Polar bear movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant polar bear movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out entertaining, humorous, feel good, exciting, captivating and funny films and TV shows about / with polar bear, bear, escapades, danger, animals, friendship, talking animals, heroes, arctic and ice plots mostly in Adventure, Family and Animation genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as polar bear: The Golden Compass (2007), Unnatural (2015), The Little Polar Bear (2001), The Journey Home (2014), Arctic (2018), The Terror (2018), The Polar Bear King (1991), Pororo the Little Penguin (2003), Be-Be-Bears (2015), Alaska (1996).

List of polar bear movies

The Golden Compass (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Style: epic, fairy tale, exciting, dark fantasy, aesthetic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot: fantasy world, journey, steampunk, alternate reality, orphan, magical, parallel world, polar bear, wizards, best friends, witch, magic ...
Place: england, london, oxford university
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 3.9
 2K
Unnatural (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.
Style: tense, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, scary ...
Plot: animal attack, polar bear, winter, monster, creature, genetics, climate change, bear, mutant, photographer, cold, death ...
Time: 80s
Place: alaska
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The Little Polar Bear (2001)
Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 78 min.
Story: This charming animated adventure follows a young polar bear, Lars, as he befriends Robbie, a seal. Together, these two form a friendship that proves different breeds of animals can get along perfectly well.
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, entertaining, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: polar bear, friendship, mischievous children, escapades, youth, bear, best friend, figment, island, ship, getting home, misfit ...
Place: antarctica, holland, antarctic
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The Journey Home (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In northern Canada, a young boy sets a goal for himself to to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother. Goran Visnjic joins the cast as Muktuk, a half Inuit and half Canadian, who knows the terrain where the polar bears live and who ...
Style: sincere, light, touching, captivating
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: polar bear, winter, human animal relationship, animals, bear, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, hopes, friendship, adaptation, escapades, love ...
Place: canada
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 6.8
 55K
Arctic (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek ...
Style: touching, disturbing, uplifting, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot: survival, arctic, helicopter crash, snow, stranded, man versus nature, polar bear, suspense, fish, ice, very little dialogue, struggle for survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: antarctica
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 7.9
 46K
The Terror (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Style: twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, slasher ...
Plot: arctic, expedition, cannibalism, starvation, insanity, violence, british navy, paranoia, leadership, animal attack, delusion, corpse ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1940s
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The Polar Bear King (1991)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen.
Style: fairy tale, exciting, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: curse, polar bear, bear, scandinavian culture, king, witchcraft, supernatural, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, fall in love, love affair, royal family ...
Time: middle ages
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Pororo the Little Penguin (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story: Pororo the Little Penguin is a computer-generated animated cartoon series created by Iconix Entertainment, SK Broadband, Ocon and EBS with the North Korean company Samchŏlli in Kaesŏng. Production began in 2002 and the program began airing in ...
Style: 3d animation, captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: polar bear, anthropomorphism, animals, anthropomorphic animal, animal protagonist, friendship, talking animals, animal life, group of friends, friends, talking car, crocodile ...
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 7.6
 64
Be-Be-Bears (2015)
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure
Country: Russia
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story: Bear buddies Bucky and Bjorn play games, go on far-out adventures and learn about wondrous new things together.
Style: 3d animation, entertaining, inspirational, sweet, funny
Audience: kids, preschoolers, toddlers
Plot: animal protagonist, polar bear, best friends, friendship, inventor, anthropomorphism, friend, invention, anthropomorphic bear, fox, optimism, cartoon bear ...
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 5.7
 6K
Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the ...
Style: light, sweet, feel good, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: animals, childhood, missing person, family relations, rescue, escapades, parents and children, mountain, survival, coming of age, nature, catastrophe ...
Time: 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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 5.8
 4K
Nova Zembla (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nova Zembla tells the gripping true story of the legendary failed mission of the late sixteenth century Dutch flotilla trying to find a trading route to Asia across the North Pole. The ship crew, who got stuck in the ice of Nova Zembla and had to ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
Plot: ship, sea voyage, adventurer, polar bear, isolation, dutch history, court, sea, medieval, sailing, explorer, bully ...
Time: 16th century
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 7.2
 18K
The Great Race (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. ...
Style: epic, funny, road movie, feel good, parody ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: car, swashbuckler, royalty, sword fight, mechanic, car racing, around the world, organ, drunkenness, duel, bar fight, cowboy ...
Time: 1920s, victorian era, edwardian era, 20th century, turn of the century ...
Place: alaska, paris france, new york, france, siberia ...
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Ao: The Last Hunter (2010)
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot: neanderthal, caveman, pregnancy, survival, nude, bear attack, forbidden love, fall in love, human nature, polar bear, wilderness, couples ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
Place: france, siberia, europe
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The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An epic story of survival and the power of true friendship, set against an Arctic backdrop. In this new adventure the little polar bear, Lars tries to help the singing penguin Caruso. But the evil polar bear Kalle wants to get rid Caruso. During ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, exciting, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot: bear, polar bear, friendship, friends, rescue, escapades, heroes, survival, north pole, friend, journey, travel ...
