Films for Animal Lovers
Animals other than dogs and horses. These have their own lists:
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- DirectorSimon WincerStarsJason James RichterLori PettyMichael MadsenWhen a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.
- DirectorChris NoonanStarsJames CromwellMagda SzubanskiChristine CavanaughGentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him?
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMagda SzubanskiElizabeth DailyMickey RooneyBabe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
- DirectorGary WinickStarsDakota FanningJulia RobertsOprah WinfreyWilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
- DirectorFrederik Du ChauStarsFrankie MunizDavid SpadeSnoop DoggAn abandoned zebra grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl, sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbreds.
- DirectorJames HillTom McGowanStarsVirginia McKennaBill TraversGeoffrey KeenThe story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.
- CreatorJack CowdenRicou BrowningStarsBrian KellyLuke HalpinTommy NordenRanger Porter Ricks is responsible for the animal and human life in Coral Key Park, Florida. Stories center on his 15-year-old son Sandy and 10-year-old Bud and, especially, on their pet dolphin Flipper.
- CreatorLee RobinsonDennis HillStarsEd DevereauxTony BonnerKen JamesSonny and his kangaroo Skippy live in Waratah National Park in New South Wales. Matt Hammond, Sonny's father is the park ranger. Skippy saves the day in many adventures.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJason AlexanderFaye DunawayEric LloydA young boy befriends a larcenous orangutan in a luxury hotel.
- DirectorChristopher CainStarsStephen LangRyan SlaterYi DingA young American boy visiting China helps his zoologist father rescue a panda cub from unscrupulous poachers while its reserve is threatened with closure from officious bureaucrats.
- DirectorFraser C. HestonStarsThora BirchVincent KartheiserDirk BenedictWhile searching for their missing father in the mountains of Alaska, two siblings come across a baby polar bear on the run from a pair of poachers.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsSteve GuttenbergKathleen QuinlanArnold VoslooA touching friendship story between a dog and a dolphin.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTina MajorinoKeith CarradineChelsea FieldThe true story of how a seal named Andre befriended a little girl named Toni and her family in 1962.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsDrew BarrymoreJohn KrasinskiJohn PingayakIn small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorCarroll BallardStarsJeff DanielsAnna PaquinDana DelanyA father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.
- DirectorFranco AmurriStarsThora BirchHarvey KeitelFinsterA young girl's life turns hairy when her new pet monkey turns out to be a trained pickpocket on the run from a scheming gypsy.
- DirectorJohn GrayStarsWil HorneffHelen ShaverJean Marie BarnwellMargaret teaches a gorilla sign language etc. When the gorilla owner takes it back to make money from shows, Margaret's rebellious teenage son steals it. They're off on a road trip to the Canadian border.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsDonald O'ConnorPatricia MedinaZasu PittsDuring World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsRonald ReaganDiana LynnWalter SlezakA college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
- DirectorHoward FranklinStarsBill MurrayMatthew McConaugheyJerry AdlerA motivational speaker discovers that the inheritance his father left for him is in the form of an elephant.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGregory PeckJane WymanClaude Jarman Jr.A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsRex HarrisonSamantha EggarAnthony NewleyAfter the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.
- DirectorBetty ThomasStarsEddie MurphyPeter BoyleOssie DavisA doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.
- DirectorSteve CarrStarsEddie MurphyCedric The EntertainerKristen WilsonDolittle must save a forest and a bear's life.
- DirectorPeter HewittStarsBreckin MeyerJennifer Love HewittStephen TobolowskyJon Arbuckle buys a second pet, a dog named Odie. However, Odie is then abducted and it is up to Jon's cat, Garfield, to find and rescue the canine.
- DirectorCharles Martin SmithStarsMorgan FreemanAshley JuddHarry Connick Jr.A boy finds a dolphin that was injured in a trap. They become friends, but the dolphin needs to have its tail amputated to survive. With the help of a biologist and a prosthetics specialist, the boy tries to save the animal.
- DirectorRon UnderwoodStarsBill PaxtonCharlize TheronRade SerbedzijaA legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton) and Jill Young (Charlize Theron), with whom he grew up. Poacher Strasser (Rade Serbedzija) returns from the past to seek vengeance on Joe.
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsMatt DamonScarlett JohanssonThomas Haden ChurchSet in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelPierre-LouisEllen SchwiersIn 1942, a French prisoner of war in Germany decides to escape to France using a cow held by a lunge as a decoy. He crosses all Germany in this way.
- DirectorStuart MargolinStarsJohnny MorinaKatharine IsabelleTimothy DaltonWhen Bobby and his Mom move from Toronto, away from his dad and his baseball team, to a small town in Nova Scotia, he's picked on by all the local kids, except for Jo. And Jo has also befriended a lonely male moose who lives on an island, and she has a wild plan to capture and relocate a female moose to be company for him. Together, Bobby and Jo, with the help of their single parents, Eva and Lester, attempt to put Jo's plan into operation.
