# List of adventure films of the 1980s

A list of adventure films released in the 1980s

## 1980

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Awakening | Mike Newell | Charlton Heston, Susannah York | United Kingdom | |
| Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy T. Murakami | Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning | United States | Space adventure |
| Beyond the Reef | Frank C. Clarke | Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen | United States | |
| The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Blues Brothers | John Landis | John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters | Australia | |
| Brigade mondaine : Vaudou aux Caraïbes [fr] | Philippe Monnier [fr] | Patrice Valota [fr], Marcel Dalio | France | |
| Caboblanco | J. Lee Thompson | Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Gilbert Roland | United States | |
| Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato | Carl Gabriel Yorke, Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi | Italy | |
| Cloud Dancer | Barry Brown | David Carradine, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Bottoms | United States | |
| The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog | Peter Carter | Andrew Ian McMillan, Ronny Cox, John Ireland | Canada | Family-oriented adventure |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode | United States West Germany | |
| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Philip Leacock | Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis, Raymond Burr, Harry Andrews, Wendy Hiller | United States United Kingdom | |
| Dead Man's Float | Peter Sharp | Sally Boyden, Greg Rowe, Bill Hunter, Bunney Brooke | Australia | |
| Desperate Voyage | Michael O'Herlihy | Christopher Plummer | United States | |
| Devil Hunter | Jesús Franco | Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner | France West Germany Spain | |
| The Dogs of War | John Irvin | Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger | United Kingdom United States | War adventure |
| The Earthling | Peter Collinson | William Holden, Rick Schroder | Australia United States | Adventure drama |
| Eaten Alive! | Umberto Lenzi | Janet Ågren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Robert Kerman | Italy Spain | Jungle film |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams | United States | Space adventure |
| Escape from Hell | Edoardo Mulargia | Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Cintia Lodetti | Italy Spain | |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti | United Kingdom United States | Space adventure |
| Flatfoot in Egypt | Steno | Bud Spencer, Robert Loggia, Karl-Otto Alberty | Italy | |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau | South Africa Botswana | Adventure comedy |
| The Green Horizon | Susumu Hani | James Stewart, Kathy, Philip Sayer | Japan | |
| Hawk the Slayer | Terry Marcel | John Terry, Jack Palance | United Kingdom | |
| Herbie Goes Bananas | Vincent McEveety | Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, Harvey Korman | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| High Ice | Eugene S. Jones | David Janssen, Tony Musante | United States | |
| I'm Getting a Yacht | Sergio Corbucci | Laura Antonelli, Johnny Dorelli | Italy | |
| The Island | Michael Ritchie | Michael Caine, David Warner | United States | Sea adventure |
| It Rained All Night the Day I Left | Nicolas Gessner | Tony Curtis, Louis Gossett Jr., Sally Kellerman, John Vernon | Canada France Israel | Adventure drama, romantic adventure |
| The Ivory Ape | Tsugunobu Kotani | Jack Palance | United States Japan | |
| Jupiter's Thigh | Philippe de Broca | Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret | France | Adventure comedy |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | Tatsuya Nakadai | Japan | |
| Klondike Fever | Peter Carter | Jeff East, Angie Dickinson, Rod Steiger, Lorne Greene | Canada | |
| The Last Flight of Noah's Ark | Charles Jarrott | Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Rick Schroder | United States | Sea adventure |
| Life on the Mississippi | Peter H. Hunt | Robert Lansing, David Knell | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Más allá de la aventura | Oscar Barney Finn | Catherine Alric | Argentina | |
| Mondo Cannibale | Jesús Franco | Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani | France | |
| The Mountain Men | Richard Lang | Charlton Heston, Brian Keith | United States | Western |
| Pirates of the 20th Century | Boris Durov | Nikolai Yeryomenko Jr., Pyotr Velyaminov, Talgat Nigmatulin | Soviet Union | Sea Adventure |
| Popeye | Robert Altman | Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Smith | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Raise the Titanic | Jerry Jameson | Richard Jordan, Anne Archer, Jason Robards, Alec Guinness, David Selby | United States | Sea adventure |
| The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Patrick Macnee | United Kingdom Switzerland United States | War adventure, sea adventure |
| Skyward | Ron Howard | Bette Davis, Suzy Gilstrap, Clu Gulager | United States | |
| Superman II | Richard Lester | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder | United Kingdom United States | |
| Theo Against the Rest of the World [de] | Peter F. Bringmann [de] | Marius Müller-Westernhagen | West Germany | Adventure comedy |
| Tusk | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Cyrielle Clair, Anton Diffring | France | |

