Best Adventure movies that are award winners or nominees

Ladyhawke(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for ...



Return to Oz(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.



Runaway Train(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.



Toys(1992)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

When a military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.



1492: Conquest of Paradise(1992)

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Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.



Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.



The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.





A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Quest for Camelot(1998)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.



The Great Race(1965)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.



Hello, Dolly!(1969)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.



Young Sherlock Holmes(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.



Aladdin(1992)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.



Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse(2018)

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Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Spider-Man crosses parallel dimensions and teams up with the Spider-Men of those dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.



Dersu Uzala(1975)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.



The Magnificent Seven(1960)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.



Hatari!(1962)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.



Robin Hood(1973)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals.




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