| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Alien | Ridley Scott | Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton | United States United Kingdom | Space adventure, horror adventure[448] |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper | United States | Adventure drama, war adventure[449] |
| Arabian Adventure | Kevin Connor | Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Peter Cushing, Capucine, Mickey Rooney | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure[450] |
| Ashanti | Richard Fleischer | Michael Caine, Beverly Johnson, Kabir Bedi, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, William Holden | United States | Adventure drama[451] |
| Avalanche Express | Mark Robson | Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell | United States Ireland | [452] |
| Bear Island | Don Sharp | Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom Canada | Arctic adventure[453] |
| Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Irwin Allen | Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden | United States | Sea adventure[454] |
| The Black Hole | Gary Nelson | Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Forster | United States | Space adventure[455] |
| Black Jack | Ken Loach | Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval | United Kingdom | [456] |
| The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr | United States | Family-oriented adventure[457] |
| The Bodyguard | Ali Hamroyev | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn | Soviet Union | Action adventure[458] |
| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Daniel Haller | Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Pamela Hensley, Henry Silva, Joseph Wiseman | United States | Space adventure[459] |
| The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki | | Japan | Animated film[460] |
| Cuba | Richard Lester | Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Martin Balsam | United States | [461][462][463] |
| Day of the Assassin | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Chuck Connors, Susana Dosamantes, Glenn Ford, Richard Roundtree, Henry Silva | Mexico Spain United States | Action adventure[464] |
| Escape to Athena | George P. Cosmatos | Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, Elliott Gould, Richard Roundtree, Stefanie Powers, Sonny Bono | United States | War adventure[465] |
| Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | Steve Carver | David Carradine, Brenda Vaccaro | United States | [466][467] |
| The Fifth Musketeer | Ken Annakin | Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Rex Harrison, José Ferrer, Olivia de Havilland | United Kingdom Austria | [468] |
| Firepower | Michael Winner | James Coburn, Sophia Loren, Eli Wallach, O. J. Simpson | United Kingdom | [469] |
| The First Christmas | Richard Slapczynski | Alistair Duncan (voice), Ron Haddrick (voice), Philip Hinton (voice) | Australia | |
| Game for Vultures | James Fargo | Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree, Joan Collins, Ray Milland | United Kingdom | [470] |
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Harald Reinl | Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Klausjürgen Wussow, Reiner Schöne | West Germany | [471] |
| Gold of the Amazon Women | Mark L. Lester | Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasence | United States | [472] |
| The Great Alligator | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Richard Johnson | Italy | Horror adventure[473] |
| A Great Ride | Don Hulette | Perry Lang, Michael Sullivan, Michael MacRae | United States | [474] |
| Hangman's Brother [de] | Walter Beck [de] | Frank Grunwald, Gunter Friedrich, Thomas Wolff, Holger Mahlich | East Germany | [475] |
| Hurricane | Jan Troell | Mia Farrow, Dayton Ka'ne, Jason Robards, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard | United States | Romantic adventure[476] |
| I'm for the Hippopotamus | Italo Zingarelli | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer | Italy | Adventure comedy[477] |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Joseph Cotten, Richard Johnson | Italy | Science fiction adventure[478] |
| Jaguar Lives! | Ernest Pintoff | Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine, Joseph Wiseman, Woody Strode, John Huston | United States Spain | [479] |
| Killer Fish | Antonio Margheriti | Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson, James Franciscus | Italy Brazil | Horror adventure[480] |
| King Solomon's Treasure | Alvin Rakoff | David McCallum, John Colicos, Patrick Macnee, Britt Ekland | United Kingdom Canada | [481] |
| Lady Oscar | Jacques Demy | Catriona MacColl | France Japan | [482][483] |
| The Last Giraffe | Jack Couffer | Susan Anspach, Simon Ward, Gordon Jackson | United States | Family-oriented adventure[484] |
| Mad Max | George Miller | Mel Gibson | Australia | Science fiction adventure[485] |
| Manaos | Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa | Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Jorge Rivero, Jorge Luke [es], Andrés García, Florinda Bolkan, Alberto de Mendoza | Spain Mexico Italy | [486] |
| Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | George Schaefer | Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, Jenny Agutter | United States | Sea adventure[487] |
| Meetings with Remarkable Men | Peter Brook | Dragan Maksimović, Terence Stamp | United Kingdom | [488] |
| Mistress of the Apes | Larry Buchanan | Jenny Neumann | United States | [489] |
| Moonraker | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry | United Kingdom France | Action adventure, space adventure[490][491][492][493] |
| Mountain Family Robinson | John Cotter | Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw | United States | Family-oriented adventure[494] |
| The Muppet Movie | James Frawley | Charles Durning, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles, Telly Savalas, James Coburn, Steve Martin | United States United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure[495] |
| Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women | Joseph Pevney | Clint Walker, Rosalind Chao, Peter Lawford, Deborah Shelton, Jayne Kennedy | United States | [496][497] |
| North Sea Hijack | Andrew V. McLaglen | Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure[498] |
| The Passage | J. Lee Thompson | Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | War adventure[499] |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Richard Quine | Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Elke Sommer, Lionel Jeffries, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy[500] |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Tony Maylam | Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel | United Kingdom | Sea adventure[501] |
| The Shark Hunter | Enzo G. Castellari | Franco Nero, Werner Pochath, Jorge Luke [es], Eduardo Fajardo | Italy Spain Mexico | Sea adventure[502] |
| The Spaceman and King Arthur | Russ Mayberry | Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth More | Italy | Adventure comedy, science fiction adventure[503] |
| Spirit of the Wind | Ralph Liddle | Pius Savage, Chief Dan George, Slim Pickens, George Clutesi | United States | [504] |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko | Soviet Union | Science fiction adventure[505][506] |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins | United States | Space adventure[507][508][509][510] |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen | United States United Kingdom | Science fiction adventure[511] |
| A Touch of the Sun | Peter Curran | Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy[512] |
| The Treasure Seekers | Henry Levin | Rod Taylor, Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer, Jeremy Kemp | United States United Kingdom | Sea adventure[513] |
| A Vacation in Hell | David Greene | Priscilla Barnes, Michael Brandon | United States | [514] |
| Vlad Țepeș | Doru Năstase | Ștefan Sileanu | Romania | |
| Wanda Nevada | Peter Fonda | Brooke Shields, Peter Fonda | United States | [515] |
| Zulu Dawn | Douglas Hickox | Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Bob Hoskins | United States United Kingdom | War adventure[516] |