States | Sea adventure |
| Song of Freedom | J. Elder Wills | Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
| Lo squadrone bianco | Augusto Genina | Antonio Centa, Fosco Giachetti | Italy | |
| Tarzan Escapes | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Tundra | Norman Dawn | Alfred Delcambre | United States | |
| Uncivilised | Charles Chauvel | Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey | Australia | |
| Under Blazing Heavens | Gustav Ucicky | Hans Albers, Lotte Lang | Germany | Sea adventure |
| Under Two Flags | Frank Lloyd | Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell | United States | |
| Undersea Kingdom | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue | United States | Serial |
| We're in the Legion Now! | Crane Wilbur | Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston | United States | Adventure comedy |
| White Death | Edwin G. Bowen | Zane Grey | Australia | Sea adventure |
| White Hunter | Irving Cummings | Warner Baxter, June Lang | United States | |
| Wings Over Africa | Ladislao Vajda | Joan Gardner, Ian Colin, James Harcourt | United Kingdom | |

## 1937

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Adventure's End | Arthur Lubin | John Wayne | United States | Sea adventure |
| Alarm in Peking | Herbert Selpin | Gustav Fröhlich | Germany | |
| Aloha, le chant des îles | Léon Mathot | Jean Murat, Danièle Parola, Arletty | France | |
| The Black Corsair | Amleto Palermi | Ciro Verratti, Silvana Jachino | Italy | Pirate film |
| Captains Courageous | Victor Fleming | Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore | United States | Adventure drama, sea adventure |
| China Passage | Edward Killy | Vinton Haworth, Gordon Jones, Constance Worth, Leslie Fenton | United States | Sea adventure, mystery |
| Condottieri | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker | Italy Germany | |
| Elephant Boy | Robert J. Flaherty | Sabu, Walter Hudd, W. E. Holloway | United Kingdom | |
| The Emperor's Candlesticks | George Fitzmaurice | William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan | United States | |
| The Forsaken | Jacques Séverac | Jean Servais | France | |
| The High Command | Thorold Dickinson | Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, James Mason | United Kingdom | |
| I Cover the War | Arthur Lubin | John Wayne | United States | |
| Jungle Jim | Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Grant Withers | United States | Serial |
| Jungle Menace | Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Frank Buck | United States | Serial |
| King Solomon's Mines | Robert Stevenson | Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, Anna Lee | United Kingdom | African adventure |
| The Legion of Missing Men | Hamilton MacFadden | Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Hala Linda | United States | War adventure |
| Lost Horizon | Frank Capra | Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, John Howard | United States | |
| The Messenger | Raymond Rouleau | Jean Gabin, Gaby Morlay, Jean-Pierre Aumont | France | |
| The Mysterious Pilot | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian | United States | Serial |
| Outlaws of the Orient | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Jack Holt, Mae Clarke | United States | |
| The Pearls of the Crown | Sacha Guitry | Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Prince and the Pauper | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Billy and Bobby Mauch, Claude Rains | United States | |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | John Cromwell, W. S. Van Dyke | Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, Raymond Massey, David Niven | United States | Swashbuckler |
| Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Hanns Schwarz | Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason | United Kingdom | |
| Sea Devils | Benjamin Stoloff | Victor McLagen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino | United States | Sea adventure |
| Slave Ship | Tay Garnett | Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney | United States | |
| Southern Mail | Pierre Billon | Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel | France | |
| Three Legionnaires | Hamilton MacFadden | Robert Armstrong, Lyle Talbot, Anne Nagel | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Tim Tyler's Luck | Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens | Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson, Al Shean, William 'Billy' Benedict | United States | Serial |
| La Tour de Nesle | Gaston Roudès | Tania Fédor, Jean Weber, Jacques Varennes | France | |
| Troïka sur la piste blanche | Jean Dréville | Jean Murat, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel | France | |
| Trouble in Morocco | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Jack Holt, Mae Clarke | United States | |
| Under the Red Robe | Victor Sjöström | Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey | United Kingdom | |
| Wallaby Jim of the Islands | Charles Lamont | George F. Houston | United States | Sea adventure |
| West of Shanghai | John Farrow | Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez | United States | |
| The Wife of General Ling | Ladislao Vajda | Griffith Jones, Valéry Inkijinoff, Adrianne Renn | United Kingdom | |
| Windjammer | Ewing Scott | George O'Brien | United States | Sea adventure |
| Woman of Malacca | Marc Allégret | Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm | France | Romantic adventure |
| The Yellow Flag | Gerhard Lamprecht | Hans Albers, Olga Chekhova, Dorothea Wieck | Germany | |
| Zorro Rides Again | John English, William Witney | John Carroll, Helen Christian | United States | Serial, western |

