Best Adventure Movies: Epic, Exciting, Visually Stunning

The best adventure movies take you somewhere – unfamiliar worlds, dangerous journeys, breathtaking landscapes. This page collects picks that genuinely deliver on that promise: visually strong, narratively compelling, across different decades and styles.





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Dune: Part Two

2024
167 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionAdventure
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe…

The Creator

2023
134 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionAdventure
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advance…

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023
164 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventure
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and…
Available on: Netflix

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

2023
150 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionAdventureAction
Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Gu…
Available on: Disney+

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

2023
93 Min
MOVIE
FamilyComedyAdventureAnimationFantasy
While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest t…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

2023
134 Min
MOVIE
AdventureFantasyComedy
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Mad Heidi

2022
92 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureComedyFantasyHorror
In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Heidi lives the pure and simple life in the Swiss Alps. Grandfather Alpöhi does his best to protect Heidi, but her yearning for freedom soon gets h…

Black Adam

2022
125 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Uncharted

2022
116 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventure
A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021
148 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly mean…
Available on: Netflix

Dune

2021
155 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionAdventure
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode in…
Available on: HBO Max

Mortal Kombat

2021
110 Min
MOVIE
ActionFantasyAdventure
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high s…
Available on: HBO Max

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

2019
137 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureComedy
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's ruthless actions threaten the future o…
Available on: Netflix Prime Video

Avengers: Endgame

2019
181 Min
MOVIE
AdventureScience FictionAction
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and rest…
Available on: Disney+

Alita: Battle Angel

2019
122 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionAdventure
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with…
Available on: Disney+

Solo: A Star Wars Story

2018
135 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionAdventureAction
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Available on: Disney+

Tomb Raider

2018
118 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureFantasy
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
Available on: Netflix

Black Panther

2018
135 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as w…
Available on: Disney+

Thor: Ragnarok

2017
131 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new t…
Available on: Disney+

Papillon

2017
134 Min
MOVIE
AdventureCrimeDrama
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter w…
Available on: Netflix

Doctor Strange

2016
115 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureFantasy
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Available on: Disney+

Captain America: Civil War

2016
147 Min
MOVIE
AdventureActionScience Fiction
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain Ame…
Available on: Disney+

Deadpool

2016
108 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureComedy
The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities…
Available on: Disney+

The Martian

2015
141 Min
MOVIE
DramaAdventureScience Fiction
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he mus…
Available on: Disney+

Hardcore Henry

2015
97 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it thr…
Available on: Freevee

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

2015
116 Min
MOVIE
ComedyActionAdventure
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kur…

Inside Out

2015
95 Min
MOVIE
AnimationFamilyAdventureDramaComedy
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get…
Available on: Disney+

Interstellar

2014
169 Min
MOVIE
AdventureDramaScience Fiction
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann

2013
115 Min
MOVIE
AdventureComedyDrama
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Oblivion

2013
124 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionAdventureMystery
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existenc…

The Avengers

2012
143 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionAdventure
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaste…
Available on: Disney+

The Hunger Games

2012
142 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionAdventureActionThriller
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defianc…
Available on: Netflix

The Expendables

2010
103 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerAdventureAction
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When t…
Available on: Prime Video Sky Magenta TV

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