Children's movies about animals

List of the best children's movies about animals selected by visitors to our site: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, White Bim Black Ear, Home Alone, Sing 2, Life of Pi, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Bernie the Dolphin, Dolphin Kick, Dolphin Tale, Red Dog.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration03:03

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA, Japan, France

The film follows Buster and his new cast who now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and his singers must sneak into the Crystal Entertainment offices, run by the ruthless wolf mogul Jimmy Crystal, where the gang pitches the ridiculous idea of casting the lion rock legend Clay Calloway in their show. Buster must embark on a quest to find the now-isolated Clay and persuade him to return to the stage.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
Duration02:07

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, adventure, family, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:10

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family
CountryCanada, USA

A brother and sister who befriend a badly sunburned dolphin separated from his family and uncover a secret plan that could destroy the beach and their new friend's home. The kids must devise a clever plan to stop the bad guys, protect the sea life, and, most importantly, save their best friend, Bernie.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreadventure
CountryUSA

On a tropical island vacation, a young boy's friendship with a playful and friendly dolphin helps him find the courage to get back in the water after the sudden loss of his mother.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:53

A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, biography
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:32

Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, China
Duration01:35

A Dog’s Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefamily, documentary
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cubs, in a similar vein to the 2005 hit production March of the Penguins, also from National Geographic.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryNew Zealand, USA
Duration02:59

Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:07

    After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:49

    Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, comedy, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
    Duration01:38

    A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

      Years after the onset of the Clone Wars, the noble Jedi Knights lead a massive clone army into a galaxy-wide battle against the Separatists. When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker is seduced by the dark side of the Force to become the Emperor's new apprentice – Darth Vader. The Jedi are decimated, as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Master Yoda are forced into hiding. The only hope for the galaxy are Anakin's own offspring – the twin children born in secrecy who will grow up to become heroes.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, family, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:29

      A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:44

      Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:00

      In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryFrance, Norway

      Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:06

      In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantasy, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryCzechoslovakia, East Germany
      Duration01:22

      The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's arms. In this version, he must actively pursue the young woman who is a skilled sharpshooter prone to wearing hunting outfits. Cinderella also has three wishes at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:55

      A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:11

      A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:46

      While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family
      CountryGermany, West Germany
      Duration01:34

      While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:09

      The wonderful children’s author Eduard Uspensky has give us Cheburashka and Crocodile Ghena, “School of Clowns” and “Down Along the Magical River”, on which this magnificent film is based, one of the best children’s films of the 1980s-1990s. A very witty, kind and merry film! Just watch Tatiana Peltser alone as Baba-Yaga! Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land. And all this because his grandma is Baba-Yaga, albeit a kind one… Together with his grandma Yagorovna, Vasilissa the Wisest, House Spirit and Russian Herculeses, Mitya came out to fight the army of Koschei the Deathless (a fine work by Alexander Filippenko), One-Eyed Evil and Nightingale the Robber (Oleg Anofriyev)…

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, musical, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:21

      A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:15

      Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:17

      A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:24

      A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:24

      Based on a classic fairytale "Cinderella" brilliantly adapted by Yevgeni Shvarts.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:10

      A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:25

      Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, South Africa
      Duration01:58

      Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong, India
      Duration02:29

      A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
      Duration01:44

      When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, China, United Kingdom, Japan

      After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredocumentary
      CountryNetherlands

      The city from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, cartoon
      CountryUSA, Canada, China

      When two flummels are transported into the present day, they learn that their species has become extinct, and they must travel back in time to try to save their race.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany

      Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel. Her solution? Hiring Tom to get rid of the pesky mouse.




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