Netflix: the 15 best adventure movies of the 80s and 90s

- 80s and 90s have been a exciting time in the world of the seventh art, perhaps not so much in noble titles that the most informed would classify as masterpieces, but which have been able to combine thrill of excessive adventures with characters which are already part of the mythology of an entire generation, as could be the case with Stranger Things for current teens, and on which we have already made a list of recommendations.




Netflix: the 15 best adventure movies of the 80s and 90s

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the second film by the legendary archaeologist.

For this we have decided to insert the film, not only for their cinematic quality, which in some of them could be questioned, but for the characters who came out and made us believe that anything was possible when the room went dark and the projector came to life.

This list of movies available on Netflix is ​​a reflection of an entire generation

Whether you are a fan of archaeological adventures, like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, or you like them violent science fiction stories, in the spectacular Terminator 2: Doomsday, we have the perfect movie to bring you back to life. of the 80s and 90s.

Ritorno al futuro

If we talk about travel in time , the 80s and the world of cinema, Back to the Future is a must see. When a inventor, unsuccessful in most of the tasks he has attempted on the science scene, he discovers how to transform one DeLorean in the first time Machine, asks for the help of his teenage friend Marty McFly to show the world his invention. However, a number of complicated circumstances postpone Marty in the past, where he will have to find his friend Doc and understand how go back to 1985.




  • Year: 1985
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 116 minutes

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Il famous archaeologist, having located the whereabouts of the Ark of the Covenant, he must once again enter hostile territory, this time exotic India e recover an ancient stone, vital energy of a small population, from the hands of the almighty Maharaja of Palazzo Pankot, where a terrible secret who could put the rest of the world in check and turn the regent into one of the most powerful people within it. Nothing will stop Indy, who along with a little helper e a lovely dancer will find a way to return the stone to its legitimate owners.

  • Year: 1984
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 119 minutes

Total challenge

If you are looking for this title and as a result you get a movie with Colin Farrell, don't try to watch it. The original movie, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick , has as its protagonists Arnold Schwarzenegger e Sharon Stone and tells the story of a man who decides to enter a company that adds memories to your brain, the adventures you prefer to live, but a seemingly innocent session ends up unleashing a deadly conspiracy game in which the truth will be difficult to guess.


  • Year: 1990
  • Genre: science fiction
  • Approximate duration: 113 minutes

Mad Police Academy

Le adventures occurring within a police academy they could be classified in any way, except comical. Maybe you are wrong or wrong. This film starring the late Steve guttenberg, one of the great comedians of the 80s of American cinema, puts us fully in an academy, where none of the new recruits are willing to go out and patrol the streets, either for their inclination towards destruction and violence, for their laziness or, simply, for their social and working ineptitude.



  • Year: 1984
  • Comedy genre
  • Approximate duration: 96 minutes

The child of karate

Il success of Cobra Kai, one of Netflix's most recent acquisitions in the series section, catapulted the number of views of the legendary karate film of the years '80, which offered us one of the most iconic characters of that time, the adorable Mr. Miyagi, and put in our mouth phrases pronounced like that of Giving wax, polishing wax. If you want to know the story of Daniel LaRusso and his initiation into one of the millennial martial arts, this is your movie.

  • Year: 1984
  • Genre: action
  • Approximate duration: 126 minutes

Terminator 2: Doomsday

If we were to name one of our recommendations as best movie, I think, without a doubt, we would choose the work of James Cameron, director of Avatar and Titanic. On this occasion, the famous T-8000 back to our times to try to prevent murder of a very young man John Connor at the hands of a new model of killer robot, the ruthless T-1000, which will have the compositional ability of mercury to be able to change shape at will and seek the rise of Skynet like a virus that destroys the human race.


