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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.

  1. 1The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock

    The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    Littlefoot'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.

  2. 2The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving

    The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    When 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.

  3. 3The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island

    The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)

    ★ 6.3/10Also animation and family

    The 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.

  4. 4The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze

    The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    When 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…

  5. 5The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends

    The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also animation and family

    Littlefoot 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.

  6. 6The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water

    The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)

    ★ 6.3/10Also animation and family

    Littlefoot 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.

  7. 7The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers

    The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    As 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…

  8. 8Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur

    Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)

    ★ 7.7/10Also animation and family

    A 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…

  9. 9Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll

    Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10Also animation and family

    As Po looks for his lost action figures, the story of how the panda inadvertently helped create the Furious Five is told.

  10. 10The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists

    The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    When 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.

  11. 11The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave

    The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also animation and family

    On 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…

  12. 12Dino Time

    Dino Time (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also animation and family

    Young 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…

  13. 13PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue

    PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10Also animation and family

    A 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.

  14. 14The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses

    The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)

    ★ 6.3/10Also animation and family

    Littlefoot and his friends return in another adventure. But this time, they aren't the smallest dinosaurs in the valley anymore.

  15. 15Extinct

    Extinct (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    Op 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…

  16. 16The Loud House Movie

    The Loud House Movie (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also animation and family

    The Loud family travel to Scotland and discover they are descendants of Scottish royalty as they move into their giant ancestral castle.

  17. 17Monster High: Great Scarrier Reef

    Monster High: Great Scarrier Reef (2016)

    ★ 7.7/10Also family and animation

    Join 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…

  18. 18Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

    Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)

    ★ 7.6/10Also family and animation

    Christopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree.

  19. 19The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire

    The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also animation and family

    Littlefoot 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…

  20. 20Balto III: Wings of Change

    Balto III: Wings of Change (2004)

    ★ 6.7/10Also family and animation

    Balto 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.

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