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Dogs being always considered as Man’s Best Friend hence movies based on dogs are regarded as Man’s Best Friend Movies. These movies perfectly showcase why dogs and humans are being considered best friends.
Dogs are very loyal and very emotional animals. If someone shows love and care to them, dogs love them with all their soul and heart. Similarly, humans also treat dogs as their loved ones. But this world also has some cruel beings who treat animals very badly.
These movies will show us why dogs deserve to be loved by every one of us.
10. Wendy and Lucy – Man’s Bestfriend Movies
Ratings: 7.1/10
| Directed By: | Kelly Reichardt |
| Produced By: | Larry Fessenden Neil Kopp Anish Savjani |
| Screenplay By: | Jon Raymond Kelly Reichardt |
| Starring: | Michelle Williams |
| Production House: | Field Guide Films Film Science Glass Eye Pix Washington Square Films |
| Distributed By: | Oscilloscope Pictures |
Wendy and Lucy is a rollercoaster ride filled with emotions. This movie showcases the bond between a human and a dog and how much a person loves their dog that they will go to any distance for their dog.
Wendy and Lucy is the perfect example of Man’s Best Friend Movies, and it is one of the best movies based on dogs.
Wendy is traveling with her dog, Lucy, to Alaska to find a job, but her car broke down in the middle of the route. Wendy does not have enough money to repair her car. Wendy even tries to shoplift dog food for Lucy.
But Wendy got caught while shoplifting and was given way to the police, and when she returns, lucy is gone. Now Wendy is looking for Lucy. Will Wendy be able to find Lucy?
To find this, you have to watch this one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
9. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 7.8/10
| Directed By: | Jim Stenstrum |
| Produced By: | Cos Anzilotti |
| Screenplay By: | Glenn Leopold |
| Starring: | Scott Innes Billy West Mary Kay Bergman Frank Welker B. J. Ward Adrienne Barbeau Tara Charendoff Cam Clarke Jim Cummings Mark Hamill Jennifer Leigh Warren Ed Gilbert |
| Production House: | Hanna-Barbera Cartoons |
| Distributed By: | Warner Home Video |
Scooby-Doo has always been the kid’s favorite dog. People still do prefer watching Scooby-Doo as it gives them a nostalgic feel about their childhood. The chemistry between Shaggy and Scooby is evergreen because they both have made us laugh uncontrollably.
When the master is scared, the dog is scared too, and if the master is feeling brave, the dog also feels brave. This is the definition of a loyal pet. The relation between Shaggy and Scooby is also the same.
Scooby-Doo has also taught us a lesson by its movies that it’s always someone close who does horrible things to us covered in a costume. Similarly, in Zombie Island. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is one of most hilarious Scooby-Doo movies.
It will keep you engaged till the climax of the movie, and the best quality of the movie is Scooby-Doo himself. Scott Inns has given his voice to Scooby-Doo, and he did full justice with his voice acting.
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is one of best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
8. Benji – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 6.8/10
| Directed By: | Brandon Camp |
| Produced By: | Jason Blum Brandon Camp |
| Written By: | Brandon Camp |
| Starring: | Gabriel Bateman Darby Camp Jerod Haynes Angus Sampson Will Rothhaar Kiele Sanchez |
| Production House: | Blumhouse Productions Camp Brand Meridian Entertainment Symbolic Exchange |
| Distributed By: | Netflix |
Benji is an adventure movie based from the point of view of a dog, aka Man’s Best Friend. A dog named Benji helps a family heal and helps them in various situations. The movie is directed by Brandon Camp.
Benji is a reboot of a movie of the same name, which was released in 1974 and was directed by Camp’s father. Benji is surely one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies, and it will give you feelings to pet a dog.
Dogs are very loyal creatures, and this movie will define why that is so. The movie may not be a huge success at the box office, but it is a praiseworthy movie based on dogs. Benji is a sure-shot example of why dogs are considered man’s best friends.
Benji is one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
7. Oddball- Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 6.5/10
| Directed By: | Stuart McDonald |
| Produced By: | Sheila Hanahan Stephen Kearney Richard Keddie |
| Written By: | Peter Ivan |
| Starring: | Shane Jacobson Coco Jack Gillies Sarah Snook Alan Tudyk |
| Production House: | The Film Company WTFN Entertainment Screen Australia Film Victoria Kmunications |
| Distributed By: | Roadshow Films |
Oddball is mainly the story of a dog saving a bunch of Penguins from being hunted by foxes. There is an island where Penguins have made a home for themselves, but then some foxes have found about their Island.
The foxes have started to attack penguins, and there is no one to protect penguins from the Foxes. Then comes a dog to save the penguins from foxes. Oddball is a very loyal animal and is always ready to do anything to protect his master.