## 1981

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| La Chèvre | Francis Veber | Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu | France | Adventure comedy |
| Clash of the Titans | Desmond Davis | Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress | United Kingdom United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Death Hunt | Peter Hunt | Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Carl Weathers, Angie Dickinson | United States | Western |
| Dot and Santa Claus | Yoram Gross | Drew Forsythe (voice), Barbara Frawley (voice) | Australia | |
| Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins | Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Escape from New York | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes | United States United Kingdom | |
| Excalibur | John Boorman | Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| For Your Eyes Only | John Glen | Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Julian Glover, Chaim Topol | United Kingdom | |
| The Fox and the Hound | Ted Berman, Art Stevens, David Michener | Mickey Rooney (voice), Kurt Russell (voice), Pearl Bailey (voice), Jack Albertson (voice) | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Gallipoli | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson, Mark Lee | Australia | |
| Goliath Awaits | Kevin Connor | Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, Emma Samms, John Carradine, Alex Cord, Robert Forster | United States | |
| Great White | Enzo G. Castellari | James Franciscus, Vic Morrow | Italy | |
| Green Ice | Ernest Day | Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Guns and the Fury | Tony Zarrindast | Peter Graves, Cameron Mitchell, Michael Ansara | United States | |
| Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | | Canada United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| The High Country | Harvey Hart | Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl | Canada | Romantic adventure |
| High Risk | Stewart Raffill | James Brolin, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Ernest Borgnine, Lindsay Wagner, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Last Chase | Martyn Burke | Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart | Canada United States | |
| Lion of the Desert | Moustapha Akkad | Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas, John Gielgud | Libya United States | |
| Masada | Boris Sagal | Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle | United States | |
| Misterio en la isla de los monstruos | Juan Piquer Simón | Terence Stamp, Peter Cushing, Ana Obregón | Spain | Fantasy adventure |
| Quest for Fire | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman | France Canada | |
| Race for the Yankee Zephyr | David Hemmings | Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, George Peppard | Australia New Zealand | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey | United States | |
| Roar | Noel Marshall | Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, John Marshall | United States | |
| Savage Harvest | Robert L. Collins | Tom Skerritt, Michelle Phillips | United States Brazil Kenya | |
| Silence of the North | Allan King | Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt | Canada | Adventure drama |
| Sphinx | Franklin J. Schaffner | Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, John Gielgud, John Rhys-Davies | United States | |
| Tarzan, the Ape Man | John Derek | Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law | United States | |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | Sean Connery, David Warner, Ralph Richardson, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Michael Palin | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Zorro, The Gay Blade | Peter Medak | George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro | United States | Adventure comedy |