- DirectorLourens BlokStarsDennis ReinsmaDana GoldbergJeroen van KoningsbruggeWhen his father cannot make it home Max is convinced that Christmas will be extremely boring this year. But then Mr. Moose crashes through his roof and he is not so sure anymore. This is a giant talking Moose with a big mouth, a warm hearth and a tendency for drama. He claims he was on a test-run with Santa Claus, lost control over the sleigh and crashed, injuring his leg. And now he has to find Santa Claus, otherwise nobody will receive their Christmas gifts. Is Max able to get Mr. Moose and Santa flying again?
- DirectorBen VerbongStarsMario AdorfArmin RohdeAnja Kling
- DirectorAlbert HughesStarsKodi Smit-McPheeJóhannes Haukur JóhannessonMarcin KowalczykIn the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity.
- DirectorJon FavreauStarsNeel SethiBill MurrayBen KingsleyAfter a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo.
- DirectorCarroll BallardStarsCharles Martin SmithBrian DennehyZachary IttimangnaqA government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsShaofeng FengShawn DouAnkhnyam RagchaaDuring China's Cultural Revolution, a young urban student is sent to live with Mongolian herders, where he adopts a wolf cub.
- DirectorGerardo OlivaresOtmar PenkerStarsJean RenoTobias MorettiManuel CamachoIn a world where it takes courage to fly, a young boy nurtures a baby eagle into adulthood. Searching for their place in the world, they bond over their desire to be free.
- DirectorOtto BellStarsAisholpan NurgaivDaisy RidleyRys NurgaivThirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her nomad family to become an eagle huntress.
- DirectorLuc JacquetStarsBertille Noël-BruneauIsabelle CarréThomas LalibertéIt has been described as both a nature documentary and a "fairy tale" look at the story of young girl and her friendship with a fox.
- DirectorNino JacussoStarsAlana AspinallMarty AspinallDelilah DickThe coming-of-age story about a Canadian First Nations girl who triumphs over obstacles in her young life. Her new teacher discovers her extraordinary gifts as a violinist. When Shana goes on a spiritual journey, she befriends a wild wolf who guides her and she reconnects with her ancestors, including her mother. Finally, she is able to make peace with her mother's death and, absorbed by nature and the spiritual world, Shana finds a unique way of musical expression, which will allow her to have a career as a violinist. Filmed with the People of the Creeks, the Lower Nicola Indian Band near Merritt, BC. The entire cast is local and first time film performers. The Swiss director Nino Jacusso who spent seven months with them calls them 'real actors' as they are the real people. A moving, magical, and yet authentic inter-cultural motion picture.
- DirectorPeder NorlundStarsJulia Pauline Boracco BraathenJørgen LanghelleLine VerndalA young girl becomes friends with a wolf and its little puppy. She decides to save them from three local shepherds.
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsRex AllenIngvald LieberkindRobert DalbanWhen both parents are killed by man, the wolf Lobo learns the ways of the hunter.
- DirectorGerardo OlivaresStarsJuan José BallestaSancho GraciaManuel CamachoA child is sold to a tribe in the remote mountains. However, he manages to survive and lives among a pack of wolves for 12 years.
- DirectorMoshe AlpertStarsShmil Ben AriThe life story of Ogg, a male wolf living in the northern mountains of Israel. From his innocent childhood through his maturing to adulthood, struggling to survive in a delicate habitat sabotaged by mankind.
- DirectorMarni ZelnickStarsSpencer Treat ClarkRebecca L. BaldwinNathaniel BrownA troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.
- DirectorDick RobinsonStarsLeon AmesDick RobinsonA mountain man saves four wolf cubs after their mother dies. They all bond to form a unique pack filled with friendship and ultimately, protection.
- DirectorMichael SpenceStarsMichael FlynnJimmy ChungaTayva PatchA man with a broken heart...4 orphaned wolves... and the act of kindness that saved them all.
- DirectorNicolas VanierStarsNicolas BrioudesPom KlementieffMin Man MaSixteen year old Sergei is the son of Boris, the head of the Batagi clan of reindeer breeders. Awarded the title of herdsman, with the clan's largest herd, he joins the Evenk tribe for the first time as they begin their summer cattle drive across the pastures of the Siberian mountains. As the tribe's only source of income, these reindeer are their pride and joy and they will stop at nothing to protect them from their most bitter enemy, the Wolf.
- DirectorLinus TorellStarsKim JanssonLena GranhagenPer NiljaWhen her mother died, 10 year old girl Misa's world stopped. And when her father, along with her new girlfriend, wants to spend the summer in the Swedish province Skåne she refuses to come with them. Misa's father reluctantly agrees that Misa stays with her grandmother in Arjeplog over the summer instead. In the deep forest of northern Sweden Misa find more than she ever could imagine; she meets a wolf with cubs that Misa develop a deep and strange connection with. But the wolf spreads fear in the small village and someone has hired a poacher to kill it and her cubs...
