Genre "Costume Adventure" Movies
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| 1. A Knight's Tale (year: 2001) |
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This crowd-pleasing medieval adventure tale is very loosely inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and mixes the anachronistic elements o ...
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| 2. Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (year: 2008) |
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H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines gets retold for a new generation of cliff-hanger fans in this film that finds titular ...
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| 3. Drums Along the Mohawk (year: 1939) |
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) are a young ...
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| 4. Gladiator (year: 2000) |
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A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director Rid ...
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| 5. Green Snake (year: 1993) |
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Snakes and special effects abound as human and mythical worlds collide in this lavish variation of an old Chinese fable about a learned man who falls ...
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| 6. Hidalgo (year: 2004) |
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Actor Viggo Mortensen made his first starring appearance in a film after his breakthrough performance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy with this perio ...
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| 8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (year: 1989) |
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The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River ...
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| 9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (year: 1984) |
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The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a b ...
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| 10. Ivanhoe (year: 1997) |
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A century after the Normans conquer England, evil Prince John (Ralph Brown) seizes control of the realm in the absence of the rightful ruler, his brot ...
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| 11. La Femme Musketeer (year: 2003) |
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The legend of Jacques D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a gender-bending update in this swashbuckling adventure from stuntman-turned-director Steve Boyum ...
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| 12. La Tulipe Noire (year: 1964) |
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Alain Delon stars as twin brothers in Christian-Jaque's film based on a novel from Alexandre Dumas. Set in 18th century France during rumblings of rev ...
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| 13. Long John Silver (year: 1953) |
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Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this Australian adventure film—and if anything, Newton is even more ou ...
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| 14. Raiders of the Lost Ark (year: 1981) |
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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trap ...
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| 15. River of No Return (year: 1954) |
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) is ...
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| 16. Spartacus (year: 1960) |
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| 17. The Adventures of Robin Hood (year: 1938) |
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In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several leg ...
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| 18. The Barbarians (year: 1953) |
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| 19. The Ghost and the Darkness (year: 1996) |
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A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period advent ...
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| 20. The Last of the Mohicans (year: 1992) |
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Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Rand ...
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| 21. The Legend of Zorro (year: 2005) |
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The legendary Mexican hero returns to the screen in this swashbuckling sequel to the 1998 box-office hit The Mask of Zorro. It's 1850, and the people ...
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| 22. The Man in the Iron Mask (year: 1998) |
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Actor-director William Richert (Winter Kills), who directed the late River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), originally planned ...
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| 23. The Mask of Zorro (year: 1998) |
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Director Martin Campbell, well-known to the action arena after 1995's GoldenEye, teams up with executive producer Steven Spielberg to bring the first ...
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| 24. The Mummy Returns (year: 2001) |
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This big-budget sequel from writer/director Stephen Sommers navigates much of the same cliffhanger territory as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's In ...
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| 25. The Prisoner of Zenda (year: 1952) |
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel. Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart G ...
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| 26. The Sea Hawk (year: 1940) |
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks — the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf the British cro ...
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| 27. The Time Machine (year: 1960) |
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In George Pal's version of the H.G. Wells classic, Rod Taylor stars as George, a young scientist fascinated with the concept of time travel. On Decemb ...
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| 28. The Wind and the Lion (year: 1975) |
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In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. T ...
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