Movies like The Good Dinosaur

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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Style: scenic, computer animated, touching, intense, 3d animation, sentimental, light, emotional, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, pterodactyl, friendship, waterfall, interspecies friendship, alternate history, coming of age, loneliness, happy ending, humanity, creativity, wilderness, culture clash, storytelling, environment, firefly, family bonds, unlikely friendships, talking animal, caveman, unlikely partners, youth, family relations, family life ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, 2010s
Keyword: partners, preschoolers

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Most similar movies to The Good Dinosaur

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, computer animated and touching films with plots about friendship, escapades, furry, animal, friends, love and danger mostly in Adventure, Animation and Family genres. Some movies like The Good Dinosaur: The Croods (2013), The Lorax (2012), Up (2009), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), The Croods: A New Age (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Croods (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, computer animated, touching, 3d animation ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, caveman, youth, family life, parents and children, survival, family relations, parenthood, road trip, animal, forces of nature, end of the world ...
Time: stone age, prehistory, year 2013, prehistoric times, 2010s ...
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84%
 6.4
 129K
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%
 8.3
 1.1M
Up (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, date night ...
Plot: dog, loneliness, friendship, unlikely friendships, follow your dream, hopes, friends, animal life, journey, obsessive quest, aging, wilderness ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south america, iran, venezuela, latin america, mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
Style: humorous, computer animated, funny, exciting, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, ice age, talking animal, fantasy world, friendship, parenthood, birth, rescue, animal life, iceberg, life philosophy ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, 20th century, year 2009, 2000s
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Croods: A New Age (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Sequel to the 2013 animation movie The Croods.
Style: 3d animation, feel good, touching, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen fantasy, preschool
Plot: caveman, teenager, father daughter relationship, female empowerment, father son relationship, friendship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, grandmother granddaughter relationship, teenage boy, grandmother grandson relationship, feminism ...
Time: stone age, prehistory, future, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.6
 374K
Moana (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
Style: fairy tale, exciting, touching, entertaining, colorful ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: ocean, magic, girl, disney princess, island, happy ending, mythology, destiny, good versus evil, friendship, giant crab, little girl ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: polynesia, pacific ocean, fictional island, oceania, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India, UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is a film depicting life-like 3D dinosaur characters set in photo-real landscapes that transports audiences to the prehistoric world as it existed 70 million years ago. The film is based on the 1999 documentary television ...
Style: exciting, captivating, stylized, 3d animation, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, against the odds, wilderness, heroes, danger, predator, prehistoric animal, adaptation, life philosophy, reptiles, believe in yourself, eye ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, 20th century, year 2013
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Kuzco is a self-centered emperor who summons Pacha from a village and to tell him that his home will be destroyed to make room for Kuzco's new summer home. Kuzco's advisor, Yzma, tries to poison Kuzco and accidentally turns him into a ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, slapstick comedy, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: good versus evil, transformation, emperor, talking animal, jungle, treason, llama, spoiled brat, breaking the fourth wall, friendship, change of heart, megalomaniac ...
Time: year 2000, 15th century, y2k, 16th century
Place: peru, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.2
 301K
Finding Dory (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Style: feel good, light, humorous, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: memory loss, underwater, fish, kids and family, amnesia, animal, ocean, shark, friendship, talking animal, children, beautiful scenery ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ 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%
 6.3
 140K
The Boss Baby (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
Style: funny, touching, feel good, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, toddlers, preschool
Plot: sibling rivalry, baby, boy, job promotion, child, little boy, brothers, child as adult, parenthood, family relations, ceo, imagination ...
Time: 20th century, year 2017, 2010s
Place: las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, exciting, humorous, computer animated ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: dragon, friendship, viking, unlikely friendships, creature, friends, imaginary, magic, happy ending, medieval, imaginary kingdom, young kid ...
Time: year 2010, medieval times, 2010s, 2000s, middle ages
Place: scandinavia, fictional island, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.3
 100K
Rio 2 (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, scenic, funny, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, preschool
Plot: bird, jungle, parrot, happy ending, travel, animal life, rivalry, homecoming, music, creativity, talking animal, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 515K
