Movies like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City (2011)
The best movies like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City (2011) are Dino Time (2012), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007). If Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City hooked you with its animation and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Land Before Time (1988)7.2/10 from 2,867 votes
- NewestSaurus City (2025)Released 2025
Dino Time (2012)
Young daredevil Ernie, his sister Julia, and his best friend Max accidentally trip a time-machine into operation and find themselves transported back in time 65 million years, where they meet a T-rex named Tyra and her rambunctious son Dodger.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Dinosaur (2015)
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
Littlefoot learns a series of important lessons following an incident that nearly costs his grandmother her life. Soon afterwards, three dinosaurs arrive claiming they have lost their way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)
As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose individualism causes problems when it comes to staying in formation. Enter his dinosaur pals Littlefoot, Cera, Spike and Ducky, who encourage Petrie to embrace his uniqueness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)
When the water supply to the Great Valley is blocked, Littlefoot and his friends must cooperate with a group of bullies to find the reason the cause.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)
The Great Valley turns barren and herds of dinosaurs have to find another place to inhabit. Cera, Littlefoot and Petrie, all kids, leave to find food and get stranded on a lush unknown island.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtinct (2021)
Op and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals - flummels - accidentally time-travel from 1835 to modern-day Shanghai. There they discover traffic, trans fats, and worst of all, that flummels are now extinct. It's up to this bumbling pair to save themselves and their species...and, just maybe, change the course of history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
Littlefoot's grandfather narrates the story about the Lone Dinosaur that killed a Sharptooth. A giant monolith formed after the fight and if it's destroyed, bad luck will loom over the valley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the young dinos and a new adult dinosaur named Mr. Thicknose, head out to bring back their friend Spike, who has left his friends to be with members of his own species.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)
Littlefoot and his pals set off in search of a "stone of cold fire" that fell from the night sky. Since he's the only one who has seen it though, nobody really believes him. Petrie's uncle Pterano offers support only because he thinks the stone has secret powers and wants it for himself but conceals this from the rest. The young dinos must figure out the truth, before Pterano gets the power.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWinnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
Christopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)
Littlefoot befriends with a mysterious, fun-loving dolphin-like creature named Mo, who is trapped in "new water" caused by heavy rain. The gang then goes on an adventure to the "big water" to bring Mo home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)
On a day known to the dinosaurs as "Treasure Day", Bron becomes stuck in the Mysterious Beyond. This event urges the young Longneck Littlefoot to take his friends on a quest to the Fire Mountain to save his father. Along the way, they befriend a Flyer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016)
As Po looks for his lost action figures, the story of how the panda inadvertently helped create the Furious Five is told.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonster High: Friday Night Frights (2012)
After Monster High’s roller skating team is defeated at the Skulltimate Roller Maze tournament, the ghouls team up to face an all-boys league, with the hope of winning back the school crest and restoring school spirit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDinosaur (2000)
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to the "Middle Future" in order to grant the wishes of children in New York City. They are to meet Dr. Bleeb of the Museum of Natural History, but get sidetracked with their new children friends and run into the Captain's evil brother, Professor Screweyes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 · both family & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time (1988)
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)
A royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSaurus City (2025)
In a fantastical world where dinosaurs roam alongside humans, a grizzled retired knight is pulled back into action to help a young woman in distress, only to uncover a threat to the entire kingdom. Hunted by the vengeful Shrouded Knight and his monstrous creations, the aging warrior must risk everything to deliver the one thing that can save them all—a baby.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003)
A bedtime story leads Littlefoot and his grandparents on a journey to a new land, where Littlefoot discovers someone who vanished before he was born: his father! Now Littlefoot must decide between two worlds. Will he leave to be with his friends in the Great Valley, or stay behind and start a new life with his father?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)
Littlefoot and his friends return in another adventure. But this time, they aren't the smallest dinosaurs in the valley anymore.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCare Bears: Season of Caring (2004)
Celebrate the seasons with the Care Bears, as the fun, friendly little creatures love and laugh all year round. Hugs and Tugs are kept inside by the rain in "It's Raining, It's Boring," but they manage to overcome their boredom with lots of fun activities. Champ helps a young skiier gain the confidence to hit the slopes after an accident in "No Business like Snow Business," while elsewhere Beastly and Shreeky try to stop him. In "The Cloud Monster," Bright Heart is busily creating a cloud machine to capture the monster that Beastly made. Other episodes include "Caring For Spring," "Ski Trouble," and "The Frozen Forest."
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
LeapFrog: Math Circus (2004)
Watch the Quidget Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics! In this astounding story, Leap, Lily, Tad and wacky Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add, and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family & animation
Musical Multiplication (1986)
Join Video Dan Ranger and his friends Harmony Heart, Eddie Eagle, and Bouncy the Bouncing Ball for an installment of Learn-a-Long, where we learn our times tables with occasional interspecials of public domain cartoons (putting the "fun" in "Fun Learning").
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family & animation
Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)
The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Go! Anpanman and hiragana play: First time with a i u e o (2003)
For children learning Hiragana for the first time through joint planning with Shogakkan Infant Magazine Editorial Department. Children, learn to become familiar with Hiragana characters while playing in "Hiragana Land" together with "AIUEO" characters. Among fun songs and Anpanman stories, introductory contents of Hiragana learning are included.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Anpanman to Hajimeyou! Minna no 1 nichi (2005)
Educational and challenging, an original Anpanman video series. The series theme is of lifestyle in Volume 1, within the family life, etc. Such as in a home or park, while the rhythm of real life in the same range of activities as the age, greeting, clothing detachable, such as meal of greetings, teach the contract of in life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family
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What are the best movies like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City?
The closest matches to Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City are Dino Time (2012), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City?
Start with Dino Time (2012), the closest match to Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City.
What is the highest-rated movie like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City?
The Land Before Time (1988), rated 7.2/10 by 2,867 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City?
Saurus City (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City?
Yes: Dino Time (2012), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007).
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