## 1982

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Ace of Aces | Gérard Oury | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache | West Germany France | Adventure comedy, war adventure |
| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn | United States | Romantic adventure |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Max von Sydow | United States | |
| The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | Jim Henson (voice), Kathryn Mullen (voice), Dave Goelz (voice) | United States United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote | United States | |
| Falcon's Gold | Bob Schulz | John Marley, Simon MacCorkindale | United States | |
| Firefox | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | United States Austria Greenland | |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Claudia Cardinale | West Germany | Adventure drama |
| The Flight of Dragons | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Flight of the Eagle | Jan Troell | Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker Ousdal | Sweden Norway West Germany | |
| Hunters of the Golden Cobra | Antonio Margheriti | David Warbeck, Almanta Suska, Luciano Pigozzi, John Steiner | Italy | |
| Ivanhoe | Douglas Camfield | Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, James Mason, Olivia Hussey, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys-Davies | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Last Unicorn | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Alan Arkin (voice), Jeff Bridges (voice), Mia Farrow (voice) Angela Lansbury (voice), Christopher Lee (voice) | United States Japan United Kingdom West Germany | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Les Maîtres du temps | René Laloux | | France Switzerland West Germany | Animated film, space adventure |
| Mother Lode | Charlton Heston | Charlton Heston, Nick Mancuso, Kim Basinger | United States | |
| The New Travelog to India | Kim Jeong-song | Yu Sang-gyeom, Yang Su-jin, Kim Yong-man, Ban Sam, Lee Jae-yeong | South Korea | |
| Night Crossing | Delbert Mann | John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges | United States | |
| Paradise | Stuart Gillard | Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Pirate Movie | Ken Annakin | Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton | Australia | |
| Safari 3000 | Harry Hurwitz | David Carradine, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lee | United States | |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Clive Donner | Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen | United Kingdom | |
| Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie | Osamu Dezaki | | Japan | Animated film, space adventure |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Nicholas Meyer | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán | United States | Space adventure |
| The Sword and the Sorcerer | Albert Pyun | Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Tangiers | Michael E. Briant | Ronny Cox, Billie Whitelaw, Glynis Barber, Ronald Lacey | United States Morocco | |
| Treasure of the Four Crowns | Ferdinando Baldi | Tony Anthony, Ana Obregón, Gene Quintano, Francisco Rabal | United States Italy Spain | |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt | Australia | |

## 1983

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| L'Africain [fr] | Philippe de Broca | Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret | France | |
| Banzaï | Claude Zidi | Coluche, Valérie Mairesse, Didier Kaminka | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Black Stallion Returns | Robert Dalva | Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode, Ferdy Mayne | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Buddies | Arch Nicholson | Colin Friels, Harold Hopkins | Australia | |
| Clash of Loyalties | Mohammed Shukri Jameel | Oliver Reed, John Barron, Ghazi al-Takriti | Iraq | |
| Les Compères | Francis Veber | Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey | France | Adventure comedy |
| Conquest | Lucio Fulci | Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Conrado San Martín | Italy | Fantasy adventure |
| El Norte | Gregory Nava | Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz | United States Mexico | Adventure drama |
| Fire and Ice | Ralph Bakshi | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Gold Raiders | Chalong Pakdeevijit | Robert Ginty, Sarah Langenfeld | Thailand United Kingdom | Action adventure |
| Hearts and Armour | Giacomo Battiato | Rick Edwards, Barbara De Rossi, Zeudi Araya, Ronn Moss, Leigh McCloskey, Maurizio Nichetti, Tanya Roberts | Italy | |
| Hercules | Luigi Cozzi | Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Brad Harris | Italy United States | Fantasy adventure |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Brian Blessed | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Killing of Satan | Efren C. Piñon | Cecile Castillo, Charlie Davao | Philippines | Fantasy adventure |
| Krull | Peter Yates | Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones | United States United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Nate and Hayes | Ferdinand Fairfax | Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove, Max Phipps | United States New Zealand Fiji | Sea adventure |
| National Lampoon's Vacation | Harold Ramis | Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid | United States | |
| Never Cry Wolf | Carroll Ballard | Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq | United States | Adventure drama |
| Octopussy | John Glen | Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kabir Bedi, David Meyer | United Kingdom | |
| The Pirates of Penzance | Wilford Leach | Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt | United States | Costume adventure, sea adventure, swashbuckler |
| Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams | United States | Space adventure |
| The Ruffian | José Giovanni | Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale | France Canada | |
| Sahara | Andrew V. McLaglen | Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey | United States | |
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson | Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside | United States | Space adventure |
| The Wicked Lady | Michael Winner | Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
| Yellowbeard | Mel Damski | Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, James Mason, John Cleese | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark | Yuen Biao, Tsui Siu Keung, Sammo Hung | Hong Kong | Fantasy adventure |

