We cannot live without them and they are the best company for a movie session. But in addition to joining us on the sofa for a movie afternoon, they can also be the protagonists. Pets and animals with whom we share life and who also star in beautiful relationships on the big screen. For examples of the love that we can feel for our dog or our cat, these movies about pets and animals are perfect to enjoy a movie session in company.
Almost always dogs of all types and all sizes . From the huge Beethoven to the adventurous White Fang. Detectives, intelligent, faithful and funny are the protagonists of these movies about pets and animals that we can watch in streaming whether we are looking for intense dramas to get excited about or if we are looking for comedies or cartoons for the whole family.
Dramas and movies about pets and animals
Essential and emotional dramas . Real stories like Togo or Hachiko and other recommended films to show us and remind us of the importance of animals in our lives, in our homes.
Togo
A drama set in the year 1925. A harsh winter and an outbreak of diphtheria in an Alaskan town will make it necessary to transport medicines on a route of more than a thousand kilometers in harsh weather conditions. A true story in which many animals died and in which Togo also existed, the protagonist of this original Disney Plus film that tells us how a dog sled trainer will try to make this trip at fifty degrees below zero.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 2019
Duration : One hour and 56 minutes
Theme : Adventure, action, nature
Recommended age: For ages six and up
A couple of three
Based on true events, Owen Wilson and Jennifer Anniston star in this comedy as newlyweds leaving Michigan for Florida. A new life together that will change with the arrival of a Labrador puppy who will soon no longer be as small as when he arrived home. An entertaining and family comedy if you are looking for something easy to watch, light and entertaining with which to enjoy the relationship between humans and dogs and the happiness of having a pet at home. But also what it entails.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2008
Duration : One hour and 55 minutes
Theme : Comedy, movie based on books
Recommended age: For ages seven and up
See A Couple of Three on Amazon Prime Video
Watch A Couple of Three on Disney Plus
White tusk
One of the great classics among pet movies based on the book by Jack London published at the beginning of the 20th century. “White Fang” is a tape in which Jack Conroy has come to Alaska with the idea of getting gold. But there he will meet the animal that gives the film its name, a cross between a wolf and a dog with which Jack will establish an emotional relationship that will get us excited. A film that we can enjoy as a family if we want to run away from easy comedies or cartoons.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 1991
Duration : One hour and 49 minutes
Theme : Drama, animals and nature, action and adventure
Recommended age: For ages six and up
Partners and Hounds
Peculiar and inseparable detectives. Scott Turner, played by Tom Hanks, is a detective who will have to start working with Hooch, his dog companion. A neat freak, Turner will see how the animal’s presence destroys everything he has in a hilarious comedy about friendship. In addition, from 2021 we can see the remake of this film in serial format: a Disney + series in which Scott Turner is played by Josh Peck.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 1989
Duration : One hour and 39 minutes
Theme : police comedy
Recommended age: For ages six and up
Watch Partners and Hounds on Disney Plus
Watch Partners and Hounds (the series) on Disney Plus
Always at your side Hachiko
One of the most beautiful pet movies is Always by your side, Hachiko. A film released in 2009 and starring Richard Gere, Joan Allen and Sarah Roemer. It is a story based on true events that tells us the story of Parker Wilson and his dog, Hachiko. Wilson is a university professor who one day will pick up an abandoned Akita dog at a station. Unbreakable ties will be created between the two in a film based on a true story and essential if you are looking to get excited about this animal that today has a bronze statue in Tokyo’s Shibuya station.
Platform : Filmin / Movistar Plus / Filmin
Year : 2009
Duration : One hour and 29 minutes
Theme : Drama, emotional movie
Recommended age: For all audiences
See Always by your side, Hachiko on Disney +
See Always by your side, Hachiko on Movistar+
See Always by your side, Hachiko in Filmin
Pet Comedies for the Whole Family
Family comedies that we can all enjoy together and where there is no lack of all kinds of animals, pets. Beyond some classics mentioned in previous sections, these family movies are fun comedies for a Sunday movie session.
A Chihuahua in Beverly Hills
Chloe is a chihuahua who lives a luxurious life full of glamor and comfort. Papi is a chihuahua in love with her that the dog ignores. But when she gets lost in Mexico, he will go to any lengths to rescue her. Without a doubt, “A chihuahua in Beverly Hills” is not one of the best animal movies we can see, but it is a family comedy if we look for an alternative that we have not seen.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 2008
Duration : One hour and 35 minutes
Theme : Children’s and family comedy
Recommended age: For all audiences
See A Chihuahua in Beverly Hills on Disney+
Beethoven
One of the great classics among pet movies is “Beethoven, one of the family”. A Saint Bernard puppy who has managed to escape before being caught by a gang of thieves. He will appear, at that time, at the Newton family home . A house too small for a weight that does not stop growing and that will destroy everything in its path, breaking everything it finds.
