Adventure
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
(2015)
Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams, Michael Arndt, George Lucas (based on characters created by)
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 57 wins & 123 nominations.
30 years after the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire, Rey, a scavenger from the planet Jakku, finds a BB-8 droid that knows the whereabouts of the long lost Luke Skywalker. Rey, as well as a rogue stormtrooper and two smugglers, are thrown into the middle of a battle between the Resistance and the daunting legions of the First Order.
Sucker Punch
(2011)
Zack Snyder (screenplay), Steve Shibuya (screenplay), Zack Snyder (story)
1 win & 9 nominations.
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.
Sunshine
(2007)
Alex Garland
1 win & 17 nominations.
A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Terminator Genisys
(2015)
Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier, James Cameron (based on characters created by), Gale Anne Hurd (based on characters created by)
9 nominations.
When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured time-line. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future...
The Abyss
(1989)
James Cameron
Won 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 16 nominations total
Formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth.
The Black Cat
(1934)
Edgar Allan Poe (suggested by a story by), Peter Ruric (screenplay), Edgar G. Ulmer (story), Peter Ruric (story)
1 win.
American honeymooners in Hungary are trapped in the home of a Satan- worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
The Bourne Legacy
(2012)
Tony Gilroy (screenplay), Dan Gilroy (screenplay), Tony Gilroy (story), Robert Ludlum (inspired by "The Bourne Series" created by)
1 win & 11 nominations.
The events in this movie take place around the same time as the events in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). When a British reporter was writing an expose about Black Ops operations Treadstone and Black Briar, and the ones responsible for them are concerned. And when Jason Bourne, former Treadstone operative got the file on Treadstone and Black Briar and gave it to Pamela Landy who then passed it to the media. When the men behind Treadstone and Black Briar learn of this, they're concerned how this will affect other ops they have. They decide it's best to shut down all ops and make sure make everyone involved disappears. They try to take out Aaron Cross who is part of another op called Outcome, but he manages to survive. He then seeks out Dr. Marta Shearing who worked on him when he began. It seems part of the program is for all subjects to take medications but he has run out, which is why he seeks her. But someone tries to kill her. He saves her and she tells him, he should have stopped taking the medications long ago. They go to Manila so that she can help him. Later the men behind Outcome learn that Cross and Shearing are still alive. They try to get them.
The Cave
(2005)
Michael Steinberg, Tegan West
N/A
Decades after a rock church in communist Romania's Carpathians caved when an expedition caused a landslide and buried everyone, Dr. Nicolai's scientific team exploring the associated Templar Knights monster fighting-legend discovers a deep, flooded cave system and hires the brothers Jack and Tyler's brilliant divers team to explore it. Another explosion traps them, after finding a mysterious parasite turning all species carnivore, and later an independently evolved predator species. Jack may be infected and turning, but Tyler sticks with him, so the group splits, hunted by the monsters, which also fly.
The Dark Tower
(2017)
Akiva Goldsman (screenplay by), Jeff Pinkner (screenplay by), Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay by), Nikolaj Arcel (screenplay by), Stephen King (based on "The Dark Tower" novels by)
3 nominations.
The last Gunslinger: Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, and determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower that holds the universe together. With the fate of the world at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle, as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
The Descent
(2005)
Neil Marshall
8 wins & 17 nominations.
A woman goes on vacation with her friends after her husband and daughter encounter a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.
The Descent: Part 2
(2009)
James McCarthy (screenplay), J Blakeson (screenplay), James Watkins (screenplay)
N/A
Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.
The Edge
(1997)
David Mamet
N/A
An intellectual billionaire and two lesser men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood thirsty Kodiak Bear hot on their trail.
The Fifth Element
(1997)
Luc Besson (story), Luc Besson (screenplay), Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 32 nominations.
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.
The Great Escape
(1963)
Paul Brickhill (book), James Clavell (screenplay), W.R. Burnett (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations.
Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
The Hunter
(2011)
Alice Addison (screenplay), Wain Fimeri (original adaptation), Daniel Nettheim (original adaptation), Julia Leigh (based on the novel by)
4 wins & 23 nominations.
The independent and lonely hunter Martin David is hired by the powerful biotech company Red Leaf to hunt down the last Tasmanian tiger. Red Leaf is interested in the DNA of the animal and Martin travels to Tasmania alone. He poses as a researcher from a university and lodges in the house of Lucy Armstrong. Martin learns that Lucy's husband has been missing for a long time and he befriends her children, Sass and Bike. When Martin goes to the village, he has a hostile reception from the locals. Along the days, Martin spends his days in the Tasmanian wilderness chasing the Tiger and becomes closer and closer to the Armstrong family. But Red Leaf wants results no matter the costs.
The Magnificent Seven
(1960)
William Roberts (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
The Magnificent Seven
(2016)
Akira Kurosawa (based on the screenplay by), Shinobu Hashimoto (based on the screenplay by), Hideo Oguni (based on the screenplay by), Nic Pizzolatto (screenplay), Richard Wenk (screenplay)
5 wins & 12 nominations.
Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
(2015)
Guy Ritchie (screenplay by), Lionel Wigram (screenplay by), Sam Rolfe (based on the television series created by)
7 wins & 5 nominations.
In the 1960s with the Cold War in play, CIA agent Napoleon Solo successfully helps Gaby Teller defect to West Germany despite the intimidating opposition of KGB agent Illya Kuryakin. Later, all three unexpectedly find themselves working together in a joint mission to stop a private criminal organization from using Gaby's father's scientific expertise to construct their own nuclear bomb. Through clenched teeth and stylish poise, all three must find a way to cooperate for the sake of world peace, even as they each pursue their own agendas.
The Man Who Would Be King
(1975)
John Huston (screenplay), Gladys Hill (screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (based on the story by)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 nominations.
This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.
The Martian
(2015)
Drew Goddard (screenplay by), Andy Weir (based on the novel by)
Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 185 nominations.
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring "the Martian" home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible, rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney's safe return.