List of adventure films of the 1930s

A list of adventure films released in the 1930s.

1930

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The Big Trail	Raoul Walsh	John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power, Sr., El Brendel		Epic western, wagon train
The Black Watch	John Ford	Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy
Dangerous Paradise	William A. Wellman	Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz
A Daughter of the Congo	Oscar Micheaux	Kathleen Noisette, Lorenzo Tucker
General Crack	Alan Crosland	John Barrymore, Marian Nixon, Armida, Lowell Sherman
The Green Goddess	Alfred E. Green	George Arliss, H. B. Warner, Alice Joyce
Hell Harbor	Henry King	Lupe Vélez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland		Romantic adventure
Hell's Island	Edward Sloman	Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Dorothy Sebastian
The Man Hunter	D. Ross Lederman	Rin Tin Tin
Morocco	Josef von Sternberg	Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou		Desert adventure
Paradise Island	Bert Glennon	Marceline Day, Kenneth Harlan
Renegades	Victor Fleming	Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery
The Sea God	George Abbott	Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette		Sea adventure
The Sea Wolf	Alfred Santell	Milton Sills, Raymond Hackett		Sea adventure
The Silver Horde	George Archainbaud	Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, Blanche Sweet		Sea adventure
The Spoilers	Edwin Carewe	Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson		Western
Storm over Mont Blanc	Arnold Fanck	Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist		Mountaineering adventure
Vengeance	Archie Mayo	Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier
Women Everywhere	Alexander Korda	J. Harold Murray, Fifi D'Orsay		Musical

1931

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The Adventurer of Tunis	Willi Wolff	Ellen Richter, Theo Shall, Charles Puffy
Beau Ideal	Herbert Brenon	Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Loretta Young
Corsair	Roland West	Chester Morris		Sea adventure
Danger Island	Ray Taylor	Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Andy Devine		Serial
Dirigible	Frank Capra	Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray
East of Borneo	George Melford	Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar		Jungle adventure
Fifty Fathoms Deep	Roy William Neill	Jack Holt, Loretta Sayers, Richard Cromwell		Sea adventure
King of the Wild	B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe	Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Dorothy Christy, Boris Karloff		Serial
Never the Twain Shall Meet	W. S. Van Dyke	Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro		Sea adventure
Trader Horn	W. S. Van Dyke	Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
The Unholy Garden	George Fitzmaurice	Ronald Colman, Fay Wray

1932

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
L'Atlantide	G. W. Pabst	Brigitte Helm
Baroud	Rex Ingram, Alice Terry	Pierre Batcheff, Rosita Garcia
The Black Hussar	Gerhard Lamprecht	Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians
Bring 'Em Back Alive	Clyde E. Elliott	Frank Buck		Documentary
Chandu the Magician	William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel	Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall		Secret agent
Devil on Deck	Wallace Fox	Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Wheeler Oakman, June Marlowe		Sea adventure
F.P.1	Karl Hartl	Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre
Hell's Headquarters	Andrew L. Stone	Jack Mulhall, Barbara Weeks
Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton	Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen		Horror adventure
Jungle Mystery	Ray Taylor	Tom Tyler		Serial
Kongo	William J. Cowen	Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce		Horror adventure
The Mask of Fu Manchu	Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor	Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett		Horror adventure
The Most Dangerous Game	Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack	Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson		Horror adventure, desert island, jungle
The Mummy	Karl Freund	Boris Karloff, Zita Johann		Horror adventure
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions	E. A. Dupont	Willi Forst, Alice Treff, Paul Hörbiger, Otto Wernicke		Adventure comedy
The Rebel	Curtis Bernhardt, Luis Trenker	Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich
Red Dust	Victor Fleming	Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor		Romantic adventure
Roar of the Dragon	Wesley Ruggles	Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, ZaSu Pitts, C. Henry Gordon
The Savage Girl	Harry L. Fraser	Rochelle Hudson, Harry Myers		Jungle adventure
Shanghai Express	Josef von Sternberg	Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Clive Brook
Tarzan the Ape Man	W. S. Van Dyke	Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan		Jungle adventure
The Three Musketeers	Henri Diamant-Berger	Aimé Simon-Girard, Henri Rollan, Thomy Bourdelle, Jean-Louis Allibert
Tiger Shark	Howard Hawks	Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann		Sea adventure
War Correspondent	Paul Sloane	Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee
The White God	George Schnéevoigt	Paul Richter, Mona Mårtenson, Rudolf Klein-Rogge		Arctic adventure
White Zombie	Victor Hugo Halperin	Bela Lugosi		Horror adventure

