The year 2025 gave movie fans an amazing variety of adventure films — from very big blockbusters to smaller, but equally exciting stories. This was a year when the genre went beyond the usual, offering viewers spy thrillers, science fiction, and historical dramas. Get ready to remember (or discover) the best adventure films of 2025 with the help of our collection.
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- Yek tasadef sadeh
- Mickey 17
- El Turco
- The Legend of Ochi
- Fear Below
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
- Thunderbolts
- Carême
- The Gorge
Yek tasadef sadeh
IMDb: 7.7 /10
2025, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Drama
Iran, France, Luxembourg, PG-13
Director: Jafar Panahi
Top Cast: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
This is a story about getting revenge for old bad things. A family hits a dog on the road. The father takes the car to a mechanic for repair. The mechanic, Vahid, realizes the father is the prison guard who tortured him years ago. Vahid was hurt by torture in the past, and he knows Eghbal by his voice and the sound of his fake leg.
Vahid cannot control his feelings, so he kidnaps Eghbal. He gathers a group of other former prisoners to decide Eghbal’s fate together.
Mickey 17
IMDb: 6.7/10
2025, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure
USA, R
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Top Cast: Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette
In the future, humans are starting a colony on the ice planet Niflheim. The main character, Mickey Barnes, is an expendable worker. They use him for the most dangerous and deadly missions. When Mickey dies, his body is printed again using a bio-printer, and they put his old memories into the new body.
The problem starts when Mickey 17 — the hero’s seventeenth copy — is thought to be dead, but he survives and comes back to the base. He finds out that they have already made his replacement, Mickey 18. The colony’s rules strictly forbid two copies of the same person. Now, both Mickeys face destruction if their secret is found out.
El Turco
IMDb: 5.8/10
2025, Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Turkey, TV-MA
Director: Uluç Bayraktar
Top Cast: Can Yaman, Greta Ferro, Will Kemp
The series takes place in the 17th century (year 1683), after the second attack on Vienna. The main character is a Janissary soldier named Hasan Balaban. After the Ottoman army lost and he was hurt, Balaban runs away from his captivity.
He finds a safe place in the Italian village of Moena, in the Alps, where a local woman named Gloria cares for his wounds. Slowly, the Janissary becomes the protector of the local farmers, who suffer because of cruel, rich landowners.
The Legend of Ochi
IMDb: 5.8/10
2025, Fantasy, Adventure, Family
USA, PG
Director: Isaiah Saxon
Top Cast: Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson
On a far-away island in the Black Sea, the local people, led by the main girl’s strict father, have been fighting a war for years against mysterious creatures called “Ochi.” They think these Ochi are dangerous monsters who steal cows.
The main character, a teenage girl named Yuriah, finds a lost baby Ochi in the forest. She realizes that these creatures are smart and do not want to cause harm. She decides to take the baby back to its family. Yuriah runs away from home with her new friend and starts a dangerous journey across the island. Meanwhile, her father chases her, wanting to “save” his daughter and kill the creature.
Fear Below
IMDb: 5.1 /10
2025, Horror, Action, Adventure
Australia, R
Director: Matthew Holmes
Top Cast: Hermione Corfield, Jake Ryan, Josh McConville
A team of professional Australian divers is hired by some mysterious clients to lift a sunken car from the bottom of a river. At first, the job seems easy. But soon, they find out that stolen gold is hidden inside the car, and the clients are cruel gangsters.
The price they have to pay is too high: underwater, a hungry and dangerous bull shark that swam into the river attacks the divers. They cannot go to the surface because armed bandits are waiting for them, ready to kill the witnesses as soon as the gold is brought up.
How to Train Your Dragon
IMDb: 7.8 /10
2025, Fantasy, Adventure, Family
USA, PG
Director: Dean DeBlois
Top Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler
On the island of Berk, Vikings have fought a war against dragons for centuries, believing they are cruel pests. The main character is Hiccup, the clumsy and clever son of the tribe’s chief, who is not at all like a tough warrior.
During one of the dragon attacks, Hiccup shoots down the most mysterious and dangerous dragon — a Night Fury. However, he cannot bring himself to kill the hurt creature. Instead, the young man secretly cares for the dragon, names him Toothless, and builds a fake tail for the part that was lost. Their friendship makes Hiccup understand that everything the Vikings knew about dragons was wrong. Now, he must stop the old war and save his new friend.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
IMDb: 7.2 /10
2025, Action, Adventure, Thriller
USA, PG-13
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Top Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
This is the next movie in the spy action series. Now, Ethan Hunt and his team from the IMF continue fighting The Entity — an Artificial Intelligence that has gone out of control. Now, The Entity can take control of the world’s nuclear weapons and destroy all humans.
Thunderbolts*
IMDb: 7.1 /10
2025, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
USA, PG-13
Director: Jake Schreier
Top Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour
The CIA Director, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, brings together a group of former villains and spies. She sends them on a secret mission to destroy proof of illegal experiments. However, when the heroes arrive, they understand it is a trap: Valentina gathered them all in one bunker so they would kill each other and hide the evidence. Instead, the group teams up, but this time against their own “bosses.”
Carême
IMDb: 7.0 /10
2025, Historical, Drama, Biography, Thriller
France, TV-MA
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Top Cast: Benjamin Voisin, Lyna Khoudri, Jérémie Renier
The story takes place in Europe during the time of Napoleon. The main character is Marie-Antoine Carême, an orphan who rises from being poor because of his great cooking talent. He becomes the world’s first “star” chef. But his talent gets the attention of politicians, not just people who love food.
The powerful Minister Talleyrand takes Carême under his care, but with one condition: the chef must become a spy and use his big dinners as a tool for politics. The hero has to keep a balance between making amazing food and dealing with dangerous secret plans that could change the future of empires.
The Gorge
IMDb: 6.7 /10
2025, Sci-Fi, Action, Horror, Romance
USA, PG-13
Director: Scott Derrickson
Top Cast: Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver
The story is about two expert snipers, Levi and Drasa. A secret group hires them to guard a massive, hidden gorge. Their posts are on opposite sides of the canyon, and they are not allowed to talk to each other. Their job is to keep everything inside the gorge, even though they don’t know what is in there.
Against the rules, the heroes start talking on the radio and fall in love with each other from far away. Soon, they find out the truth: the gorge is full of monsters that are the result of secret science experiments. When the situation becomes too dangerous, the snipers must join together to survive.
