Zoo movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant zoo movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, feel good, melancholic, humorous, light and entertaining films and TV shows about / with zoo, animal, friendship, children, zookeeper, family relations, adaptation, mentor, catastrophe and storytelling plots mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as zoo: Zookeeper (2011), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Zoo (2017), The Game (1997), The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Little Miss Dolittle (2018), Life of Pi (2012), Postcards from the Zoo (2012), Gaspard at the Wedding (2017), Day of the Tiger (2023).
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69K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A comedy about a zookeeper who might be great with animals, but he doesn't know anything about the birds and the bees. The man can't find love, so he decides to quit his job at the zoo, but his animal friends try to stop him and teach him ...
Style:
funny, sweet, not serious, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
zoo, fantasy world, animal, marriage proposal, anthropomorphism, talking animal, veterinarian, zookeeper, friendship, wooing, love and romance, goofy hero ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 2010s, year 2005, year 2010 ...
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style:
touching, feel good, romantic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, date night ...
Plot:
animal, single father, happy ending, zoo, coping, kids and family, starting over, beautiful scenery, tiger, parenthood, countryside, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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2K
Genre: Adventure, Family, History, War
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Style:
costume drama, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
world war two, zoo, elephant, animal, animal rescue, courage, zookeeper, bombing, saving a life, friends, friendship, animal human communication ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, belfast
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466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style:
factual, costume drama, rough, sad, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, marriage, hiding place, shoah, nazi occupied poland, women, zookeeper, world war, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An eleven year old girl can talk to animals. When a thief causes trouble in the local zoo, she comes to the rescue.
Style:
feel good, captivating, funny, colorful, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
animal human communication, zoo, talking animal, zookeeper, supernatural ability, family relations, animal, travel, imaginary, music, children, compassion ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
zoo, love and romance, magic, fall in love, amusement park, youth, animal training, wizards and magicians, bittersweet, coming of age, loneliness, abandonment ...
Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he ...
Style:
atmospheric, entertaining, romantic, light, humorous ...
Plot:
wedding, zoo, male pubic hair, dysfunctional family, tiger, marriage, wedding planning, family relations, chance meeting, family business, promiscuity, giraffe ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Greece
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
31-year-old Vera is a vet in a small-town zoo veterinarian in Transylvania. After losing her new-born baby, she becomes obsessed with giving him the proper Eastern Orthodox burial rituals, spends more time at work and subsequently drifts apart from ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
tiger, zoo, veterinarian, emotional breakdown, escape, motherhood, mourning, grief, zookeeper, animal, workplace, workplace situations ...
Place:
transylvania, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a strange virus quickly spreads through a safari park and turns all the zoo animals undead, those left in the park must stop the creatures before they escape and zombify the whole city.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, action adventure, crying ...
Plot:
killer animal, virus, zombie, zombie attack, animal attack, gorilla, zoo, save the day, bird attack, monster, undead, creature feature ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
68
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends...
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, period piece, surreal
Plot:
zoo, friendship, elephant, child protagonist, animal, children, innocence, escape, coming of age, youth, father daughter relationship, imagination ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
harry potter, magic, friendship, witch, fantasy world, wizard, witchcraft, magical, best friend, chosen one, boarding school, children ...
Time:
year 1981, year 1991, year 2001, year 1992, 80s ...
Place:
england, london, yorkshire, europe
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
incest, animal attack, prostitute, human sacrifice, brother sister relationship, sexual awakening, transformation, femme fatale, voyeurism, brother sister incest, leopard, zoo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, disturbing, erotic, independent film ...
Plot:
death, zoo, car accident, amputation, bestiality, storytelling, surrealism, obsession, absurdism, grief, amputee, zoologist ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
tokyo, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.
Style:
feel good, captivating, sincere, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, family outing
Plot:
elephant, zoo, friendship, teamwork, children, escapades, human animal relationship, schoolboy, satire, animal human communication, save the day, friends ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Tierärztin Dr. Mertens is a German television series.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
zoo, family relations, nature, veterinarian, human animal relationship, father daughter relationship, killing an animal, wildlife, animal human communication, workplace, workplace situations, animal ...