- DirectorRaimo O. NiemiStarsTiia TalvisaraJanne SakselaVuokko HovattaA girl who has been abandoned by her mother falls under the protection of a pack of wolves. After being found, she has to decide between her family and the animals that once protected her.
- DirectorDavid S. Cass Sr.StarsAnne ArcherRobert UrichMichael Shamus WilesA woman finds herself trapped in the woods with the one animal she fears most--the wolf. As an alliance with the wolf grows, so does her will to survive.
- DirectorPeter SvatekStarsMichael BiehnRoy ScheiderShane MeierA ranger (Michael Biehn) and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf from a rancher (Roy Scheider), who is out to kill it.
- DirectorVéra BelmontStarsMathilde GoffartYaël AbecassisGuy BedosIn 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents, she lives and survives with pack of wolves and crosses Germany, Poland reaching Ukraine. When she sees that Brussels have been released by the allied force, she returns to her hometown and reaches it in March 1945 almost dead, sick and with lice and malnourished. However, Ernest identifies the girl that does not accept that her parents had died in the concentration camp of Sonnenburg.
- DirectorFrank ZunigaStarsJeff EastBill WilliamsBarbara HaleA youth (Russ Hanson) attempts to re-introduce a domesticated wolf to the wild.
- DirectorTolomush OkeevStarsKambar ValiyevSuymenkul ChokmorovAliman ZhankorozovaOn the Kazakh steppe during the days of the Revolution a young boy raises a wolf cub.
- DirectorGilles LegrandStarsLaetitia CastaJean-Paul RouveStefano AccorsiAt the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans. Angèle exploits this rivalry to attain her real goal: saving the wolves.
- DirectorTerence H. WinklessStarsElizabeth BerkleyEle KeatsJeremy LondonAs a plea-bargain to clear their school records, a group of misfit teens ventures into the majestic but unforgiving wilderness to help a young naturalist save the vanishing wolves. After they encountered unexpected incident, they are aided by the mysterious white wolf of myth and legend, who shows up to guide the way throughout the movie.
- DirectorIan BarryStarsJamie CroftRebecca GibneyAlex McKenna12-year-old Billy McGregor's friendship with a playful baby kangaroo leads him on the ultimate adventure in this fun-filled story for all ages. Featuring amazing animals, beautiful scenery and a positive message about friendship and love.
- DirectorRichard BoddingtonStarsElizabeth HurleySam Ashe ArnoldTertius MeintjesA lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
- DirectorNoel MarshallStarsTippi HedrenNoel MarshallMelanie GriffithA naturalist living with big cats in East Africa expects a visit by his family of four from Chicago. A mix-up leaves him searching for his family, who have been left in the clutches of wild lions.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsGuy PearceFreddie HighmoreJean-Claude DreyfusTwo tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsTchéky KaryoBart the BearYouk the BearAn orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
- DirectorBrett MorgenStarsJane GoodallHugo Van LawickHugo Eric Louis van LawickThe life and work of the renowned primatology scientist, Jane Goodall, especially on her research about chimpanzees.
- DirectorIvan TorsStarsJay NorthMartin MilnerAndy DevineA young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsMarshall ThompsonBetsy DrakeRichard HaydnA veterinarian living in Africa with his daughter take care of a cross-eyed lion, make friends with other animals, and learn about local wildlife.
- DirectorWil ShrinerStarsLogan LermanLuke WilsonBrie LarsonA young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
- DirectorColin McIvorStarsToby JonesPenelope WiltonIan McElhinneyYoung Tom Hall (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save "Buster" the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941.
- DirectorPrabu SolomonStarsVikram PrabhuLakshmi MenonThambi RamaiahThe love between a mahout and an elephant.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsMikako IchikawaReiko KusamuraKen MitsuishiA single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
- DirectorCraig MonahanStarsHugo WeavingDon HanyXavier SamuelInspired by true events, HEALING is a story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit - in the most unlikely place for the most unlikely men.
- DirectorJoachim MasannekStarsPeri BaumeisterAylin TezelMeret BeckerAn 11-year-old girl can talk to animals. When a thief causes trouble at the local zoo, she comes to the rescue.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeBrando QuiliciStarsDakota GoyoGoran VisnjicBridget MoynahanA young boy attempts to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother in northern Canada.
- DirectorHenri SafranIan GoddardStarsGreg RowePeter CumminsDavid GulpililMike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
- DirectorShawn SeetStarsFinn LittleJai CourtneyGeoffrey RushWhen Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he's forced to remember his childhood and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival.
- DirectorMark Drury TaylorStarsJenna OrtegaMartin MartinezDavid ArquetteFlora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the circus. All that stands between them and the safety of the elephant preserve is two hundred kilometers of woods, one raging river, two elephant hunters and the fear of not making it.