The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Curtiz-Keighley 1938 Technicolor swashbuckler. Errol Flynn defining swashbuckler.
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AdventureThe Man Who Would Be King (1975)
1975 John Huston adventure with Sean Connery and Michael Caine as British soldiers crowning themselves kings in Kafiristan. The Man Who Would Be King is John Huston's 1975 American adventure film adapting Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella.
AdventureMutiny on the Bounty (1962)
1962 Lewis Milestone epic with Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as Captain Bligh. Tahitian dream meets imperial cruelty.
AdventureThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Huston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
AdventureA Trip to the Moon (1902)
Méliès's 1902 14-minute fantasy short. The first proper science fiction film.
AdventureDune (1984)
Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
AdventureStar Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the Star Trek film that exists primarily to undo the consequences of the previous Star Trek film. Christopher Lloyd plays the Klingon commander Kruge.
AdventureThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Buckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. Peter Weller plays Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, and…
AdventureBarbarella (1968)
Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…
AdventureFantastic Voyage (1966)
Fantastic Voyage is the mid-1960s science fiction film about a submarine and crew miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist. The film made approximately twelve million dollars on a six and a half million…
ActionTron (1982)
Tron is the foundational computer graphics film and one of the earliest mainstream features to use computer-generated imagery as a significant production. Bonnie MacBird co-wrote with Lisberger.
AdventureThe Martian (2015)
The Martian is the rare mainstream science fiction film that treats its science as the point instead of as decoration. Drew Goddard adapted Andy Weir's 2011 novel.