20 Best Adventure Movies on Paramount Plus 2026
Discover 20 Paramount Plus picks packed with sci-fi, action, comedy, and drama, from Interstellar to Dungeons & Dragons and more.
If you’re hunting for the best adventure movies on Paramount Plus, this lineup makes it easy to jump straight into big worlds, bold heroes, and high-stakes stories. You’ll find sci-fi landmarks like Interstellar, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Blade Runner 2049 alongside crowd-pleasers such as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and War of the Worlds. The mix also stretches beyond pure action, with drama, comedy, and action-adventure picks like Clash of the Thundermans and Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender bringing a lighter edge to the journey. With 20 titles on the page, there’s a strong pick for almost any mood, whether you want a smart time-bending epic or a fun escape with monsters, quests, and spectacle.
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Interstellar
Won 1 Oscar 5 nominations
adventure · drama · sci-fi
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Directed by Christopher NolanCast Ellen Burstyn, Matthew McConaughey, Mackenzie Foy, John Lithgow, Timothée ChalametAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Blade Runner 2049
Won 2 Oscars Best Cinematography (2018) · 5 nominations
action & adventure · drama · mystery & thriller · science-fiction
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Directed by Denis VilleneuveCast Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Mark Arnold, Vilma SzécsiAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Won 4 Oscars Best Cinematography (1992) · 6 nominations
action · adventure · sci-fi
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Directed by James CameronCast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl BoenAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Jackass: Best and Last
action & adventure · comedy · documentary
The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.
Directed by Jeff TremaineCast Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña, Dave EnglandParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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The Running Man
action · adventure · sci-fi · thriller
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite — and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.
Directed by Edgar WrightCast Glen Powell, Alyssa Benn, Sienna Benn, David Zayas, Greg TownleyAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb →
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Goosebumps
adventure · comedy · family · fantasy · horror · thriller
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
Directed by Rob LettermanCast Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee, Amy RyanParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Total Recall
2 Oscar nominations
action · adventure · sci-fi
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality.
Directed by Paul VerhoevenCast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael IronsideAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Men in Black
Won 1 Oscar 3 nominations
action · adventure · comedy · sci-fi
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Directed by Barry SonnenfeldCast Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip TornParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
action & adventure · crime · mystery & thriller · western
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
Directed by Robert RodriguezCast Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eva MendesAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Edge of Tomorrow
action & adventure · science-fiction
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Directed by Doug LimanCast Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton, Jonas ArmstrongParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Transformers
3 Oscar nominations
action · adventure · sci-fi
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Directed by Michael BayCast Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael TaylorParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
action & adventure · horror · mystery & thriller · science-fiction · made in europe
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
Directed by Alexander WittCast Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie VavasseurAMC+Paramount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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The Ruins
adventure · horror · thriller
Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
Directed by Carter SmithCast Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey, Shawn Ashmore, Joe AndersonNetflixParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Troy
1 Oscar nomination
action & adventure · history · war & military · made in europe
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
Directed by Wolfgang PetersenCast Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Nathan Jones, Adoni Maropis, Jacob SmithApple TV PlusParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
action · adventure · comedy · fantasy
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!
Directed by Jake KasdanCast Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Rhys DarbyParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
animation · action · adventure · family · fantasy · mystery
Avatar Aang, the world's last Airbender, learns of an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With the help of his friends, he embarks on a global quest to find it before it falls into the wrong hands.
Directed by Lauren Montgomery, Steve Ahn, William MataCast Eric Nam, Dave Bautista, Jessica Matten, Román Zaragoza, Steven YeunParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
action · adventure · comedy · fantasy
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Directed by John Francis Daley, Jonathan GoldsteinCast Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia LillisNetflixParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
action & adventure · mystery & thriller
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrieCast Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai MoralesAmazon Prime VideoParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Galaxy Quest
adventure · comedy · sci-fi
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space ... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
Directed by Dean ParisotCast Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam RockwellParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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A Knight's Tale
action & adventure · drama · romance
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Directed by Brian HelgelandCast Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura FraserParamount PlusMore details on IMDb →
Wrapping Up
This collection is built for viewers who want more than just explosions and chase scenes; it brings together thoughtful sci-fi, big-screen spectacle, and energetic adventure stories that hold up well in 2026. From classic favorites to newer releases, the selection makes it simple to find something exciting without digging through the whole library. Bookmark this page and come back when you want a fresh pick, because it’s updated regularly as the Paramount Plus catalog changes. Whether you’re in the mood for drama, comedy, or a full-on action ride, there’s plenty here to keep your watchlist moving.
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