## 1938

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Adventure in Sahara | D. Ross Lederman | Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray | United States | |
| The Adventures of Marco Polo | Archie Mayo | Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone | United States | |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains | United States | Swashbuckler, romantic adventure |
| Alert in the Mediterranean | Léo Joannon | Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka, Kim Peacock | France | Sea adventure |
| Bar du sud | Henri Fescourt | Charles Vanel, Tania Fédor | France | |
| The Buccaneer | Cecil B. DeMille | Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff | United States | Pirate film |
| Bulldog Drummond in Africa | Louis King | John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish | United States | |
| Call of the Yukon | John T. Coyle, B. Reeves Eason | Richard Arlen | United States | |
| Capriccio | Karl Ritter | Lilian Harvey, Viktor Staal | Germany | Adventure comedy |
| The Challenge | Luis Trenker, Milton Rosmer | Robert Douglas, Luis Trenker | United Kingdom | |
| Coral Reefs | Maurice Gleize | Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Renoir | France | Sea adventure |
| The Drum | Zoltan Korda | Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson, Roger Livesey | United Kingdom | |
| Ettore Fieramosca | Alessandro Blasetti | Gino Cervi, Mario Ferrari, Elisa Cegani | Italy | |
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial, space adventure |
| Flight into Nowhere | Lewis D. Collins | Jack Holt, Dick Purcell | United States | |
| Hawk of the Wilderness | John English, William Witney | Herman Brix, Ray Mala, Noble Johnson | United States | Serial, uncharted jungle island |
| Heart of the North | Lewis Seiler | Dick Foran | United States | Western |
| Her Jungle Love | George Archainbaud | Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland | United States | Romantic adventure |
| I Was an Adventuress | Raymond Bernard | Edwige Feuillère, Jean Murat, Jean-Max, Jean Tissier | France | |
| If I Were King | Frank Lloyd | Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone | United States | |
| The Indian Tomb | Richard Eichberg | La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen | Germany | |
| Kautschuk | Eduard von Borsody | René Deltgen, Gustav Diessl | Germany | |
| Kidnapped | Alfred L. Werker | Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew | United States | |
| Mollenard | Robert Siodmak | Harry Baur, Pierre Renoir, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat | France | Sea adventure |
| The Mountain Calls | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Heidemarie Hatheyer | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
| Old Bones of the River | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay | United Kingdom | |
| La Piste du sud | Pierre Billon | Albert Préjean, Jean-Louis Barrault, Ketti Gallian | France | |
| Rail Pirates | Christian-Jaque | Charles Vanel, Erich von Stroheim, Suzy Prim, Marcel Dalio, Valéry Inkijinoff | France | |
| Rose of the Rio Grande | William Nigh | Movita, John Carroll | United States | |
| S.O.S. Sahara | Jacques de Baroncelli | Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont | France Germany | |
| The Secret of Treasure Island | Elmer Clifton | Don Terry, Gwen Gaze | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
| Spawn of the North | Henry Hathaway | George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Sea adventure |
| Storm Over Asia | Richard Oswald | Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa, Madeleine Robinson, Michiko Tanaka | France | Adventure drama |
| Storm Over Bengal | Sidney Salkow | Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson | United States | |
| Suez | Allan Dwan | Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella | United States | |
| Tarzan's Revenge | D. Ross Lederman | Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm | United States | |
| The Tiger of Eschnapur | Richard Eichberg | La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen | Germany | |
| Too Hot to Handle | Jack Conway | Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Trade Winds | Tay Garnett | Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern | United States | Adventure comedy, sea adventure |
| Under the Southern Cross | Guido Brignone | Antonio Centa, Doris Duranti, Enrico Glori, Giovanni Grasso | Italy | |
| Vessel of Wrath | Erich Pommer | Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| The Woman from the End of the World | Jean Epstein | Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Germaine Rouer | France | Sea adventure |

## 1939

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Richard Thorpe | Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram | United States | |
| Angelica | Jean Choux | Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant | France | |
| Barricade | Gregory Ratoff | Alice Faye, Warner Baxter | United States | |
| Beau Geste | William A. Wellman | Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward | United States | Colonial (French Foreign Legion) |
| Brand im Ozean | Günther Rittau | Hans Söhnker, René Deltgen, Winnie Markus | Germany | Sea adventure |
| Buck Rogers | Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran | United States | Serial, science fiction adventure |
| Cadets | Karl Ritter | Mathias Wieman, Andrews Engelmann, Carsta Löck | Germany | |
| Congo Express | Eduard von Borsody | Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, René Deltgen | Germany | |
| Five Came Back | John Farrow | Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine | United States | Adventure drama |
| The Five Cents of Lavarede | Maurice Cammage | Fernandel | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Flying Deuces | A. Edward Sutherland | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda | John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith | United States United Kingdom | Colonial (British in Sudan) |
| Gunga Din | George Stevens | Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | United States | Colonial (British India) |
| Island of Lost Men | Kurt Neumann | Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Broderick Crawford, Anthony Quinn, Rudolf Forster | United States | |
| Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie | United Kingdom | |
| La Loi du Nord | Jacques Feyder | Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel | France | |
| Mandrake the Magician | Norman Deming, Sam Nelson | Warren Hull, Doris Weston, Al Kikume | United States | Serial |
| Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Noah Beery | United States | |
| Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell | United States | |
| Stanley and Livingstone | Henry King | Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | |
| The Sun Never Sets | Rowland V. Lee | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill | United States | Jungle adventure |
| Tarzan Finds a Son! | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
| The Three Musketeers | Allan Dwan | Don Ameche, Ritz Brothers | United States | Adventure comedy, musical |
| Tropic Fury | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | |
| Uproar in Damascus | Gustav Ucicky | Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk | Germany | |
| Vidocq | Jacques Daroy | André Brulé | France | |
| Water for Canitoga | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers | Germany | Western |
| The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton | United States | |
| Zorro's Fighting Legion | William Witney, John English | Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander de Cordova | United States | Serial |