Movies like Melbourne Years (2009)
The best movies like Melbourne Years (2009) are Woody Woodpecker (2017), Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024) and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023). If Melbourne Years hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedLou (2017)7.5/10 from 441 votes
- NewestThe Twits (2025)Released 2025
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
Woody Woodpecker enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWoody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024)
After getting kicked out of the forest, Woody thinks he's found a forever home at Camp Woo Hoo — until an inspector threatens to shut down the camp.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019)
After 20 years in space, Rocko returns to a technologically advanced O-Town and makes it his mission to get his favorite show back on the air.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Twits (2025)
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisDolphin Tale (2011)
A sea of animal rescuers — and a lonely boy in need of a friend – nurse an injured dolphin back to health after it loses its tail in a trap.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlpha and Omega (2010)
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBalto III: Wings of Change (2004)
Balto and the other sled dogs are feeling dejected because the mail that used to be delivered by dogsled is now being delivered by airplanes. But when a mail plane crashes in the mountains, the dogs come to the rescue.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013)
When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Who or what exactly is a Heffalump? The lovable residents of the Hundred Acre Wood -- Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and the rest of the pack -- embark on a journey of discovery in search of the elusive Heffalump. But as is always the case, this unusual road trip opens their eyes to so much more than just the creature they're seeking.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998)
Young Rudolph suffers a childhood accident that sees his nose turn from the publicly accepted norm of black to a glowing red colour. His parents worry about him getting teased, and indeed he does in the end. When he is beaten in the reindeer games by his rival for a doe he fancies, Rudolph runs away and moves into a cave with Slyly the Fox. However can he overcome his fear and reach his true potential?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChicken Little (2005)
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThree Little Wolves (1936)
Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrosty the Snowman (1969)
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, the magic snowman and Karen, a young girl whom he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the North Pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Little Pigs (1933)
The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHammy's Boomerang Adventure (2006)
RJ the raccoon produces a nature video, which turns out to be an excuse for him and the porcupine children to play pranks on Hammy the squirrel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFerdinand the Bull (1938)
This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBalto: Wolf Quest (2002)
Balto and his daughter Aleu embark on a journey of adventure and self discovery.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThru the Mirror (1936)
Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLou (2017)
A lost-and-found box holds a mysterious and unseen monster within.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaurice at the World's Fair (2010)
A humorous take on a story from author/illustrator, Maurice Sendak's childhood, produced with love by Spike Jonze, with Catherine Keener and friends for Maurice Sendak on his 80th birthday.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Creature Within (2009)
A portrait of Maurice Sendak's self-doubts. Included in Wholphin Issue Number 9
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Alive Right Now, Somewhere (More Mbari Encounters Eight and a Half Empire State Buildings Down) (TBA)
A look at the life deep, deep under the waves. Included in Wholphin Issue Number 10.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Monument Valley Flight Attempt (TBA)
An art film included in Wholphin Issue Number 5.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
One Day with the S.L.A. (TBA)
A documentary included in Wholphin Issue Number 5
Why it matches: Similar story and style
John "Kung Fu" Wang (TBA)
A short instructional video included in Wholphin Issue Number 5
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Southern Exposure (TBA)
Three physicists go for a jog in -30 degree weather at the South Pole, naked.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Shot Through (TBA)
How do we react when a gun is fired? Even if it is only aimed at something that is supposedly lifeless? Tom Dale raises these questions in his work Shot Through. The video begins with a drum set standing in a forest. A shot is heard. And a second. Many others follow. The editing accelerates the destruction of the drums. Through the alternating shots, the viewer witnesses the various facets of the carnage – the explosion of the wood or the denting of metal – and the issue of materiality is shifted into focus. After the hail of bullets has ceased, closeups are shown of the drum, which has been shot to pieces. Comparisons to a gutted corpse are deliberate, and the drums transformed from a thing into animal-like creatures. The forest setting is reminiscent of a hunting scene, although it is alienated from the ethics of hunting and instead portrays the execution of the objects.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Ptychogastria, Spatulate: Apprehensions Eight and a Half Empire State Buildings Down (A.K.A. A Deep Metaphor for Something I'd Rather Not Talk About) (TBA)
A chronicling of staid deep-sea research. Included in Wholphin Issue Number 10.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Man in the Grey Suit (TBA)
An excerpt from a nature documentary included in Wholphin Issue Number 6
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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What are the best movies like Melbourne Years?
The closest matches to Melbourne Years are Woody Woodpecker (2017), Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024) and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Melbourne Years?
Start with Woody Woodpecker (2017), the closest match to Melbourne Years.
What is the highest-rated movie like Melbourne Years?
Lou (2017), rated 7.5/10 by 441 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Melbourne Years?
The Twits (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Melbourne Years?
Yes: Woody Woodpecker (2017), Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024) and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023).
How are movies similar to Melbourne Years chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Melbourne Years, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.