# List of adventure films of the 1970s

A list of adventure films released in the 1970s.

## 1970

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventurers | Lewis Gilbert | Bekim Fehmiu, Candice Bergen, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Aznavour, Olivia de Havilland, Fernando Rey, Rossano Brazzi | United States | |
| The Adventures of Gerard | Jerzy Skolimowski | Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach | United Kingdom Sweden Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Aquarians | Don McDougall | Ricardo Montalbán, José Ferrer, Leslie Nielsen | United States | Sea adventure |
| Black Water Gold | Alan Landsburg | Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Ricardo Montalbán, Lana Wood | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Bloody Judge | Jesús Franco | Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Margaret Lee | Spain Italy West Germany Liechtenstein | Horror adventure |
| Brancaleone at the Crusades | Mario Monicelli | Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Stefania Sandrelli | Italy Algeria | Adventure comedy |
| Brother, Cry for Me | William White | Steve Drexel, Leslie Parrish, Larry Pennell | United States | |
| Carry On Up the Jungle | Gerald Thomas | Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Jacki Piper | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Compañeros | Sergio Corbucci | Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Iris Berben, Fernando Rey | Italy Spain West Germany | Western |
| Il corsaro [it] | Antonio Mollica | Robert Woods | Italy Spain | Pirate film |
| Cromwell | Ken Hughes | Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Timothy Dalton | United Kingdom | |
| Deadlock | Roland Klick | Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm, Mascha Rabben | West Germany | |
| Donkey Skin | Jacques Demy | Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Delphine Seyrig | France | Fantasy adventure, musical |
| Due bianchi nell'Africa nera [it] | Bruno Corbucci | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Figures in a Landscape | Joseph Losey | Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
| La furia dei Khyber | José Luis Merino | Peter Lee Lawrence, Carlos Quiney | Italy Spain | |
| The Hawaiians | Tom Gries | Charlton Heston, Tina Chen | United States | |
| The Invincible Six | Jean Negulesco | Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer, Curd Jürgens, James Mitchum | United States Iran | |
| The Kashmiri Run | John Peyser | Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastedo, Julián Mateos | United States Spain | |
| Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland | United States Yugoslavia | War adventure |
| The Last Grenade | Gordon Flemyng | Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| Lost Flight | Leonard Horn | Lloyd Bridges, Anne Francis, Ralph Meeker | United States | |
| Il magnifico Robin Hood [it] | Roberto Bianchi Montero | George Martin | Italy | |
| A Man Called Horse | Elliot Silverstein | Richard Harris | United States | Western |
| The Mask of Sheba | David Lowell Rich | Walter Pidgeon, Inger Stevens, Eric Braeden, Joseph Wiseman | United States | |
| The Moonshine War | Richard Quine | Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Patrick McGoohan | United States | |
| On the Comet | Karel Zeman | Magdaléna Vášáryová, Emil Horváth | Czechoslovakia | Space adventure, fantasy adventure |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Olle Hellbom | Inger Nilsson, Martin Ljung, Jarl Borssén | Sweden | Family-oriented adventure, sea adventure |
| Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere | José Luis Merino | Carlos Quiney | Italy Spain | |
| Satan's Harvest | George Montgomery | George Montgomery, Tippi Hedren, Matt Monro | South Africa | |
| Skullduggery | Gordon Douglas | Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Paul Hubschmid | United States | |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | Paul Newman | Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel | United States | |
| Start the Revolution Without Me | Bud Yorkin | Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Strogoff | Eriprando Visconti | John Phillip Law, Mimsy Farmer, Hiram Keller, Elisabeth Bergner | Italy France West Germany | |
| A Sword for Brando | Alfio Caltabiano | Riccardo Salvino, Karin Schubert | Italy | |
| Ternos caçadores | Ruy Guerra | Stuart Whitman, Sterling Hayden, Susan Strasberg | Brazil France Panama | |
| The Tigers of Mompracem | Mario Sequi | Ivan Rassimov | Italy | |
| Tumuc Humac | Jean-Marie Périer | Marc Porel, Dani, François Périer, André Pousse | France | |
| Viva Cangaceiro | Giovanni Fago | Tomas Milian | Italy Spain | |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Val Guest | Victoria Vetri | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| White Sun of the Desert | Vladimir Motyl | Anatoly Kuznetsov, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze | Soviet Union | War adventure |
| You Can't Win 'Em All | Peter Collinson | Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier | United Kingdom | |

