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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Deliver Us from Evil(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Thriller, Crime, Horror
3.1/5 (with 933 votes)

When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.

An American Werewolf in London(1981)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Horror
3.7/5 (with 1,086 votes)

Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

The Wild(2006)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 35min | Kids & Family, Animation
2.8/5 (with 453 votes)

An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.

Directed by Steve Williams

We Bought a Zoo(2011)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 4min | Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 1,195 votes)

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

Bird on a Wire(1990)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 391 votes)

An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.

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.

Zookeeper(2011)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 766 votes)

Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but since he is more comfortable with the animals than with females of his own species, his love life is lacking. When Griffin decides that the only way to get a girlfriend is to find a more-glamorous career, the animals panic. To keep him from leaving, they reveal their secret ability to talk and offer to teach him the rules of courtship, animal-style.

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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

Bringing Up Baby(1938)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 442 votes)

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

Zoo(2018)

3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

Human Nature(2001)

1h 36min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 109 votes)

A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.

The Cremator(1969)

1h 40min | Comedy, Horror, Drama
3.8/5 (with 84 votes)

Mr. Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. There may be another idealogy that fits snugly with his existing worldview.

Cat People(1942)

1h 13min | Horror, Drama
3.5/5 (with 231 votes)

Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.

Fierce Creatures(1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 157 votes)

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.

The Fallen Idol(1948)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 68 votes)

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

Night on Earth: Shot in the Dark(2020)

59min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

This look behind the scenes shows how worldwide camera crews climbed, dived and froze to capture the documentary's groundbreaking night footage.

Dominion(2018)

4.5/5 (with 27 votes)

Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras, the feature-length film explores the morality and validity of our dominion over the animal kingdom.

Directed by Chris Delforce

Zoombies(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 30min | Science Fiction, Action, Horror
2.6/5 (with 81 votes)

When a strange virus quickly spreads through a safari park and turns all the zoo animals undead, those left in the park must stop the creatures before they escape and zombify the whole city.

Directed by Glenn Miller

Secret Zoo(2020)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 57min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real intentions are revealed.

Werewolf of London(1935)

1h 15min | Horror, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

Born to Be Wild(2011)

3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

Born to Be Wild observes various orphaned jungle animals and their day-to-day behavioural interactions with the individuals who rescue them and raise them to adulthood. The film unfurls in two separate geographic spheres. Half of it takes place in the rain forests of Borneo, where celebrated primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas assists baby orangutans; the other half takes place on the arid savannahs of Kenya, where zoologist Dame Daphne Sheldrick works with baby elephant calves.

Directed by David Lickley - With Morgan Freeman, Birutė Galdika, Daphne Sheldrick

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys(2002)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 67 votes)

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.

Buddy(1997)

2.4/5 (with 29 votes)

An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

Murders in the Zoo(1933)

1h 2min | Crime, Horror
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

RoboCroc(2013)

2.5/5 (with 22 votes)

When a top-secret unmanned spacecraft disintegrates on re-entry, its mysterious military payload crash-lands in the crocodile habitat of a place called Adventure Land, a combination water park, amusement land, and world-famous crocodile exhibit. Following its pre-programmed instructions, the payload—a next-generation nanotech-based combat drone—finds a host in the form of the park’s prize twenty-foot Australian Saltwater crocodile, Stella. She is the largest saltwater croc in captivity. Immediately upon infecting its host, the drone payload’s nanobots begin to transform Stella from an organic living creature into a lethal killing machine with only a single directive: survival!

Directed by Arthur Sinclair - With Corin Nemec, Lisa McAllister, Keith Duffy, Steven Hartley, Florence Brudenell-Bruce, Dee Wallace, ...
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