Best Adventure movies that are award winners or nominees

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End(2007)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.



The Way Back(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.



Song of the Sea(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



The Peanuts Movie(2015)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home to win the love of his life.



Suicide Squad(2016)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse.



Speed(1994)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.



Men in Black(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.



The Golden Compass(2007)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.



Bee Movie(2007)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.



Transformers: Dark of the Moon(2011)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.



Rise of the Guardians(2012)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.



The Book of Life(2014)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears.



Passengers(2016)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.



Christopher Robin(2018)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.



Easy Rider(1969)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.



Ghostbusters(1984)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Batman Returns(1992)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, while the Catwoman has her own agenda.



Mulan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.




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