1933

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The 1002nd Night	Alexandre Volkoff	Ivan Mosjoukine, Tania Fédor, Natalya Lisenko
Below the Sea	Albert S. Rogell	Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy		Sea adventure
The Bitter Tea of General Yen	Frank Capra	Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori		Romantic adventure
Dick Turpin	Victor Hanbury, John Stafford	Victor McLaglen
Don Quixote	G.W. Pabst	Feodor Chaliapin, George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy		Romantic adventure, adventure drama
The Flaming Signal	George Jeske, Charles E. Roberts	John David Horsley, Marceline Day, Noah Beery, Mischa Auer
Flüchtlinge	Gustav Ucicky	Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy
King Kong	Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack	Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher		Jungle adventure
Kiss of Araby	Phil Rosen	Maria Alba, Walter Byron, Claire Windsor
Laughing at Life	Ford Beebe	Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro
The Perils of Pauline	Ray Taylor	Evalyn Knapp, Robert Allen		Serial
Savage Gold	George Miller Dyott	George Miller Dyott		Documentary
So This Is Africa	Edward F. Cline	Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey		Adventure comedy
The Son of Kong	Ernest B. Schoedsack	Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston		Jungle adventure
S.O.S. Eisberg	Arnold Fanck	Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet		Arctic adventure
Tarzan the Fearless	Robert F. Hill	Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren		Serial, jungle adventure
The Three Musketeers	Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark	John Wayne, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.		Serial
Timbuctoo	Walter Summers, Arthur B. Woods	Henry Kendall, Margot Grahame		Adventure comedy
When Strangers Marry	Clarence G. Badger	Jack Holt, Lilian Bond
White Woman	Stuart Walker	Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton
The Woman I Stole	Irving Cummings	Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Noah Beery

1934

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Adventure Girl	Herman C. Raymaker	Joan Lowell		Docudrama
The Affairs of Cellini	Gregory La Cava	Fredric March, Constance Bennett, Fay Wray, Frank Morgan
Beyond Bengal	Harry Schenck	Harry Schenck		Documentary
Black Moon	Roy William Neill	Fay Wray, Jack Holt, Dorothy Burgess		Horror adventure
Le Bossu	René Sti	Robert Vidalin
Cartouche	Jacques Daroy	Paul Lalloz
Colonel Blood	W. P. Lipscomb	Frank Cellier, Anne Grey, Mary Lawson, Allan Jeayes
The Eternal Dream	Arnold Fanck	Sepp Rist, Brigitte Horney		Mountaineering adventure
Four Frightened People	Cecil B. DeMille	Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland, William Gargan		Jungle adventure, desert island
Le Grand Jeu	Jacques Feyder	Pierre Richard-Willm, Marie Bell, Charles Vanel, Françoise Rosay
The Lost Jungle	David Howard, Armand Schaefer	Clyde Beatty		Serial
The Lost Patrol	John Ford	Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny		Desert
Ein Mann will nach Deutschland	Paul Wegener	Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Horney		Sea adventure
Marie Galante	Henry King	Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian
Murder in Trinidad	Louis King	Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory		Mystery
North Pole, Ahoy	Andrew Marton	Walter Riml, Gustav Lantschner		Arctic adventure, adventure comedy
Peer Gynt	Fritz Wendhausen	Hans Albers, Olga Tschechowa, Otto Wernicke
Pirate Treasure	Ray Taylor	Richard Talmadge		Serial
The Private Life of Don Juan	Alexander Korda	Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon
Pursued	Louis King	Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, Russell Hardie
Red Morning	Wallace Fox	Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey, Raymond Hatton		Sea adventure
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika	Herbert Selpin	Sepp Rist
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Harold Young	Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce
Schwarzer Jäger Johanna	Johannes Meyer	Marianne Hoppe, Paul Hartmann, Gustaf Gründgens
A Scream in the Night	Fred C. Newmeyer	Lon Chaney Jr.		Mystery
Sixteen Fathoms Deep	Armand Schaefer	Lon Chaney Jr., Sally O'Neil		Sea adventure
Tarzan and His Mate	Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway	Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan		Jungle adventure
Treasure Island	Victor Fleming	Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce		Pirate film
Wild Cargo	Armand Denis	Frank Buck		Documentary
Young Eagles	Edward Laurier, Vin Moore	Bobby Cox, Jim Vance		Serial, family-oriented adventure

