It is unlikely that there will be a viewer who does not like adventure films. This category of cinema is interesting in that it can organically combine different genres: science fiction, fantasy, thriller, action, and, in fact, adventure. It is incredibly difficult to select the best pictures of the genre in the entire history of cinema. To compile our rating, we collected the best adventure movies of all time, based on data on the highest grossing tapes in the history of cinema.
10. Lawrence of Arabia
«Lawrence of Arabia"- an adventure epic film about the events of the Arab rebellion of 1916-1918. The film is one of the highest grossing films in the history of cinema and has been awarded seven Oscars. 10th place in the ranking of the best adventure films of all time.
The plot focuses on the fascinating story of Thomas Edward Lawrence, a famous British army officer and traveler, an active participant in the Great Arab Revolt. He is a hero not only in England, but also in the Middle East. After enrolling in the army in 1914, he was sent to Egypt as a connoisseur of the Arabic language. Two years later, Lawrence joined Prince Faisal, the leader of the rebels, and took part in the Desert War of 1916-1918. Then he received the name Lawrence of Arabia.
9. Da Vinci Code
On the 9th place among the best adventure films is the film “The Da Vinci Code", Based on Dan Brown's sensational novel of the same name. The book received cult status, caused a lot of controversy, led to the appearance of numerous documentaries about the work and life of Leonardo da Vinci and returned interest in the great genius of the Renaissance and the theme of the search for the Holy Grail.
Although the picture is positioned primarily as a mystical thriller, in reality it is an adventure in its purest form. Professor of Religious Symbolism Robert Langdon, a leading specialist in his field, was invited to the Louvre by the police to help investigate a serious crime. When he arrives at the museum at the appointed time, he finds the murdered curator of the Louvre there. The latter managed to leave a certain encrypted message on his body before his death. Evidence indicates involvement in the murder of the professor. The granddaughter of the slain helps Langdon escape from the museum from the police. Together they try to find answers to two vital questions: who killed the curator and what secret did the deceased protect?
8. The white sun of the desert
«White Sun of the Desert"- the favorite film of Soviet and Russian cosmonauts takes 8th place in the ranking of the best adventure films of all time. It is noteworthy that at the time of release in 1970, the film was ambiguously perceived by the audience. Years later, he became a cult ribbon, and the colorful character of Pavel Vereshchagin, the head of the former tsarist customs, became the unspoken talisman of the Russian customs service.
1920s, east coast of the Caspian Sea. The civil war is over, but the Basmach gangs are still hiding in the desert. Red Armyman Fedor Sukhov returns home, but on the way he meets a detachment of Red Army soldiers chasing the gang of Black Abdullah. They are greatly delayed by a bandit freed by the harem, and they decide to leave the women in the care of Sukhov. He, accompanied by a young Red Army soldier Petruha, leads a harem to the nearest coastal city, not suspecting that Black Abdullah is also going there.
7. Back to the future
«Back to the Future"- a fantastic adventure film about a teenager Marty McFly, who, by the time machine of his friend, scientist Emmett Brown, falls 30 years ago, in 1985. He meets his mother and inadvertently changes his own future. Now he must help his father win the heart of Lorraine (his mother), otherwise Marty simply will not be born in the future. The film received the status of a cult film and is one of the best films of world cinema.
6. Jurassic World
«Jurassic World"- 4 part of the cult franchise about cloned dinosaurs and one of the best adventure films of all time. Takes 4 place in the list of the highest grossing ribbons and 6 place in our rating.
The plot of the picture returns the audience to the island where the John Hammond Corporation built an amusement park with cloned dinosaurs. The founder died long ago, and the new owner of the park, unhappy with the decrease in the number of visitors, decides to create new animals and update the entertainment program with their help. But a monster created by geneticists from the DNA of several dinosaurs of monstrous size and strength was too smart. Having deceived the guards, he breaks free.
5. In search of the lost ark
In fifth place in the ranking of the best adventure films of all time is the first part of the famous series of paintings about Indiana Jones “Searching for the Lost Ark". The film takes place in 1936. Indiana Jones professor of archeology, on a U.S. military intelligence mission, sets off in search of an ancient artifact, the legendary Ark of the Covenant, one of the main relics of Christianity. Behind the ark, the Nazis are hunting and one of the enemies of Jones - the French archaeologist Bellock.
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
«Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"- on the 4th place in the ranking of the best adventure films of all time.
XVII century, Caribbean islands. A time of fearless corsairs, treasure seekers. Fate brings together people completely different in social status: the son of the pirate Will Turner, the daughter of the Governor of Port Royal, Elizabeth Swann and the former pirate captain Jack Sparrow, who is eager to return his high-speed ship "Black Pearl".
3. The Lord of the Rings
The third place in the ranking of the best adventure films of all time is occupied by the cult film trilogy of Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings". For a long time there was an opinion that a series of Tolkien's novels about Middle-earth could not be filmed. Jackson proved that this is not so. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is not only a great adventure and fantasy movie, but also an example of an amazingly careful attitude to the original - the novels of the great John Ronald Tolkien, who gave us the wonderful world of Middle-earth.
2. Avatar
«Avatar»James Cameron ranks second in the list of best adventure films in the history of cinema. The plot of the picture takes viewers to the XXII century, on the giant planet Pandora, where a large corporation extracts a valuable mineral. Pandora is inhabited by huge animals and three-meter humanoid aborigines. To interact with them, Earth scientists created "avatars" - a hybrid of man and Navi (as the inhabitants of Pandora call themselves).
1. Star Wars
Space Adventure Sagastar Wars"- in first place in the ranking of the best films in the genre of adventure. A series of films about the civil war in a distant Galaxy, Jedi and Sith, the Dark and Light side of the force became so popular that it led to the emergence of a new subculture - "Jedaism."