Best Adventure movies that are award winners or nominees

Planet of the Apes(1968)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.



A Bug's Life(1998)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.



Despicable Me(2010)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 36

When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.



The Last of the Mohicans(1992)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.



The Princess and the Frog(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.



Brave(2012)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.



The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.



Kung Fu Panda 2(2011)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms with his past.



Twister(1996)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.



Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs(2009)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst.



Rabbit-Proof Fence(2002)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 40

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a journey across the Outback.



Transformers(2007)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.



Puss in Boots(2011)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor and regain the trust of his mother and town.



Moonraker(1979)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 33

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.



An American Tail(1986)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 37

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.



Independence Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.



The Prince of Egypt(1998)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.



Barry Lyndon(1975)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.



The Mosquito Coast(1986)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...



Back to the Future Part II(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.




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