## 1971

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Bananas | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Louise Lasser | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Robert Stevenson | Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe | United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure, fantasy adventure |
| Blackie the Pirate | Lorenzo Gicca Palli | Terence Hill, George Martin, Bud Spencer | Italy | Pirate film |
| Boulevard du Rhum | Robert Enrico | Brigitte Bardot, Lino Ventura | France Italy Spain | Sea adventure |
| The Bridge in the Jungle | Pancho Kohner | John Huston, Katy Jurado, Charles Robinson | United States | |
| The Butterfly Affair | Jean Herman | Claudia Cardinale, Stanley Baker, Henri Charrière | France Italy | |
| Le calde notti di Don Giovanni [it] | Alfonso Brescia | Robert Hoffmann, Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg | Italy Spain | |
| Captain Typhoon [de] | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens, Heinz Reincke, Johanna von Koczian | West Germany | Sea adventure |
| Los corsarios | Ferdinando Baldi | Dean Reed, Alberto de Mendoza | Spain Italy | Pirate film |
| Les Coups pour rien | Pierre Lambert | Pierre Brice, Yanti Somer | France | |
| Creatures the World Forgot | Don Chaffey | Julie Ege | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| A Fistful of Dynamite | Sergio Leone | James Coburn, Rod Steiger | Italy United States Spain | Western |
| The Garden of Aunt Isabel | Felipe Cazals | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Claudio Brook, Ofelia Guilmáin, Jorge Luke [es] | Mexico | |
| Haiducii lui Șaptecai | Dinu Cocea | Florin Piersic, Marga Barbu | Romania | |
| Haie an Bord [de] | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Freddy Quinn, Karin Dor, Werner Pochath | West Germany | Sea adventure |
| Heißer Sand | Günter Gräwert [de] | Joachim Fuchsberger, Sieghardt Rupp | West Germany | |
| The Horsemen | John Frankenheimer | Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Leigh Taylor-Young | United States | |
| How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Arduíno Colassanti, Ana Maria Magalhães | Brazil | |
| Husaren in Berlin | Erwin Stranka [de] | Manfred Krug | East Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman | Roberto Mauri | Mark Damon | Italy Spain France | |
| Kidnapped | Delbert Mann | Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence | United Kingdom | |
| The Last Valley | James Clavell | Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan | United Kingdom United States | Adventure drama |
| The Light at the Edge of the World | Kevin Billington | Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar | Spain United States | |
| Long Live Robin Hood | Giorgio Ferroni | Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Mark Damon | Italy Spain France | Adventure comedy |
| Long Live Your Death | Duccio Tessari | Franco Nero, Eli Wallach, Lynn Redgrave, Eduardo Fajardo, Horst Janson, Marilù Tolo | Italy Spain West Germany | Western |
| Lover of the Great Bear | Valentino Orsini | Giuliano Gemma, Senta Berger, Bruno Cremer | Italy | |
| Man in the Wilderness | Richard C. Sarafian | Richard Harris, John Huston | United States | Western |
| The Married Couple of the Year Two | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Sami Frey, Pierre Brasseur | France Romania Italy | |
| Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Arne Sucksdorff, Alfred Viola, Roy Boulting | John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton | United Kingdom | Arctic adventure |
| Mr. Kingstreet's War | Percival Rubens | John Saxon, Tippi Hedren, Rossano Brazzi | South Africa | |
| Murphy's War | Peter Yates | Peter O'Toole, Horst Janson, Philippe Noiret, Siân Phillips | United Kingdom United States | War adventure |
| La Poudre d'escampette [fr] | Philippe de Broca | Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York | France Italy | War adventure, adventure comedy |
| River of Gold | David Friedkin | Suzanne Pleshette, Ray Milland, Dack Rambo, Roger Davis | United States | |
| River of Mystery | Paul Stanley | Vic Morrow, Claude Akins, Edmond O'Brien, Louise Sorel | United States | |
| Romance of a Horsethief | Abraham Polonsky | Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin | Italy France Yugoslavia | Adventure comedy |
| A Season in Hell | Nelo Risi | Terence Stamp, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florinda Bolkan | Italy France | Adventure drama |
| Il sergente Klems [it] | Sergio Grieco | Peter Strauss, Tina Aumont, Luciana Paluzzi | Italy Spain | War adventure |
| Tarkan Versus the Vikings | Mehmet Aslan | Kartal Tibet | Turkey | |
| The Tender Warrior | Stewart Raffill | Charles Lee, Dan Haggerty | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil, John Meillon | Australia United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
| X312 - Flight to Hell [de] | Jesús Franco | Thomas Hunter, Gila von Weitershausen, Fernando Sancho | West Germany Spain | |
| Von Richthofen and Brown | Roger Corman | John Phillip Law, Don Stroud | United States | War adventure |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Mel Stuart | Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson | United States | |
| Zeppelin | Étienne Périer | Michael York, Elke Sommer | United Kingdom | War adventure |

## 1972

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| À la guerre comme à la guerre [fr] | Bernard Borderie | Leonard Whiting, Curd Jürgens, Marianne Comtell | France West Germany Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo | West Germany Peru | Adventure drama |
| The Bar at the Crossing | Alain Levent | Jacques Brel, Rosy Varte, Isabelle Huppert | France | |
| The Call of the Wild | Ken Annakin | Charlton Heston, Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, George Eastman | United Kingdom Italy Spain France West Germany | |
| Cry of the Black Wolves | Harald Reinl | Ron Ely, Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Arthur Brauss | West Germany | Western |
| Deliverance | John Boorman | Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox | United States | Adventure drama |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Robert Fuest | Vincent Price, Robert Quarry | United Kingdom | Horror adventure |
| Family Flight | Marvin J. Chomsky | Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill, Kristoffer Tabori | United States | |
| La grande avventura di Scaramouche | Piero Pierotti | Christian Hay, Grit Freyberg, Erna Schürer, Milly Vitale | Italy | |
| Great Treasure Hunt | Tonino Ricci | Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri | Italy Spain | Western |
| Horror Express | Eugenio Martín | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas | Spain United Kingdom | Horror adventure |
| Jeremiah Johnson | Sydney Pollack | Robert Redford | United States | Western |
| Karzan, il favoloso uomo della jungla | Demofilo Fidani | Johnny Kissmuller Jr. (Armando Bottin) | Italy | |
| The Last Lion | Elmo De Witt | Jack Hawkins | South Africa | Adventure drama |
| I leoni di Pietroburgo | Mario Siciliano | Mark Damon | Italy | |
| The Little Ark | James B. Clark | Theodore Bikel, Geneviève Ambas, Philip Frame | United States | Sea adventure |
| Man from the Deep River | Umberto Lenzi | Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai | Italy | Horror adventure |
| Man of La Mancha | Arthur Hiller | Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco | Italy United States | Musical |
| Meo Patacca [it] | Marcello Ciorciolini | Gigi Proietti, Marilù Tolo | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire | Bruno Corbucci | Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Northeast of Seoul | David Lowell Rich | Anita Ekberg, John Ireland, Victor Buono | United States Hong Kong | |
| Piranha | William Gibson | William Smith, Peter Brown, Ahna Capri, Tom Simcox | United States Venezuela | |
| Un pirata de doce años [it] | René Cardona Jr. | Hugo Stiglitz, René Cardona III, Christa Linder | Mexico | Pirate film |
| Pirates of Blood Island [it] | José Luis Merino | Carlos Quiney, Stelvio Rosi | Spain Italy | Pirate film |
| The Poseidon Adventure | Ronald Neame | Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Proud and Damned | Ferde Grofé Jr. | Chuck Connors, Cesar Romero | United States Colombia | Western |
| The Seventh Bullet | Ali Hamroyev | Suimenkul Chokmorov, Dilorom Kambarova, Bolot Beyshenaliyev, Talgat Nigmatulin | Soviet Union | |
| Sex and Blood in the Trail of the Treasure | José Mojica Marins | Roque Rodrigues, Rosângela Maldonado, José Galã | Brazil | |
| Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull | Bruce Dern | United States | Space adventure |
| Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | Natalya Bondarchuk, Jüri Järvet, Donatas Banionis | Soviet Union | Space adventure, adventure drama |
| Sotto a chi tocca! [it] | Gianfranco Parolini | Dean Reed | Italy Spain West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| The Stolen Battle | Erwin Stranka [de] | Manfred Krug | Czechoslovakia East Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Tintin and the Lake of Sharks | Raymond Leblanc | | France Belgium | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Travels with My Aunt | George Cukor | Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Treasure Island | John Hough | Orson Welles, Lionel Stander, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia, Kim Burfield | United Kingdom Spain West Germany Italy France | Pirate film |
| La Vallée | Barbet Schroeder | Bulle Ogier | France | |
| La vergine di Bali | Guido Zurli [it] | George Ardisson, Haydée Politoff | Italy | |
| What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution? | Sergio Corbucci | Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio, Eduardo Fajardo | Italy Spain | Adventure comedy, western |
| The Wrath of God | Ralph Nelson | Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, Victor Buono | United States | Western |
| Young Winston | Richard Attenborough | Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Hopkins | United Kingdom | |
| Zambo, il dominatore della foresta [it] | Bitto Albertini | Brad Harris, Gisela Hahn | Italy | |