## 1984

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Ark of the Sun God | Antonio Margheriti | David Warbeck, John Steiner, Susie Sudlow, Luciano Pigozzi | Italy | |
| The Bounty | Roger Donaldson | Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier | United States | Adventure drama |
| A Breed Apart | Philippe Mora | Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, Donald Pleasence | United States | |
| Conan the Destroyer | Richard Fleischer | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| The Cowra Breakout | Phillip Noyce, Chris Noonan | Alan David Lee, Junichi Ishida | Australia | |
| Dune | David Lynch | Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Kenneth McMillan, Patrick Stewart, Linda Hunt, Max von Sydow, Sean Young, Jürgen Prochnow, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer | United States | Space adventure |
| The Dungeonmaster | Dave Allen, Charles Band, John Carl Buechler | Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing | United States | Science fantasy adventure |
| Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Hugh Hudson | Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Andie MacDowell | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
| The Hit | Stephen Frears | John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Fernando Rey | United Kingdom | |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri | United States | |
| Kim | John Davies | Ravi Sheth, Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover | United Kingdom | |
| The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | Space adventure |
| Le Léopard [fr] | Jean-Claude Sussfeld [fr] | Claude Brasseur, Dominique Lavanant, Marius Weyers | France | |
| The Master of Ballantrae | Douglas Hickox | Michael York, Richard Thomas, Timothy Dalton, Finola Hughes, John Gielgud, Brian Blessed | United Kingdom United States | |
| Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Marie Laforêt, Matthias Habich | France | Adventure comedy, war adventure |
| Nairobi Affair | Marvin J. Chomsky | Charlton Heston, John Savage, Maud Adams | United States | |
| The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | West Germany United States | Fantasy adventure |
| No Time to Die [de] | Helmut Ashley | John Phillip Law, Horst Janson, Christopher Mitchum | West Germany Indonesia | |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness | United Kingdom | |
| The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak | Just Jaeckin | Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Rougerie | France | Adventure comedy |
| Romancing the Stone | Robert Zemeckis | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Tage Danielsson | Hanna Zetterberg, Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman | Sweden Norway | Fantasy adventure |
| Sheena | John Guillermin | Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott | United States | |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd | United States | Space adventure |
| Sword of the Valiant | Stephen Weeks | Miles O'Keeffe, Sean Connery, Cyrielle Clair, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, John Rhys-Davies | United Kingdom | |
| Tuareg – The Desert Warrior | Enzo G. Castellari | Mark Harmon | Italy Spain | |
| Le Vol du Sphinx [fr] | Laurent Ferrier | Miou-Miou, Alain Souchon | France | |
| The Warrior and the Sorceress | John C. Broderick | David Carradine, Luke Askew, María Socas | Argentina United States | |
| Wet Gold | Dick Lowry | Brooke Shields, Burgess Meredith, Tom Byrd, Brian Kerwin | United States | |
| Wheels on Meals | Sammo Hung | Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung | Hong Kong | Adventure comedy |
| Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold | Matt Cimber | Laurene Landon, Ken Roberson, Luis Lorenzo | Spain | |

