The best adventure films of all time

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It's unlikely that there will be a viewer who does not like adventure films. This category of cinema is interesting because it can organically combine in itself different genres: fantasy, fantasy, thriller, action movie and, in fact, adventure. To select the best pictures of the genre in the history of cinematography is incredibly difficult. To compile our rating, we have collected the best adventure films of all time, , based on the data on the highest grossing tapes in the history of cinematography.

10

Lawrence of Arabia

" Lawrence of Arabia " - an adventure film-epic, telling about the events of the Arab uprising of 1916-1918.The painting is among the highest grossing films in the history of cinema and was awarded seven Oscar prizes.10th place in the rating of the best adventure films of all time.

In the center of the plot of the picture is the fascinating story of Thomas Edward Lawrence, the famous officer of the British army and traveler, an active participant in the Great Arab Uprising. He is a hero not only in England, but also in the Middle East. After enlistment 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 "War in the Desert" of 1916-1918.Then he received the name of Lawrence of Arabia.

9

The Da Vinci Code

On the 9th place among the best adventure films - the film " Da Vinci Code ", shot at the once-famous novel of the same name by Dan Brown. The book received the status of a cult, caused much controversy, led to the appearance of numerous documentary films about the work and life of Leonardo da Vinci and returned interest to the great genius of the Renaissance and the quest for the Holy Grail.

Although the picture is positioned primarily as a mystical thriller, in fact it's an adventure in its purest form. Professor of religious symbols Robert Langdon, a leading expert in his field, was invited to the Louvre by the police to help in the investigation of a serious crime. When he comes at the appointed time to the museum, he finds the murdered curator of the Louvre there. The last before his death had time to leave on his body a certain encrypted message. The evidence indicates involvement in the murder of the professor. Escape from the museum from the police Langdon helps the granddaughter of the murdered. Together they try to find answers to two vital questions: who killed the curator and what secret was defended by the deceased?

8

White Desert Sun

« White Desert Sun » - the favorite film of Soviet and Russian cosmonauts takes 8th place in the rating of the best adventure films of all time. It is noteworthy that at the time of the release on the screens in 1970 the film was ambiguously received 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 an unspoken talisman of the Russian customs service.

1920 years, the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. The civil war is over, but the Basmachi gangs are still hidden in the desert. Red Army soldier Fedor Sukhov returns home, but on the way he meets a detachment of Red Army men pursuing the gang of Black Abdullah. They are severely detained by the bandit freed from the harem, and women are left to be left in the care of Sukhov. He, accompanied by a young Red Army man Petrukhi, leads a harem to the nearest seaside town, unaware that Black Abdullah is also heading there.

7

Back to the Future

« Back to the Future » is a fantastic adventure film about a teenager Marty McFlay who, in the time machine of his friend, the scientist Emmett Brown, gets to 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 in the future Marty will not just be born. The film received the status of a cult ribbon and is among the best pictures of the world cinema.

6

World of the Jurassic Period

" Jurassic World " - 4 part of the cult franchise about cloned dinosaurs and one of the best adventure films of all time. He takes 4th place in the list of the highest-grossing tapes and 6th place in our rating.

The plot of the picture returns viewers to the island, where the John Hammond Corporation built an amusement park with cloned dinosaurs. The founder has long since died, and the new owner of the park, dissatisfied with the decline in the number of visitors, decides to create new animals and update with their help an entertainment program. But a monster of monstrous sizes and strength created by geneticists from DNA of several dinosaurs was too clever. Deceiving the guards, he breaks loose.

5

In search of the lost ark

In the fifth place in the rating of the best adventure films of all time - the first part of the famous series of paintings about Indiana Jones " In search of the lost ark ".The film takes place in 1936.Professor of Archeology Indiana Jones, on behalf of US military intelligence, is sent to search for an ancient artifact, the legendary Ark of the Covenant, one of the main relics of Christianity. Behind the ark hunt the Nazis and one of the enemies of Jones - the French archaeologist Bellok.

4

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

« Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl » - in the 4th place in the rating of the best adventure films of all time.

XVII century, the Caribbean. Time of fearless corsairs, treasure hunters. Fate brings together completely different people in social status: the son of pirate Will Turner, the daughter of the governor of Port Royal, Elizabeth Swann, and the former captain of pirates, Jack Sparrow, who is eager to regain his speedboat Black Pearl.

3

Lord of the Rings

The third place in the rating of the best adventure films of all time is occupied by the cult cinema 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 can not be screened. Jackson proved that this is not so. Cinema trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" is not only a great adventure and fantasy cinema, 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 " by James Cameron ranked second in the list of the best adventure films in the history of cinematography. The plot of the picture takes viewers to XXII century, to the giant planet Pandora, where a large corporation mines a valuable mineral. Pandora is inhabited by huge animals and three-meter humanoid aborigines. To interact with them, scientists of the Earth created "avatars" - a hybrid of man and Navi( the name of the inhabitants of Pandora).

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Star wars

Space adventure saga " Star wars " - in the first place in the ranking of the best films in the genre of adventure. A series of films about civil war in the 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 - "Jediism".