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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 10min | Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 5,216 votes)

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Thriller, Action, Drama, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 5,284 votes)

A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caeser has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caeser decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

The Jungle Book(2016)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 46min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 3,702 votes)

A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Directed by Jon Favreau, Juan Logar Jr., Jacobo Calderón - With Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, ...

War for the Planet of the Apes(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 20min | Drama, Science Fiction, War
3.6/5 (with 4,063 votes)

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Planet of the Apes(1968)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama, Action
3.8/5 (with 1,451 votes)

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes(1970)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 536 votes)

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission discovers a planet ruled by apes, and an underground city run by telepathic humans.

Planet of the Apes(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 59min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 1,779 votes)

After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes(1973)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Action, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 375 votes)

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes(1972)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 28min | Action, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 387 votes)

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals(1977)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 25min | Adventure, Horror
2.5/5 (with 41 votes)

While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly extinct tribe of cannibals is still very much alive.

Ape vs. Monster(2021)

3.1/5 (with 62 votes)

An ape crash-lands on Earth, which creates a sludge that makes him and a passing lizard grow to giant-size, resulting in a fight for dominance.

Mighty Joe Young(1949)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

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Shakma(1990)

2.5/5 (with 32 votes)

A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.

Directed by Tom Logan - With Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers, Roddy McDowall

Murders in the Rue Morgue(1932)

3.1/5 (with 47 votes)

In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

Schlock(1973)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 20min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 21 votes)

A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes(1980)

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"].

Time of the Apes(1987)

1.7/5 (with 9 votes)

A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates.

Directed by Atsuo Okunaka, Kiyosumi Fukazawa

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes(1980)

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax. Meanwhile, their friend Burke is captured by the ape authorities and is to be brainwashed by a brilliant ape scientist named Wanda. [The fourth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation"].

Mega Ape(2023)

A genetically mutated ape escapes from a top secret facility and wreaks havoc in Hollywood.

Empire of The Apes(2013)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In a distant galaxy three escaped female convicts crash land on a primitive world inhabited by a race of warlike apes. They fight for survival as the humanoid apes fight for their possession, body and soul. A daring escape is their only way out. Hot on their heels are the blood lusting gorillas and a prison warden bent on their return to the prison ship they escaped from. Treachery, alliances and battle await the fighting factions. Who will survive on a planet where apes rule and humans are only breeding stock.

The Monster Walks(1932)

2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.

Jane's Journey(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 47min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection, Jane's Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.

Directed by Lorenz Knauer

The Jungle Captive(1945)

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.

The Beast That Killed Women(1965)

1h | Horror
2.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Panic and fear strike the hearts of the terrorised sun-kissed nudist girls of a once peaceful nudist resort in sun-bleached Miami, when a mysterious, yet menacing intruder manages to find his way in the camp.

A*P*E(1976)

1.8/5 (with 10 votes)

A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country. Chaos ensues as the ape kidnaps her and rampages through Seoul.

Directed by Paul Leder - With Rod Arrants, Joanna Kerns, Alex Nicol

King of Kong Island(1968)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Adventure, Science Fiction
1.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Eve is a jungle girl brought up by apes. She is captured with a number of apes by a mad scientist, conducting mind control experiments on them. Eventually she is liberated by a young explorer.

The Ape(2005)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.

Directed by James Franco - With James Franco

The Gorilla(1939)

1h 8min | Horror, Thriller, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Albert Ritz

All Men Are Apes!(1965)

1h 3min | Comedy, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman in prison relates her downfall from precocious thief of her mother's boyfriends to murderess. Plus, stripping! And a dude in an ape costume!

Doctor of Doom(1963)

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.

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