Monkey actor movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant monkey actor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film and light films and TV shows about / with monkey actor, monkey, chimpanzee, animal, disorder, friendship, ape, friends, animal life and simian fiction plots mostly in Comedy, Family and Adventure genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as monkey actor: Ed (1996), MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001), Monkey Up (2016), Gibby (2016), Motocross Kids (2004), Project X (1987), Monkey Trouble (1994), Buddy (1997), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995).

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 9K
Ed (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, family comedy, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: baseball, chimpanzee, athlete's life, against the odds, friendship, partner, lifestyle, hopes, kidnapping, rivalry, animal life, underdog ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california
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MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: MVP 2 opens with the lovable Jack being ousted from his hockey team, the Seattle Simians, and having to hit the road after being falsely accused of league misconduct. Jack ends up in the city, where he's befriended by Ben, a homeless ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: skateboard, youth, friendship, monkey actor, athlete's life, against the odds, contests and competitions, buddies, athlete and trainer, ambition, monkey, ape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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 3.7
 432
Monkey Up (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A talking monkey seeks to gain fame and fortune as a movie star, but instead finds what's most important, a family.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: monkey, animal actor, monkey actor, talking animal, human animal relationship, animal human communication, friendship, brother sister relationship, friends, family relations, escapades, youth ...
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 5.0
 317
Gibby (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young teenage girl, Katie, can not snap out of her depression after losing her mother. Katie has lost interest in school, her friends, and gymnastics. All that changes in the summer when she is asked to monkeysit Gibby, her science teacher's ...
Style: sentimental, sweet, light, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids
Plot: monkey, teenager, first love, monkey actor, gymnastics, animal human communication, friendship, father daughter relationship, death of mother, animal life, mentor, friends ...
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Motocross Kids (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Evan Reed is the best motocross coach in the country. After leading his daughter Callie to the national championships, he decides to set his sights on a more personal challenge: saving a local dirt track from an evil biker gang. When Evan's ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: motocross, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, athlete's life, family relations, human spirit, lifestyle, rising to stardom, gang ...
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 6.2
 13K
Project X (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being ...
Style: humorous, touching, intense, semi serious, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: monkey, animal, chimpanzee, justice, uncover truth, partner, animal training, experiment gone awry, rescue, animal rescue, laboratory, top secret ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: everglades
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Monkey Trouble (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
Style: humorous, independent film, semi serious, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: monkey, childhood, monkey actor, friendship, coming of age, youth, human animal relationship, animal, girl, business, wild animal, stupid kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
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 4.8
 3K
Buddy (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style: light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: gorilla, animal, zoo, socialite, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, jungle, kids and family, camp ...
Time: 1920s, year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: usa, chicago, new york, philadelphia
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
Style: humorous, funny, talky, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: weed, road trip, jay and silent bob, filmmaking, hollywood, internet, hitchhiker, drug, stoner, chase, marijuana, monkey actor ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, california, utah
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess ...
Style: funny, parody, spoof, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot: jungle, gross out humor, dumb, human animal relationship, animal, farce, save the day, disorder, goofy hero, road trip, satire, pets ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: africa, nigeria, asia, china, himalaya ...
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 7.1
 1K
Tarzan (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the ...
Style: vintage
Audience: kids
Plot: tarzan, jungle, lost world, monkey, explorer, jungle adventure, feral child, superhero, bare chested male, boy, lion, chimpanzee ...
Place: africa
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Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tarzan goes to New York to rescue the chimp Cheetah, who has been captured by an evil animal experimenter. There, he teams up with Jane, a cab driver and daughter of an ex-cop private eye, who help Tarzan free Cheetah and his friends.
Plot: tarzan, jungle, monkey, lost world, explorer, male female relationship, coma, culture clash, taxi driver, monkey actor, chimpanzee, costume party ...
Place: africa, new york
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Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and ...
Style: cute, light, sweet, light hearted, retro ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: animal, sailing, youth, dancing, animal lover, broadway, bomb squad, literary, myth, sea, carnival, camel ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, year 1967, 1840s, victorian era
Place: africa, england, europe
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 5.9
 4K
Link (1986)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A zoology student must try to out smart a murderous and super-intelligent orangutan.
