List of adventure films of the 1960s

A list of adventure films released in the 1960s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
1960
L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari		Adventure drama[1]
Le Bossu	André Hunebelle	Jean Marais, Bourvil, Hubert Noel		Costume adventure[2]
Le Capitan	André Hunebelle	Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli		Costume adventure[3]
Kidnapped	Robert Stevenson	Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee		[4]
Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier		Costume adventure[5]
Swiss Family Robinson	Ken Annakin	John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur		Sea adventure[6]
The Time Machine	George Pal	Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot		Fantasy adventure[7]
1961
Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops	Antonio Leonviola	Chelo Alonso, Tullio Altamura, Dante DiPaolo		Costume adventure[8]
The Colossus of Rhodes	Sergio Leone	Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal		Costume adventure[9]
Erik the Conqueror	Mario Bava, Gary Levy	Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Checchi, Françoise Christophe		Costume adventure[10]
Flight of the Lost Balloon	Nathan H. Juran	Mala Powers, Marshall Thompson, James Lanphier, Douglas Kennedy		Romantic adventure[11]
Hercules in the Haunted World	Mario Bava	Reg Park		Costume adventure[12]
Master of the World	William Witney	Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull		Fantasy adventure, costume adventure[13]
Mysterious Island	Cy Endfield	Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan		Fantasy adventure[14]
The Phantom Planet	William Marshall	Allyson Ames, Francis X. Bushman, Mel Curtis		Space adventure[15]
The Rage of the Buccaneers	Mario Costa	Guistino Durano, Vincent Price, Mario Feliciani		Romantic adventure[16]
Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World	Riccardo Freda	Gordon Scott, Leonardo Severini		[17]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Irwin Allen	Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden		Adventure drama[18]
Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai		Costume adventure[19]
1962
Amphibian Man	Gennadiy Kazansky	Vladimir Korenev, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov		Romantic adventure, sea adventure[20]
Cartouche	Philippe de Broca	Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Rochefort		Romantic adventure, costume adventure[21]
Confessions of an Opium Eater	Albert Zugsmith	Vincent Price		[22]
Cyrano et d'Artagnan	Abel Gance, Nelly Kaplan	José Ferrer, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel		Romantic adventure[23]
Hatari!	Howard Hawks	John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gérard Blain		Romantic adventure, adventure comedy [24]
H.M.S. Defiant	Lewis Gilbert	Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle		Adventure drama[25]
Il Colpo Segreto di D'Artagnan	Siro Marcellini	Mario Petri, Alessandra Panaro, Magali Noël		Costume adventure[26]
In Search of the Castaways	Robert Stevenson	Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders		Family-oriented adventure[27]
L'Invincibile Cavaliere Mascherato	Umberto Lenzi	Pierre Brice, Helene Chanel, Daniele Vargas		[28]
Le Masque de Fer	Henri Decoin	Jean Marais, Claudine Auger, Jean-Francois Poron		Costume adventure[29]
Mutiny on the Bounty	Lewis Milestone	Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris		Adventure drama[30]
Sanjuro	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Nakadai		[31]
1963
Alone Across the Pacific	Kon Ichikawa	Yujiro Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ruriko Asaoka		Sea adventure
Gladiators 7	Alberto De Martino, Pedro Lazaga	Richard Harrison, Loredana Nusciak, Livio Lorenzon		[32]
The Great Escape	John Sturges	Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald		War adventure[33]
The Incredible Journey	Fletcher Markle	Emile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed		Family-oriented adventure[34]
Jason and the Argonauts	Don Chaffey	Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond		Fantasy adventure[35]
Lancelot and Guinevere	Cornel Wilde	Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne		Romantic adventure[36]
Savage Sam	Norman Tokar	Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Dewey Martin		Adventure drama[37]
Tom Jones	Tony Richardson	Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans		Costume adventure[38]
Zorro Contro Maciste	Umberto Lenzi	Pierre Brice, Moira Orfei, Maria Grazia Spina		[39]
1964
Angelique Marquise Des Anges	Bernard Borderie	Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort		[40]
Goliath and the Sins of Babylon	Michele Lupo	Eleanora Bianchi, Erno Crisa, Mark Forest		Costume adventure[41]
Greed in the Sun	Henri Verneuil	Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan		Adventure comedy[42]
Hardi Pardaillan!	Bernard Borderie	Gérard Barray, Valerie Lagrange, Philippe Lemaire		Costume adventure[43]
Hercules Against the Moon Men	Giacomo Gentilomo	Sergio Ciani		Costume adventure[44]
Robinson Crusoe on Mars	Byron Haskin	Paul Mantee, Vic Lundin, Adam West		Space adventure[45]
That Man from Rio	Philippe de Broca	Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais		Adventure comedy[46]
The Train	John Frankenheimer	Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau		War adventure[47]
La Tulipe Noire	Christian-Jaque	Alain Delon, Dawn Addams, Virna Lisi		Costume adventure[48]
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders	Terence Young	Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury		Adventure comedy[49]
Angelique et le Roi	Bernard Borderie	Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Sami Frey		Costume adventure, romantic adventure[50]
A High Wind in Jamaica	Alexander MacKendrick	Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price		Adventure drama[51]
Marco the Magnificent	Christian-Jaque, Denys de la Patellière, Noel Howard	Anthony Quinn, Horst Buchholz, Elsa Martinelli		[52]
Merveilleuse Angelique	Bernard Borderie	Michele Mercier, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort		Costume adventure, romantic adventure[53]
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines	Ken Annakin	Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox		Romantic adventure, adventure comedy[54]
Up to His Ears	Philippe de Broca	Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Jean Rochefort		Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[55]
Viva Maria!	Louis Malle	Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton		Adventure comedy, costume adventure[56]
Von Ryan's Express	Mark Robson	Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard		War adventure[57]
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet	John Sebastian	Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon		Space adventure[58]
