Best movies like Babar: King of the Elephants
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Plot Summary:
Babar is a young elephant in the great forest. Whilst out with his mother a hunter kills his mother and he flees to escape the same fate. He eventually finds himself in a human city and experiences the many differences between city and forest life. Treated as an outsider he is taken in by an elderly woman, dressed in fancy suits, taught to write and count and is brought up in human culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Family, Animation
Country: Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: clever, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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The Enchanted Journey (1981)
Plot Summary:
Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, young chipmunk Glikko leaves the safety of his comfortable cage to explore the world. Stars Jim Backus and Orson Welles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Spookley the Square Pumpkin (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dare to be square! In a world where "The only good pumpkins are round pumpkins!" SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN is often teased by the other pumpkins because of his odd shape. Soon, Spookley is befriended by Edgar, Allan and Poe, three hilarious spiders, who convince Spookley that square or not, he has a right to be the "Pick of the Patch" on Halloween. "A square pumpkin the Pick of the Patch?" Not if mean round pumpkins Big Tom and Little Tom can help it. These two bullies tease and taunt Spookley because of his square roots. Encouraged to continue to become the "Pick of the Patch" by kindly Jack the Scarecrow and his bat sidekicks, Boris and Bella, Spookley isn't sure he has what it takes until a mighty storm threatens to destroy the entire patch. As the storm rolls the round pumpkins uncontrollably across the patch towards the raging river, Spookley realizes "it's fine to be round while the weather is fair, but there are times it's better to be a square!".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, computer animated, crying, contemplative
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Moomins on the Riviera (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Moomins along with Little My and Snorkmaiden had a sea journey that after storms and desert island dangers leads the family to Riviera, the place that takes their unity to the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, anime, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, fairy tale, 2d animation
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Poko (2003)
Plot Summary:
Poko was a stop motion TV series about a young boy, his pet dog, and his toy monkey. Produced in Canada by Halifax Film, a DHX Media Company, Poko was created by Jeff Rosen, It began production in 2003 and ended in 2006 after three production cycles. Poko is still broadcast in Canada on CBC Television in the Kids' CBC programming block, is still broadcast in Turkey on Yumurcak TV and in Australia by ABC. It is narrated by actor and dancer Cory Bowles. The show was awarded the 2004 Gemini for Best Pre-school Program in 2004 and the Alliance for Children & Television Grand Prize in 2007.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Babar and the Adventures of Badou (2010)
Plot Summary:
An updated version of the classic series, following Badou, and King Babar's 8-year-old grandson.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere
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Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine (2013)
Plot Summary:
The small town of Pinchcliffe is experiencing a great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However, things does not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, anime
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Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks is a children's show on Discovery Kids, that premiered in the fall of 2006 and was produced by Endgame Entertainment and Bigfoot. It is a CGI-style animation, presenting the fictional adventures of some monster trucks with the personalities of young children. In 2007, Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Special Class Animated Program category. Head writers credited on the show were Ken Cuperus, Alice Prodanou and Dave Dias. The series was cancelled on October 11, 2010, because of the last day of Discovery Kids' broadcast. Its successor, Hub Network, has not included it in their lineup, so the ending of the series is in limbo. It is currently seen on Simle of a Child as "Monster Truck Adventures".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Kenny the Shark (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kenny the Shark is an animated television series produced by Discovery Kids. The show premiered on NBC's Discovery Kids on NBC from November 1, 2003 and ended February 18, 2006 with two seasons and 26 episodes having been shown. The series continued to run on Discovery Kids until the network changed into The Hub on October 10, 2010. Discovery Kids closed with a 4 hour marathon of Kenny the Shark episodes. Despite the closure, it still aired on The Hub until March 25, 2012. It is about an anthropomorphic tiger shark named Kenny that decides to move out of the ocean. He was the protagonist and main character in the series. This was not Kenny's first appearance, however. In the late-1990s, a series of shorts ran between regular programming. Kenny was not seen, as the camera was from his point of view. A contest was held to guess what kind of shark Kenny was with the result being a tiger shark.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating
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Bratz the Video: Starrin' & Stylin' (2004)