  • Year: 1991
  • Genre: action
  • Approximate duration: 137 minutes

Akira

One of the great jewels of Japanese animation, in the field of science fiction, it is this work that will take us into a post-apocalyptic world, although it takes place in 2019, in the city of Neo-Tokyo, He tells us Kaneda, a young man with a friend of extraordinary powers, similar to those which already decades ago caused the start of the Third World war, and that must escape one great conspiracy who tries to exploit these psychic powers, managing to cause a new event of destruction.



  • Year: 1988
  • Genre: animation
  • Approximate duration: 124 minutes

La storia infinita

When a baby yes hides from bullying of his schoolmates at school, in an old attic, discovers a mysterious book, titled The Neverending Story, which magically does it invites a join the adventures which are told in it, since the world that offers their pages is in grave danger. Once inside, Bastian he must help himself as inseparable ones adventure companions, as a great white dragon of name Fújur, a daring boy's name Atreyu or altre magical creatures to save a world that should never go away.

  • Year: 1984
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 94 minutes

Top Gun

If you want to know what the real thing is adrenalina, in those years Tom Cruise if also devoted to putting most of his characters at risk, you have to be with this fighting team, led by Maverick, for an pilot of fighter jet that has to compete for one position among the best in the United States Army, having to balance work, love and rivalry with some of his fiercest flight mates.

  • Year: 1986
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 109 minutes

cornered

The name of John Rambo resonated throughout the schoolyards of the 80s and 90s, as many sought to emulate the adventures of this American fighter, stronger than vinegar. Silvester Stallone has the task of giving life to the main character of this beginning of one of the most famous adventure sagas of the time, where he has to play a Vietnam War veteran, which still has problems adapting to civilian life and will respond to unconventional pressure from the town sheriff.

  • Year: 1982
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 93 minutes

Highlander

This film, also known in these parts as The Immortals, had to pay homage to one of the most splendid science fiction film, fantasy e adventure Some years '80. In its plot we will be able to know the history of the immortals, human beings who cannot die unless decapitated, and yes have been fighting for centuries. Under the motto of Only one can remain, the protagonist of the story, belonging to a Scottish family, must face his fate e fight for ultimate power.

  • Year: 1986
  • Genre: action
  • Approximate duration: 116 minutes

The great hawk

Bruce Willis plays a thief known as Hudson Hawk and who will face more than one problem once he gets out of prison. Like a white-collar thief, one of those who leave no trace or trace, it will be blackmailed by various entities, both governmental, such as the CIA, both criminals, the same New York mafia. Together with his partner Tommy Messina, he must find a way to steal an artifact devised by the prolific Leonardo da Vinci and which, presumably, has the wonderful property of turning lead into gold.

  • Year: 1991
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 100 minutes

They have arrived!

Entitled in English as The Arrival, and with the participation of a sober Charlie Sheen, this movie from the late 90s offers us to know the story of Zane Zaminsky, a radio astronomer that he will discover evidence of signals from space, although he will soon face a conspiracy that theorizes a conspiracy and find a way to prevent her life from being in danger while devising a plan for prevent the world from ending.

  • Year: 1996
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 115 minutes

Casper

The cartoons of the cute ghost Casper have their own version in flesh and blood, as well as funny ectoplasms, with this film in which we will see as a father it's a daughter yes they transfer to one old house, where they will discover that its walls await as many secrets as ghosts with a festive mood. His task of eliminate paranormal entities, for a commission, will be postponed when his daughter will make friendship with one of the most adorable ghosts that you will see in your life, endangering a secret plan that owners of the farm had in mind.

  • Year: 1995
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 100 minutes

hook

Le adventures of Peter Pan they have been told so many times, sometimes with mixed results, that it would be difficult to find a story that would surprise us. This title can boast of having the unforgettable Robin Williams like Peter Pan entered in the adult, whose work made him forget who he was not long ago. Unfortunately, he will be forced to return to Neverland when the wicked Captain Hook kidnaps his children.

  • Year: 1991
  • Genre: adventures
  • Approximate duration: 141 minutes

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