## 1973

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | John Erman | Cliff Robertson, Eric Shea, Pamela Franklin, Bernadette Peters | United States | Adventure comedy |
| ... All the Way, Boys! | Giuseppe Colizzi | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Beyond Atlantis | Eddie Romero | Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, Leigh Christian, George Nader, Vic Diaz | Philippines United States | Sea adventure |
| Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone! [it] | Gianfranco Baldanello | Stelvio Rosi, Mario Brega | Italy | |
| The Day of the Dolphin | Mike Nichols | George C. Scott | United States | Science fiction adventure, sea adventure |
| Death Race | David Lowell Rich | Doug McClure, Lloyd Bridges, Eric Braeden, Roy Thinnes | United States | War adventure |
| The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot | Nina Companeez | Francis Huster, Ottavia Piccolo, Nathalie Delon, Bernadette Lafont, Brigitte Bardot | France | |
| Emperor of the North Pole | Robert Aldrich | Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine | United States | |
| Gawain and the Green Knight | Stephen Weeks | Murray Head, Nigel Green | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Gordon Hessler | John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure, sea adventure |
| The Heroes | Duccio Tessari | Rod Taylor, Rod Steiger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Claude Brasseur, Terry-Thomas | Italy France Spain | War adventure |
| Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! | Giuliano Carnimeo | George Hilton, Edwige Fenech | Italy Spain | Adventure comedy |
| I Escaped from Devil's Island | William Witney | Jim Brown, Christopher George | United States | |
| In Desert and Wilderness | Wladyslaw Slesicki | Monika Rosca, Tomasz Mędrzak | Poland | Adventure drama |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Hall Bartlett | | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Juan Moreira | Leonardo Favio | Rodolfo Bebán | Argentina | Historical drama |
| Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro [it] | Silvio Amadio | Tony Kendall, Ettore Manni, Stelvio Rosi | Italy | |
| Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour | United Kingdom | |
| Lost Horizon | Charles Jarrott | Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, John Gielgud, Charles Boyer, Michael York, George Kennedy | United States | Musical |
| The Neptune Factor | Daniel Petrie | Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, Walter Pidgeon | United States | Science fiction adventure, sea adventure |
| The Night of the Witches | Amando de Ossorio | Simón Andreu, Kali Hansa, Jack Taylor | Spain | Horror adventure |
| Oklahoma Crude | Stanley Kramer | Faye Dunaway, George C. Scott, Jack Palance, John Mills | United States | |
| One Russian Summer | Antonio Calenda [it] | Oliver Reed, Claudia Cardinale, John McEnery | Italy United Kingdom | |
| Papillon | Franklin J. Schaffner | Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman | United States | |
| Profession : Aventuriers [fr] | Claude Mulot | Charles Southwood, Nathalie Delon, Curd Jürgens, André Pousse | France Italy | |
| The Rainbow Boys | Gerald Potterton | Donald Pleasence, Don Calfa, Kate Reid | Canada | |
| Robin Hood | Wolfgang Reitherman | Andy Devine (voice), Brian Bedford (voice), Peter Ustinov (voice) | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Scalawag | Kirk Douglas | Kirk Douglas, George Eastman, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, Don Stroud, Lesley-Anne Down | United States Italy | Pirate film |
| Shaft in Africa | John Guillermin | Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee | United States | |
| Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad | Pietro Francisci | Robert Malcolm, Sonia Wilson | Italy | |
| Super Fly T.N.T. | Ron O'Neal | Ron O'Neal, Roscoe Lee Browne, Sheila Frazier, Robert Guillaume, Jacques Sernas, William Berger | United States | |
| The Three Musketeers | Richard Lester | Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin | Panama United Kingdom | |
| Three Wishes for Cinderella | Václav Vorlíček | Libuše Šafránková | Czechoslovakia | Fantasy adventure, family-oriented adventure |
| Trader Horn | Reza Badiyi | Rod Taylor, Anne Heywood, Jean Sorel | United States | |
| La Valise [fr] | Georges Lautner | Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Jean-Pierre Marielle | France | Adventure comedy |
| War Goddess | Terence Young | Alena Johnston, Sabine Sun, Luciana Paluzzi | Italy France Spain | |
| White Fang | Lucio Fulci | Franco Nero, Raimund Harmstorf, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey, John Steiner, Carole André | Italy Spain France | |
| White Lightning | Joseph Sargent | Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, R. G. Armstrong | United States | |