Plot Summary:
Cloe, Yasmin, Jade, and Sasha need to get an art project done that is about self-expression, but they need to find a way to get the project done and be able to go to the prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Laura's Star (2004)
Plot Summary:
Laura sees a shooting star falling to earth and finds it in a park, down on the floor and with a broken point. The star is a living being, and Laura takes her home to reattach its point with a band-aid. The little star has special powers and can make people fly, or bring inanimate objects to life. But the more she stays on Earth, the weaker she becomes and her colors fade away and her powers start to fail. Laura must find a way to send the little star back into outer space.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, exciting, offbeat, crying
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Moonbeam Bear and His Friends (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Moonbear and his friends experience funny and exciting adventures in their forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, captivating, anime, 3d animation
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The Jungle Book: Return 2 the Jungle (2013)
Plot Summary:
This CG follow up to The Jungle Book follows Mowgli the jungle boy as he sets out to visit his family, but loses track of Baloo when the bear gets distracted by a beehive, and Shere Khan sets his sights on trapping two wolf cubs in his lair. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA, India, Canada, Germany
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated, sincere, captivating, exciting
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The Easter Egg Adventure (2004)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic Egg Town is the location for the The Easter Egg Adventure, which sees the beautiful location under threat from some dastardly thieves. Making off with the collection of Easter Egg's the town has managed to collate, it's up to some brave residents to retrieve them from the evil doers. A wonderfully touching children's tale, The Easter Egg Adventure is a heartwarming seasonal story.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, sweet, anime
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Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery - The Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Thomas the Tank Engine rediscovers the lost railway town of Great Waterton. A new engine named Stanley is brought to help restore the town, but Thomas becomes jealous when Stanley wins over his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, funny, light, entertaining, anime
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Back to School with Franklin (2003)
Plot Summary:
Franklin and his pals are excited about returning to school after a fun summer vacation. They have no idea of just how different and exciting it will be until they meet their substitute teacher, Miss Koala, a true wonder from down under! Miss Koala sure has a different way of doing things. At first the class is a little resistant, but she quickly wins them over with her "try-anything-once" attitude. Everyone soon finds themselves learning new things and forming their very first soccer team. Now, it's up to Franklin and his friends to win one for their favorite coach before she's off on a new classroom adventure.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the three pigs find a tiny wolf cub on their doorstep, they decide to raise him as their own, unaware that they've played right into the plan of a special-ops team of wolves. As the newest addition to their family, Lucky grows into his teens not knowing his history, his role in the wolves' plan or the difficult choice he will have to make about the family that raised him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, anime, talky, fairy tale
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Gnomes & Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations. Then disaster strikes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated, captivating, anime
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Impy's Island (2006)
Plot Summary:
Impy's Island (German: Urmel aus dem Eis) is a 2006 German computer-animated feature film based on the children's novel Urmal from the Ice Age by Max Kruse. On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery.... a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times! Little Impy, as the call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. but when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the love able baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, computer animated, fairy tale
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Mia and the Migoo (2008)
Plot Summary:
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, anime, offbeat
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Bratz Kidz: Sleep-Over Adventure (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a new girl in the neighborhood, named Ginger, invites Jade, Cloe, Sasha, Yasmin and Meagan over to her house for a sleep-over, the girls happily accept the invitation to make a new friend. They have fashion shows and lots of fun stuff. But before they go to bed they tell scary stories. After, the girls try to convince a frightened Ginger to tell the last scary story of the night. Ginger is too frightened to tell and she runs away. The girls look for her and her parents but there no where to be found. The girls find Bats in one of the rooms and run outside. Once they are outside they find out its actually an abandon house supposedly haunted. Then the monsters that they were talking about in the stories come out to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, computer animated, exciting