War Gods of the Deep	Jacques Tourneur	Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart		Fantasy adventure[59]
1966
L'armata Brancaleone	Mario Monicelli	Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè		Adventure comedy[60]
Around the World Under the Sea	Andrew Marton	Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum		Sea adventure[61]
Beau Geste	Douglas Heyes	Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure		[62]
Fantastic Voyage	Richard Fleischer	Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien		Family-oriented adventure[63]
La Grande Vadrouille	Gérard Oury	Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas		Adventure comedy, war adventure[64]
One Million Years B.C.	Don Chaffey	Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert		[65]
The Sand Pebbles	Robert Wise	Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna		Romantic adventure[66]
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women	Derek Thomas	Mamie van Doren, Mary Mark, Paige Lee		Space adventure[67]
Women of the Prehistoric Planet	Arthur C. Pierce	Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar		Space adventure[68]
1967
The Dirty Dozen	Robert Aldrich	Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson		War adventure[69]
Indomptable Angélique	Bernard Borderie	Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Roger Pigaut		[70]
The Jungle Book	Wolfgang Reitherman	Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, George Sanders		Family-oriented adventure[71]
The Perils of Pauline	Joshua Shelley, Herbert B. Leonard	Pat Boone, Terry-Thomas, Pamela Austin		Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[72]
They Came from Beyond Space	Freddie Francis	Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin		Space adventure[73]
The Viking Queen	Don Chaffey	Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston		[74]
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester		Space adventure[75]
Angélique et le Sultan	Bernard Borderie	Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Pascal		Costume adventure, romantic adventure[76]
Barbarella	Roger Vadim	Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg		Space adventure[77]
Caroline chérie	Denys de la Patellière	Charles Aznavour, Isa Miranda, Jean-Claude Brialy		[78]
Thunderbirds Are Go	David Lane, Gerry Anderson	Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion		Space adventure[79]
Where Eagles Dare	Brian G. Hutton	Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure		War adventure[80]
Hell in the Pacific	John Boorman	Lee Marvin, Toshirō Mifune		War adventure[81]
1969
Impasse	Richard Benedict	Burt Reynolds, Anne Francis		Action adventure, romantic adventure[82]
The Devil by the Tail	Philippe de Broca	Yves Montand, Madeleine Renaud, Maria Schell, Jean Rochefort		Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[83]
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies	Ken Annakin	Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Peter Cook		Adventure comedy[84]
2000 Years Later	Bert Tenzer	Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Horton, Pat Harrington, Jr.		Fantasy adventure[85]
Under the Banner of Samurai	Hiroshi Inagaki	Yujiro Ishihara, Toshirō Mifune, Ganemon Nakamura		Adventure drama, romantic adventure[86]
Where's Jack?	James Clavell	Tommy Steele, Stanley Baker, Fiona Lewis		[87]

Notes

1. Firsching, Robert. "Overview:L'Avventura". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
2. Mannikka, Eleanor. "Overview: Le Bossu". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
3. Mannikka, Eleanor. "Overview: Le Capitan". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
4. Williams, Karl. "Overview: Kidnapped". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
5. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Sparacus". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
6. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Swiss Family Robinson". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
7. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Time Machine". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
8. Gusse, Brian. "Overview: Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
9. Firsching, Robert. "Overview: The Colossus of Rhodes". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
10. Firsching, Robert. "Overview: Erik the Conqueror". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
11. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Flight of the Lost Balloon". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
12. Ankeny, Jason. "Overview: Hercules in the Haunted World". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
13. Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Master of the World". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
14. Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Mysterious Island". Allmovie. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
15. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:The Phantom Planet". Allmovie. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
16. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: Gordon, il Pirata Nero". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
17. Firsching, Robert. "Overview:Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
18. Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
19. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Yojimbo". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
20. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview: Amphibian Man". Allmovie. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
21. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Cartouche". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
22. Butler, Craig. "Overview: Confessions of an Opium Eater". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
23. Hassen, Kristie. "Overview: Cyrano et d'Artagnan". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
24. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Hatari!". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
25. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Damn the Defiant!". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
26. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Il Colpo Segreto di D'Artagnan". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
27. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: In Search of the Castaways". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
28. Firsching, Robert. "Overview: L'Invincibile Cavaliere Mascherato". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
29. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Le Masque de Fer". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
30. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview: Mutiny on the Bounty". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