## 1974

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Alice in the Cities | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer | West Germany | |
| Arabian Nights | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Ninetto Davoli | Italy France | Fantasy adventure |
| The Arena | Steve Carver | Margaret Markov, Pam Grier | United States Italy | |
| At Home Among Strangers | Nikita Mikhalkov | Yuri Bogatyryov, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Alexander Kaidanovsky | Soviet Union | |
| The Bears and I | Bernard McEveety | Patrick Wayne, Chief Dan George, Andrew Duggan, Michael Ansara | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| The Beast | Sergio Corbucci | Giancarlo Giannini, Michel Constantin | Italy France | |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | Warren Oates | Mexico United States | |
| Un capitán de quince años | Jesús Franco | José Manuel Marcos, Edmund Purdom, William Berger, Howard Vernon | Spain France | Sea adventure |
| Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter | Brian Clemens | Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, Ian Hendry | United Kingdom | Horror adventure |
| The Castaway Cowboy | Vincent McEveety | James Garner, Vera Miles, Eric Shea, Robert Culp | United States | |
| Carry On Dick | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Challenge to White Fang | Lucio Fulci | Franco Nero, Raimund Harmstorf, Virna Lisi, Hannelore Elsner, John Steiner, Werner Pochath, Harry Carey Jr. | Italy West Germany France | |
| Dakota [nl] | Wim Verstappen | Kees Brusse, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Monique van de Ven | Netherlands | Adventure drama |
| Dark Star | John Carpenter | Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich | United States | Space adventure |
| The Deluge | Jerzy Hoffman | Daniel Olbrychski | Poland Soviet Union | |
| Dick Turpin | Fernando Merino | Cihangir Ghaffari, Inés Morales | Spain | |
| The Dove | Charles Jarrott | Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin | United States | Sea adventure |
| Dschungelmädchen für zwei Halunken [de] | Ernst Hofbauer | Alberto Dell'Acqua, Wolf Goldan [de] | West Germany Italy | Adventure comedy |
| La dynamite est bonne à boire [fr] | Aldo Sambrell, Gérard Trembasiewicz | Christopher Mitchum, Claudine Auger, Aldo Sambrell, Michel Bouquet | France Spain | |
| Farfallon | Riccardo Pazzaglia | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Four Charlots Musketeers [fr] | André Hunebelle | Les Charlots, Daniel Ceccaldi, Josephine Chaplin | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Four Charlots Musketeers 2 [fr] | André Hunebelle | Les Charlots, Daniel Ceccaldi, Josephine Chaplin | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Four Musketeers | Richard Lester | Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin | United Kingdom | |
| Le Führer en folie [fr] | Philippe Clair | Henri Tisot, Alice Sapritch, Luis Rego | France | Adventure comedy, war adventure |
| 'Gator Bait | Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian | Claudia Jennings | United States | |
| The God King | Lester James Peries | Leigh Lawson, Oliver Tobias, Ravindra Randeniya | Sri Lanka United Kingdom | |
| Gold | Peter R. Hunt | Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, John Gielgud | United Kingdom | |
| Herbie Rides Again | Robert Stevenson | Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers | United States | |
| Huckleberry Finn | J. Lee Thompson | Jeff East, Paul Winfield | United States | Musical |
| The Island at the Top of the World | Robert Stevenson | Donald Sinden, David Hartman | United States | Fantasy adventure, family-oriented adventure |
| Kit & Co [de] | Konrad Petzold | Dean Reed, Manfred Krug, Rolf Hoppe, Armin Mueller-Stahl | East Germany | Western |
| The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Richard Friedenberg | Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle | United States | Western |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | Guy Hamilton | Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams | United Kingdom | |
| The Mark of Zorro | Don McDougall | Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalbán, Gilbert Roland, Anne Archer, Yvonne De Carlo | United States | |
| Miracles Still Happen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Susan Penhaligon | Italy | Adventure drama |
| Mr. Majestyk | Richard Fleischer | Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal | United States | |
| Nemuritorii | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Amza Pellea | Romania | |
| No Gold for a Dead Diver | Harald Reinl | Horst Janson, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Monika Lundi | West Germany | Sea adventure |
| Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Robert Lamoureux | Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione | France | War adventure, adventure comedy |
| The Pacific Connection | Luis Nepomuceno | Roland Dantes, Nancy Kwan, Gilbert Roland, Dean Stockwell, Alejandro Rey, Vic Diaz | Philippines | |
| The Prey | Domenico Paolella | Zeudi Araya, Renzo Montagnani, Franco Gasparri, Micheline Presle | Italy Colombia | |
| Savage Sisters | Eddie Romero | Gloria Hendry, Cheri Caffaro, Rosanna Ortiz, John Ashley, Vic Diaz | Philippines | |
| Swallows and Amazons | Claude Whatham | Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser | United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure, sea adventure |
| Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato | Italy | |
| Two Missionaries | Franco Rossi | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Visit to a Chief's Son | Lamont Johnson | Richard Mulligan, Johnny Sekka | United States | Adventure drama |
| What Changed Charley Farthing? | Sidney Hayers | Doug McClure, Hayley Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Alberto de Mendoza, Fernando Sancho | United Kingdom Spain | Sea adventure |
| When the North Wind Blows | Stewart Raffill | Henry Brandon, Fernando Celis, Dan Haggerty | United States | |
| While There's War There's Hope | Alberto Sordi | Alberto Sordi | Italy | |
| White Fang to the Rescue | Tonino Ricci | Maurizio Merli, Henry Silva | Italy | |

