Best Adventure movies of 1980s

Actors : River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.

Actors : William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Thomas F. Wilson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Actors : Lance Guest, Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason, Robert Preston,
Directors : Nick Castle,

Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Two losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Mel Gibson,
Directors : Peter Weir,

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Actors : Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Sam J. Jones,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Actors : Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Dooley, Ray Walston,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The adventures of the sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Don Bluth,

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Directors : John Landis,

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Actors : Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Kathryn Mullen,

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.

Actors : Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Joey Lawrence, Richard Mulligan,
Directors : George Scribner,

A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.

Actors : Priscilla Presley, Andrew Dice Clay, Lauren Holly, Wayne Newton,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

A vulgar private detective is hired to find a missing groupie and is drawn into a mystery involving a series of murders tied to the music industry.

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Kurt Russell, Mickey Rooney,

Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.