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

Life of Pi (2012), We Bought a Zoo (2011), The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Turtle Diary (1985), Hannibal Brooks (1969), Zoology (2016), The Reformer and the Redhead (1950), Good Luck Chuck (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Zookeeper movies.

#1. Life of Pi (2012)

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 ...

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#2. We Bought a Zoo (2011)

Storyline: Benjamin has lost his wife. In a bid to start his life over, he purchases a large house that has a zoo. This is 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 head keeper, Kelly, and the rest of the zoo staff. But, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble. The staff must get the zoo back to its former glory, pass a zoo inspection, and get it back open to the public.

Plot Keywords: journalist, son, daughter, zookeeper, widower, pretty woman, amusing ...

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#3. The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

Storyline: War brews over Warsaw in 1939, and while life is still running its course, the Germans are slowly beginning to make their presence felt, with Hitler secretly preparing for the German invasion of Poland. Under those circumstances, the young couple of Jan and Antonina Zabinski continue their daily routine as owners and keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, but soon, as German Luftwaffe's Stukas hammer the Polish capital, their life's work together with the city, will turn to ashes. However, with the zoo liquidated for the war effort and many of its animals tragically perished, what was once an animals' zoo, will now serve as a sanctuary where Antonina, the humanist veterinarian, and Jan can hide the persecuted Polish Jews in plain sight until safe houses are found. That was Jan and Antonina's formidable, yet perilous plan, who regardless of the consequences, refused to wither before the Nazi menace, took matters into their own hands and sheltered 300 Jews under the Germans' noses.

Plot Keywords: zookeeper, wife, polish man, nazi, zoologist, fugitive, emotional ...

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#4. Turtle Diary (1985)

Storyline: Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.—Kathy Li

Plot Keywords: author, woman, bookseller, man, zookeeper, turtle, charming ...

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#5. Hannibal Brooks (1969)

Storyline: In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a prison train to Germany.On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who's obsessed with escaping.Brooks tries to temper Packy and reminds him that escaped prisoners are shot if recaptured.Packy is insistent despite Brooks' warnings. On arrival at the POW camp Stalag 7A, Brooks and other fellow POWs are sent to work at the local Munich zoo, to care for the animals.Brooks is assigned to care for Lucy the elephant.The German caretaker in charge of Lucy is asked to train Brooks in his new job.At first, Brooks hates the assignment, considering the large amount of animal waste to be cleaned daily.However, he eventually becomes attached to Lucy the elephant.After a devastating bombing raid that kills some of the animals and zoo staff it is decided to evacuate the surviving animals.Lucy is scheduled to be transported by train to Innsbruck, Austria.On the departure day, the train is commandeered by a moody SS Colonel, for his troops.The colonel jokes that Brooks can walk the elephant all the way to Austria, if he wishes.The joke gives Brooks the idea of walking the elephant to Austria, with two armed guards and a Polish maid as cook.The Munich Zoo director, worried for Lucy's safety, agrees to evacuate her and send her to Austria on foot.Two soldiers provide the armed guard.One is Willy,a friendly Austrian soldier, and the other is Kurt,a brutal German soldier who gets drunk often, insults everyone and threatens to shoot the elephant.The group leaves Munich on a sunny day but the voyage to Austria isn't a promenade in the park when they start running into trouble.—nufs68

Plot Keywords: prisoner of war, soldier, englishman, elephant, escaped convict, zookeeper, charming ...

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#6. Zoology (2016)

Storyline: Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day... she grows a tail. Embarrassed at first, Natasha decides to go further with the transformation and use it as an opportunity to redefine herself as a person and as a woman. With the new "accessory" she gets access to the life that she has never experienced before - she starts a relationship with a man, who finds her attractive, she goes out and allows herself to be foolish for the first time in her life. But her second puberty eventually comes to an end and Natasha has to make a choice between reality and illusion.—New Europe Film Sales

Plot Keywords: mother, middle-aged woman, zookeeper, somber, brooding, moving, sultry ...

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#7. The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)

Storyline: Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering local political corruption and dealing with a lion that's escaped from the zoo, the two manage to fall in love.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

Plot Keywords: attorney, zookeeper, daughter, commodore, niece, reporter, amusing ...

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#8. Good Luck Chuck (2007)

Storyline: Early thirty-something dentist Dr. Charlie Logan has never experienced true love, despite having had a number of girlfriends over the years. After an announcement by one of his ex-girlfriends as such at her wedding, Charlie gets a reputation as being a good luck charm. Every woman he has slept with has met and married her dream man immediately following. He is encouraged to exploit this reputation by his long time best friend, Dr. Stu Klaminsky, a sex obsessed, sex starved schlub who became a plastic surgeon just so that he could masturbate over the sight of women's breasts. Charlie doesn't want to be solely a stepping stone for women, which is how they end up treating him once he gains this reputation as a lucky charm, but rather one's true love. He believes the woman of his dreams is accident-prone Cam Wexler, who works as the penguin caretaker at the aquarium. Cam initially doesn't want to date Charlie because of his reputation as a one-night stand type of guy. Charlie in turn ...

Plot Keywords: dentist, ex-girlfriend, zookeeper, dream girl, best friend, ladies' man, madcap ...

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#10. Zoombies 2 (2019)

Storyline: As if one zombie-animal outbreak in Zoombies (2016) wasn't enough, humankind now faces yet another case of extreme animal zombification. This time--as a group of unsuspecting poachers find themselves in the mouth of madness, amid ravenous undead predators--the game ranger of a devastated wildlife preserve forms an uneasy alliance with the illegal hunters to stop the spreading of the virus. Now, the rabid four-legged zombies are out of the cage, and they crave human flesh; however, what started the madness?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: zombie, animal, zookeeper, poacher, scientist, bleak, campy ...

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#11. Zoombies (2016)

Storyline: Not quite ready to open its gates to the public, the endangered-species-oriented Eden Wildlife Zoo receives a group of college students who apply for a zoology internship. But, an ill monkey will soon lead to virulent contamination, as the deadly disease that starts to infect the animals one by one, is turning them into ravenous undead predators. Now, it's up to Dr Ellen Rogers and her skeleton crew to fight the virus and the zoo's zombified inhabitants before they escape. Are humans next in the long list of endangered species?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: animal, zookeeper, zombie, lion, brutal, suspenseful, shocking ...

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