1935

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
La Bandera	Julien Duvivier	Jean Gabin, Annabella
The Best Man Wins	Erle C. Kenton	Jack Holt, Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice		Sea adventure
The Black Room	Roy William Neill	Boris Karloff		Horror adventure
The Call of the Savage	Lew Landers	Noah Beery Jr.		Serial
The Call of the Wild	William A. Wellman	Clark Gable, Loretta Young
Captain Blood	Michael Curtiz	Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill		Pirate film
China Seas	Tay Garnett	Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell		Sea adventure, romantic adventure
Clive of India	Richard Boleslawski	Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive
The Crusades	Cecil B. DeMille	Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith
Demon of the Himalayas	Andrew Marton	Gustav Diessl		Mountaineering adventure
Drake of England	Arthur B. Woods	Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler, Jane Baxter		Sea adventure
Der Dschungel ruft	Harry Piel	Harry Piel, Gerda Maurus
East of Java	George Melford	Charles Bickford
Fang and Claw	Frank Buck	Frank Buck		Documentary
Last of the Pagans	Richard Thorpe	Ray Mala, Lotus Long		Sea adventure
The Last Outpost	Louis J. Gasnier, Charles Barton	Cary Grant, Claude Rains
The Live Wire	Harry S. Webb	Richard Talmadge		Sea adventure
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Henry Hathaway	Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell		Romantic adventure
The Lost City	Harry Revier	William Boyd		Serial, fantasy adventure
McGlusky the Sea Rover	Walter Summers	Jack Doyle, Tamara Desni, Henry Mollison		Sea adventure
Midshipman Easy	Carol Reed	Hughie Green, Roger Livesey, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Adams		Sea adventure
Mutiny Ahead	Thomas Atkins	Neil Hamilton, Kathleen Burke		Sea adventure
Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd	Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Movita		Sea adventure, adventure drama
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste	Denison Clift	Bela Lugosi		Sea adventure
The New Adventures of Tarzan	Edward A. Kull	Herman Brix		Serial
... nur ein Komödiant	Erich Engel	Rudolf Forster, Paul Wegener
Oil for the Lamps of China	Mervyn LeRoy	Pat O'Brien
Professional Soldier	Tay Garnett	Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew
Queen of the Jungle	Robert F. Hill	Mary Kornman, Reed Howes		Serial
La Route impériale	Marcel L'Herbier	Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Richard-Willm, Pierre Renoir
Sanders of the River	Zoltan Korda	Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney
Savage Fury	Lew Landers	Noah Beery Jr., Walter Miller, Dorothy Short		Jungle adventure
She	Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel	Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
Storm Over the Andes	Christy Cabanne	Jack Holt
The Three Musketeers	Rowland V. Lee	Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Paul Lukas
Under the Pampas Moon	James Tinling	Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian		Romantic adventure

