11. Up
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Actors: Edward Asner, John Ratzenberger, Paul Eiding, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Jordan Nagai
Plot: A 78-year-old man sets out to fulfill his dream of seeing the wilds of South America by tying thousands of balloons to his home and floating down. What he didn't count on was another eager, 8-year-old explorer to hitch a ride with him.
12. Spirited Away ( Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
Actors: Daveigh Chase, Lauren Holly, Suzanne Pleshette, Michael Chiklis, David Ogden Stiers, Jason Marsden
Plot: A young girl is whisked away to a world of witches, dragons, gods and spirits when her parents stop at a seemingly abandoned amusement park. When her parents are transformed into pigs, it's up to Chihiro to make new friends and believe in herself in order to find the way back to her own world.
13. Wall-E
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger
Plot: An animation in which Wall-E is maintaining the destroyed, dirty, and ugly earth. His robotic job is to clean it. He is a curious sort. One day, another robot is also sent to planet earth. Wall-e believes he may have fallen in love. This story is about the relationship and adventure of two robots.
14. No Country for Old Men
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Coen
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Rodger Boyce, Kelly Macdonald, Beth Grant
Plot: Situated near the Mexican border on the Rio Grande, a hunter finds dead
bodies, heroin, and a stack of cash, in which trouble ensues the
discovery.
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Davenport
Plot: A black smith teams goes on an adventure Pirate Jack Sparrow as they are chased after by Jack's old pirate buddies.
16. Inglourious Basterds
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger
Plot: A group of Jewish-American soldiers called "The Basterds" plan to throw
fear into the Third Reich with a wave of brutal tactics and merciless
killing in Nazi-occupied France.
17. Pan's Labyrinth ( laberinto del fauno, El )
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Actors: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Álex Angulo, Doug Jones
Plot: A WWII inspired story of an imaginative young girl who is forced to move onto a small military outpost with her mother. She creates a world of fairies and fawns to escape the unhappiness in her life.
18. Avatar
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Lang
Plot: In the near future Jake, a paraplegic soldier, is given the chance to walk again by participating in the Avatar program on the distant planet of Pandora. Inhabited by the Na'vi, it is home to lush jungles and creatures beautiful and deadly. As humans invade and push deeper, the Na'vi fight back, and Jake finds himself in the middle of it all.
19. Iron Man
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub
Plot: Based on the Marvel Comic Book about a man who supports military suits and weapons is injured and must construct a suit to save his life. When he realizes the potential of the suit, he uses it to his advantage to fight crime.
20. The Bourne Identity
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Doug Liman
Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Clive Owen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Plot: A man is rescued by a fishing boat with no identification or memory. Assassins are on his trail as he frantically tries to unravel the truth behind his life.
