Buck (2011), Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West (2014), Life of Pi (2012), Kedi (2016), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), The Field (1990), Tarzan (1999), April and the Extraordinary World (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Human-animal Friendship movies.
Storyline: Promoting praise and cooperation rather than fear and punishment, Buck Brannaman becomes one of the most well-respected horse trainers in the industry.
Plot Keywords: cowboy, horse, horse trainer, father, brother, endearing, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Popovich is an ex circus legend struggling as a street performer in the wild west streets of Las Vegas. When his junkyard home full of stray animals gets into trouble, he and his animal buddies use all their circus tricks to save it.
Plot Keywords: performance artist, street performer, animal, talking animal, airy, amusing, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Richard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.
Plot Keywords: young man, zookeeper, mother, tiger, young woman, spectacular, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the city of Istanbul, there are more than just human inhabitants. There are also the stray domestic cats of the city who live free but have complicated relationships with the people themselves. This film follows a selection of individual cats as they live their own lives in Istanbul with their own distinctive personalities. However, with this vibrant population, is the reality of an ancient metropolis changing with the times that may have less of a place for them.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: turkish man, turkish woman, cat, owner, kitten, family member, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Plot Keywords: cat, stray animal, musician, street performer, love interest, drug addict, singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. But while no one in the village would dare bid against him, an American with deep pockets decides that he needs the field to build a highway. The Bull and his son decide to convince the American to give up bidding on the field, but things go horribly wrong.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: farmer, son, american, priest, idiot, somber, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
Plot Keywords: tarzan, elephant, beautiful woman, professor, hunter, gorilla, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1941, the world is radically different from the one we know from history books. Geopolitics has developed strangely: Napoleon V rules France and, for the last 70 years, scholars have been mysteriously disappearing, depriving mankind of their inventions. Without radio, television, electricity, aviation, and the combustion engine, the world is mired in outdated technology, dozing in the previous century's knowhow dominated by coal and steam. In this bizarre universe, Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, Darwin (Philippe Katerine), her talking cat, Pops (Jean Rochefort), her grandfather, and Julius (Marc-André Grondin), a young scoundrel and police informer, go off in search of Avril's parents, two of the missing scientists. The quartet will face many dangers and mysteries in this strange new Rigged World.—Polly_Kat
Plot Keywords: teen girl, cat, missing person, parent, amusing, charming, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.
Plot Keywords: researcher, gorilla, scientist, charming, engaging, house, trailer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, horse, emotional, heartwarming, rousing, uplifting, american midwest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the outbreak of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse 'Joey' is sold to the Cavalry by his Father. After being sent to France, in a bid to survive, Joey has an unexpected journey across war torn Europe. Albert enlists in the British Army, and is wounded during the Battle of the Somme. Whilst recovering in Hospital, he learns of a Horse, found in no mans land.
Plot Keywords: farm boy, horse, father, british officer, german soldier, incredible, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young Scottish girl's cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious "witch" who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.—Jeff Hole <jeffhole@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: young girl, veterinarian, cat, free spirit, assistant, healer, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this true story about Fossey's study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop the decimation of the endangered apes.
Plot Keywords: naturalist, gorilla, poacher, photographer, inspiring, intense, kentucky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his parents' death, Jacob Jankowski is left penniless and homeless. Events lead him to joining the circus as their vet, working under their unstable boss August whose violent tendencies give everyone reason to be cautious around him, including his beautiful and quiet wife Marlena, whom August is very possessive of and who Jacob finds himself soon falling in love with.
Plot Keywords: circus performer, caretaker, elephant, husband, wife, animal trainer, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.
Plot Keywords: nerd, dog, science teacher, father, mother, girl, quirky ...
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