31. Mannikka, Eleanor. "Overview: Sanjuro". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
32. Hassen, Kristie. "Overview:Gladiators 7". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
33. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Overview: The Great Escape". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
34. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Incredible Journey". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
35. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Jason and the Argonauts". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
36. Mannikka, Eleanor. "Overview: Lancelot and Guinevere". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
37. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview: Savage Sam". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
38. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Overview: Tom Jones". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
39. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: Zorro Contro Maciste". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
40. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Angelique Marquise Des Anges". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
41. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:Goliath and the Sins of Babylon". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
42. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Greed in the Sun". Allmovie. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
43. "Overview:Hardi Pardaillan". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
44. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:Hercules Against the Moon Men". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
45. Hassen, Kristie. "Overview:Robinson Crusoe on Mars". Allmovie. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
46. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:L'Homme de Rio". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
47. Seibert, Perry. "Overview:The Train". Allmovie. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
48. Hassen, Kristie. "Overview:La Tulipe Noire". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
49. Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
50. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Angelique et le Roi". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
51. Deming, Mark. "Overview:A High Wind in Jamaica". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
52. Tobey, Matthew. "Overview:A High Wind in Jamaica". Allmovie. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
53. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Merveilleuse Angelique". Allmovie. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
54. Seibert, Perry. "Overview: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
55. Ralske, Josh. "Overview: Up to His Ears (listed as Les Tribulations D'Un Chinois En Chine)". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
56. Deming, Mark. "Overview: Viva Maria!". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
57. Rasmussen, Linda. "Overview: Von Ryan's Express". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
58. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
59. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: War Gods of the Deep". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
60. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview: L'armata Brancaleone". Allmovie. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
61. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Around the World Under the Sea". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
62. Deming, Mark. "Overview: Beau Geste". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
63. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Fantastic Voyage". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
64. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: La Grande Vadrouille". Allmovie. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
65. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: One Million Years B.C.". Allmovie. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
66. Deming, Mark. "Overview: The Sand Pebbles". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
67. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women". Allmovie. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
68. Eder, Bruce. "Overview: Women of the Prehistoric Planet". Allmovie. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
69. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Dirty Dozen". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
70. "Overview:Indomptable Angelique". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
71. Brenner, Paul. "Overview: The Jungle Book". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
72. Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Perils of Pauline". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
73. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:They Came from Beyond Space". Allmovie. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
74. Eder, Bruce. "Overview:The Viking Queen". Allmovie. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
75. Bozzola, Lucia. "Overview:2001: A Space Odyssey". Allmovie. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
76. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Angelique et le Sultan". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
77. Dillard, Brian J. "Overview:Barbarella". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
78. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Caroline Cherie". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
79. Palvides, Dan. "Overview:Thunderbirds Are Go". Allmovie. Retrieved April 15, 2010.
80. Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Where eagles Dare". Allmovie. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
81. Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Where eagles Dare". Allmovie. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
82. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Impasse". Allmovie. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
83. Erlewine, Iotis. "Overview:The Devil by the Tail (listed as Le Diable Par La Queue)". Allmovie.
84. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview:Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies". Allmovie. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
85. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: 2000 years Later". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
86. Brennan, Sandra. "Overview: Under the Banner of Samurai". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
87. Pavlides, Dan. "Overview: Where's Jack?". Allmovie. Retrieved January 27, 2010.

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