A list of adventure films released in the 1930s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
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| The Big Trail | Raoul Walsh | John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power, Sr., El Brendel | epic, wagon train | |||
| Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou | Desert adventure | |||
| Storm Over Mont Blanc | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist | mountaineering adventure | |||
| 1931 | ||||||
| East Of Borneo | George Melford | Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar | jungle adventure | |||
| 1932 | ||||||
| Tarzan the Ape Man | W.S. Van Dyke | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | jungle adventure | |||
| The Mask of Fu Manchu | Charles J. Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor | Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett | ||||
| Chandu the Magician | William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall | secret agent | |||
| The Most Dangerous Game | Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson | desert island, jungle | |||
| 1933 | ||||||
| Don Quixote | G.W. Pabst | Feodor Chaliapin, Sr., George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy | Romantic adventure, adventure drama | |||
| King Kong | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher | jungle adventure | |||
| 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 | mountaineering adventure | |||
| Tarzan the Fearless | Robert F. Hill | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren | Film serial, jungle adventure | |||
| 1934 | ||||||
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Harold Young | Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce | ||||
| Four Frightened People | Cecil B. DeMille | Herbert Marshall, claudette Colbert, Mary Boland, William Gargan | jungle adventure, desert island | |||
| The Lost Patrol | John Ford | Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny | desert | |||
| 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 | ||||
| 1935 | ||||||
| Captain Blood | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill | ||||
| China Seas | Tay Garnett | Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell | Sea adventure, Romantic adventure | |||
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Henry Hathaway | Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell | Romantic adventure | |||
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd | Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone | Sea adventure, Adventure drama | |||
| She | Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce | ||||
| Savage Fury | Lew Landers | Noah Beery, Jr., Walter Miller, Dorothy Short | jungle adventure | |||
| 1936 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Frank Merriwell | Cliff Smith | Donald Briggs | serial | |||
| Darkest Africa | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Clyde Beatty, Manuel King, Elaine Shepard | Film serial | |||
| Flash Gordon | Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon | Space age, Romantic adventure | |||
| Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island | Ray Taylor, Mack Wright | Ray Mala, Rex, the Wonder Horse, Buck, the Dog | Film serial, US spies in Polynesia | |||
| Tarzan Escapes | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | jungle adventure | |||
| The Last of the Mohicans | George B. Seitz | Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes | ||||
| Undersea Kingdom | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Ray Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue | serial | |||
| 1937 | ||||||
| Captains Courageous | Victor Fleming | Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore | Adventure drama, Sea adventure | |||
| Elephant Boy | Robert J. Flaherty | Sabu, Walter Hudd, W.E. Holloway | India adventure | |||
| 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 Mysterious Pilot | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian | Film serial | |||
| The Prisoner of Zenda | John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke | Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Raymond Massey, David Niven, Mary Astor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Swashbuckler | |||
| Zorro Rides Again | John English, William Witney | John Carroll, Helen Christian | Serial | |||
| 1938 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains | Swashbuckler, Romantic adventure | |||
| The Drum | Zoltan Korda, | Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson | British Raj adventure | |||
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon | Space age, Romantic adventure | |||
| Hawk of the Wilderness | Jon English, William Witney | Bruce Bennett, Noble Johnson, Ray Mala | Film serial, uncharted jungle island | |||
| Heart of the North | Lewis Seiler | Dick Foran | ||||
| Tarzan and the Green Goddess | Edward A. Kull | Herman Brix | ||||
| 1939 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Richard Thorpe | Mickey Rooney | ||||
| Beau Geste | William Wellman | Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy | ||||
| Buck Rogers | Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran | futuristic adventure | |||
| The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda | John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith | African | |||
| Gunga Din | George Stevens | Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | subcontinent adventure | |||
| Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie | ||||
| Mandrake the Magician | Norman Deming, Sam Nelson | Warren Hull, Doris Weston, Al Kikume | serial | |||
| Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell | ||||
| Tarzan Finds a Son! | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | jungle adventure | |||
| Union Pacific | Cecil B. Demille | Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy | ||||
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