Ice Age (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. ...
Style: feel good, road movie, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: ice age, unlikely friendships, good versus evil, friendship, heroic mission, life risking, odd couple, talking animal, heroes, friends, bonding, animal life ...
Time: prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory, year 2002, 20th century ...
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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%
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ...
Style: humorous, stylized, touching, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, redemption, race against time, snow, escapades, christmas season, magic, runaway, good versus evil, magical ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tanzania, idaho, cuba, toronto ontario canada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.9
 123K
Brother Bear (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, ...
Style: touching, fairy tale, inspirational, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, brother brother relationship, brotherhood, bear, talking animal, turned into an animal, survival, self sacrifice, wilderness, native american, transformation, revenge ...
Time: year 2003, stone age, 2000s, prehistory, prehistoric times ...
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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 4.7
 2K
Dino Time (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a daredevil kid named Ernie, his sister Julia, and his best friend Max are horsing around in Max's inventor father's workshop, they accidentally trip a time-machine into operation and find themselves transported back in time 65 ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, 3d animation, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, mischievous children, time machine, friends, young heroes, escapades, imaginary, danger, wilderness, disorder, kaiju ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 111K
Home (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid ...
Style: light, entertaining, exciting, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, preschool
Plot: alien, friendship, benign alien, alien invasion, imaginary, culture clash, loneliness, save the world, odd couple, animal, escapades, space and aliens ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, france, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 24K
Early Man (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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.
Style: claymation, 3d animation, parody, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, adult
Plot: caveman, stop motion, football, dinosaur, soccer match, couples, friendship, family life, disorder, neighbor neighbor relationship, buddies, silly humor ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, prehistoric times, 2010s, ancient times
Place: manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 67K
Storks (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, computer animated, touching, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: baby, talking bird, stork, anthropomorphic animal, transformation, good versus evil, neglected child, bird, talking animal, animal, father, son ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: tokyo, new york, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 61K
Pete's Dragon (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand, India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than ...
Style: fairy tale, compassionate, emotional, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: dragon, orphan, boy, children, magic, childhood, boy girl friendship, friendship, imagination, small town, fire breathing dragon, family life ...
Time: year 2016, future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
 91K
Trolls (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, India
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lovable and friendly, the trolls love to play around. But one day, a mysterious giant shows up to end the party. Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, and her polar opposite, Branch, must embark on an adventure that takes them far beyond the ...
Style: light, sweet, colorful, computer animated, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, preschool
Plot: friendship, princess, happy ending, troll, good versus evil, music, hugging, dancing, happiness, fantasy world, depression, abduction ...
Time: year 2016, 20th century, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the ...
Style: fairy tale, computer animated, humorous, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dragon, viking, legends and myths, rescue, imaginary kingdom, death of father, friendship, good versus evil, warrior, death of husband, loss of loved one, self sacrifice ...
Time: year 2014, 20th century, 2010s, middle ages, medieval times
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
 7.6
 39K
Watership Down (1978)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Style: emotional, adult animation, disturbing, serious, sad ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: rabbit, friendship, blood, journey, animal, violent, mature, survival, vegan, folk horror, literary, anthropomorphism ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That ...
Style: anime, touching, breathtaking, poignant, intense ...
Plot: training, mentor, beast, friendship, martial arts, destiny, orphan, good versus evil, fantasy world, japanese schoolgirl, loneliness, boy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 314K
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. But Po’s new life of awesomeness is threatened by the ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, humorous, computer animated, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens ...
Plot: martial arts, danger, mentor, master warrior, courage, goofy hero, chosen one, good versus evil, furry, evil, team, animal ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s
Place: china, iran, ancient china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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