20 Best Animation movies like Mickey's Orphans (1931)

List of the best animation movies like Mickey's Orphans (1931): Soul, The One and Only Ivan, Bilby, In a Heartbeat, Inner Workings, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice, Paperman, Get a Horse!, Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular, Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genreadventure, family, cartoon, music
CountryUSA

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

Threatened daily by the deadly residents and harsh environment of Australia’s Outback, a lonesome bilby finds himself an unwitting protector, and unexpected friend, to a helpless (and quite adorable) baby bird.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

This is the story of the internal struggle between a man’s Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:22

Lanny and Wayne are at it again! With the Big 2-5 fast approaching, Wayne and Lanny must race to recover classified North Pole technology which has fallen into the hands of a computer-hacking Naughty Kid! Desperate to prevent Christmas from descending into chaos, Wayne seeks out the foremost Naughty Kid expert to aid in the mission: a bombastic member of the Coal Bucket Brigade who also happens to be his estranged brother, Noel.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:07

An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:06

Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, musical, family, cartoon, short, music
CountryUSA
Duration00:29

Deck the halls with Donkey’s laughter in this all-new holiday collection. Donkey presents his very own carolling stage show featuring his Far Far Away pals in this merry, musical treat with all the trimmings! Join in the fun as they bring their own Shrektacular spirit to festive holiday songs, a fun Donkey Decoration scramble, and a hilarious virtual Yule Log that’s so funny… it’s on fire.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

When a threat no one could have expected bears down on the Marvel Universe, this ragtag, untrained band of teens have no choice but to rise together and prove to the world that sometimes the difference between a 'hero' and 'misfit' is just in the name.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:06

This Oscar-winning animated short film tells the story of one man's love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:06

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA, Republic of Ireland

A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short, crime
CountryUSA
Duration00:05

Little baby needs his pacifier, but loses it during a heist in a museum. What will he do? Short #3 from the 'Minions: 3 Mini-Movie Collection'.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:04

Maggie Simpson returns to the Ayn Rand School for Tots. There, Maggie's future prospects are deemed to be minimal, so she is left in one of the daycare's less enjoyable rooms, with just a butterfly for company.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:13

After a mutant peculiar pumpkin blows up on the Murphy’s carrot lawn, zombie green beans begin fighting the immediate place, and it’s up to the Creatures to preserve the evening again.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, France, Japan
Duration00:04

A Minion, seeing many owners walk their dogs, wants a puppy of his own. He tries to leash a ladybug but fails. Luckily, a UFO that sweeps away the ladybug somehow agrees to become a Puppy.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration00:04

Bigfoot checks into Hotel Transylvania to get some sleep but keeps getting disturbed by a zealous witch maid.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:03

Victor and his beloved dog Sparky watch one of their favorite home movies.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

A Pixar short about a lost-and-found box and the unseen monster within.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:05

Mike and Sulley are back at Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first party, but no one’s showing up. Luckily for them, Mike and Sulley have come up with a plan to make sure “Party Central” is the most epic party the school has ever seen.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, France, Japan

Two minions working in a bomb lab get competitive. Short #1 from the 'Minions: 3 Mini-Movie Collection'.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:07

Oswald plays a cowboy who must rescue Sadie from a runaway stagecoach and Pegleg Pete.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, musical, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:09

We see the various birds, mice, and bats that have moved into an old windmill, followed by the frogs, crickets, and fireflies making their music in an adjacent pond. Then a storm comes, shaking loose parts in mill and threatening everything we've seen.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short, music
CountryUSA
Duration00:05

A Shrek parody of Michael Jackson's Thriller song and music video, with Donkey singing.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:07

Mickey's friends throw him a surprise birthday party at Minnie's house. The chef brings out the cake (with 2 candles); Mickey manages to blow all the cake onto the chef's face, while the candles stay lit. He unwraps his present: a miniature piano. He plays a duet of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby with Minnie, followed by an instrumental version of The Darktown Strutter's Ball, which everyone dances to (including Mickey and Minnie, while the piano stools keep playing). Mickey then plays There's No Place Like Home on the xylophone, then accompanies Minnie on another piece, after which the xylophone gets frisky and eventually dumps Mickey in the fish bowl.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Republic of Ireland, France, Australia
Duration00:30

Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business - a bakery. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have 'disappeared' this year - but Wallace isn't worried. He's too distracted and in love with local beauty and bread enthusiast, Piella Bakewell, to be of much help. Gromit must be the sleuth and solve the escalating murder mystery.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, musical, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:05

On a high mountain plain lives a lamb with wool of such remarkable sheen that he breaks into high-steppin' dance. But there comes a day when he loses his lustrous coat and, along with it, his pride. It takes a wise jackalope - a horn-adorned rabbit - to teach the moping lamb that wooly or not, it's what's inside that'll help him rebound from life's troubles.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short, sport
CountryUSA
Duration00:07

Mickey and his friends are staging a sort of olympics in a makeshift stadium on his farm. The main event is a sort of quadrathlon, with running, pole vaulting, rowing, and cycling. Mickey gets a late start due to some foul play by Pete, and that's not the only foul play.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short, music
CountryUSA
Duration00:07

Mickey comes onstage to the applause of an unseen audience and plays various classical tunes on the violin, after some minor mishaps. During a sad song, he is overcome with emotion and has to stop.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, Canada

When dad has to unexpectedly step in for mom to do his daughter Zuri’s hair before a big event, what seems like a simple task is anything but as these locks have a mind of their own!




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