My Life as a Dog (1985), Sounder (1972), Old Yeller (1957), Village of the Damned (1960), The Incredible Journey (1963), Lassie Come Home (1943), My Dog Skip (2000), Max (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dog Actor movies.
Storyline: Ingemar lives with his brother and his terminally ill mother. He may have a rough time, but not as bad as Laika - the russian dog sent into space... He gets sent away to stay with relations for the summer. While there, he meets various strange characters, giving him experiences that will affect him for the rest of his life.
Plot Keywords: nude model, 1950s, cult film, urination, nudity, male nudity, sex ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The journey becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey, he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.—Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family relationships, wound, traveling, social injustice, shootout, sheriff ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860's. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving raccoons, snakes, bears, wild hogs and wolves, Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy's life.
Plot Keywords: dog, rabies, ranch, based on novel, coming of age, death of pet, death of title character ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don't want to do.
Plot Keywords: village, small town, extrasensory perception, forced suicide, psychic power, telepathy, evil child ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Plot Keywords: dog actor, journey, family relationships, human animal relationship, wilderness, dog movie, cat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hard times came for Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog to the rich Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce). However, Lassie (Pal), the dog, is unwilling to leave the young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) and sets out on the long and dangerous journey in order to rejoin him.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: yorkshire, scotland, journey, dog, campfire, animal name in title, unemployment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
Plot Keywords: mississippi, dog, 1940s, based on novel, childhood, coming of age, invitation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Kyle Wincott is killed in the war, his war dog, Max, suffers from stress. Max is to be put down because he has trouble listening to anyone else, until he meets Justin, Kyle's brother. Justin adopts and saves Max. Then both of their lives will never be the same again.
Plot Keywords: dog, dog movie, dog actor, friendship, u.s. marine, afghanistan, animal character name as title ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet named Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he can herd sheep too. But will the other farm animals, including Fly's jealous husband, Rex, accept a pig who doesn't conform to the farm's social hierarchy?
Plot Keywords: farmer, one word title, talking animal, christmas eve, affection, famous score, orphan ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack London's immortal tale of courage and survival comes to life amid the breathtaking beauty of the great Alaskan frontier. Ethan Hawke stars as a young man trying to fulfill his father's dying wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon valley. His incredible Journey begins when he meets a veteran gold miner who guides young Jack to his father's claim. Along the way, Jack discovers a kindred spirit who will change his life forever a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang. From the taming of a wolf, to the taming of the wild, he must find the courage to conquer his fears and become a man in this outdoor adventure.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, toothbrush, trap, wolf, bad guy, cabin, dog bite ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a man dies in a car crash, he is reincarnated as a dog and attempts to reconnect with his family.
Plot Keywords: reincarnation, pie, partner, monkey, junkyard, homelessness, grief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her late son. Punctuated with song-filled interludes.—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: war widow, barking, dog actor, singing, singer, rural setting, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Laddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage ?
Plot Keywords: norway, dog, world war two, airplane, airplane pilot, heil hitler, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Angus McCormick adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while traveling along the coast of British Columbia with his father, John, he and Yellow become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. John and his wife, Katherine, relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by John in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by intelligent Yellow, tries to attract rescuers.—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
Plot Keywords: dog movie, rescue, stray dog, survival, dog, boy dog relationship, father son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A father takes his two young sons to see Red Dog. After the movie he describes to his oldest son how Red Dog is based on the story of a dog he had as a boy - Blue. From this we see the period in the man's childhood when Blue was his dog, their trials and tribulations living on a farm in a remote part of Western Australia.—grantss
Plot Keywords: lost dog, pickup truck, lizard, record player, cook, umbrella, ping pong ...
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