Best "penguin" Movies of All Time

55 movies found (page 1/2):

Madagascar(2005)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 26min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 4,852 votes)

Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends—Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo—have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape—with the help of some prodigious penguins—to explore the world.

Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

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Penguins of Madagascar(2014)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 32min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 1,832 votes)

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Directed by Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa(2008)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 29min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 3,050 votes)

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.

Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted(2012)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 33min | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 2,734 votes)

Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.

Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon

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Happy Feet(2006)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 48min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.1/5 (with 2,261 votes)

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Directed by George Miller

Meet the Spartans(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 24min | Comedy

2.0/5 (with 721 votes)

The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture!

Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer - With Sean Maguire, Kevin Sorbo, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Diedrich Bader, Travis Van Winkle, ...

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Happy Feet Two(2011)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 57min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.1/5 (with 689 votes)

Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.

Directed by George Miller

Surf's Up(2007)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 25min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 1,072 votes)

Surf's Up is an animated feature that goes behind the scenes of the high-octane world of competitive penguin surfing. The film profiles Cody Maverick, an up-and-coming surfer as he enters his first pro competition.

Directed by Ash Brannon, Chris Buck

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Mr. Popper's Penguins(2011)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 1,312 votes)

Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.

Directed by Mark Waters - With Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Ophelia Lovibond, ...

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The Wrong Trousers(1993)

FSK: 6+ years

| 30min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.9/5 (with 409 votes)

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

Directed by Nick Park

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The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper(2005)

FSK: 6+ years

| 11min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 132 votes)

During the holiday season, when the animals of the Central Park Zoo are preparing for Christmas, Private, the youngest of the penguins notices that the Polar Bear is all alone. Assured that nobody should have to spend Christmas alone, Private goes into the city for some last-minute Christmas shopping. Along the way, he gets stuffed into a stocking.

Directed by Gary Trousdale

Penguin Highway(2018)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 58min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

3.6/5 (with 94 votes)

A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

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Merry Madagascar(2009)

FSK: 0+ years

| 30min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.2/5 (with 123 votes)

The Zoosters are back in an all-new holiday adventure. When Santa and his reindeer crash onto the island of Madagascar it's up to Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and those wacky penguins to save Christmas. Get ready for a sleigh full of laughs in this hilarious new holiday classic.

Directed by David Soren

Pinocchio 3000(2004)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 20min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction

2.2/5 (with 62 votes)

This is the story of a little robot known as Pinocchio 3000 whose greatest wish is to become a real boy. The year is 3000. Geppetto, with the help of his faithful assistant, Spencer the cyber penguin, and by the holographic fairy Cyberina, creates Pinocchio, a prototype superrobot equipped for emotions. But before he can be given a heart and become a real boy, Cyberina insists that Pinocchio learn the difference between right and wrong.

Directed by Daniel Robichaud

March of the Penguins(2005)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 20min | Documentary, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 495 votes)

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!

Directed by Luc Jacquet

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Arctic Heart(2016)

1h 21min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

2.4/5 (with 35 votes)

A timid young grad student madly in love with her scientist boss offers her body to his research.

Directed by Marie Madinier - With Guillaume Canet

Encounters at the End of the World(2007)

1h 39min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 112 votes)

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Ashrita Fur, Clive M. Oppenheimer, Sam Bowser, Werner Herzog

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Scott of the Antarctic(1948)

1h 51min | Adventure, Drama, Action, History

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him.

Directed by Charles Frend - With John Mills, James Robertson Justice, Barry Letts, Kenneth More, Christopher Lee, Derek Bond, ...

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness(1985)

1h 42min | Animation, War, Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.

8 Ball Bunny(1950)

7min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 30 votes)

Bugs helps a penguin return home.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Pororo: Dinosaur Island Adventure(2017)

1h 19min | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

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Farce of the Penguins(2007)

1h 20min | Comedy, Documentary

2.0/5 (with 18 votes)

In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?

Directed by Bob Saget - With Christina Applegate, Lewis Black, Mo'Nique, Tracy Morgan, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Alexander, ...

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Penguins: Life on the Edge(2020)

1h 18min | Documentary

3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A witty and tenacious team of filmmakers brave the Antarctic to film Disneynature's "Penguins.".

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Antarctica(2012)

1h 33min | Comedy, Animation

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Private's big heart overcomes his instinct to flee as he helps a stranded young leopard seal get from New York back to her home in Antarctica. The rest of the team (plus stowaway King Julien) follow in their submarine to make sure the young seal and Private make it in one piece. Problem is, they should have been looking out for themselves - they end up on the menu at the leopard seal village! Episodes include: Operation: Antarctica, The Falcon And The Snowjob, The Big Squeeze, Driven To The Brink, Snakehead, Concrete Jungle Survival and Work Order.

Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature(1991)

39min | Documentary

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores the life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live their and the scientist that work there.

Lost and Found(2008)

24min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

A magical tale of friendship and loneliness, which tells the story of a little boy who one day finds a penguin on his doorstep. Although at first he is unsure what to do, the boy becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home... even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!

Directed by Philip Hunt

The Doubtful Guest(2021)

Kids & Family

The short 14-page story tells of a penguin-like creature whose unannounced and unwelcome arrival at a family’s manor brings trouble and chaos. It is unclear how the filmmakers plan on expanding the book or closing the tome’s open ending.

Quick, Before It Melts(1965)

1h 38min | Comedy

A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.

Directed by Delbert Mann - With George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, James Gregory, Michael Constantine, Norman Fell, ...