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1. Willow (1988)
PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh
Votes: 129,839 | Gross: $57.27M
2. Secondhand Lions (2003)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Fourteen-year-old Walter Caldwell's irresponsible mother Mae sends him to live with his bachelor uncles, Hub and Garth, so that she can go on yet another husband-hunting trip.
Director: Tim McCanlies | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick
Votes: 61,751 | Gross: $41.41M
3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Robin Hood decides to fight back as an outlaw when faced with the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater
Votes: 208,354 | Gross: $165.50M
4. John Carter (2012)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Woola and a princess in desperate need of a savior.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton
Votes: 286,173 | Gross: $73.08M
5. The Three Musketeers (1993)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
France, 1625: Young d'Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers but the evil cardinal has disbanded them - save 3. He meets the 3, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt
Votes: 59,340 | Gross: $53.90M
6. Gettysburg (1993)
PG | 271 min | Drama, History, War
In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan
Votes: 31,299 | Gross: $10.77M
7. The Man in the Iron Mask (I) (1998)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?
Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 178,768 | Gross: $56.97M
8. The Bounty (1984)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox
Votes: 30,432 | Gross: $8.60M
9. DragonHeart (1996)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite
Votes: 101,763 | Gross: $51.37M
10. Valmont (1989)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk
Votes: 14,293 | Gross: $1.13M
11. The Great Train Robbery (1978)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb
Votes: 19,552 | Gross: $13.03M
12. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 10,978 | Gross: $4.36M
13. The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In France in 1649, the services of the Four Musketeers are needed again, and they run into some old foes from twenty years before.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell
Votes: 3,907
14. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.
Director: Gene Wilder | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise
Votes: 7,303
15. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Director: Brian Clemens | Stars: Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro
Votes: 5,692 | Gross: $0.12M
16. Kidnapped (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie
Votes: 1,609
17. The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor seeks to flee a forced marriage with the French king by escaping to America with her true love, but her plans are not so easily executed.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Votes: 998
18. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Biography, Romance
Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
Directors: Archie Mayo, John Cromwell | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier
Votes: 1,161
19. Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
82 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Life at the Magic Roundabout is disrupted when a blue cat called Buxton finds his way into town. Everyone loves Buxton except for Dougal, who discovers the cat's mad plan to become the king of blue army and destroy all who are not blue.
Directors: Serge Danot, Eric Thompson | Stars: Christian Riehl, Paul Bisciglia, Nadine Legrand, Jean-Luc Tardieu
Votes: 398
20. The Mark of Zorro (1975)
79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In nineteenth-century California, two children listen to the adventures of a grandfather who fought against the Yankee invaders. At that time a mysterious man, dressed in masked black, appeared.
Directors: Marius Lesoeur, Jesús Franco, Alain Payet | Stars: Clint Douglas, Monica Swinn, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Madame Caillard
Votes: 66
21. The Thrill Chaser (1923)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Working as a motion-picture extra, Westerner Omar K. Jenkins (Hoot Gibson) impresses Sheik Ussan, a visiting Arab prince, with his pugilistic ability. Engaged to go to Arabia, he becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, James Neill, Billie Dove, W.E. Lawrence
Votes: 26
22.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Qpid
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Aiming to get out of Jean-Luc's debt, Q forces Capt. Picard and his officers to live out the Legend of Robin Hood - with a past acquaintance as Maid Marian.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,417
23.
Zorro (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Jewelled Sword
(1991)
TV-G | 22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A theater troupe arrives in town, but Zorro suspects that the real reason why they're there is the Magistrate's priceless jeweled sword of Charlemagne.
Director: Michael Levine | Stars: Duncan Regehr, Patrice Martinez, James Victor, Michael Tylo
Votes: 26
24.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
City of Death: Part Three
(1979)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Travelling back in time to 1505 Florence in search of Leonardo da Vinci, the Doctor is surprised to instead find Count Scarlioni under a different name. Back in 1979, Romana and Duggan attempt to stop the Count's heist but arrive too late.
Director: Michael Hayes | Stars: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Julian Glover, Catherine Schell
Votes: 698
25.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Deadly Flowers
(1984)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Haggar and Lotor send a group of poisoned seeds to Arus which produce handsome plants - which weaken all who pick them for their beauty. Coran and the Voltron Force learn that an antidote ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Peter Cullen, Neil Ross
Votes: 27
26.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1984–1985)
Episode:
Final Victory
(1984)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
The Voltron Force and their allies prepare to take down Castle Doom, the last of Lotor's defenses. But Voltron is nearly destroyed before they can actually land, until Coran pilots the ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Peter Cullen, Neil Ross
Votes: 21
27.
DreamWorks Dragons (2012–2014)
Episode:
Cast Out: Part I
(2014)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Snotlout is expelled from the academy; Alvin returns to Berk to make amends.
Director: Adam Henry | Stars: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller
Votes: 164