Highest-Rated Movies about 'Apes', Sort by Popularity

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Missing Link (1988), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Apes movies.

#1. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Storyline: A shipping disaster in the nineteenth 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. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Plot Keywords: apes, orphan, explorer, scientist, grandfather, earl, emotional ...

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#2. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Storyline: Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Cornelius and Zira flee back through time to 20th Century Los Angeles, where they face fear and persecution similar to what Taylor and Brent suffered in the future, and discover the origins of the stream of events that will shape their world.

Plot Keywords: apes, scientist, astronaut, dark, suspenseful, los angeles, prison ...

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#3. Missing Link (1988)

Storyline: A million years ago in Africa, the last of the Australopithecines is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steppes, deserts and mountains until he reaches the coast. But there are already humans, there.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Plot Keywords: human, animal, apes, creature, bleak, eerie, offbeat ...

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#4. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Storyline: Cornelius and Zira's son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. Dogs and cats have been wiped out by a plague and now apes are household pets that are treated like slaves. Caesar has the intelligence to fight this oppression.

Plot Keywords: apes, human, government official, fascinating, intense, rousing, circus ...

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#5. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Storyline: Brent is an American astronaut, part of a team sent to locate missing fellow American astronaut, George Taylor. Following Taylor's known flight trajectory, the search and rescue team crash lands on an unknown planet much like Earth in the year 3955, with Brent being the only survivor of the team. What Brent initially does not know, much like Taylor didn't initially know when he landed here before Brent, is that he has landed back on Earth in the future, in the vicinity of what was New York City. Brent finds evidence that Taylor has been on the planet. In Brent's search for Taylor, he finds that the planet is run by a barbaric race of English speaking apes, whose mission is in part to annihilate the human race. Brent eventually locates some of those humans, who communicate telepathically and who live underground to prevent detection by the apes. These humans, who are in their own way as barbaric as the apes, want in turn to protect their species. Brent has to figure out a way to save ...

Plot Keywords: apes, astronaut, survivor, mutant, monster, campy, dark ...

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