29 Adventure Movies That Are Quite Literally a Journey

Adventure movies are the ultimate escape. Seriously! They're literally about leaving your old life behind and escaping to someplace else. Here are the best adventure movies to watch when you too are itching to get out and about.

You know how Belle stands on a hill in Beauty and the Beast and sings "I want adventure in the great wide somewhere! I want it more than I can tell!" — then ends up stuck in a big house for 80 percent of the rest of the movie? The characters in these movies actually get the life Belle dreamed of having. They actually get to go on adventures. Call me Captain Obvious but that's just something I think about a lot.

A good adventure movie has multiple locations, maybe even a map (treasure or otherwise) to tell those locations apart, some kind of quest, and so much hope that it makes your heart burst with anticipation for what the heroes will find on their journey. They can also be action movies, or fantasy adventures, or science fiction—and often they are! Check it out.