Best movies like A Bug's Life
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Plot Summary:
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: computer animated, humorous, touching, 3d animation, feel good, witty, fairy tale, entertaining, anime, light
Best tv shows and movies like A Bug's Life (1998):
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Captain 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 York city. They are to meet Dr. Bleeb of the Museum of Natural History, but get sidetracked with their new children friends and run into the Captain's evil brother, Professor.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, retro, sweet, cult classic, independent film, smart
Similar in 76%
The Rescuers (1977)
Plot Summary:
What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss Bianca respond to orphan Penny's call for help. The two mice search for clues with the help of an old cat named Rufus.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, colorful, semi serious, crying, sweet, cute, inspirational, retro
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The Ant Bully (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: computer animated, humorous, light, exciting, feel good, 3d animation, touching, semi serious, sweet, scenic
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Antz (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this animated hit, a neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: computer animated, feel good, humorous, 3d animation, light, exciting, entertaining, anime, witty, fairy tale
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The Jungle Book (1967)
Plot Summary:
The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, touching, feel good, sentimental, light, sweet, cute, humorous, sincere
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Valiant (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, not serious, computer animated, entertaining, 3d animation, light hearted, exciting, touching, clever
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
A new dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 – Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity – embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship and save their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sweet, independent film, anime, computer animated
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PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: 3d animation, futuristic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, family comedy, computer animated
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Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Plot Summary:
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, computer animated, stylized, 3d animation, mystical, entertaining, mystic, mythical, fantasy adventure
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Space Jam (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, satirical, feel good, funny, inspirational, slapstick comedy, anime, hilarious, cult classic
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Ferdinand (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, stylized, exciting, 3d animation, computer animated, humorous, anime, crying
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Bee Movie (2007)
Plot Summary:
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, absurd, 3d animation, feel good, witty, anime, slasher, cult classic
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Epic (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, humorous, computer animated, stylized, entertaining, intense, funny, light, epic
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Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)
Plot Summary:
Maltazard, the Evil M, is now 7 feet tall and evolving among the humans, causing terror wherever he goes. His goal is simple: forming an army of giant henchmen and ruling over the universe. Meanwhile, Arthur is still a Minimoy, and thus in a state where he's unable to fend him off. With the help of Selenia and Betameche, he hatches a plan to regain his usual size: all they must do is infiltrate Arthur's house through the pipeworks, catch an electric train from his bedroom to his grandfather's study and find an elixir that will make him grow back to his human size. Sounds simple enough, if it weren't for Darkos, Maltazard's own son, hot on their tails.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, exciting, semi serious, light, 3d animation, tense, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale
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Flushed Away (2006)
Plot Summary:
London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, computer animated, claymation, fairy tale, entertaining, stylized, 3d animation, exciting, hilarious, witty
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The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kuzco is a self-centered emperor who summons Pacha from a village and to tell him that his home will be destroyed to make room for Kuzco's new summer home. Kuzco's advisor, Yzma, tries to poison Kuzco and accidentally turns him into a llama, who accidentally ends up in Pacha's village. Pacha offers to help Kuzco if he doesn't destroy his house, and so they form an unlikely partnership.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 220000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, light, entertaining, slapstick comedy, witty, sweet, semi serious, hilarious, touching
Similar in 87%
Ice Age (2002)
Plot Summary:
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 508000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, road movie, touching, humorous, funny, computer animated, entertaining, hilarious, 3d animation, sentimental
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The Boxtrolls (2014)
Plot Summary:
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, dark fantasy, feel good, colorful, surreal, entertaining, 3d animation, humorous, stylized, computer animated
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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Plot Summary:
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 292000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: computer animated, humorous, funny, entertaining, 3d animation, witty, exciting, touching, not serious, hilarious
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Puss in Boots (2011)
Plot Summary:
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 188000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, humorous, computer animated, 3d animation, light, sweet, entertaining, mystical, anime
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The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Plot Summary:
A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescue Aid Society's top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the day. Accompanying the fearless duo are bumbling albatross Wilbur and local field operative Jake the Kangaroo Rat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sweet, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, intense, exciting, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, cute
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Rio (2011)
Plot Summary:
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, funny, exciting, entertaining, computer animated, colorful, light, witty, 3d animation
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Toy Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, computer animated, exciting, funny, 3d animation, feel good, humorous, fairy tale, sentimental, entertaining
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The Iron Giant (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 220000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, emotional, sentimental, stylized, entertaining, clever, sad, semi serious, anime
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Shrek (2001)
Plot Summary:
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 719000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, funny, humorous, 3d animation, sweet, spoof, witty, computer animated, hilarious
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The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata (2004)
Plot Summary:
Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began. You'll find out all about Timon and Pumbaa and tag along as they search for the perfect home and attempt to raise a rambunctious lion cub.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, touching, feel good, fairy tale, sweet, inspirational, retro, anime
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Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Plot Summary:
One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, funny, computer animated, humorous, colorful, fairy tale, entertaining, touching, uplifting
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The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Plot Summary:
The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, funny, humorous, computer animated, 3d animation, anime, colorful, feel good, captivating
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Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Plot Summary:
James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business... even though they're more afraid of the children than they are of them. When a child accidentally enters their world, James and Mike suddenly find that kids are not to be afraid of and they uncover a conspiracy that could threaten all children across the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 960000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, sweet, funny, fairy tale, touching, 3d animation, light, witty
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WALL·E (2008)
Plot Summary:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, futuristic, emotional, light, sweet, computer animated, exciting, 3d animation, inspirational