A list of adventure films released in the 1950s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
| The Elusive Pimpernel | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins | ||||
| The Flame and the Arrow | Jacques Tourneur | Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas | Fantasy adventure | |||
| Fortunes of Captain Blood | Gordon M. Douglas | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready | ||||
| King Solomon's Mines | Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton | Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson | Romantic adventure | |||
| Treasure Island | Byron Haskin | Sea adventure | ||||
| 1951 | ||||||
| The African Queen | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley | ||||
| Captain Horatio Hornblower | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty | ||||
| Caroline Cherie | Richard Pottier | Martine Carol, Marie Déa, Alfred Adam | ||||
| Mask of the Avenger | Phil Karlson | John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance | ||||
| 1952 | ||||||
| Against All Flags | George Sherman | Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn | Sea adventure | |||
| Blackbeard the Pirate | Raoul Walsh | Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix | Sea adventure | |||
| Un Caprice de Caroline Cherie | Jean Devaivre | Martine Carol, Jean Pascal, Jacques Dacqmine | Romantic adventure | |||
| The Crimson Pirate | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat | Adventure comedy | |||
| Fanfan la Tulipe | Christian-Jaque | Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand | Romantic adventure | |||
| The Golden Coach | Jean Renoir | Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Riccardo Rioli | Romantic adventure | |||
| Ivanhoe | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine | Romantic adventure | |||
| King of the Khyber Rifles | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie | Romantic adventure | |||
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Richard Thorpe | Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason | Romantic adventure | |||
| The Three Musketeers | André Hunebelle | Georges Marchal, Gino Cervi, Yvonne Sanson | ||||
| Scaramouche | George Sidney | Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh | ||||
| The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Ken Annakin | Richard Todd, Peter Finch | ||||
| 1953 | ||||||
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida | Adventure comedy | |||
| Cat Women of the Moon | Arthur D. Hilton | Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor | Space adventure | |||
| Jungle Drums of Africa | Fred C. Brannon | Don Blackman, John Cason | ||||
| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer | Romantic adventure | |||
| Little Fugitive | Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin | Ricky Brewster, Richie Andrusco, Winifred Cushing | Adventure drama | |||
| Mogambo | John Ford | Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly | ||||
| Plunder of the Sun | John Farrow | Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina | Adventure drama | |||
| Sadko | Alexander Ptushko | Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Mikhail Troyanovsky | ||||
| The Three Musketeers | André Hunebelle | Georges Marchal, Gino Cervi, Yvonne Sanson | ||||
| The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck | Adventure drama | |||
| 1954 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Hajji Baba | Don Weis | John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rosemarie Bowe | Romantic adventure | |||
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Luis Buñuel | Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba | ||||
| Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Jacques Becker | Fernandel, Dieter Borsche, Samia Gamal | ||||
| The Black Shield of Falworth | Rudolph Maté | Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar | Romantic adventure | |||
| Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl | Lew Landers | Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor | Romantic adventure | |||
| Long John Silver | Byron Haskin | Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist | Family-oriented adventure | |||
| The Naked Jungle | Byron Haskin | Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer | Adventure drama | |||
| Secret of the Incas | Jerry Hopper | Charlton Heston, Yma Sumac, Robert Young | Adventure, treasure hunt, drama | |||
| Valley of the Kings | Robert Pirosh | Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker | Adventure, treasure hunt, drama | |||
| 1955 | ||||||
| African Manhunt | Seymour Friedman | Ray Bennett | ||||
| Captain Lightfoot | Douglas Sirk | Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow | Romantic adventure | |||
| Le Fils de Caroline Cherie | Magali Noël, Brigitte Bardot, Jean Pascal | Romantic adventure | ||||
| Moonfleet | Fritz Lang | Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood | ||||
| Ulysses | Mario Camerini | Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn | Fantasy adventure | |||
| 1956 | ||||||
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Michael Anderson | David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine | Romantic adventure, adventure comedy | |||
| Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle | Gérard Philipe, Joris Ivens | Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Jean Carmet | ||||
| Congo Crossing | Joseph Pevney | George Nader, Virginia Mayo, Peter Lorre | Adventure drama | |||
| The Court Jester | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone | Adventure comedy | |||
| Death in the Garden | Luis Buñuel | Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal | Adventure drama | |||
| Forbidden Planet | Fred Wilcox | Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen | Space adventure | |||
| The Great Locomotive Chase | Francis D. Lyon | Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York | ||||
| Ilya Muromets | Alexander Ptushko | Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva | Fantasy adventure | |||
| The Mountain | Edward Dmytryk | Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor | ||||
| 1957 | ||||||
| Legend of the Lost | Henry Hathaway | John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi | Adventure drama | |||
| The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent | Roger Corman | Lynn Bernay, Susan Cabot, Gary Conway | ||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan H. Juran | Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher | Fantasy adventure | |||
| The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara | ||||
| Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | Nina Bara, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook | Space adventure | |||
| Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Laurie Mitchell | Space adventure | |||
| La Tempesta | Alberto Lattuada | Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Silvana Mangano | Romantic adventure | |||
| 1959 | ||||||
| The Angry Red Planet | Ib Melchior | Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden | Space adventure | |||
| Ferry to Hong Kong | Lewis Gilbert | Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms | Sea adventure | |||
| The Indian Tomb | Fritz Lang | Debra Paget, Paul Christian, Paul Hubschmid | Romantic adventure | |||
| Kapitanskaya Dochka | Vladimir Kaplunovsky | Oleg Strizhenov, Sergei Lukyanov, Iya Arepina | Romantic adventure | |||
| Prisonniers De La Brousse | Willy Rozier | Georges Marchal, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Nadine Alari | ||||
| The Tiger of Eschnapur | Fritz Lang | Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Claus Holm | Adventure drama | |||
| Third Man on the Mountain | Ken Annakin | Michael Rennie, Janet Munro, James Donald | Family-oriented adventure | |||
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar | ||||
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