| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 1920 |
| The Deerslayer and Chingachgook | Arthur Wellin | Emil Mamelok, Béla Lugosi | | |
| The Mark of Zorro | Fred Niblo | Douglas Fairbanks | | Swashbuckler |
| Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Carl de Vogt, Georg John, Ressel Orla |  | serial, spies |
| The Last Of The Mohicans | Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown | Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall |  | |
| Terror Island | James Cruze | Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Wilton Taylor |  | Tropical island, submarine |
| 1921 |
| The Indian Tomb | Joe May | Lil Dagover, Conrad Veidt, Lya De Putti, Paul Richter, Olaf Fønss |  | |
| The Big Adventure | B. Reeves Eason | B. Reeves Eason Jr., Fred Herzog, Gertrude Olmstead, Molly Shafer, Lee Shumway |  | Adventure |
| The Three Musketeers | Fred Niblo | Douglas Fairbanks |  | Swashbuckler |
| 1922 |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Rex Ingram | Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson | | Swashbuckler |
| Robin Hood | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse |  | Swashbuckler, Romantic adventure |
| Man from Beyond | Burton King | Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly |  | |
| Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | Allakariallak (Nanook), Nyla, Cunayou |  | cinema verité |
| 1923 |
| Scaramouche | Rex Ingram | Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro |  | swashbuckler |
| 1924 |
| Aelita: Queen Of Mars | Yakov Protazanov | Nikolai Batalov, Varvara Massalitinova, Yuliya Solntseva, Mikhail Zharov | | Fantasy adventure |
| Captain Blood | David Smith | J. Warren Kerrigan, Jean Paige | | swashbuckler |
| Die Nibelungen | Fritz Lang | Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph | | Fantasy adventure |
| Sea Hawk | Frank Lloyd | Milton Sills, Enid Bennett | | Swashbuckler |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong | | Fantasy adventure |
| The Navigator | Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire | | desert island, ship board adventure |
| 1925 |
| Adventure | Victor Fleming | Tom Moore, Pauline Starke, Wallace Beery | | |
| Ben Hur | Fred Niblo | Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson | | |
| Don Q, Son of Zorro | Donald Crisp | Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald | | Swashbuckler |
| The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray | | Adventure comedy |
| Grass | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan | | Documentary |
| The Lost World | Harry Hoyt, Lewis Stone | Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery |  | |
| 1926 |
| The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | | | animated Arabian Nights |
| Beau Geste | Herbert Brenon | Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce | | War adventure |
| The Black Pirate | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Piggott | | Swashbuckler |
| Cruise of the Jasper B | James W. Horne | Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris, Snitz Edwards | | Swashbuckler |
| Holy Mountain | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker |  | mountaineering adventure |
| The Sea Beast | Millard Webb | John Barrymore, Dolores Costello |  | sea adventure |
| 1927 |
| Chang | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Kru, Chantui, Nah | | Documentary |
| Tarzan and the Golden Lion | J. P. McGowan | James Pierce, Edna Murphy | | Jungle adventure |
| 1928 |
| The Trail of '98 | Clarence Brown | Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Harry Carey, Karl Dane | | Adventure drama |
| Beau Sabreur | John S. Waters | Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Noah Beery | | Adventure drama |
| 1929 |
| The Iron Mask | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite de la Motte | | |
| The King of the Kongo | Richard Thorpe | Larry Steers, Richard R. Neill, Harry Todd |  | Secret Service agent |
| Noah's Ark | Michael Curtiz | George O'Brien, Dolores Costello |  | Flood |
| Woman in the Moon | Fritz Lang | Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch |  | space race |
| The White Hell of Pitz Palu | Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl |  | mountaineering adventure |