Best Adventure movies that are award winners or nominees

Space Cowboys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.



The Princess Bride(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.



Rio(2011)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.



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.



The Peanuts Movie(2015)

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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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Ghostbusters(1984)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

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



Bee Movie(2007)

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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.



The Book of Life(2014)

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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.



The Perfect Storm(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.



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.



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.



Treasure Planet(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.



The Boxtrolls(2014)

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Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.



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.




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