## 1975

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 92 in the Shade | Thomas McGuane | Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Harry Dean Stanton, Elizabeth Ashley, Burgess Meredith | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Adventures of the Wilderness Family | Stewart Raffill | Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Africa Express | Michele Lupo | Giuliano Gemma, Ursula Andress, Jack Palance | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Arrows of Robin Hood | Sergei Tarasov | Boris Khmelnitsky | Soviet Union | |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Krüger | United Kingdom United States | |
| Bite the Bullet | Richard Brooks | Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Ben Johnson | United States | Western |
| Blonde in Black Leather | Carlo Di Palma | Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti | Italy | |
| Breakout | Tom Gries | Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Jill Ireland | United States | |
| Cagliostro | Daniele Pettinari | Bekim Fehmiu, Curd Jürgens, Rosanna Schiaffino, Evelyn Stewart, Massimo Girotti | Italy | |
| Challenge to Be Free | Tay Garnett | Mike Mazurki | United States | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | David Greene | Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Louis Jourdan, Trevor Howard, Kate Nelligan, Taryn Power | United Kingdom | |
| Death Race 2000 | Paul Bartel | David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| Dersu Uzala | Akira Kurosawa | Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Vladimir Kremena | Soviet Union Japan | Adventure drama |
| Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze | Michael Anderson | Ron Ely | United States | |
| Docteur Justice [fr] | Christian-Jaque | John Phillip Law, Nathalie Delon, Gert Fröbe, Paul Naschy | France Spain | Sea adventure |
| The Eiger Sanction | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Reiner Schöne, Heidi Brühl | United States | |
| Get Mean | Ferdinando Baldi | Tony Anthony, Lloyd Battista, Raf Baldassarre, Diana Lorys | Italy United States | Fantasy adventure |
| The Great Waldo Pepper | George Roy Hill | Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Susan Sarandon, Bo Brundin | United States | Adventure drama |
| The Grizzly and the Treasure | James T. Flocker | Susan Backlinie, Scott Beach, Andre Gordon, Robert Sheble | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| He Is My Brother | Edward Dmytryk | Bobby Sherman, Keenan Wynn | United States | |
| Hey, I'm Alive | Lawrence Schiller | Ed Asner, Sally Struthers | United States | |
| Huckleberry Finn | Robert Totten | Ron Howard, Antonio Fargas, Jack Elam | United States | |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton | United States | Sea adventure |
| Kilma, Queen of the Jungle | Miguel Iglesias Bonns | Eva Miller (Blanca Estrada), Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy | Spain | |
| The Land That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, John McEnery | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Legend of the Sea Wolf | Giuseppe Vari | Chuck Connors, Barbara Bach | Italy | Sea adventure |
| The Log of the Black Pearl | Andrew V. McLaglen | Ralph Bellamy, Kiel Martin, Jack Kruschen | United States | Sea adventure |
| Lovers Like Us | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand | France Italy | Sea adventure |
| Lucky Lady | Stanley Donen | Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli | United States | Sea adventure |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Man Who Would Be King | John Huston | Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey | United Kingdom | |
| The Man Who Would Not Die | Robert Arkless | Dorothy Malone, Keenan Wynn, Aldo Ray | United States | Sea adventure |
| Mark of Zorro | Franco Lo Cascio | George Hilton, Lionel Stander | Italy Spain | Adventure comedy |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Opération Lady Marlène [fr] | Robert Lamoureux | Robert Lamoureux, Michel Serrault, Bernard Ménez, Sybil Danning | France | War adventure |
| Paper Tiger | Ken Annakin | David Niven, Kazuhito Ando, Toshiro Mifune, Hardy Krüger | United Kingdom | |
| The Passenger | Michelangelo Antonioni | Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider | United States | |
| Il richiamo del lupo [it] | Gianfranco Baldanello | Fernando E. Romero, Jack Palance, Joan Collins | Italy Spain | |
| Robin Hood Never Dies [it] | Francesc Bellmunt | Charly Bravo, Emma Cohen, Luis Induni | Spain | |
| Royal Flash | Richard Lester | Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Britt Ekland, Florinda Bolkan | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Search for the Gods | Jud Taylor | Kurt Russell, Stephen McHattie, Ralph Bellamy | United States | |
| Sharks' Treasure | Cornel Wilde | Cornel Wilde, Yaphet Kotto | United States | Sea adventure |
| Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle | Picha | | France Belgium | Animated film, adventure comedy |
| Three Men in a Boat | Stephen Frears | Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Timber Tramps | Tay Garnett | Claude Akins, Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero | United States | |
| The Treasure of Jamaica Reef | Virginia L. Stone | Stephen Boyd | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Ultimate Warrior | Robert Clouse | Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| El valle de los miserables | René Cardona Jr. | Mario Almada | Mexico | |
| Viaje fantástico en globo | René Cardona Jr. | Hugo Stiglitz | Mexico | |
| White Fang and the Hunter | Alfonso Brescia | Robert Woods | Italy | |
| Who Breaks... Pays | Giorgio Ferroni | Brad Harris, Giancarlo Prete, Gianni Rizzo | Italy Turkey | Adventure comedy |
| The Wind and the Lion | John Milius | Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith | United States | |
| Zorro | Duccio Tessari | Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Moustache | France Italy | |