## 1985

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Aviator | George Miller | Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden | United States | Romantic adventure, adventure drama |
| Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend | Bill L. Norton | William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan | United States | |
| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| Barbarian Queen | Hector Olivera | Lana Clarkson, Dawn Dunlap, Frank Zagarino | United States Argentina | Fantasy adventure |
| Black Arrow | John Hough | Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Donald Pleasence, Benedict Taylor | United States | |
| The Black Cauldron | Ted Berman, Richard Rich | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| Burke & Wills | Graeme Clifford | Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi | Australia | Adventure drama |
| Ça n'arrive qu'à moi [fr] | Francis Perrin | Francis Perrin, Véronique Genest, Bernard Blier | France | Adventure comedy |
| The Corsican Brothers | Ian Sharp | Trevor Eve, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence | United States | |
| The Emerald Forest | John Boorman | Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman | United Kingdom United States | Adventure drama |
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| Explorers | Joe Dante | Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson | United States | Space adventure |
| Flesh and Blood | Paul Verhoeven | Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh | United States Netherlands Spain | |
| The Goonies | Richard Donner | Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Ke Huy Quan, Jeff Cohen, Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton, Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Jewel of the Nile | Lewis Teague | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Journey of Natty Gann | Jeremy Kagan | Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Jungle Raiders | Antonio Margheriti | Christopher Connelly, Lee Van Cleef | Italy | |
| King David | Bruce Beresford | Richard Gere | United Kingdom United States | |
| King Solomon's Mines | J. Lee Thompson | Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies | United States | Romantic adventure |
| The Knight of the Dragon | Fernando Colomo | Harvey Keitel, Klaus Kinski, Fernando Rey, Maria Lamor, Miguel Bosé | Spain | Fantasy adventure |
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner | Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry | United Kingdom United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Lupin the 3rd: The Golden Legend of Babylon | Seijun Suzuki, Shigetsu Yoshida | | Japan | Animated film |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Miller, George Ogilvie | Mel Gibson, Tina Turner | Australia | |
| Un marinaio e mezzo [it] | Tommaso Dazzi | Franco Nero, Francisco Rabal | Italy | |
| Merlin and the Sword | Clive Donner | Malcolm McDowell, Candice Bergen, Edward Woodward, Dyan Cannon, Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| National Lampoon's European Vacation | Amy Heckerling | Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively | United States | |
| Orion's Belt | Ola Solum (Norwegian version), Tristan de Vere Cole (English version) | Helge Jordal, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Hans Ola Sørlie, Kjersti Holmen | Norway | Arctic adventure |
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer | United States | |
| Out of Control | Allan Holzman | Martin Hewitt, Betsy Russell, Claudia Udy, Andrew J. Lederer | United States Yugoslavia | |
| Pee-wee's Big Adventure | Tim Burton | Paul Reubens | United States | Adventure comedy, family-oriented adventure |
| Rambo: First Blood Part II | George P. Cosmatos, Peter MacDonald | Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier | United States | War adventure |
| Red Sonja | Richard Fleischer | Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Return to Oz | Walter Murch | Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh | United States United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |
| Runaway Train | Andrei Konchalovsky | Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay | United States | Adventure drama |
| Santa Claus: The Movie | Jeannot Szwarc | David Huddleston, Dudley Moore, John Lithgow | United States United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure |
| Spies Like Us | John Landis | Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Treasure of the Amazon | René Cardona Jr. | Stuart Whitman, Donald Pleasence, Ann Sidney, Bradford Dillman | Mexico United States | |
| A View to a Kill | John Glen | Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Walken | United Kingdom | |
| Wills & Burke | Bob Weis | Garry McDonald, Kim Gyngell, Jonathan Hardy | Australia | Adventure comedy |

