Movies Like A Dog's Way Home
If you liked A Dog's Way Home (2019), a drama and adventure movie directed by Charles Martin Smith, 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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Max (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and dramaA dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.
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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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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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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and dramaTeenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize…
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The Call of the Wild (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also adventure and familyBuck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As…
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Old Yeller (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and dramaYoung Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the…
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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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Lassie (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and dramaA family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
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Eight Below (2006)
★ 7/10Also adventure and dramaIn the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be…
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Lassie (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also family and adventureOn their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the trucker's now-abandoned collie on the…
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Arthur the King (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also adventure and dramaOver the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of…
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and dramaWhen a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on…
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White Fang (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and dramaJack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
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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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Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and dramaWhen twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a…
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The Call of the Wild (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and dramaJohn Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles…
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The Yearling (1946)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and familyJody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
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The Search for Santa Paws (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also family and adventureWhen Santa and his new best friend, Paws, discover that the boys and girls of the world have lost the spirit of the season, they take a trip to New York City. But after Santa loses his memory, it's up to Paws, a…
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Shiloh (1996)
★ 6/10Also drama and familyAn abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog…
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Once Upon a Forest (1993)
★ 6.5/10Also family and adventureA young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men.