## 1976

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventures of Frontier Fremont | Richard Friedenberg | Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Tony Mirrati | United States | Western, family-oriented adventure |
| At the Earth's Core | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro | United Kingdom United States | Science fiction adventure, fantasy adventure |
| Atraco en la jungla | Gordon Hessler | Robert Vaughn, Katia Christine, Simón Andreu | Spain Venezuela | |
| The Black Corsair | Sergio Sollima | Kabir Bedi, Mel Ferrer, Carole André, Dagmar Lassander | Italy | Pirate film |
| Brenda Starr | Mel Stuart | Jill St. John, Victor Buono | United States | |
| The Call of the Wild | Jerry Jameson | John Beck, Bernard Fresson, Billy "Green" Bush | United States | |
| Countdown at Kusini | Ossie Davis | Ruby Dee, Greg Morris, Ossie Davis | United States Nigeria | |
| The Diamond Peddlers | Giuliano Carnimeo | Michael Coby, Paul Smith, Jacques Herlin | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall | United Kingdom | |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | Susannah York, Trevor Howard, John Waters, John Castle, Noel Ferrier, Abigail | Australia | |
| Escape from Angola | Leslie H. Martinson | Stan Brock, Anne Collings | United States | |
| Foxtrot | Arturo Ripstein | Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Max von Sydow, Jorge Luke [es], Helena Rojo, Claudio Brook | Mexico | Adventure drama |
| Grizzly | William Girdler | Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel | United States | Horror adventure |
| High Velocity | Remi Kramer | Ben Gazzara, Britt Ekland, Paul Winfield, Keenan Wynn | United States | |
| Killer Force | Val Guest | Peter Fonda, Telly Savalas, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams | Ireland Switzerland United States | |
| Kilma, Queen of the Amazons | Miguel Iglesias Bonns | Eva Miller (Blanca Estrada) | Spain | |
| King Kong | John Guillermin | Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin | United States | |
| Legenda o Tile [ru] | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Lembit Ulfsak, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Yevgeny Leonov | Soviet Union | |
| Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov, Farrah Fawcett | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| The Loves and Times of Scaramouche | Enzo G. Castellari | Michael Sarrazin, Ursula Andress, Aldo Maccione | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Max Havelaar | Fons Rademakers | Peter Faber, Sacha Bulthuis [nl], Rutger Hauer | Netherlands | Adventure drama |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad | Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Michael Forest | United Kingdom Morocco Libya Kuwait Lebanon | |
| Mr. Robinson | Sergio Corbucci | Paolo Villaggio, Zeudi Araya | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness | Bruno Bozzetto | | Italy | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| The Muthers | Cirio H. Santiago | Jean Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, Jayne Kennedy | Philippines | |
| Les Naufragés de l'île de la Tortue [fr] | Jacques Rozier | Pierre Richard | France | Adventure comedy |
| Noroît | Jacques Rivette | Geraldine Chaplin, Bernadette Lafont | France | |
| North Sea Is Dead Sea [de] | Hark Bohm | Uwe Bohm, Dschingis Bowakow | West Germany | Sea adventure |
| Panache | Gary Nelson | René Auberjonois, Amy Irving | United States | |
| Robin and Marian | Richard Lester | Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Nicol Williamson, Richard Harris | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
| Safari Express | Duccio Tessari | Giuliano Gemma, Ursula Andress, Jack Palance | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Shoot | Harvey Hart | Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, Henry Silva | Canada United States | |
| Shout at the Devil | Peter Hunt | Roger Moore, Lee Marvin, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Horst Janson, Karl Michael Vogler | United Kingdom | |
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Richard Kiel | United States | |
| The Slipper and the Rose | Bryan Forbes | Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Hordern, Edith Evans, Kenneth More | United States | Musical, fantasy adventure |
| Smuga cienia [pl] | Andrzej Wajda | Tom Wilkinson, Bernard Archard, Marek Kondrat | Poland | Sea adventure, adventure drama |
| The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | Peyo | | France Belgium | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Soldier of Fortune | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Bud Spencer | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Swashbuckler | James Goldstone | Robert Shaw, Geneviève Bujold, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle | United States | Pirate film |
| Treasure of Matecumbe | Vincent McEveety | Peter Ustinov, Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Vic Morrow | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| The Twelve Tasks of Asterix | René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo | | France Belgium | Animated film, adventure comedy |

## 1977

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The African Queen | Richard C. Sarafian | Warren Oates, Mariette Hartley | United States | |
| Airport '77 | Jerry Jameson | Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Lee Grant, George Kennedy, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee | United States | Sea adventure, disaster film |
| The Black Pearl | Saul Swimmer | Gilbert Roland, Carl Anderson, Mario Custodio | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Brothers Lionheart | Olle Hellbom | Staffan Götestam, Lars Söderdahl, Allan Edwall, Gunn Wållgren, Per Oscarsson | Sweden | Family-oriented adventure, fantasy adventure |
| Captains Courageous | Harvey Hart | Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalbán, Jonathan Kahn, Fred Gwynne, Neville Brand | United States | Sea adventure |
| Casanova & Co. | Franz Antel | Tony Curtis, Marisa Berenson, Britt Ekland, Sylva Koscina, Marisa Mell, Andréa Ferréol, Hugh Griffith, Jean Lefebvre, Umberto Orsini | Austria Italy France | |
| Checkered Flag or Crash | Alan Gibson | Joe Don Baker, Susan Sarandon, Larry Hagman | United States | |
| Cosmos: War of the Planets | Alfonso Brescia | John Richardson, Yanti Somer, Massimo Bonetti | Italy | Science fiction adventure |
| Le Crabe-tambour | Pierre Schoendoerffer | Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Dufilho | France | |
| Cuibul salamandrelor | Mircea Drăgan | Stuart Whitman, Woody Strode, Ray Milland, Gheorghe Dinică, William Berger, Tony Kendall, Gordon Mitchell | Romania Italy | |
| Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda, Paul Winfield | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| Death or Freedom [de] | Wolf Gremm | Peter Sattmann, Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf, Erika Pluhar, Harald Leipnitz | West Germany | |
| The Deep | Peter Yates | Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Eli Wallach, Louis Gossett Jr. | United States | Sea adventure |
| Dot and the Kangaroo | Yoram Gross | | Australia | Family-oriented adventure |
| The Duellists | Ridley Scott | Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Conti | United States | Adventure drama |
| Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals | Joe D'Amato | Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti | Italy | Horror adventure |
| Galyon | Ivan Tors | Stan Brock, Ina Balin, Lloyd Nolan | United States | |
| Golden Rendezvous | Ashley Lazarus | Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith, Dorothy Malone, John Carradine | United Kingdom United States | Sea adventure |
| Guardian of the Wilderness | David O'Malley | Denver Pyle | United States | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Peter Hunt | Richard Harris | United Kingdom Belgium | Live-action/animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| The Hobbit | Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass | | United States Japan | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| The Inglorious Bastards | Enzo G. Castellari | Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, Michel Constantin, Raimund Harmstorf, Ian Bannen | Italy | War adventure |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| Islands in the Stream | Franklin J. Schaffner | George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Claire Bloom | United States | Adventure drama, sea adventure |
| Jabberwocky | Terry Gilliam | Michael Palin | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure, adventure comedy |
| Joseph Andrews | Tony Richardson | Peter Firth, Ann-Margret, Natalie Ogle, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, John Gielgud, Hugh Griffith | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy, romantic adventure |
| Joyride | Joseph Ruben | Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart | United States | |
| The Last Dinosaur | Alex Grasshoff, Tsugunobu Kotani | Richard Boone | Japan United States | Fantasy adventure |
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Marty Feldman | Marty Feldman, Peter Ustinov, Ann-Margret, Michael York | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Mike Newell | Richard Chamberlain, Louis Jourdan, Patrick McGoohan, Jenny Agutter, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm | United Kingdom United States | |
| March or Die | Dick Richards | Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow | United Kingdom | |
| The Mighty Peking Man | Ho Meng Hua | Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee | Hong Kong | |
| Moonshine County Express | Gus Trikonis | John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Claudia Jennings | United States | |
| The Mouse and His Child | Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf | Peter Ustinov (voice), Cloris Leachman (voice), Sally Kellerman (voice) | United States Japan | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson | United States | Sea adventure, horror adventure |
| The People That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Patrick Wayne, Sarah Douglas, Doug McClure | United Kingdom United States | Fantasy adventure |
| El Perro | Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi | Jason Miller, Lea Massari | Spain | |
| Planet of Dinosaurs | James Shea | Max Thayer, Louie Lawless, James Whitworth | United States | Space adventure |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Richard Fleischer | Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Charlton Heston, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott, Rex Harrison | United Kingdom United States | |
| Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | Bill Melendez | | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| The Rescuers | Don Bluth, Milt Kahl, John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens | Bob Newhart (voice), Eva Gabor (voice) | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| El rey de los gorilas [es] | René Cardona Jr. | Hugo Stiglitz | Mexico | |
| Rituals | Peter Carter | Hal Holbrook | Canada | Horror adventure |
| Sahara Cross | Tonino Valerii | Franco Nero, Michel Constantin | Italy | |
| The Seventh Company Outdoors | Robert Lamoureux | Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet | France | War adventure, adventure comedy |
| Shock Waves | Ken Wiederhorn | Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, John Carradine | United States | Horror adventure, sea adventure |
| Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Sam Wanamaker | Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour | United States United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure, sea adventure |
| Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed | United States | |
| Sorcerer | William Friedkin | Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou | United States | |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro | United Kingdom | |
| Star Wars | George Lucas | Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing | United States | Space adventure |
| La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! | Sergio Sollima | Kabir Bedi, Philippe Leroy, Adolfo Celi, Mirella D'Angelo, Teresa Ann Savoy | Italy | |
| Thunder and Lightning | Corey Allen | David Carradine, Kate Jackson | United States | |
| Ultimo mondo cannibale | Ruggero Deodato | Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai, Ivan Rassimov | Italy | Horror adventure |
| Unterwegs nach Atlantis [de] | Siegfried Kühn [de] | Carl Heinz Choynski [de], Rolf Hoppe | East Germany | Adventure comedy |
| The War in Space | Jun Fukuda | Kensaku Morita, Yūko Asano, Masaya Oki, Ryō Ikebe | Japan | Space adventure |
| The White Buffalo | J. Lee Thompson | Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine | United States | Western |
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| World Safari | Alby Mangels | Alby Mangels | Australia | |

