Movies Like Zebras: Patterns in the Grass

If you liked Zebras: Patterns in the Grass (1991), a movie directed by Dereck Joubert, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Khumba (2013)
★ 6/10
A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich; they defeat the tyrannical…
2
Hatari! (1962)
★ 6.8/10
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
3
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
★ 6.5/10
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
4
Racing Stripes (2005)
★ 6/10
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the…
5
Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)
★ 7.7/10
An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.
6
Rat Race (2001)
★ 6.3/10
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against…
7
The Last Bus (2021)
★ 6.5/10
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses…
8
The Bucket List (2007)
★ 7.2/10
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend…
9
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
★ 7.5/10
Velma discovers she's inherited her great-great-uncle's cursed castle in Transylvania, Pennsylvania. The team decide to go there on a spooky adventure.
10
Blended (2014)
★ 6.9/10
Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when…
11
The Miracle Club (2023)
★ 6.3/10
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
12
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
★ 6.9/10
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
13
The Shift (2023)
★ 6.4/10
Following a tense encounter with a mysterious stranger with otherworldly powers, a man finds himself banished to a parallel, tyrannical Earth, where he fights to get back to the woman he loves.
14
Night Crossing (1982)
★ 6.1/10
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
15
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
★ 6.8/10
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin…
16
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)
★ 6.1/10
Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…
17
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
★ 6.4/10
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of…
18
The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more…
19
Legend of the Lost (1957)
★ 6.2/10
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
20
Ghost Elephants (2026)
★ 7.6/10
In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance…