Best Adventure movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Anthony Newley, Samantha Eggar, Rex Harrison, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.

Actors : Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to retrieve a jeweled dagger.

Actors : John Randolph, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Jack Good, Trevor Howard, Cary Grant,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Actors : Lainie Kazan, Ray Wise, John Cusack, Meredith Salenger,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Actors : Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Brian Dennehy, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Sean Connery, John Huston, Brian Keith,
Directors : John Milius,

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Rock Hudson, Jim Brown,
Directors : John Sturges,

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando,

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Actors : Peter Lukoye, Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen, Bill Travers,

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...

Actors : Richard Widmark, Frankie Avalon, Laurence Harvey, John Wayne,
Directors : John Wayne,

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.

Actors : Maythavee Burapasing, Lawrence de Stefano, Kelly B. Jones, Ron Smoorenburg,
Directors : Tom Waller,

A Thai youth football team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Ben Johnson, Gene Hackman, James Coburn,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.

Actors : Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Charlton Heston,

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China, U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.