Platform : Movistar Plus
Year : 1992
Duration : One hour and twenty minutes
Theme : Family Comedy
Recommended age: For all audiences
See Beethoven on Movistar Plus
Alaskan Adventures
A Disney comedy for the whole family that will take us to cold Alaska where a dentist from Miami will move. Eight dogs (seven huskies and a border collie) in an environment and climate that are nothing like theirs. A different and harsh environment that you will have to get used to if you want to win the Arctic Race in this family comedy of animals, sports, action and adventure.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 2002
Duration : One hour and 42 minutes
Theme : Sports, action, family
Recommended age: For ages six and up
Watch Adventures in Alaska on Disney Plus
the buddies
The Buddies star in all kinds of children’s movies that we can see on Disney +. They are adorable puppies who star in adventures in the snow, in space, Halloween adventures… Five Buddie and Molly puppies (Rosebud, Buddha, Budderball, Mudbud and B-Dawg) in a fun franchise for the little ones in the house if we look for easy to watch pet movies
Platform : Disney+
Theme : Adventure and action
Recommended age: For all audiences
Watch The Super Buddies on Disney+
Watch Trick-Treating and Buddies on Disney+
Watch Space Buddies on Disney+
other pet movies
Other films in which animals are the protagonists. Pet movies and cinema that we can enjoy with emotional and essential stories.
belle and sebastian
Inspired by the 1960s French television series with which it shares its name, Belle and Sebastian is a film that takes us to a village in the Alps during World War II. Sebastián is a lonely boy who has found a new friend , Belle, a wild dog that he decides to adopt and tame.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 2013
Duration : One hour and 39 minutes
Theme : Drama, friendship
Recommended age: For all audiences
See Belle and Sebastian in Filmin
Seventeen
An original Netflix movie if we are looking for a road trip about adolescence, about family, about friendship and about love for animals. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo is the director of this Netflix original movie for all ages. Follow Héctor, a seventeen-year-old boy who has decided to escape from the juvenile center where he lives. He has done it to look for the dog he has taken care of in recent months and will do everything possible not to separate from him in an hour and a half of an emotional trip.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2019
Duration : One hour and 39 minutes
Theme : Emotional drama / Family, adolescence
Age : For ages 7 and up
Stuart Little
The Little family lives happily: father, mother and their son George. Until the new little brother arrives. He is not a normal child. He is not even a child. Is a mouse. Stuart is the new little brother, a talking mouse. A comedy in which Michael J.Fox gives voice to a talkative mouse that will change the life of the family and that will not be accepted at first by George, who does not want an animal to take away his prominence at home. A classic movie released in the nineties that you have surely seen at some time and that talks about differences, the importance of family, adaptation. But also an entertaining and adventure comedy that we can see as a family.
Platform : Netflix and Filmin
Year : 1999
Duration : One hour and 24 minutes
Theme : Family movies, comedies
Recommended age: For all audiences
Watch Stuart Little on Netflix
Cartoon
There are many cartoon movies starring animals, pets. Essential animation that you have already seen but that cannot be missing from any list of movies about pets and other animals.
Pets
Pets is an animated film that takes us to an apartment block in Manhattan. Max is a charming dog who sees how his relationship with his owner is in danger when a new animal, Duke, arrives at home. But both will have to put aside their differences to face Snowball, a rabbit who wants to start a war between abandoned pets and pets that live happily in his home. An essential comedy full of intelligent speeches that the grown-ups will like but also full of moments, jokes and humor that will make the little ones in the house enjoy this hour and a half of cinema.
Platform : Netflix / Amazon Prime Video / HBO Max / Movistar+
Year : 2016
Duration : One hour and 26 minutes
Theme : Family film, cartoons for the whole family
Recommended age: For all audiences
Watch Pets on Amazon Prime Video
The Lady and the Tramp
Released in 1955, “Lady and the Tramp” is one of the best-known animated films if we look for pet movies. Reina is an intelligent and pampered cocker spaniel. Golfo is a street but “hard”. They have nothing in common but the two have a beautiful friendship that goes beyond their differences in this dog love story that is already over fifty years old and continues to be an essential option.
In addition, we can see the live-action version released in 2019. The usual story but leaving aside the cartoons to bet on real animals.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 1955
Duration : One hour and 19 minutes
Theme : Action and adventure
Recommended age: For ages six and up
Watch Lady and the Tramp on Disney Plus
Watch Lady and the Tramp (2019) on Disney Plus
101 Dalmatians
Released in the sixties, “101 Dalmatians” is one of the great classics that comes to mind when we talk about pet movies, animal movies, dog movies. Pongo and Perdita are two Dalmatian dogs who live with their masters Roger and Anita. And along with her fifteen puppies. But everyone’s happiness is in danger because of Cruella de Ville, a woman who will do her best to kidnap the little animals to make a fur coat.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 1961
Duration : One hour and 21 minutes
Theme : Animation, action and adventure
Recommended age: For all audiences
Watch 101 Dalmatians on Disney+