Best Adventure movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Robert Ryan, Paul Rogers, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Diana Rigg, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Marlon Brando,
Directors : George Englund,

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country...

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen,
Directors : George Cukor,

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Christian Marquand,

Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Actors : Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette, Vittorio De Sica, Murray Hamilton,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Jeff East, Warren Oates,
Directors : Don Taylor,

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

Actors : Roger Moore, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland, Susannah York,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the ...

Actors : Karlheinz Böhm, Laurence Harvey, Walter Slezak, Claire Bloom,

The story of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and three of their stories...

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Will Geer,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

Actors : Richard Harris, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : James Fargo,

In 1948, at the U.S. embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential American senator.

Actors : Corinne Calvet, Richard Beymer, Fred Clark, Diane Baker,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.

Actors : Deborah Walley, Michael Callan, Jane Wyman, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : James Neilson,

The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana, travels abroad for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but ...

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Keen, Edward Judd, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

When Elsa's three mischievous cubs begin wreaking havoc on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

Actors : Philip Frame, Theodore Bikel, Max Croiset, Geneviève Ambas,
Directors : James B. Clark,

Two children are trapped in the tower of a church during a flood. Local fishermen attempt to rescue them.