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Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Growing up at a zoo, young ballet dancer Sophie always loved animals - but none as much as her pet elephant Sheba. When her parents are forced to sell Sheba to a travelling circus, Sophie has no choice but to runaway and join him on the road to get ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, circus, family relations, teenage love, performer's life, elephant, zoo, ballet, girl, child, wild animal, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, black comedy, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, zoo, greed, father son relationship, monty python, moral ambiguity, danger, obnoxious boss, workplace intrigue, businessman, sarcasm, marketing ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, seattle
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Genre: Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
giraffe, human animal relationship, friendship, zoo, school, plan, best friend, children, heartwarming, escapades, animal human communication, friends ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
190K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The origin of Willy Wonka and his adventures into Loompa Land
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot:
chocolate, eccentricity, genius, giraffe, dancing, laundry, top hat, balloon, magician, abuse of power, contract, castle ...
Time:
20th century
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style:
gothic, scary, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, monster, goth, dangerous attraction, dracula, victorian england, legends and myths, bloodsucker, death, blood, vampire bite ...
Time:
middle ages, victorian era, 90s, 15th century, 1800s ...
Place:
london, transylvania, england, britain, ottoman empire ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather.
Style:
light hearted, feel good, family comedy, educational
Audience:
kids
Plot:
zoo, twins, children, animal, grandfather, siblings, brothers, friendship, bonding, veterinarian, vacation, slice of life ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of Badr, a young veterinarian, and his brother in law ‘Essaam, their desire for success and the seeming good fortune they encounter. Their life turned upside down when they get news that they have inherited a Zoo from Badr's uncle ...
Style:
feel good, intercultural, light hearted, suspense
Audience:
kids
Plot:
zoo, wildlife, inheritance, safari, family business, heartwarming, perseverance, fish out of water, conservation, entrepreneurship, stepmother, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south africa, africa
Is relevant?
308
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A deranged animal lover unleashes his toothy pets on anyone who stands in his way.
Style:
psychotronic, creepy, psychological thriller, black and white, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zoo, obsession, manipulation, domestic abuse, psychopath, vengeance, sadism, animal training, claustrophobia, lion, betrayal, corruption ...
Time:
year 1963
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle — a singing crocodile who loves baths, caviar and great music — living in the ...
Style:
sincere, light, captivating, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
kids
Plot:
crocodile, animal, neighbor, zoo, child, life, gain trust, animal that acts human, family relations, animals family, singing, anthropomorphic animal ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
penguins, bird, pets, children, kids and family, animal, animal life, family relations, animal training, parents and children, beautiful scenery, silly humor ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 80s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place:
new york, madagascar, usa, manhattan new york city, antarctica ...
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41K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman ...
Style:
hilarious, humorous, feel good, melancholic, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
father son relationship, childhood, fish out of water, bachelor, friendship between men, business partner, zoo, gorilla, father daughter relationship, family relations, competition, best friend ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, tokyo, north america, vermont, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Heartbroken and intoxicated, Rejimon stumbles into a lion's den at the zoo. Haridas, a guard, has to forcefully dive in to rescue him, earning media attention for the blunder.
Style:
melancholic, tense, absurd, dark comedy, surreal
Plot:
zoo, lion, media frenzy, rescue, guilt, heartbreak, public humiliation, male protagonist, emotional breakdown, character study, shame, redemption ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Animal Atlas is produced by Longneedle Entertainment, LLC, a subsidiary of Bellum Entertainment Group. Animal Atlas is a 30-minute educational wildlife show that "takes children on a tour of discovery, uncovering the secrets of how animals live ...
Style:
educational, serious, realistic, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
nature, wilderness, conservation, zoo, wildlife, planet, pets, children, animal, animals family, kangaroo, hyena ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, asia
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