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1. The Amityville Horror (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror
Newlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud
Votes: 44,701 | Gross: $86.43M
2. Water for Elephants (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Jacob takes a job as an animal caretaker in a traveling circus. There he meets Marlena, a beautiful circus performer. Their shared compassion for a special elephant Rosie leads to love, but Marlena's cruel husband stands in their way.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider
Votes: 120,507 | Gross: $58.71M
3. Old Yeller (1957)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Jeff York
Votes: 15,204 | Gross: $21.91M
4. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
G | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?
Director: John Hough | Stars: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards
Votes: 11,384 | Gross: $20.00M
5. Cat's Eye (1985)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 28,230 | Gross: $13.09M
6. The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Jed, Ray Wise
Votes: 6,914 | Gross: $2.14M
7. The Outlaw (1943)
G | 116 min | Drama, Western
Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.
Directors: Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks | Stars: Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Russell, Walter Huston
Votes: 4,997
8. Larger Than Life (1996)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
A motivational speaker discovers that the inheritance his father left for him is in the form of an elephant.
Director: Howard Franklin | Stars: Bill Murray, Matthew McConaughey, Jerry Adler, Richard Alan Baker
Votes: 7,846 | Gross: $8.29M
9. A Shine of Rainbows (2009)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family
A lonely orphan's life is transformed by an extraordinary woman who teaches him to conquer grief and discover the magic in nature and himself.
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, John Bell, Jack Gleeson
Votes: 2,453
10. Maya (1966)
91 min | Adventure, Family
An American boy runs away in the Indian jungle after a fight with his father.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Clint Walker, Jay North, I.S. Johar, Sajid Khan
Votes: 418
11. Squeal (2021)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and making a slave on the farm.
Director: Aik Karapetian | Stars: Kevin Janssens, Laura Silina, Aigars Vilims, Normunds Griestins
Votes: 374
12. Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)
93 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Celia Milius, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Carlos Romero
Votes: 549
13. Savage Sam (1963)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin
Votes: 1,179 | Gross: $6.54M
14. An Elephant's Journey (2017)
PG | 87 min | Adventure
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
Director: Richard Boddington | Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, Sam Ashe Arnold, Tertius Meintjes, Hlomla Dandala
Votes: 639
15. Passion in the Desert (1997)
PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Drama
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments ... See full summary »
Director: Lavinia Currier | Stars: Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Paul M. Meston, Kenneth Collard
Votes: 922 | Gross: $0.25M
16. Wildfire (1986)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A young princess and her magic horse strive to regain her throne from an evil sorceress.
Stars: John Vernon, Georgi Irene, Bobby Jacoby, Susan Blu
Votes: 263
17. Runaway on Rogue River (1974 TV Movie)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Slim Pickens plays a trainer who is transporting circus elephants by truck when he gets a flat tire. After unloading the elephants to work on the truck, one simply wanders away. Hijinks ... See full synopsis »
Director: Larry Lansburgh | Stars: Willie Aames, Denis Arndt, Slim Pickens
Votes: 18
18. Chester, Yesterday's Horse (1973 TV Movie)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Family
It's about the faith of a fourteen-year-old boy in the family Belgian draft horse named Chester who was used at the local logging company. Chester was retired when modern equipment became ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Lansburgh | Stars: Russ McCubbin, Jerry Gatlin, Barbara Hale, Jeff Tyler
Votes: 10
20. Horses: The Story of Equus (2002)
40 min | Documentary, Short
This is the story of three horses born on the same night and charts their life stories. One horse is sent to a stud farm, but on the way it is involved in a car crash and escapes into the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Caulfield | Star: Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 46
21. Four Times Foiled (1920)
20 min | Short, Comedy
An uncle is cheated out of a heritage by his baby nephew. He and his conspirators plot to finish off the interloper.
Director: William Campbell | Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Ida Mae McKenzie, Arthur Nowell, Snooky
22.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Chester, Yesterday's Horse
(1973)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The story of a boy and the heavy draft horse Chester, who is redundant after machines have taken over the work he used to do.