## 1978

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 80 Hussars [hu] | Sándor Sára | László Dózsa [hu], Géza Tordy, József Madaras | Hungary | |
| Avalanche | Corey Allen | Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster | United States | |
| The Bermuda Depths | Tsugunobu Kotani | Leigh McCloskey, Carl Weathers, Connie Sellecca, Burl Ives | United States Japan | Sea adventure, fantasy adventure |
| Blue Fin | Carl Schultz | Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe | Australia | Sea adventure |
| Caravans | James Fargo | Anthony Quinn, Christopher Lee, Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill | United States Iran | |
| Cyclone | René Cardona Jr. | Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Lionel Stander, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz, Olga Karlatos | Mexico | Sea adventure |
| The First Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down | United Kingdom | |
| Flatfoot in Africa | Steno | Bud Spencer, Werner Pochath, Dagmar Lassander | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| The Four Feathers | Don Sharp | Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Jane Seymour | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family | Frank Zuniga | Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Hunters of the Reef | Alexander Singer | Mary Louise Weller, Michael Parks, William Windom, Stephen Macht | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Iland's Devil | Samir Darwish | Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Yousra | Syria | |
| Land of No Return | Kent Bateman | Mel Tormé, William Shatner | United States | |
| The Lord of the Rings | Ralph Bakshi | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Magee and the Lady | Gene Levitt | Tony Lo Bianco, Sally Kellerman | Australia | Sea adventure, adventure comedy |
| Message from Space | Kinji Fukasaku | Sonny Chiba, Vic Morrow | Japan | Space adventure |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | Brad Davis, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Paul L. Smith | United Kingdom United States | Adventure drama |
| The Mountain of the Cannibal God | Sergio Martino | Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach | Italy | Horror adventure |
| The Norseman | Charles B. Pierce | Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Jack Elam | United States | |
| Olly Olly Oxen Free | Richard A. Colla | Katharine Hepburn | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Operation Leopard | Raoul Coutard | Bruno Cremer, Giuliano Gemma, Jacques Perrin, Laurent Malet, Pierre Vaneck, Mimsy Farmer | France | War adventure, adventure drama |
| Out of the Darkness | Lee Madden | Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen | United States | Horror adventure |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | Bette Davis, Christopher Lee | United States | |
| Safari Rally | Bitto Albertini | Joe Dallesandro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Olga Bisera, Eleonora Giorgi | Italy | |
| The Sea Gypsies | Stewart Raffill | Robert Logan, Heather Rattray | United States | Sea adventure, family-oriented adventure |
| Starcrash | Luigi Cozzi | Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, Joe Spinell, Marjoe Gortner, David Hasselhoff | United States Italy | Space adventure |
| Superman | Richard Donner | Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Valerie Perrine, Glenn Ford, Susannah York | United Kingdom United States Panama Switzerland | Superhero film |
| The Thief of Baghdad | Clive Donner | Kabir Bedi, Peter Ustinov, Terence Stamp, Roddy McDowall, Marina Vlady | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Tough to Kill | Joe D'Amato | Luc Merenda | Italy | War adventure |
| Warlords of Atlantis | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Watership Down | Martin Rosen | | United Kingdom United States | Animated film, adventure drama |
| Where Time Began | Juan Piquer Simón | Kenneth More | Spain | Fantasy adventure |
| The Wild Geese | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor | United States | Fantasy adventure, musical |

