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Movies that feel like Dinosaur (2000)

If you loved Dinosaur, the closest films we have are The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), Cars 3 (2017) and Bridge to Terabithia (2007). All three share Dinosaur's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Eric Leightonepiccontemplativewarmcozy
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If Dinosaur hit the spot, these will too

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The Journey of Natty Gann
1985 · dir. Jeremy Kagan
🍅 91%7adventure · family · drama

Epic and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

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Cars 3
2017 · dir. Brian Fee
🍅 70%6.7animation · drama · family

Common ground: villain

Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen finds himself pushed to the brink—and suddenly, the champion who once ruled the track is fighting just to stay in the race. With his career hanging in the balance, McQueen must turn to an ambitious young race technician with a plan of her own, draw strength from the legacy of the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and risk everything on one last shot at glory.

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Bridge to Terabithia
2007 · dir. Gábor Csupó
🍅 85%7.2adventure · drama · family

Both land warmth and comfort at once

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.

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The Cat Returns
2002 · dir. Hiroyuki Morita
🍅 88%7.1adventure · fantasy · animation

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Dinosaur does

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

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Help! I'm a Fish
2000 · dir. Michael Hegner
6adventure · animation · comedy

Animation with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Dinosaur does

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

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The Call of the Wild
2020 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 62%6.7adventure · family · drama

Both lean on warmth more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002 · dir. Kelly Asbury
🍅 69%7.2animation · adventure · family

One thread runs through both: villain

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 46%6.9animation · comedy · family

Both are working the same pair: prehistory, dinosaur

The difference: Missing the stillness of Dinosaur

Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

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An American Tail
1986 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 76%6.9adventure · animation · comedy

Cozy family in both cases

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 81%6.5family · adventure · fantasy

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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The White Balloon
1995 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 83%7.6drama · family

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: None of the scale Dinosaur is built on

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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Journey to the Beginning of Time
1955 · dir. Karel Zeman
7.1adventure · fantasy · family

Both are built on the same subject: prehistoric creature

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

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