Dolphins movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dolphins movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, feel good, serious, humorous, melancholic and entertaining films and TV shows about / with dolphins, friendship, youth, adaptation, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, dialogue, danger and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dolphins: Flipper (1996), The Big Blue (1988), Dolphin Tale (2011), Dolphin Tale 2 (2014), Zeus and Roxanne (1997), Eye of the Dolphin (2006), Flipper (1995), Dolphin Kick (2019), Bernie the Dolphin (2018), Flipper (1964).
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, ...
Style:
exciting, touching, feel good, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
dolphins, childhood, animals, coming of age, summer, youth, friendship, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, mentor, redemption, natural disaster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
diving, friendship, dolphins, diver, love affair, melancholy, rivalry, escapades, haunted by the past, sport, transformation, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
greece, italy, south america, europe, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dolphins, animals, young heroes, hopes, friendship, animal life, human spirit, summer, youth, destiny, child, mother son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
dolphins, veterinarian, animal life, friendship, rescue, youth, family relations, human spirit, hopes, friends, animals, human animal relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, melancholic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, dolphins, friendship, animals, youth, rescue, single parent, odd couple, daring rescue, mischievous children, escapades, young heroes ...
Place:
bahamas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyssa to her father, James, whom Alyssa thought was dead for years. He studies dolphin ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, humorous, light, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
tourism, island, coming of age, research, dolphins, tourist, parents and children, dysfunctional family, friendship, estrangement, family relations, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bahamas, caribbean
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Flipper, is an American revival television series of the original 1964 Flipper television series. The first two seasons aired in first-run syndication; seasons 3 and 4 aired on the PAX network.
The 1995 version brought back Bud Ricks as a scientist ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dolphins, ocean, rescue, friendship, family relations, escapades, animal actor, animals, investigation, beach, large family, sea ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
florida
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a tropical island vacation, a young boy's friendship with a playful and friendly dolphin helps him find the courage to get back in the water after the sudden loss of his mother.
Style:
exciting, psychological, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
tropical island, dolphins, youth, friendship, escapades, adaptation, friends, teenage life, ocean, happy ending, miraculous event, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A brother and sister who befriend a badly sunburned dolphin separated from his family and uncover a secret plan that could destroy the beach and their new friend's home. The kids must devise a clever plan to stop the bad guys, protect the sea ...
Style:
feel good, sincere, entertaining, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dolphins, beach, secret plan, friendship, animal human communication, human animal relationship, brother sister relationship, sea creature, animals, saving a life, siblings relations, seaside ...
Place:
florida
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
sea, dolphins, youth, single father, family relations, park ranger, save the day, young heroes, escapades, friendship, animals, swimming ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa, florida, everglades
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.
Plot:
whale, dolphins, human animal relationship, girl, grandfather granddaughter relationship, environmental, animals, young girl
Time:
80s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
Style:
touching, feel good, melancholic, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
dolphins, youth, ocean, children, coming of age, healing power, pets, young heroes, friendship, teenage life, animals, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, 60s
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Animation
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story:
When a teen diver Yann and his little sister Marina befriend an intelligent white dolphin, they embark on a series of splashy adventures.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, funny, entertaining
Plot:
dolphins, tropical island, friendship, teamwork, sea voyage, island, seaside, human animal relationship, animal human communication, sea adventure
Place:
polynesia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dolphin experts confront the US Navy when its sonar program is suspected of causing the animals' deaths.
Style:
captivating, light, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
experiment gone awry, daring rescue, ocean, friends, animal life, escapades, research, animal human communication, father daughter relationship, dolphins, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bahamas
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, USA, Hungary
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young dolphin with an active imagination saves Fish Town from evil Moray Eels and reunites with his father after discovering a magic arch that makes wishes come true.
Style:
enigmatic, light, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, talking animals, animals, friendship, supernatural, making a wish, desire, life philosophy, anthropomorphism, family relations, fantasy world, animal life ...
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfer who learns a shocking secret: she's a mermaid! She and her dolphin friend set out for an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot:
barbie, mermaid, kingdom, youth, surfing, princess, best friends, teenage life, rivalry, friends, young lovers, magical creature ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, space and aliens, sea, dolphins, military, space wars, teenager, time travel, boat, ship, girl, captain ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2030s, 2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
In Ohio 1942, a cash-strapped farmer is about to be foreclosed on by an unscrupulous banker and must believe his young son has seen a dolphin in their small farm lake or lose everything he holds most dear.
Plot:
dolphins, faith, banker, grandfather, farming, children, father, mother, hospital, fire, death, wedding ...
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, cult film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
ocean, island, beach, youth, animals, dolphins, daring rescue, gangsters, confined, young heroes, pirate, buddies ...
Time:
60s
Place:
bahamas, florida, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, art house, allegory, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay, cheerleading, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, dysfunctional family, wine, transformation, teenager, vengeance, redemption, life philosophy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, usa, iowa, new jersey, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, China, UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a ...
Style:
romantic, light, funny, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
pregnancy, pregnant woman, love triangle, motherhood, female protagonist, british, fatherhood, parenthood, diary, relationships, women, love story ...
Place:
london, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, funny, ridiculous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
pretense, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, couples, love, pretend relationship, destiny, love story, marriage, happy ending, single mother ...
Time:
year 2011, year 1988, year 1992, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, thought provoking, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, astronaut, vietnam war, psychology, supernatural, religion, god, existentialism, surrealism, foul language, adaptation, greed ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
vietnam, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pie in the Sky is a 1996 American romantic comedy film about a young man obsessed with traffic gridlock who falls in love with an avant-garde dancer.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sexy, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
obsession, true love, traffic, mentor, life & death, first contact, life philosophy, loneliness, love, love story, male nudity, relationships ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, entertaining, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, espionage, spy, cold war, satellite, arctic, military, political intrigue, catastrophe, disaster, double agent, winter ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing ...
Style:
art house, romantic, enigmatic, humorous, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nude, childhood, love story, stereotypes, lone hero, life & death, redemption, weapons, hotel, culture clash, sisters, corruption ...
Place:
berlin germany, los angeles, california, boston
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Style:
sexy, talky, atmospheric, allegory, visually appealing ...
Plot:
bdsm, male nudity, fantasy world, metaphysics, adaptation, relationships, hospital, life philosophy, destiny, devil, mentor, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
antarctica, portugal
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, surreal, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleading, coming of age, death, teenager, irish republican army, nude, melancholy, marriage, sexual abuse, obsession, weapons, parenthood ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, japan, tokyo, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, killer child, suspicion, psychopath, therapist, mischievous children, social misfits, mentally challenged, family life, suspense, investigation, boy ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the ...
Style:
sexy, brutal, talky, touching, enigmatic ...
Plot:
slavery, runaway, loneliness, love, freedom, courage, morality, dolphins, brutality, betrayal, beautiful scenery, adaptation ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
north carolina, usa
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