Movies like Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (2006)
The best movies like Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (2006) are Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020), Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980) and Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007). If Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur hooked you with its animation and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)7.8/10 from 268 votes
- NewestCrayon Shinchan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseDoraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020)Also in Japanese
- Same seriesDoraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020)Doraemon Movies
Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020)
Nobita accidentally finds a fossil dinosaur egg mixed with rocks in the dinosaur fossil exhibition site that he had visited before. He returns it to its original state with the 'time blanket'.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980)
When Suneo does not show Nobita the fossil of a dinosaur claw, he takes up a challenge to find a dinosaur. He digs up a hillside and finds an egg, which later hatches and becomes a dinosaur.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007)
Nobita wishes the world into a magic-reliant one with Doraemon's Moshimo-Box, and, along with his friends, must stop an asteroid from hitting the planet with help from a sorcerer-in-training.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both family & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004)
Nobita, believing he and Doraemon had done a good deed by saving stray cats and dogs and sending them back in time by 300 million years, discover that the usage of Doraemon's Ray of Evolution had created a cat-and-dog-person society equal to Nobita's time. When an asteroid attack is set to hit the city, Nobita and his friends must save Doraemon and ease tensions between the two sides.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan (2016)
Doraemon and his friends travel to ancient Japan where they meet Kukuru. When Kukuru tells them that his tribe has been enslaved by Gigazombie, Doraemon decides to help him.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (2017)
Doraemon and Nobita discover a mysterious golden ring far beneath the ice in Antarctica, leading them to uncover an ancient, ruined city.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West (1988)
As Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo are auditioning for a role in their school's play based on "Journey to the West", the coveted role of Son Goku is hotly contested. After suggesting that the real Great Sage Equal to Heaven should play himself, knowing that the story is only a legend, Nobita and Doraemon go back in time to find their own fake Monkey King, but arrive in present day with the story's demons having taken over the world. The only way for things to go back to normal is for Nobita and pals to reenact the tale...for real!
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King (2000)
Doraemon and its friends open a hole in the time and they're travel to the Country of Mayana, a lost Mayan civilization in the jungle.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas (1998)
Nobita coaxes his friends to join him for a treasure hunt but an eerie event transports them to the past. However, their hunt for treasure is not easy as they come face-to-face with pirates.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan (1989)
Nobita, thinking of running away from home, travels back in time with Doraemon and his pals to prehistoric Japan. However, a time paradox causes prehistoric boy Kukul to land in the modern day, so it's up to Doraemon and the rest to help the boy get back to the past while also defeating the mysterious shaman king, Giga-Zombie.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & adventure
Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009)
When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPokémon 4Ever (2001)
In order to escape a greedy Pokémon hunter, Celebi must use the last of its energy to travel through time to the present day. Celebi brings along Sammy, a boy who had been trying to protect it. Along with Ash, Pikachu, and the rest of the gang, Sammy and Celebi must encounter an enemy far more advanced than the hunter, with the fate of the forest hanging in the balance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStand by Me Doraemon (2014)
Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes (2015)
Nobita and friends decide to make a movie inspired by the space adventures of their heroes, but their fiction turns into a reality.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrayon Shinchan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary (2024)
Follow the friendship between the Nobara family's pet dog Shiro and a "small dinosaur". Their connection helps the growth of Shinnosuke and the Kusakabe Defense Squad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Magic Tree House (2012)
Jack and Annie are young siblings who find a magic tree house on their way home after chasing a weasel. By using the books available on the tree house, they are able to travel through time and location. The two end up with the difficult task of collecting four medallions, each one hidden in a different place and epoch, in order to help a magician named Morgan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Space-Time Traveler - Time Stranger (1986)
In the new Calendar Year of 392, in Neo-Tokyo, a young man, Agino Jiro, steals a time synchronization system and tries to escape to the past. The authorities give chase and damage his ship in the pursuit, forcing him to land in modern day Tokyo, Determined, he breaks into a van and attaches the device, recklessly kidnapping Nobucho, Shinichi, Teko and their teacher, Hokubei. Their initial resistance force lands them in Tokyo on March 9th 1945, during the US bombing campaign. Escaping again to the past the group eventually arrives at the Warring States period. There the future and the past collide as factions from Jiro's era seek to alter their past at a pivotal moment at Honnoji.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Heart and Yummie (2010)
