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All Time Best Adventure Movies: Top 10 Movies List

Adventure Films are a genre of film. Adventure films are similar to action movie which gives energetic experience for the film viewer. Hollywood produced numerous different types of adventure movies, in which some became all time best adventure movie like a Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars, etc. The viewer of adventure films can live vicariously through the travels, conquests, explorations, creation of empires, struggles and situations that confront the main characters, actual historical figures or protagonists.

The adventure film reached its peak of popularity in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, when films such as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro were regularly made with major stars, notably Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power, who were closely associated with the genre. This list is a mixture of fantasy, action and drama, with each movie involving an adventurous story, which I believe is the basis for any top adventure movie.

Adventure films are often set in an historical period, and may include adapted stories of historical or literary adventure heroes, kings, battles, rebellion, or piracy. Sub category of adventure films are traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles, searches or expeditions for lost continents, “jungle” and “desert” epics, treasure hunts and quests, disaster films, and heroic journeys or searches for the unknown.

List of Top 10 All Time Best Adventure Movies

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
4. Star Wars (1977)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
7. Toy Story (1995)
8. Star Wars Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Superman (1978)
10. Ben-Hur (1959)

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