Place: ecuador
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The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear (2002)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, emotional, anime
Audience: family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot: young heroes, moral dilemma, missing child, family relations, youth, escapades, family life, parents and children, babies and infants, culture clash, death in the family, society ...
Time: 2000s
Place: greenland
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Polar Bear's Café (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Pushed by his mother to stop lazing around the house, a Panda searches for a part-time job but has troubling finding one to accommodate his laziness. He soon stumbles upon the Shirokuma Cafe, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a ...
Style: anime, entertaining, feel good, funny, humorous ...
Plot: cafe, polar bear, panda, bear, animals, anthropomorphic bear, anthropomorphic animal, anthropomorphism, humour, animal life, bear cub, penguins ...
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Norm of the North: Family Vacation (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Overwhelmed with his Kingly duties, Norm's crown is stolen and he embarks on a journey to find it in conjunction with repairing his family's relationship.
Style: disturbing, colourful, tense, touching
Audience: kids
Plot: polar bear, talking animals, fantasy world, heir to the throne, friendship, wilderness, animal life, destiny, wildlife, animals, nature, getting home ...
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 6.1
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We Baby Bears (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear – as their younger baby selves – traveling in a magical box to fantastic new worlds searching for a place to call home. Along the way, they meet new friends, learn a few lessons and discover that “home” can ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: bear, travel, polar bear, panda, animals, animal protagonist, anthropomorphic animal, land, exploration, fox, imagination, baby ...
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The Octonauts (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: The Octonauts is a British children's television series, produced by Silvergate Media for the BBC channel Cbeebies. The series is animated in Ireland by Brown Bag Films but uses British voice actors. The TV series is based on American-Canadian ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, clever, 3d animation, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot: partners, heroes, escapades, save the day, animal life, ocean, rescue, adventurer, friend, sea creature, technology, anthropomorphic animal ...
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Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: bear, lovers, small town, polar bear, snow, suspense, life is a bitch, small town life, relationships, male female relationship, recurring nightmare, blizzard ...
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 8.0
 509K
Zootopia (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Style: feel good, funny, allegory, witty, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: animals, disney, rabbit, stereotypes, talking animals, anthropomorphism, police, anthropomorphic animal, happy ending, female protagonist, lion, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
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Boonie Bears: A Mystical Winter (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Boonie Bears hunt for a strange but fascinating creature, who shows up on Pine Tree Mountain after a snowstorm that leaves everything frozen.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: bear, winter, animals, polar bear, magic, animal life, animal protagonist, forest, magical creature, showdown, brother brother relationship, talking animals ...
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Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Norm and his oldest son travel back to New York to receive the key to the city.
Audience: kids
Plot: polar bear, anthropomorphism, confusion, bear, coronation, animals, talking animals, ice hockey, disguise, father son relationship, bank robbery, prime minister ...
Place: new york
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Norm of the North (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, India, Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The stereoscopic 3D animated family film "Norm" tells the story of the titular polar bear and his three Arctic lemming buddies, who are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, ...
Style: humorous, funny, colourful, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: polar bear, friendship, escapades, disorder, animal life, fish out of water, life turned upside down, seal the animal, rescue, chase, mascot, stupid kid ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, alaska, usa, antarctica
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The Water Babies (1978)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.
Style: sad, semi serious, feel good, humorous, 2d animation
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: polar bear, ship, boat, ocean, orphan, walrus, fish, child in peril, righting the wronged, heroic mission, imaginary kingdom, false accusation ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, victorian era
Place: europe, yorkshire, england
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The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
Style: funny, adult animation, humorous, satirical, clever ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family outing
Plot: goofy hero, bomb, parents and children, save the day, irreverent, snow, adult humor, life philosophy, redemption, girl, suspense, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, oregon, seattle, usa
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The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from ...
Style: sincere, bleak, epic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: explorer, north pole, survival, zeppelin, aviation, nature, ice, exploration, polar bear, arctic, flying, island ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: sweden, europe, eastern europe
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, sad, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, adolescence, teenager, cancer, terminal illness, coming of age, dying, friendship, school, leukemia, teenage boy, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
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On Deadly Ground (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO, Michael Jennings, is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long ...
Style: entertaining, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, corruption, conspiracy, fight, environmental, oil, revenge, brutality, justice, vigilante, heroes, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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 7.1
 45K
Balto (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Style: sentimental, feel good, suspenseful, exciting, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, preschoolers
Plot: dog, courage, wolf, animals, rivalry, goose, daring rescue, dog sled, against the odds, wilderness, cartoon wolf, alienation ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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