1936

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Across the Desert	Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla	Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell	Cliff Smith	Donald Briggs		Serial
The Black Coin	Albert Herman	Ralph Graves		Serial
Black Gold	Russell Hopton	Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Gloria Shea		Action adventure
The Bold Caballero	Wells Root	Robert Livingston
Captain Calamity	John Reinhardt	George F. Houston		Sea adventure
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Michael Curtiz	Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, David Niven
Dangerous Waters	Lambert Hillyer	Jack Holt, Robert Armstrong		Sea adventure
Darkest Africa	B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane	Clyde Beatty, Manuel King, Elaine Shepard		Serial
Down to the Sea	Lewis D. Collins	Russell Hardie, Ben Lyon, Ann Rutherford		Sea adventure
L'Esclave blanc	Jean-Paul Paulin	George Rigaud, Sanlure
Flash Gordon	Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill	Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon		Serial, space adventure
The General Died at Dawn	Lewis Milestone	Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff
Isle of Fury	Frank McDonald	Humphrey Bogart, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Juan Moreira	Nelo Cosimi	Antonio Podestá, Domingo Sapelli, Guillermo Casali, María Esther Podestá
The Jungle Princess	Wilhelm Thiele	Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff
The Last of the Mohicans	George B. Seitz	Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes		Western
The Leathernecks Have Landed	Howard Bretherton	Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell
A Legionnaire	Christian-Jaque	Fernandel		Adventure comedy
The Lion Man	John P. McCarthy	Jon Hall, Kathleen Burke, Ted Adams
Michel Strogoff	Jacques de Baroncelli, Richard Eichberg	Anton Walbrook, Charles Vanel
The Mine with the Iron Door	David Howard	Richard Arlen, Cecilia Parker, Henry B. Walthall
North of Nome	William Nigh	Jack Holt
Port Arthur	Nicolas Farkas	Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel
Revolt of the Zombies	Victor Hugo Halperin	Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger		Horror adventure
Rhodes of Africa	Berthold Viertel	Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island	Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright	Ray Mala, Mamo Clark, Herbert Rawlinson		Serial, US spies in Polynesia
Le Roman d'un spahi	Michel Bernheim	George Rigaud, Mireille Balin, Princesse Khandou
Sea Spoilers	Frank R. Strayer	John Wayne, Nan Grey		Sea adventure
Song of Freedom	J. Elder Wills	Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy		Adventure drama
Lo squadrone bianco	Augusto Genina	Antonio Centa, Fosco Giachetti
Tarzan Escapes	Richard Thorpe	Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan		Jungle adventure
Uncivilised	Charles Chauvel	Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey
Under Two Flags	Frank Lloyd	Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell
Undersea Kingdom	B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane	Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue		Serial
Unter heißem Himmel	Gustav Ucicky	Hans Albers, Lotte Lang		Sea adventure
We're in the Legion Now!	Crane Wilbur	Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston		Adventure comedy
White Death	Edwin G. Bowen	Zane Grey		Sea adventure
White Hunter	Irving Cummings	Warner Baxter, June Lang
Wings Over Africa	Ladislao Vajda	Joan Gardner, Ian Colin, James Harcourt