## 1979

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Alien | Ridley Scott | Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton | United States United Kingdom | Space adventure, horror adventure |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper | United States | Adventure drama, war adventure |
| Arabian Adventure | Kevin Connor | Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Peter Cushing, Capucine, Mickey Rooney | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Ashanti | Richard Fleischer | Michael Caine, Beverly Johnson, Kabir Bedi, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, William Holden | United States | Adventure drama |
| Avalanche Express | Mark Robson | Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell | United States Ireland | |
| Bear Island | Don Sharp | Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom Canada | Arctic adventure |
| Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Irwin Allen | Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Black Hole | Gary Nelson | Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Forster | United States | Space adventure |
| Black Jack | Ken Loach | Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval | United Kingdom | |
| The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| The Bodyguard | Ali Hamroyev | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn | Soviet Union | Action adventure |
| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Daniel Haller | Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Pamela Hensley, Henry Silva, Joseph Wiseman | United States | Space adventure |
| The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki | | Japan | Animated film |
| Cuba | Richard Lester | Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Martin Balsam | United States | |
| Day of the Assassin | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Chuck Connors, Susana Dosamantes, Glenn Ford, Richard Roundtree, Henry Silva | Mexico Spain United States | Action adventure |
| Escape to Athena | George P. Cosmatos | Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, Elliott Gould, Richard Roundtree, Stefanie Powers, Sonny Bono | United States | War adventure |
| Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | Steve Carver | David Carradine, Brenda Vaccaro | United States | |
| The Fifth Musketeer | Ken Annakin | Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Rex Harrison, José Ferrer, Olivia de Havilland | United Kingdom Austria | |
| Firepower | Michael Winner | James Coburn, Sophia Loren, Eli Wallach, O. J. Simpson | United Kingdom | |
| The First Christmas | Richard Slapczynski | Alistair Duncan (voice), Ron Haddrick (voice), Philip Hinton (voice) | Australia | |
| Game for Vultures | James Fargo | Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree, Joan Collins, Ray Milland | United Kingdom | |
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Harald Reinl | Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Klausjürgen Wussow, Reiner Schöne | West Germany | |
| Gold of the Amazon Women | Mark L. Lester | Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasence | United States | |
| The Great Alligator | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Richard Johnson | Italy | Horror adventure |
| A Great Ride | Don Hulette | Perry Lang, Michael Sullivan, Michael MacRae | United States | |
| Hangman's Brother [de] | Walter Beck [de] | Frank Grunwald, Gunter Friedrich, Thomas Wolff, Holger Mahlich | East Germany | |
| Hurricane | Jan Troell | Mia Farrow, Dayton Ka'ne, Jason Robards, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard | United States | Romantic adventure |
| I'm for the Hippopotamus | Italo Zingarelli | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer | Italy | Adventure comedy |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Joseph Cotten, Richard Johnson | Italy | Science fiction adventure |
| Jaguar Lives! | Ernest Pintoff | Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine, Joseph Wiseman, Woody Strode, John Huston | United States Spain | |
| Killer Fish | Antonio Margheriti | Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson, James Franciscus | Italy Brazil | Horror adventure |
| King Solomon's Treasure | Alvin Rakoff | David McCallum, John Colicos, Patrick Macnee, Britt Ekland | United Kingdom Canada | |
| Lady Oscar | Jacques Demy | Catriona MacColl | France Japan | |
| The Last Giraffe | Jack Couffer | Susan Anspach, Simon Ward, Gordon Jackson | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Mad Max | George Miller | Mel Gibson | Australia | Science fiction adventure |
| Manaos | Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa | Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Jorge Rivero, Jorge Luke [es], Andrés García, Florinda Bolkan, Alberto de Mendoza | Spain Mexico Italy | |
| Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | George Schaefer | Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, Jenny Agutter | United States | Sea adventure |
| Meetings with Remarkable Men | Peter Brook | Dragan Maksimović, Terence Stamp | United Kingdom | |
| Mistress of the Apes | Larry Buchanan | Jenny Neumann | United States | |
| Moonraker | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry | United Kingdom France | Action adventure, space adventure |
| Mountain Family Robinson | John Cotter | Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| The Muppet Movie | James Frawley | Charles Durning, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles, Telly Savalas, James Coburn, Steve Martin | United States United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure |
| Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women | Joseph Pevney | Clint Walker, Rosalind Chao, Peter Lawford, Deborah Shelton, Jayne Kennedy | United States | |
| North Sea Hijack | Andrew V. McLaglen | Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| The Passage | J. Lee Thompson | Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | War adventure |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Richard Quine | Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Elke Sommer, Lionel Jeffries, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Tony Maylam | Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| The Shark Hunter | Enzo G. Castellari | Franco Nero, Werner Pochath, Jorge Luke [es], Eduardo Fajardo | Italy Spain Mexico | Sea adventure |
| The Spaceman and King Arthur | Russ Mayberry | Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth More | Italy | Adventure comedy, science fiction adventure |
| Spirit of the Wind | Ralph Liddle | Pius Savage, Chief Dan George, Slim Pickens, George Clutesi | United States | |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko | Soviet Union | Science fiction adventure |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins | United States | Space adventure |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen | United States United Kingdom | Science fiction adventure |
| A Touch of the Sun | Peter Curran | Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| The Treasure Seekers | Henry Levin | Rod Taylor, Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer, Jeremy Kemp | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
| A Vacation in Hell | David Greene | Priscilla Barnes, Michael Brandon | United States | |
| Vlad Țepeș | Doru Năstase | Ștefan Sileanu | Romania | |
| Wanda Nevada | Peter Fonda | Brooke Shields, Peter Fonda | United States | |
| Zulu Dawn | Douglas Hickox | Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Bob Hoskins | United States United Kingdom | War adventure |