Tags: movies similar to Postman Pat (1981) - full list
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | adventure, family, cartoon, music |
Country | USA |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, family |
Country | USA |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, South Africa |
Duration | 01:58 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, comedy, family, cartoon |
Country | Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:29 |
The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a Vampire, a Mummy, a Werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her Monster Family together and uncover the secret of their curse... eventually leading them to the Prince of Darkness himself, Dracula!
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | Canada, USA, United Kingdom |
When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | France, USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
Maltazard, the Evil M, is now 7 feet tall and evolving among the humans, causing terror wherever he goes. His goal is simple: forming an army of giant henchmen and ruling over the universe. Meanwhile, Arthur is still a Minimoy, and thus in a state where he's unable to fend him off. With the help of Selenia and Betameche, he hatches a plan to regain his usual size: all they must do is infiltrate Arthur's house through the pipeworks, catch an electric train from his bedroom to his grandfather's study and find an elixir that will make him grow back to his human size. Sounds simple enough, if it weren't for Darkos, Maltazard's own son, hot on their tails.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, France, USA, United Kingdom |
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | Spain, United Kingdom, USA |
When Jesper distinguishes himself as the Postal Academy's worst student, he is sent to Smeerensburg, a small village located on an icy island above the Arctic Circle, where grumpy inhabitants barely exchange words, let alone letters. Jesper is about to give up and abandon his duty as a postman when he meets local teacher Alva and Klaus, a mysterious carpenter who lives alone in a cabin full of handmade toys.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | family, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Thomas is bubbling with excitement as he delivers special cargo to the picnic extravaganza! His friend Percy joins in on the fun for a game of Hide and Seek and Emily goes full steam ahead to cheer on the Sodor soccer team! Join Thomas and your favorite engine friends as they explore the sights and delights of Sodor in these exciting episodes. Features the episodes: Pop Goes Thomas, Jitters and Japes, Thomas' Crazy Day and Pingy Pongy Pick Up.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, India |
Duration | 01:23 |
A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom |
When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they discover not only the power of friendship, but their inner superpowers along the way.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom |
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | France, United Kingdom, Germany, China, Canada, USA |
Marla is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her younger brother Charlie who has disappeared into the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil toys.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 02:33 |
Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, drama, musical, family, cartoon |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:17 |
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, USA |
When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | family, cartoon |
Country | Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Denmark |
Princess Emmy has a secret gift – she is the only one in the kingdom of Kandis who can speak to horses. She has a wonderful time with her best friends, a stable full of amazing horses. When her scheming cousin, Gizana, appears, Emmy’s chance to become an officially inaugurated princess is threatened. She must undergo a test for the right to keep her special gift.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | family, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:25 |
The tale of a ravenous rat who craves buns, biscuits and all sweet things. Tearing along the highway, he searches for sugary treats to steal, until his sweet tooth leads him to a sticky end.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Republic of Ireland, France, Australia |
Duration | 00:30 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | comedy, family, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, India, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Jordan |
Like always, Postman Pat is happily going about his duty delivering letters and parcels around the fictional town of Greendale. One day, auditions for the TV talent show, "You're the One", are held in Greendale, which Pat manages to pass. With Pat required to be away from Greendale whilst participating in the contest, various Patbot 3000 robots are deployed to take Pat's postal duties. This soon turns out to be an evil plot to take over the world, which Pat must now stop.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, music |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:17 |
Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' roll singer. But in his absence, a sinister, sunshine-hating owl prepares to take over.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, family, cartoon, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:08 |
'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.