1937

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Adventure's End	Arthur Lubin	John Wayne		Sea adventure
Alarm in Peking	Herbert Selpin	Gustav Fröhlich
Aloha, le chant des îles	Léon Mathot	Jean Murat, Danièle Parola, Arletty
The Black Corsair	Amleto Palermi	Ciro Verratti, Silvana Jachino		Pirate film
Captains Courageous	Victor Fleming	Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore		Adventure drama, sea adventure
China Passage	Edward Killy	Vinton Haworth, Gordon Jones, Constance Worth, Leslie Fenton		Sea adventure, mystery
Condottieri	Luis Trenker	Luis Trenker
Courrier sud	Pierre Billon	Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel
Elephant Boy	Robert J. Flaherty	Sabu, Walter Hudd, W. E. Holloway
The Emperor's Candlesticks	George Fitzmaurice	William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan
The High Command	Thorold Dickinson	Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, James Mason
I Cover the War	Arthur Lubin	John Wayne
Jungle Jim	Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith	Grant Withers		Serial
Jungle Menace	Harry L. Fraser, George Melford	Frank Buck		Serial
King Solomon's Mines	Robert Stevenson	Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, Anna Lee		African adventure
The Legion of Missing Men	Hamilton MacFadden	Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Hala Linda		War adventure
Lost Horizon	Frank Capra	Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, John Howard
The Messenger	Raymond Rouleau	Jean Gabin, Gaby Morlay, Jean-Pierre Aumont
The Mysterious Pilot	Spencer Gordon Bennet	Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian		Serial
Outlaws of the Orient	Ernest B. Schoedsack	Jack Holt, Mae Clarke
Pearls of the Crown	Sacha Guitry	Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault		Adventure comedy
The Prince and the Pauper	William Keighley	Errol Flynn, Billy and Bobby Mauch, Claude Rains
The Prisoner of Zenda	John Cromwell, W. S. Van Dyke	Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, Raymond Massey, David Niven		Swashbuckler
Les Réprouvés	Jacques Séverac	Jean Servais
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Hanns Schwarz	Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason
Sea Devils	Benjamin Stoloff	Victor McLagen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino		Sea adventure
Slave Ship	Tay Garnett	Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney
Three Legionnaires	Hamilton MacFadden	Robert Armstrong, Lyle Talbot, Anne Nagel		Adventure comedy
Tim Tyler's Luck	Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens	Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson, Al Shean, William 'Billy' Benedict		Serial
La Tour de Nesle	Gaston Roudès	Tania Fédor, Jean Weber, Jacques Varennes
Troïka sur la piste blanche	Jean Dréville	Jean Murat, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel
Trouble in Morocco	Ernest B. Schoedsack	Jack Holt, Mae Clarke
Under the Red Robe	Victor Sjöström	Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey
Wallaby Jim of the Islands	Charles Lamont	George F. Houston		Sea adventure
West of Shanghai	John Farrow	Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez
The Wife of General Ling	Ladislao Vajda	Griffith Jones, Valéry Inkijinoff, Adrianne Renn
Windjammer	Ewing Scott	George O'Brien		Sea adventure
Woman of Malacca	Marc Allégret	Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm		Romantic adventure
The Yellow Flag	Gerhard Lamprecht	Hans Albers, Olga Chekhova, Dorothea Wieck
Zorro Rides Again	John English, William Witney	John Carroll, Helen Christian		Serial, western