## 1986

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Newt Arnold, Gary Nelson | Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva | United States | Adventure comedy |
| An American Tail | Don Bluth | Phillip Glasser (voice), Dom DeLuise (voice), Nehemiah Persoff (voice) | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Babar and Father Christmas | Gerry Capelle | Laurent de Brunhoff (narrator), James Bradford (voice) | Canada | |
| Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong | United States | Action adventure comedy |
| Biggles: Adventures in Time | John Hough | Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison, Peter Cushing | United Kingdom | |
| Castaway | Nicolas Roeg | Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe | United Kingdom | |
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | | Japan | Animated film, fantasy adventure |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | Michael Chapman | Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar | United States | |
| The Climb | Donald Shebib | Bruce Greenwood, James Hurdle | Canada United Kingdom | |
| Crocodile Dundee | Peter Faiman | Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Blum, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Michael Lombard, Reginald VelJohnson, Terry Gill, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, David Bracks, Peter Turnbull, Caitlin Clarke, John Snyder, Anne Carlisle, Anne Francine, Paul Greco, Sullivan Walker | Australia United States | |
| Firewalker | J. Lee Thompson | Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham, John Rhys-Davies, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Lee-Sung, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Álvaro Carcaño, John Hazelwood, Dale Payne, José Escandón, Mário Arévalo, Miguel Fuentes | United States | |
| Florida Straits | Mike Hodges | Raúl Juliá, Fred Ward | United States | |
| The Golden Child | Michael Ritchie | Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Goldy 2: The Saga of the Golden Bear | Robert Trevor Black | Jessica Black, Dan Dalton | United States | Adventure drama |
| Highlander | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart | United Kingdom United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Jake Speed | Andrew Lane | Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt | United States | Adventure comedy |
| King Kong Lives | John Guillermin | Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton | United States | |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie | United States | |
| Meglio baciare un cobra | Massimo Pirri | Andy J. Forest, Milly D'Abbraccio | Italy | |
| Le miniere del Kilimangiaro | Mino Guerrini | Tobias Hoesl, Christopher Connelly, Elena Pompei, Gordon Mitchell | Italy | |
| Miracles | Jim Kouf | Tom Conti, Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd | United States | Adventure comedy, romantic adventure |
| The Mission | Roland Joffé | Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons | United Kingdom | |
| The Mosquito Coast | Peter Weir | Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix | United States | Adventure drama |
| Pirates | Roman Polanski | Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Charlotte Lewis, Cris Campion | France Tunisia | |
| Sarraounia | Med Hondo | Aï Keïta, Jéan-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine | Burkina Faso Mauritania France | |
| Shanghai Surprise | Jim Goddard | Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman | United Kingdom | |
| Sky Bandits | Zoran Perisic | Scott McGinnis, Jeff Osterhage | United Kingdom | |
| Sky Pirates | Colin Eggleston | John Hargreaves | Australia | |
| Solarbabies | Alan Johnson | Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric | United States | |
| SpaceCamp | Harry Winer | Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston | United States | Space adventure |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley | United States | |
| Tai-Pan | Daryl Duke | Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, Kyra Sedgwick | United States | |
| Toby McTeague | Jean-Claude Lord | Yannick Bisson, Winston Rekert | Canada | |
| Where the River Runs Black | Christopher Cain | Alessandro Rabelo, Charles Durning, Divana Brandão, Peter Horton | United States | |

