Movies Like Man's Best Friend
If you liked Man's Best Friend (1941), a animation movie directed by Walter Lantz, 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

Dog Trouble (1942)
★ 7.1/10Also animationTom's chasing Jerry when he runs right into a sleeping dog and the two of them must work together to fend him off.
- 2

Quiet Please! (1945)
★ 7.3/10Also animationThe family dog warns Tom not to make any noise so he can take a nap. Jerry hears this and immediately devises plans to ensure that the dog's nap will be interrupted.
- 3

Cat Napping (1951)
★ 7/10Also animationTom has plans to take a nice long nap in a hammock, but Jerry has gotten there first and is snoozing happily, so the two fight it out to see who gets to sleep there.
- 4

Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
★ 7.2/10Also animationBugs is given a room for the night at the castle of Count Bloodcount in Transylvania.
- 5

Koati (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also animationThree unlikely heroes - Nachi, a free-spirited coati; Xochi, a fearless monarch butterfly and Pako, a hyperactive glass frog - embark on an adventure to stop wicked coral snake Zaina from destroying their rain forest…
- 6

Snoopy Presents: It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also animationCharlie Brown is determined to win the big baseball game. But things turn into a fiasco right before the matchup, when Sally bonds with a little flower on the pitcher's mound and vows to protect it at all costs.
- 7

Ploey: You Never Fly Alone (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also animationA plover chick has not learned to fly when his family migrates in the fall. He must survive the arctic winter, vicious enemies and himself in order to be reunited with his beloved one next spring.
- 8

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also animationExiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
- 9

Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also animationWhen Snoopy's beloved doghouse goes missing, he tries to track it down, and learns what makes a house feel like home.
- 10

PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also animationA 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.
- 11

Fixed (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also animationAfter learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.
- 12

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also animationWhen Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and…
- 13

Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also animationA brave young animal explorer teams up with two trusty friends to find a powerful artifact before his greedy uncle can get his paws on it.
- 14

Trouble (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also animationA pampered dog named Trouble must learn to live in the real world while trying to escape from his former owner's greedy children and must learn how to survive on the big-city streets.
- 15

Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also animationAn animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.
- 16

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also animationPo and the Furious Five uncover the legend of three of kung fu's greatest heroes: Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.
- 17

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also animationOrdered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.
- 18

Day & Night (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also animationWhen Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they…
- 19

- 20

My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also animationEquestria's divided. But a bright-eyed hero believes Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns should be pals — and, hoof to heart, she’s determined to prove it.