1938

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Adventure in Sahara	D. Ross Lederman	Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray
The Adventures of Marco Polo	Archie Mayo	Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Michael Curtiz, William Keighley	Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains		Swashbuckler, romantic adventure
Alerte en Méditerranée	Léo Joannon	Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka, Kim Peacock		Sea adventure
Bar du sud	Henri Fescourt	Charles Vanel, Tania Fédor
The Buccaneer	Cecil B. DeMille	Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff		Pirate film
Bulldog Drummond in Africa	Louis King	John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish
Call of the Yukon	John T. Coyle, B. Reeves Eason	Richard Arlen
Capriccio	Karl Ritter	Lilian Harvey, Viktor Staal		Adventure comedy
The Challenge	Luis Trenker, Milton Rosmer	Robert Douglas, Luis Trenker
Coral Reefs	Maurice Gleize	Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Renoir		Sea adventure
The Drum	Zoltan Korda	Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson, Roger Livesey
Ettore Fieramosca	Alessandro Blasetti	Gino Cervi, Mario Ferrari, Elisa Cegani
La Femme du bout du monde	Jean Epstein	Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Germaine Rouer		Sea adventure
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars	Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill	Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon		Serial, space adventure
Flight into Nowhere	Lewis D. Collins	Jack Holt, Dick Purcell
Hawk of the Wilderness	John English, William Witney	Herman Brix, Ray Mala, Noble Johnson		Serial, uncharted jungle island
Heart of the North	Lewis Seiler	Dick Foran		Western
Her Jungle Love	George Archainbaud	Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland		Romantic adventure
If I Were King	Frank Lloyd	Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone
The Indian Tomb	Richard Eichberg	La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen
J'étais une aventurière	Raymond Bernard	Edwige Feuillère, Jean Murat, Jean-Max, Jean Tissier
Kautschuk	Eduard von Borsody	René Deltgen, Gustav Diessl
Kidnapped	Alfred L. Werker	Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew
Mollenard	Robert Siodmak	Harry Baur, Pierre Renoir, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat		Sea adventure
The Mountain Calls	Luis Trenker	Luis Trenker, Heidemarie Hatheyer		Mountaineering adventure
Old Bones of the River	Marcel Varnel	Will Hay
Les Pirates du rail	Christian-Jaque	Charles Vanel, Erich von Stroheim, Suzy Prim, Marcel Dalio, Valéry Inkijinoff
La Piste du sud	Pierre Billon	Albert Préjean, Jean-Louis Barrault, Ketti Gallian
Rose of the Rio Grande	William Nigh	Movita, John Carroll
S.O.S. Sahara	Jacques de Baroncelli	Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont
The Secret of Treasure Island	Elmer Clifton	Don Terry, Gwen Gaze		Serial, sea adventure
Spawn of the North	Henry Hathaway	George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour		Sea adventure
Storm Over Asia	Richard Oswald	Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa, Madeleine Robinson, Michiko Tanaka		Adventure drama
Storm Over Bengal	Sidney Salkow	Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson
Suez	Allan Dwan	Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella
Tarzan's Revenge	D. Ross Lederman	Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm
The Tiger of Eschnapur	Richard Eichberg	La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen
Too Hot to Handle	Jack Conway	Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon		Adventure comedy
Trade Winds	Tay Garnett	Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern		Adventure comedy, sea adventure
Under the Southern Cross	Guido Brignone	Antonio Centa, Doris Duranti, Enrico Glori, Giovanni Grasso
Vessel of Wrath	Erich Pommer	Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton		Adventure comedy

1939

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Richard Thorpe	Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram
Angélica	Jean Choux	Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant
Barricade	Gregory Ratoff	Alice Faye, Warner Baxter
Beau Geste	William A. Wellman	Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward		Colonial (French Foreign Legion)
Brand im Ozean	Günther Rittau	Hans Söhnker, René Deltgen, Winnie Markus		Sea adventure
Buck Rogers	Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind	Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran		Serial, science fiction adventure
Cadets	Karl Ritter	Mathias Wieman, Andrews Engelmann, Carsta Löck
Congo Express	Eduard von Borsody	Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, René Deltgen
Five Came Back	John Farrow	Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine		Adventure drama
The Five Cents of Lavarede	Maurice Cammage	Fernandel		Adventure comedy
The Flying Deuces	A. Edward Sutherland	Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy		Adventure comedy
The Four Feathers	Zoltan Korda	John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith		Colonial (British in Sudan)
Gunga Din	George Stevens	Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.		Colonial (British India)
Island of Lost Men	Kurt Neumann	Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Broderick Crawford, Anthony Quinn, Rudolf Forster
Jamaica Inn	Alfred Hitchcock	Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie
La Loi du Nord	Jacques Feyder	Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel
Mandrake the Magician	Norman Deming, Sam Nelson	Warren Hull, Doris Weston, Al Kikume		Serial
Mutiny on the Blackhawk	Christy Cabanne	Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Noah Beery
Only Angels Have Wings	Howard Hawks	Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell
Stagecoach	John Ford	Claire Trevor, John Wayne		Western
Stanley and Livingstone	Henry King	Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke
The Sun Never Sets	Rowland V. Lee	Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill		Jungle adventure
Tarzan Finds a Son!	Richard Thorpe	Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan		Jungle adventure
The Three Musketeers	Allan Dwan	Don Ameche, Ritz Brothers		Adventure comedy, musical
Tropic Fury	Christy Cabanne	Richard Arlen, Andy Devine
Uproar in Damascus	Gustav Ucicky	Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk
Vidocq	Jacques Daroy	André Brulé
Water for Canitoga	Herbert Selpin	Hans Albers		Western
Zorro's Fighting Legion	William Witney, John English	Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander de Cordova		Serial