List of recommended films (that we really need to alphabetize or index by year).
The Secret of the Incas (1954)
- An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungles.
- Reason for recommendation
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan–a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.
- Reason for recommendation
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
- Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
- See also: Temple of Doom and Last Crusade.
- It’s the greatest adventure films of all time.
The Road to El Dorado (1954)
- Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
- It’s an animated version of The Man Who Would Be King but with catchy show tunes.
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- Even G.K. Chesterton would reconsider his famous quote “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” after watching both this and its accompanying ‘making of film’ “Burden of Dreams” (1982).
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
- Good ol’ Werner Herzog never directed an adventure film that wasn’t themed in misery – it’s not always about fortune and glory, sometimes it’s about planning and preparedness and survival. Don’t get cocky. Though set far outside our ‘Golden Age’ time period, it’s very much about The Time of Explorers.
She (1965)
- An Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality.
- Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee. What more reason do you need?
Just about any version of The Perils of Pauline (1914-1987).
The Further Adventures of Tennesee Buck (1988)
- A drunken, down-on-his-luck adventurer is hired by a wealthy man and his beautiful wife to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. After a while, though, the guide begins to suspect that there’s more to the expedition than just hunting.
- Buck is more like Indiana Jones would be like if he were a real person. This movie is sillier and more fun spirited than the Indiana Jones movies, but it’s sure not for kids!
The Ghost and The Darkness (1996)
- A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.
- reason for recommendation
Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
- After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he’s an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.
- reason for recommendation
King Kong (1933)
- A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. Then he’s captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
- reason for recommendation
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air freight company is forced to risk his pilots’ lives in order to win an important contract.
- reason for recommendation
Casablanca (1942)
- In Casablanca, Morocco during the early days of World War II, an American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
- reason for recommendation
The African Queen (1951)
- In Africa during WWI, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
- reason for recommendation
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
- The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton’s and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
- reason for recommendation
Lost Horizon (1937)
- A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La — but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be?
- reason for recommendation
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The story of TE Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War 1 in order to fight the Turks.
- It an epic, it’s a classic, it’s a classic epic and and epic classic!
Papillon (1973)
- A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
- reason for recommendation
Sorcerer (1977)
- Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.
- It’s one of the best movies ever made. Suspenseful and exciting. All the stakes are high in this sweaty jungle adventure.
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
- At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
- It’s primary tale, isn’t the war movie. It is the Golden Age, and a clash of cultures.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
- reason for recommendation
Endurance (xxxx)
- arctic adventures with Kenny Branaugh
- reason for recommendation
Archival photo from the true story.
The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
- Cowboys and dinosaurs, man!
- Few realize the film is actually a docudrama.
High Road to China
The White Dawn (inuit flick)
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