Heart is a tyrannosaurus who is found and raised by a herbivore mother. After learning his true nature as a meat eater, he runs away from home and finds a baby ankylosaurus egg that hatches and thinks Heart is his father. After accidentally naming the baby Yummie - thinking he looked tasty - their love for one another tests the bounds of nature vs. nurture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisYu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time (2010)
After falling through a time-slip, Yusei Fudo (who has just had his powerful card stolen by a mysterious stranger) meets with Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto, who agree to help Yusei defeat the evil Paradox, who is planning to destroy Pegasus before he can invent Duel Monsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDigimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon (2001)
The DigiDestined go up against Diaboromon again. Tai and Matt head back to the Internet to deal with him with Omnimon, while the younger Chosen Children go to deal with the rampage of a swarm of Kuramon (Diaboromon's Fresh form). With the help of Angemon and Angewomon (with T.K. and Kari), Omnimon was able to destroy Diaboromon again, but it turned out to be a trap, as his destruction allowed many more Kuramon to go to the Real World. Things go out of control when the Kuramon in the Real World merge to create a Mega level called Armageddemon, an alternate Mega in Diaboromon's evolutionary line. It is so powerful that neither Omnimon nor Imperialdramon were able to defeat it on their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPokémon the Movie: The Power of Us (2018)
A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret—the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in Fula City. The festival celebrates the Legendary Pokémon Lugia, who brings the wind that powers this seaside city. When a series of threats endangers not just the festival, but all the people and Pokémon of Fula City, it’ll take more than just Satoshi and Pikachu to save the day! Can everyone put aside their differences and work together—or will it all end in destruction?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves (2001)
Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon.
Why it matches: Same series: Doraemon Movies · both family & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMirai (2018)
Four-year-old Kun struggles with jealousy after his newborn sister, Mirai, begins receiving most of his family’s attention. Retreating to the garden, he encounters Mirai as a teenager from the future and embarks on extraordinary journeys across his family’s past, gradually discovering new perspectives on love, belonging and what it means to become an older brother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened (2013)
A group of five Genesect have invaded the big city and pose a threat to the supply of electricity, which attracts the attention of the legendary Pokémon Mewtwo. Satoshi, Pikachu and his friends must come to the rescue when the powerful leader, a red Genesect, faces Mewtwo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Pet Dinosaur (2017)
When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisPokémon: Mewtwo - Prologue to Awakening (2013)
Mewtwo - Prologue to Awakening is a special episode of the Pokémon anime, serving as a prologue to Genesect and the Legend Awakened.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Yobi, The Five-Tailed Fox (2007)
After losing her family to fox hunters, five-tailed Yobi lives in the forest with some shipwrecked aliens, far away from the humans. When one of her alien friends gets captured by a villager, Yobi has no choice but to adventure into the human world to rescue him. At the village, Yobi meets many humans, including Geum Yee who studies at a school for maladjusted children. Interested in Geum Yee, Yobi joins the students and revels in the fun of human life, but both a fox hunter and a mysterious shadow man are on her trail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPokémon: Pikachu's Rescue Adventure (1999)
One day, Pikachu and its friends are walking along when they suddenly fall through a Diglett hole and into Pokémon Valley, a secret location that no one knows about. Pikachu and its buddies tell the Pokémon that they could use some help looking for Togepi, who fell through the hole first. The group sets off and eventually finds Togepi in the Exeggcute nest—but one of the Exeggcute is missing. That leads the group on another hunt; this time, though, Pikachu and its friends come back to the nest empty-handed. That’s when a storm begins to brew, filling Pokémon valley with roaring thunder and gusts of wind that almost blow the friends—and the Exeggcute nest—away! Are the friends going to be able to keep the nest safe and reunite the Exeggcute?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHurricane Touchdown (2000)
After the older DigiDestined are abducted by the mysterious Kokomon, the next generation of kids team up with American DigiDestined Willis to rescue them - only to discover that their enigmatic enemy has an unexpected connection to their new friend!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur?
The closest matches to Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur are Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020), Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980) and Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur?
People who watched Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur most often go on to Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009), Pokémon 4Ever (2001) and Stand by Me Doraemon (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur?
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020), rated 7.8/10 by 268 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur?
Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Doraemon Movies, which includes Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020), Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980), Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007) and Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004).
Are there Japanese movies like Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur?
Yes: Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020), Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980) and Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007).
How are movies similar to Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.