Movies like We Bought a Zoo
If We Bought a Zoo's mix of countryside, rain and zoo stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what We Bought a Zoo's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002 · Directed by Kelly Asbury · 83 min7.7
Why you'll like itWith Matt Damon · Shares: animals · Also family and drama
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 · Directed by Eric Darnell · 93 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: zoo, animals · Also family and comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte…
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Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Directed by Simon J. Smith · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: zoo, animals · Also family and comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008 · Directed by Eric Darnell · 89 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: zoo, animals · Also comedy and family
Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African…
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Back to the Outback
2021 · Directed by Clare Knight · 92 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: zoo · Also family and comedy
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in…
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Her
2013 · Directed by Spike Jonze · 126 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Scarlett Johansson · Shares: love · From the same decade (2010s)
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need.
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Wonder Park
2019 · Directed by Dylan Brown · 86 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: animals · Also comedy and family · From the same decade (2010s)
A young girl named June with a big imagination makes an incredible discovery -- the amusement park of her dreams has come to life. Filled with the world's wildest rides operated by fun-loving animals, the excitement…
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Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 · Directed by Wayne Wang · 106 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Elle Fanning · Also family and comedy
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie.
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Bambi II
2006 · Directed by Brian Pimental · 72 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: animals · Also drama and family
Return to the forest and join Bambi as he reunites with his father, The Great Prince, who must now raise the young fawn on his own. But in the adventure of a lifetime, the proud parent discovers there is much he can…
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Animal Crackers
2018 · Directed by Tony Bancroft · 104 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: animals · Also comedy and family · From the same decade (2010s)
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
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Ooops! Noah Is Gone...
2015 · Directed by Toby Genkel · 85 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: animals · Also comedy and family · From the same decade (2010s)
It's the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Dave and his son Finny, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built to save all animals. But as it turns out, Nestrians aren't allowed.