Style: natural horror, grindhouse, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: monkey, killer animal, animal attack, chimpanzee, assistant, cannon, monster, killer ape, ape, creature feature, environmental, occult ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: england, scotland, united kingdom
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 4.2
 136
Kung Fu Arts (1978)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The emperor's right hand man frames the princess's fiancé, King Chi, who goes into hiding for ten years, vowing revenge. Meanwhile, the princess is married to King Chi's monkey.
Style: exciting, serious
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, assassination attempt, island, right hand man, dishonesty, master warrior, assassination, daring rescue, intrigue, heroes, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became ...
Style: dark comedy, retro, laugh out loud, black comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: curse, love, fall in love, in love, choreographer, atmosphere, choreography, fashion, suburbs, strong female lead, women, sea ...
Time: 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style: surreal, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, investigation, psychopath, female psychopath, chimpanzee, boarding school, telepathy, malice, psychic power, mysticism ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, alps, munich germany
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The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
Style: slapstick, exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, preschool
Plot: college, student athlete, monkey, aviation, animal, chimpanzee, college life, school, down on your luck, sport team, power relations, disorder ...
Time: 60s
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Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a hopeless nerd, she gifts him with Love Potion No. 8, which makes anyone who wears it irresistible to the opposite sex for four hours. Paul and animal ...
Style: light, romantic, sweet, feel good, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: love potion, wish come true, love, love and romance, love story, experiment gone awry, scientist, misfit, looking for love, happy ending, magic, male female friendship ...
Time: year 1992
Place: usa
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The Jungle Book (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can ...
Style: intense, tense, semi serious, stylized, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, friendship, treasure hunt, survival, self discovery, orphan, wilderness, animal, tiger, treasure, fish out of water, jungle book ...
Time: 90s, victorian era, 19th century, year 1994
Place: india
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: tarzan, jungle, culture clash, adventurer, stranded, monkey, orphan, feral man, adoption, justice, ape, rescue ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1880s, 1910s
Place: africa, england, scotland, london, united kingdom ...
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Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the road, orangutan, road trip, revenge, farce, boxing, motel, motorcycle, monkey, country music, one against many, beer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: california, colorado, new mexico, los angeles
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 5.4
 102K
Doctor Dolittle (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! ...
Style: light, funny, hilarious, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, veterinarian, childhood, father daughter relationship, doctor, talking animal, animal, kids and family, creativity, happy ending, fight scenes, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, 60s, year 1968
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye on the boardroom, and getting nowhere with the studio's top dog, he makes a ...
Style: clever, humorous, hilarious, cynical, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: monkey, animal, satire, business, disorder, friends, power relations, workplace situations, media satire, workplace intrigue, workplace romance, friendship ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
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Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Babe, 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.
Style: surreal, stylized, clever, allegory, mind blowing ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, toddlers ...
Plot: animal, monkey, kids and family, heartwarming, culture clash, children, piglet, talking dog, anthropomorphism, pig, animal protagonist, ape ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: manhattan new york city, australia, sydney australia
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Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, biker, tough guy, farce, fight, orangutan, monkey, martial arts, motorcycle gang, woman in danger, dishonesty, wager ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: california
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Animal Behavior (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unfunny comedy about a love triangle between a music instructor, and an animal research scientist, and a chimp.
Style: independent film
Plot: monkey, business, monkey actor, sign language, ape, female protagonist, chimpanzee, simian fiction
Time: year 1989
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Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One summer Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: monkey, prairie, childhood, ape, nature, coming of age, family relations, farm, youth, small town, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time: 1910s
Place: canada
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MXP: Most Xtreme Primate (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The 2000s Most Valuable Primate is back, this time on a snowboard.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating
Audience: kids, preschool
Plot: chimpanzee, family relations, friendship, buddies, disorder, animal life, escapades, monkey, pets, youth, business, snow ...
Place: colorado, usa
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Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Style: inspirational, sincere, touching, captivating, sensitive ...
Audience: kids
Plot: jungle, gorilla, environmental, animal, biopic, extinction, environmentalism, human spirit, nature, hunting, environment, life & death ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place: africa, south africa, congo, rwanda
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