Movies Like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City
If you liked Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City (2011), a animation and family movie directed by Craig Bartlett and Terry Izumi, 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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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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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and familyAn epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
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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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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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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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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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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Dinosaur (2000)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and familyAn orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and familyCaptain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to the "Middle Future" in order to grant the wishes of children in New…
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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.
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Monster High: Friday Night Frights (2012)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and familyAfter Monster High’s roller skating team is defeated at the Skulltimate Roller Maze tournament, the ghouls team up to face an all-boys league, with the hope of winning back the school crest and restoring school spirit.
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The Land Before Time (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also family and animationAn orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs…
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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 Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and familyThe fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum brothers Crash & Eddie as they head off on a new adventure into Buck's home: The Dinosaur World.