Director: Larry Lansburgh | Stars: Russ McCubbin, Jerry Gatlin, Barbara Hale, Jeff Tyler
23.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Runaway on the Rogue River
(1974)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A trainer who is transporting circus elephants by truck when he gets a flat tire. After unloading the elephants to work on the truck, one simply wanders away.
Stars: Willie Aames, Denis Arndt, Slim Pickens
24.
Due South (1994–1999)
Episode:
Manhunt
(1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Benton comes to the help of his dad's best friend, an aging Mountie on the run from a dangerous escaped convict he arrested long ago.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Daniel Kash
Votes: 163
25.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Starfire
(1967)
TV-G | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A wild animal is by night stealing poultry and frightening the horse Starfire. The foreman thinks it is a cougar who has done this and wants to shoot it, but Lassie understands that the ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Merry Anders, Robert Bray, Les Brown Jr., Burt Douglas
26.
Centurions (1986)
Episode:
Cold Calculations
(1986)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family
The Centurions deliver the silver supply to Geneva after preventing Terror' attack. Amber takes images of Jake in his weapon system during the ambush. Later she succeeds in disguising herself as Jake and steals the silver.
Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg
Votes: 14
27.
Centurions (1986)
Episode:
Merlin
(1986)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family
Crystal, Ace, and Jake meet her history college professor at a fair. Suddenly they are attacked by Doc Terror. The professor reveals his discovery of the location of Merlin's tomb. He gets kidnapped by his assistant who works for Terror.
Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg
Votes: 15
28.
Centurions (1986)
Episode:
The Mummy's Curse
(1986)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family
Professor Sloan asks the Centurions to guard the tomb of the lost pharaoh. Jake discovers Sloan' connection with Terror and gets trapped in the pyramid helpless. Terror and Sloan bring the ancient statue warriors to live and attack Cairo.
Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg
Votes: 15
29.
Lupin the 3rd (1977–1980)
Episode:
Wolf, Run, Pig, Fall Down
(1980)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure
Famous gourmand and field mice scientist Salmon Whitney is also known as being the chairman of a Canadian diamond mining operation. Lupin is after his diamonds, which will go on auction in ... See full summary »
Director: Yasumi Mikamoto | Stars: Yasuo Yamada, Gorô Naya, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio Inoue
Votes: 25
30.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1976–1978)
Episode:
Tarzan and the Huntress
(1979)
23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Fana the Huntress has come to the Jungle with her white tiger Pasha to capture Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion, an orphan that Tarzan raised from a cub, but she is soon captured by the Bolgani.
Stars: Robert Ridgely, Jack Bannon, Erika Scheimer, Ted Cassidy
Votes: 13
31.
Anime san jushi (1987–1989)
Episode:
Miredii no fukushû
(1988)
28 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Milady de Winter plots to lure D'Artagnan into a death trap by using Constance as bait.
Directors: Tetsurô Amino, Kunihiko Yuyama | Stars: Noriko Hidaka, Fumi Hirano, Akira Kamiya, Hiroshi Masuoka
32.
Rude Tube (2008–2017)
Episode:
Cats & Dogs
(2014)
Comedy, Reality-TV
YouTube shows all kinds of animals, but the favourite pets species abound. Cats often show off their independence, initiative and individuality, whether alone or interacting, or just their ... See full summary »
Stars: Alex Zane, Emma Frain, Erica Triantafilo, Roger Triantafilo
33.
Run, Joe, Run (1974–1975)
Episode:
Homecoming
(1974)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Joe falls asleep in a barn where a little girl Judy find's him nurses him back to health but unfortunately her stepfather hates dogs and wants to get rid of him so Judy runs away with Joe.
Director: Joseph M. Ellis | Stars: Donald Briggs, Paul Frees, Kristy McNichol, E.J. Peaker
34.
Run, Joe, Run (1974–1975)
Episode:
Blind Girl
(1974)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Joe finds Amy, a blind girl, who's gotten lost in the forest where he not only protects her but leads her to safety and Amy in return saves him from harm.
Directors: Allen Baron, Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Paul Carr, Paul Frees, Larry Pennell, Pat Priest