## 1987

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Adventure of the Action Hunters | Lee Bonner | Ronald Hunter, Sean Murphy | United States | |
| Alla ricerca dell'impero sepolto | Gianfranco Parolini | Bruno Minniti, Kelly London, Larry Silva | Italy Philippines | |
| Armour of God | Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang | Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Maria Dolores Forner | Hong Kong | Adventure comedy |
| The Barbarians | Ruggero Deodato | David Paul, Peter Paul, Richard Lynch | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Benji the Hunted | Joe Camp | Benji, Red Steagall, Nancy Francis | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Captain James Cook | Lawrence Gordon Clark | Keith Michell, John Gregg | Australia France | |
| Caribe | Michael Kennedy | John Savage, Kara Glover, Stephen McHattie | Canada | |
| Cayenne Palace [fr] | Alain Maline | Richard Berry, Jean Yanne, Anna Karina | France | |
| A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu Tung | Leslie Cheung, Wong Tsu Hsien, Wu Ma | Hong Kong | Fantasy adventure |
| The Chipmunk Adventure | Janice Karman | | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Cobra Verde | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy | West Germany Benin Ghana | Adventure drama |
| Devil's Paradise [de] | Vadim Glowna | Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Waterston, Suzanna Hamilton, Mario Adorf, Dominique Pinon | West Germany | |
| Down Twisted | Albert Pyun | Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket | United States | |
| Going Bananas | Boaz Davidson | Dom DeLuise, Herbert Lom | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Gor | Fritz Kiersch | Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Oliver Reed | United States South Africa | |
| Hot Pursuit | Steven Lisberger | John Cusack, Robert Loggia | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Hotel Colonial | Cinzia TH Torrini [it] | John Savage, Rachel Ward, Robert Duvall, Massimo Troisi | Italy United States | |
| Ishtar | Elaine May | Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Jane and the Lost City | Terry Marcel | Kirsten Hughes, Sam J. Jones, Maud Adams | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
| The Lighthorsemen | Simon Wincer | Jon Blake, Peter Phelps, Tony Bonner, Bill Kerr, John Walton, Gary Sweet, Tim McKenzie, Shane Briant, Serge Lazareff, Sigrid Thornton, Anthony Andrews, Ralph Cotterill, Patrick Frost, Anthony Hawkins, Gerard Kennedy, Jon Sidney, Graham Dow | Australia | War adventure |
| Lionheart | Franklin J. Schaffner | Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Moore, Nicholas Clay | United States | |
| The Living Daylights | John Glen | Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown | United Kingdom | |
| Master of Dragonard Hill | Gérard Kikoïne | Patrick Warburton, Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Herbert Lom | United Kingdom | |
| Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Courteney Cox, Robert Duncan McNeill | United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Mio in the Land of Faraway | Vladimir Grammatikov | Christopher Lee, Christian Bale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York | Sweden Soviet Union Norway | Fantasy adventure |
| Our Man in the Jungle [de] | Rudolf Steiner, Peter Stripp [de] | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katja Rupé [de] | West Germany | |
| Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | Mikkel Gaup, Helgi Skúlason, Svein Scharffenberg | Norway | |
| The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin | United States | |
| Race to Danger | Tommaso Dazzi | Franco Nero, Barbara De Rossi | Italy | |
| The Rogues | Mario Monicelli | Giancarlo Giannini, Enrico Montesano, Giuliana De Sio | Italy Spain | |
| Straight to Hell | Alex Cox | Dick Rude, Sy Richardson, Courtney Love, Joe Strummer, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, Jim Jarmusch | United Kingdom Spain United States | |
| Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Sidney J. Furie | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper | United States | |
| Treasure of the Moon Goddess | José Luis García Agraz | Asher Brauner, Linnea Quigley, Don Calfa | United States Mexico | |
| Ubac [fr] | Jean-Pierre Grasset [fr] | Richard Bohringer, Larry Lamb, Rufus, Pierre Malet | France | |
| White Water Summer | Jeff Bleckner | Kevin Bacon, Sean Astin | United States | Adventure drama |
| Yeelen | Souleyman Cisse | Issiaka Kane, Niamonto Sanogo | Mali Burkina Faso France | Adventure drama |

## 1988

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Ada in the Jungle | Gérard Zingg | Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Isaach de Bankolé | France Côte d'Ivoire | |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle | United Kingdom | |
| Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland | United States South Africa | Science fiction adventure |
| The Bear | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace | France | Adventure drama, family-oriented adventure |
| The Beast | Kevin Reynolds | George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer | United States | |
| The Big Blue | Luc Besson | Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette | France United States | Romantic adventure, sea adventure |
| Bloodstone | Dwight H. Little | Brett Stimely, Anna Nicholas, Rajinikanth | United States India | Action adventure |
| Captive Rage | Cedric Sundstrom | Oliver Reed, Robert Vaughn, Lisa Rinna | South Africa | |
| Chouans! | Philippe de Broca | Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Lambert Wilson, Jean-Pierre Cassel | France | |
| Crocodile Dundee II | John Cornell | Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Hechter Ubarry, Juan Fernández, Charles S. Dutton, Kenneth Welsh, Stephen Root, Dennis Boutsikaris, Ernie Dingo, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, Gus Mercurio, Susie Essman, Colin Quinn, Luis Guzman, Alec Wilson, Jim Holt, Bill Sandy, Jace Alexander | Australia United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Deceivers | Nicholas Meyer | Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor | India United Kingdom United States | Adventure drama |
| El Dorado | Carlos Saura | Omero Antonutti, Lambert Wilson | Spain France | Adventure drama |
| The Firing Line | Jun Gallardo | Reb Brown, Shannon Tweed | United States Philippines | War adventure |
| The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck | David Keith | David Keith, Kathy Shower, Brant Van Hoffman | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Gamble | Carlo Vanzina | Matthew Modine, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Beals | Italy | |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 | Jamie Uys | N!xau, Lena Farugia, Hans Strydom | South Africa United States Botswana | Adventure comedy |
| Gorillas in the Mist | Michael Apted | Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris | United States Zaire Rwanda | Adventure drama |
| The Great Outdoors | Howard Deutch | John Candy, Dan Aykroyd | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Land Before Time | Don Bluth | Pat Hingle (voice), Gabriel Damon (voice), Candace Hutson (voice), Judith Barsi (voice), Will Ryan (voice) | United States | Adventure Animated |
| The Lion of Africa | Kevin Connor | Brian Dennehy, Brooke Adams | United States | |
| Mercenary Fighters | Riki Shelach Nissimoff | Peter Fonda, Reb Brown, Ron O'Neal, James Mitchum | United States | |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | Chika Sakamoto (voice), Noriko Hidaka (voice), Hitoshi Takagi (voice) | Japan | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Natura contro | Antonio Climati | Marco Merlo, Fabrizio Merlo, May Deseligny | Italy | |
| The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Vincent Ward | Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish McFarlane | Australia New Zealand | Fantasy adventure |
| Outlaw of Gor | John Cardos | Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Jack Palance | United States South Africa | Fantasy adventure |
| Rambo III | Peter MacDonald | Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna | United States | War adventure |
| The Rescue | Ferdinand Fairfax | Kevin Dillon, Marc Price, Ned Vaughn | United States | |
| Space Mutiny | David Winters, Neal Sundstorm | Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, James Ryan | United States | Space adventure |
| Tusks | Tara Moore | John Rhys-Davies, Andrew Stevens, Lucy Gutteridge, Julian Glover | United States | |
| Vibes | Ken Kwapis | Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Falk | United States | Romantic adventure, adventure comedy |
| Willow | Ron Howard | Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis | United States United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure |

