Movies Like Dinosaurs: A Fun Filled Trip Back in Time
If you liked Dinosaurs: A Fun Filled Trip Back in Time (1987), a family and animation movie directed by Kelli Bixler and Ray Cioni, 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.
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The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyLittlefoot's grandfather narrates the story about the Lone Dinosaur that killed a Sharptooth. A giant monolith formed after the fight and if it's destroyed, bad luck will loom over the valley.
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The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyWhen the water supply to the Great Valley is blocked, Littlefoot and his friends must cooperate with a group of bullies to find the reason the cause.
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The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and familyThe Great Valley turns barren and herds of dinosaurs have to find another place to inhabit. Cera, Littlefoot and Petrie, all kids, leave to find food and get stranded on a lush unknown island.
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The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyWhen the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the young dinos and a new adult…
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The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and familyLittlefoot learns a series of important lessons following an incident that nearly costs his grandmother her life. Soon afterwards, three dinosaurs arrive claiming they have lost their way.
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The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and familyLittlefoot befriends with a mysterious, fun-loving dolphin-like creature named Mo, who is trapped in "new water" caused by heavy rain. The gang then goes on an adventure to the "big water" to bring Mo home.
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The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyAs the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose…
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Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and familyA relaxing spa getaway evolves into a prehistoric panic when Scooby-Doo and the gang uncover the horrible Phantosaur, an ancient legend come to life to protect hidden treasures buried in secret desert caves. But this…
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Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and familyAs Po looks for his lost action figures, the story of how the panda inadvertently helped create the Furious Five is told.
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The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyWhen Littlefoot's grandfather falls ill, the only way to cure him is with a flower from the forbidding land of the mists, which holds unexpected perils and danger.
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The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and familyOn a day known to the dinosaurs as "Treasure Day", Bron becomes stuck in the Mysterious Beyond. This event urges the young Longneck Littlefoot to take his friends on a quest to the Fire Mountain to save his father…
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Dino Time (2012)
★ 6/10Also animation and familyYoung daredevil Ernie, his sister Julia, and his best friend Max accidentally trip a time-machine into operation and find themselves transported back in time 65 million years, where they meet a T-rex named Tyra and her…
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PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and familyA royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.
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The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and familyLittlefoot and his friends return in another adventure. But this time, they aren't the smallest dinosaurs in the valley anymore.
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Extinct (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyOp and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals - flummels - accidentally time-travel from 1835 to modern-day Shanghai. There they discover traffic, trans fats, and worst of all, that flummels are now extinct. It's up to…
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The Loud House Movie (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and familyThe Loud family travel to Scotland and discover they are descendants of Scottish royalty as they move into their giant ancestral castle.
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Monster High: Great Scarrier Reef (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also family and animationJoin your favourite ghoulfriends in an all-new aquatic adventure! When the ghouls get pulled into the school pool, they're transported to the gore-geous underwater world of the Great Scarrier Reef. Lagoon realizes…
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
★ 7.6/10Also family and animationChristopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree.
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The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyLittlefoot and his pals set off in search of a "stone of cold fire" that fell from the night sky. Since he's the only one who has seen it though, nobody really believes him. Petrie's uncle Pterano offers support only…
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Balto III: Wings of Change (2004)
★ 6.7/10Also family and animationBalto and the other sled dogs are feeling dejected because the mail that used to be delivered by dogsled is now being delivered by airplanes. But when a mail plane crashes in the mountains, the dogs come to the rescue.