Movies like The Land Before Time 1988

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The Land Before Time (1988)
 7.4
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The Land Before Time (1988)
Original name: Zemlja daleke proslosti
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 69 min.
Story: An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, colorful, emotional, retro, uplifting, sad, fairy tale, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, friendship, earthquake, childhood, talking animal, natural disaster, babies and infants, rescue, wilderness, coming of age, land before time, mentor, volcano, death of mother, survival, love, death, courage, happy ending, family reunited, furry, prejudice, monster, violence against women ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Keyword: preschoolers

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Most similar movies to The Land Before Time

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, semi serious, humorous and 2d animation films with plots about friendship, furry, friends, escapades, anthropomorphism, heroes and rescue mostly in Animation, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like The Land Before Time: The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Lion King (1994), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Dinosaur (2000), Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and ...
Style: touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, friendship, reconciliation, hunting, animal life, childhood, fox, chase, rescue, animal, friends, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 60s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 1.1M
The Lion King (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: lion, jungle, friendship, betrayal, love, good versus evil, tragedy, pride and honor, exile, hyena, uncle, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In search of some adventure in their safe and peaceful valley, the five dinosaur friends make a hideaway. From there, they spot two thieves in action, stealing an egg from one of their broods. They chase them down and manage to recover the egg ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, biting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, talking animal, chase, betrayal, love, prehistoric animal, violence against women, tyrannosaurus rex, furry, water ...
Time: prehistory, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the ...
Style: touching, sad, sweet, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, childhood, afterlife, animal, orphan, heaven, angel, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, furry, friendship, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1939
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the young dinos and a new adult dinosaur named Mr. ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, danger, rescue, escapades, best friend, friendship, friends, misfit, heroes, cold weather, anthropomorphism ...
Time: prehistory, year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Littlefoot and his pals set off in search of a "stone of cold fire" that fell from the night sky. Since he's the only one who has seen it though, nobody really believes him. Littlefoot's uncle Pterano offers support only because ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, 2d animation
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, family relations, prehistoric animal, violence against women, anti hero, furry, village life, heroic mission, village, parallel world, friends ...
Time: year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: While trying to obtain "Tree Sweets", Littlefoot into the tree and knocks down all the blossoms, attracting the Tinysauruses. They devour the plants and disappear. But Littlefoot isn't blamed for the disappearance, instead he ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, heroes, parallel world, heroic mission, mischievous children, unlikely partners, anti hero, escapades, rescue, good versus evil ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After an incident which nearly cost Littlefoot's grandmother her life, Littlefoot learns a series of lessons which his species call "Wisdoms". Meanwhile, a trio of dim-witted Beipiaosauruses named Loofah, Doofah and Foobie arrive in ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, psychotronic, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, disorder, friends, mischievous children, escapades, buddies, goofy hero, youth, wisdom of life, wilderness ...
Time: 2000s, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A bedtime story leads Littlefoot and his grandparents on a journey to a new land, where Littlefoot discovers someone who vanished before he was born: his father! Now Littlefoot must decide between two worlds. Will he leave to be with his friends in ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, suspense, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, family relations, getting home, land before time, friendship, child in peril, friends, parents and children, family life, danger, young heroes, survival ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 67K
Dinosaur (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Style: entertaining, computer animated, feel good, touching, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, extinction, animal life, friendship, rescue, family reunited, danger, wilderness, talking animal, animal, catastrophe, jungle ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, year 2000, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose individualism causes ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, exciting, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, family relations, escapades, wilderness, siblings relations, self discovery, mischievous children, family gatherings, friends, child in peril ...
Time: prehistory, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Littlefoot and the gang meet a shy newcomer, Ali, but the pleasantries stop there. There's a dire environmental theme to this third sequel in the series, in which the world's weather changes beyond the Great Valley, and what had been dry ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, violence against women, prehistoric animal, life lesson, childhood love, family relations, friends, animal life, family life, wilderness, save the day ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Beloved dinosaurs Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Petrie and Ducky return in this story about the wonders of discovery that features new songs, including Donny Osmond's "No One Has to Be Alone."
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, family relations, family life, youth, child in peril, best friend, disorder, heroic mission, mischievous children, young heroes ...
Time: prehistory, year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: This fourth sequel in the series finds "leaf gobblers" eating all the vegetation in Great Valley, driving Littlefoot, the young brontosaurus, and the other dinosaur inhabitants out. Arguments break out among the adults during migration, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, psychotronic, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, violence against women, prehistoric animal, family relations, disaster, disorder, friends, animal life, family life, survival, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Littlefoot and his friends are constantly being bullied and browbeaten by three teenage dinosaurs: Hyp, a Hypsilophodon; Nod, a Nodosaurus; and Mutt, a Muttaburrasaurus. However, when a shower of meteorites (flying rocks) impacts near the Great ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, crying, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, disaster, love, violence against women, friends, disorder, animal life, environmentalism, forces of nature, asteroids and comets ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On a day known to the dinosaurs as "Treasure Day", Bron becomes stuck in the Mysterious Beyond. This event urges the young Longneck Littlefoot to take his friends on a quest to the Fire Mountain to save his father. Along the way, they ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, tyrannosaurus rex, cave, stegosaurus, pteranodon, talking animal, animal, friends, animal life, wild animal, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster ...
Style: computer animated, humorous, entertaining, funny, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: global warming, creature, dinosaur, iceberg, friendship, talking animal, ice age, animal, mammoth, survival, teamwork, snow ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as rebellious as her father was. But Kiara drives her parents to distraction ...
Style: cute, inspirational, epic, cult classic, retro ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, kids, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot: imaginary kingdom, love story, happy ending, childhood, princess, furry, father daughter relationship, kids and family, good versus evil, culture clash, friendship, lion ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lorax (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Style: entertaining, feel good, computer animated, colorful, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: environmental, childhood, ecology, friendship, environment, deforestation, environmentalism, talking animal, greed, chase, heroes, society ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 34K
Barnyard (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.
Style: computer animated, humorous, exciting, funny, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: animal, coyote, pig, father son relationship, anthropomorphic animal, chicken, friendship, leadership, countryside, best friend, rescue, odd couple ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 972K
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business... even though they're more afraid of the children than they are of them. When a child accidentally enters their world, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, sweet, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: monster, friendship, imaginary, creature, imagination, children, fantasy world, friends, parallel world, rivalry, little girl, rivals ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: persia, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescue Aid Society's top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the ...
Style: sweet, humorous, entertaining, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: mouse, australian outback, friendship, poacher, anthropomorphic animal, talking animal, good versus evil, rescue, furry, adventurer, heroic mission, child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, madagascar, new york, oceania, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. ...
Style: light, feel good, funny, computer animated, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, toddlers ...
Plot: talking animal, determination, rescue, jungle, friendship, fantasy world, animal, friends, elephant, creativity, goofy hero, save the day ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Piglet's Big Movie (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood begin a honey harvest, young Piglet is excluded and told that he is too small to help. Feeling inferior, Piglet disappears and his pals Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, Roo and Winnie the Pooh must use Piglet's ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, touching, anthology ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: friendship, winnie the pooh, unlikely friendships, children, pig, talking animal, animal, owl, danger, buddies, gang, partner ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 265K
The Lion King (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Kenya
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: motion capture, fairy tale, inspirational, psychotronic, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: jungle, wilderness, lion cub, lion, animal, talking animal, kingdom, murder of father, king, hyena, sunrise, loss of father ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Legends claim that Saurus Rock keeps bad luck out of the Great Valley. Is it really true? Could the mysterious Longneck named Doe be the famous Lone Dinosaur, who can defeat a Sharptooth with his lasso-like tail? To find out, Littlefoot and company ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: land before time, dinosaur, prehistoric animal, violence against women, heroes, furry, disorder, friends, friendship, rescue, escapades, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Oliver & Company (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street ...
Style: sentimental, funny, feel good, light, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: orphan, friendship, dog, cat, adoption, pets, kitten, urban setting, alone, canine, tragedy, butler ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: new york, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 1.1M
Finding Nemo (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: friendship, underwater, shark, memory loss, father son relationship, animal, freedom, courage, single father, rescue, odd couple, talking animal ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new south wales, oceania, pacific ocean, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
An American Tail (1986)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought ...
Style: sweet, fairy tale, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: rat, mouse, childhood, cat, animal, immigrant, american dream, good versus evil, orphan, furry, greed, chase ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place: new york, russia, usa, hamburg germany, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tigger Movie (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: As it happens, everybody - Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Roo, Rabbit, Owl - is busy preparing a suitable winter home for Eeyore. When everything they do seems to get undone by Tigger's exuberant bouncing, Rabbit suggest Tigger go outside and find other ...
Style: sentimental, intense, stylized, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: winnie the pooh, friendship, tiger, rescue, escapades, heroic mission, disorder, young heroes, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, imaginary, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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