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Peep and the Big Wide World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and basic science concepts to preschoolers. The main characters include a yellow baby chick named Peep and his friends Quack, a teenaged blue drake, and Chirp, a baby red robin with pink eyelids. The current show, narrated by Joan Cusack is based on a National Film Board of Canada cartoon short of the same name, created in 1988 by Kaj Pindal and narrated by Peter Ustinov, and another short, "The Peep Show", from 1962. The original short comprised three 10-minute films featuring Peep, Quack, and Chirp as they meet a cat, a ladybug, a turtle and a frog who speaks from both sides of his mouth. The show is produced by WGBH in Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto, Canada. In the US, this show formerly aired on Discovery Kids as part of its commercial-free and sponsor-free "Ready, Set, Learn!" programming block. It now airs nationally in the United States on public television, distributed by American Public Television. In Canada, it airs on TVOntario. DVDs and books are also available for purchase. Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an education and outreach program. The principal investigator is Kate Taylor, also of the ZOOM block. The National Science Foundation is the only permanent sponsor of the show. Northrop Grumman, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Toyota funded the show for only season two. The Discovery Kids Foundation funded the show for only season one. In 1999, the show was produced by Clumsy PriStar Television. The VHS copies are produced from Clumsy Pristar's home viewings.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, educational
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Peanuts gang perform the classic Broadway musical. In addition to the classic songs, we see Charlie Brown and his friends perform the various comedy sketches of the play.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween in the 100 Acre Wood, and Roo's best new friend, Lumpy, is looking forward to his first time trick-or-treating. That is, until Tigger warns them about the scary Gobloon, who'll turn them into jack-o'-lanterns if he catches them. But if Roo and Lumpy turn the tables on the Gobloon, they get to make a wish! Lumpy and Roo decide to be "brave together, brave forever" and catch the Gobloon so they can make their wishes come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Philippines, Thailand
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spooky
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Pettson and Findus (1999)
Plot Summary:
Gubben Pettson och katten Findus är nere vid sjön och fiskar. Det blåser upp, börjar snöa och blir mörkt. Vilse i stormen tvingas de söka skydd i en igloo av fiskblock och där inne berättar de om året som gått.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Guess How Much I Love You (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on the books by Sam McBratney, and illustrated by Anita Jeram, Guess How Much I Love You sees Little and Big Nutbrown Hare explore their beautiful surroundings, play with their friends and delight in the love between them. The series not only explores the tender idea of the boundless love between father and son, but opens up their world... a beautiful and pristine valley full of playful friends and delights of nature in every season.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, UK, Singapore
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, touching, semi serious
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The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina (2002)
Plot Summary:
Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are together for the first time in this heartwarming, magical musical story about courage and friendship.After 15 years, the two reunite and remember when their village was destroyed by a giant. Soon, they find out that they have neat powers they can use for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, feel good, humorous, independent film, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sudden storm leaves Berry Bitty City with a gigantic problem. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends will have to move their whole tiny town unless they find a way to safely remove a huge boulder that threatens everything they hold dear.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, anime, exciting, sentimental, semi serious
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Raven the Little Rascal (2012)
Plot Summary:
A children’s animated feature film based on an internationally bestselling book series for a main target audience of 3 to 8 year olds telling a universal story about friendship, loyalty and honesty in which Little Raven and his friends have to work up all their courage to save their beloved forest.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, anime
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Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! (2007)
Plot Summary:
While villain Grizzle plots against the Care Bears, it is up to Oopsy Bear to come to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, anime, computer animated
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My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade (2006)
Plot Summary:
Wysteria is beaming with pride! Her gardens are in bloom, her little Breezie friends are in town, and it's time for Ponyville's fanciest spring parade, the ultimate celebration of flowers, flowers, flowers! But things don't go according to plan when Wysteria accidentally awakens Spike the Dragon, a sleepy, silly, 1,000-year-old dragon!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, sweet