Movies Like Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove
If you liked Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010), a family and adventure movie directed by Will Geiger, 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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Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also family and adventureWilly the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On…
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Free Willy (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also family and adventureWhen maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing…
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A Dog's Journey (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also family and adventureA dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.
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Iron Will (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and familyWhen Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for…
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Dog Gone (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also family and adventureWhen his beloved dog goes missing, a young man embarks on an incredible search with his parents to find him and give him life-saving medication.
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The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure 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 III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure 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 family and adventureThe 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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Benji (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and familyTwo school kids strike up a friendship with an orphaned puppy named Benji. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped by robbers who are in over their heads, Benji and his scruffy sidekick come to the rescue.
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Mighty Joe Young (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and familyAs a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic…
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The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also family and adventureLittlefoot and his friends return in another adventure. But this time, they aren't the smallest dinosaurs in the valley anymore.
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The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and dramaLittlefoot 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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The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also family and adventureLittlefoot 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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Storm Boy (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and adventureStorm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close bond with a pelican, Mr. Percival, his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
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Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also family and dramaThe team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
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A Dog's Purpose (2017)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure and familyA dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
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The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure 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 VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure 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 Jungle Book (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and familyAfter a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli, a man-cub fostered by wolves, is forced to flee the jungle, and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera, and the free-spirited…
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My Penguin Friend (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also family and adventureA lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.