## 1989

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Abyss | James Cameron | Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn | United States | |
| The Adventures of Milo and Otis | Masanori Hata | Dudley Moore (narrator) | Japan United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| African Timber [de] | Peter F. Bringmann [de] | Heiner Lauterbach, Deborah Lacey, Julien Guiomar, Dietmar Schönherr | West Germany | |
| Babar: The Movie | Alan Bunce | | Canada France | Animated film, family-oriented adventure |
| Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson | United States | |
| Batman | Tim Burton | Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger | United States | |
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | United States | |
| Cheetah | Jeff Blyth | Keith Coogan, Lucy Deakins | United States | |
| Crusoe | Caleb Deschanel | Aidan Quinn, Adé Sapara, Elvis Payne | United States United Kingdom | |
| Erik the Viking | Terry Jones | Tim Robbins, Gary Cady, Mickey Rooney | United Kingdom United States | Fantasy adventure |
| Farewell to the King | John Milius | Nick Nolte | United States | War adventure |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott | United States | Adventure comedy |
| Indio | Antonio Margheriti | Francesco Quinn, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Brian Dennehy | Italy | |
| Jewel of the Gods | Robert Van der Coolwijk | Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo | South Africa | |
| Joan of Arc of Mongolia | Ulrike Ottinger | Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Peter Kern | West Germany France | Romantic adventure |
| The Lady and the Highwayman | John Hough | Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Michael York, Claire Bloom, Lysette Anthony, Emma Samms, Robert Morley | United Kingdom | |
| Marrakech Express | Gabriele Salvatores | Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach | Italy | |
| Nostos: The Return | Franco Piavoli | Luigi Mezzanotte [it] | Italy | |
| Old Gringo | Luis Puenzo | Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits | United States | |
| The Return of the Musketeers | Richard Lester | Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Kim Cattrall, Geraldine Chaplin, Philippe Noiret, C. Thomas Howell | France Spain United Kingdom | |
| River of Death | Steve Carver | Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, L. Q. Jones | United States | |
| The Secret of the Ice Cave | Radu Gabrea | Sally Kellerman, Michael Moriarty | United States | Family-oriented adventure |
| Sinbad of the Seven Seas | Enzo G. Castellari | Lou Ferrigno | Italy | Fantasy adventure |
| Slipstream | Steven Lisberger | Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton, Bob Peck, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham | United States | Science fiction adventure |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | William Shatner | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley | United States | |