One day the master finds out about an island where foxes are hunting Penguins, and if someone does not do anything to save those penguins, then the penguins will extinct from that Island. One day he finds out that fox fears oddball.
So, he trains oddball to scare all the foxes and save penguins. Oddball does not only show how a dog does not only serves a man but also serves for other animals too.
Oddball is one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
6. White Dog (1982) – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 7.1/10
| Directed By: | Samuel Fuller |
| Produced By: | Jon Davison |
| Written By: | Samuel Fuller Curtis Hanson |
| Starring: | Kristy McNichol Paul Winfield Burl Ives Jameson Parker Parley Baer |
| Production House: | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributed By: | Paramount Pictures |
White dog is also a very emotional story and a very impactful story about a dog. When an actress hits a white shepherd dog with her car and then took him to treat him, and one day, that white shepherd dog saves the actress from an attack from a raper.
Then the actress decides to adopt that dog, but the real owner of the dog has trained him to be a racist one. So, the dog kills a black person because of his previous training given by her original owner.
The actress tries to give the White Shephard a different training and not to be a racist dog. The original owner has trained the dog in a manner that that dog kills any black person if he sees him.
While trying to retrain the White Shephard, the actress cross path with the original owner of the dog, and eventually, the dog dies at the climax. But this movie shows us that how can a man can use an animal for his benefit.
Just because dogs are very loyal, a man can take advantage of them in such a manner that it turned that dog into a racist against a black person. Dogs are very naive, and they do as we train them to do.
White Dog is undoubtedly one of the Best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
5. Sounder (1972) – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 7.6/10
| Directed By: | Martin Ritt |
| Produced By: | Robert B. Radnitz |
| Written By: | Lonne Elder III |
| Starring: | Cicely Tyson Paul Winfield Kevin Hooks Taj Mahal Janet MacLachlan |
| Production House: | Radnitz/Mattel Productions, Inc. |
| Distributed By: | 20th Century Fox |
Sounder is a dog that will tell us that a pet will never leave its owner no matter what. The sounder movie is the story of a very low-income family. One day the boys of the house have lost their hunt, so the whole family has to sleep empty stomach.
But the father smells a ham cooking nearby, and he steals that ham to feed his family. The other day police arrest the father for stealing ham, and Sounder tried to save him, but one of the policemen shot him, and Sounder ran away.
One day after struggling a lot, when Sounder returns to his family, it brings a smile to the faces, but Sounder does not bark the same way he used to. But still, the dog helps the family in every way possible for an animal.
Sounder is a perfect example of one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
4. Bolt – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 7/10
| Directed By: | Chris Williams Byron Howard |
| Produced By: | Clark Spencer |
| Screenplay By: | Dan Fogelman Chris Williams |
| Starring: | John Travolta Susie Essman Mark Walton Miley Cyrus Malcolm McDowell Diedrich Bader Nick Swardson Greg Germann |
| Production House: | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| Distributed By: | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Bolt is an animated adventure movie produced by Walt Disney and released in 2008. Walt Disney is a very famous name amongst those born in the 80s and 90s because Walt Disney is one place that has delivered us so many memorable shows.
Walt Disney is the one who has given us the most iconic cartoon character in history, Mickey Mouse, and even after that, Walt Disney does not stop and keeps growing, and now Walt Disney is one of the biggest and most successful Production houses in the whole world.
Bolt is one of Disney’s most memorable movies and one of the biggest successes of Disney at that time. Bolt is a story of a stray dog adopted by a girl in the movie Bolt, and his owner was cast in a television show in which they both fight from crime, and Bolt has superpowers in that show.
The movie is a very memorable one as Disney’s finest works and one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
3. Old Yeller (1957) – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 7.3/10
| Directed By: | Robert Stevenson |
| Produced By: | Walt Disney |
| Written By: | Fred Gipson William Tunberg |
| Starring: | Dorothy McGuire Fess Parker Kevin Corcoran Tommy Kirk Spike |
| Production House: | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed By: | Buena Vista Distribution |
Old Yeller is one of the iconic movies based on dogs. And it is one of the earliest movies released by Walt Disney as a producer.
One day a family found a dog and named them old Yeller. Old Yeller helps them attacked by a blackbuck and her mother, and he shoos them and saves the family, and earned the affection of the family and everyone started to like Old Yeller.
One day a person told the family that Old Yeller steals from the whole county, and one of the family members scold Old Yeller for the same reason, and he even made Old Yeller sleep in the barn.
But there also Old Yeller proves himself as a helpful pet, and he made all the cows stand still while one of the family members is milking the cows. Old Yeller proves to them if someone showers love on an animal, then that animal will do anything to protect the family.
Old Yeller is surely one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
2. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 7.5/10
| Directed By: | Clyde Geronimi Hamilton Luske Wolfgang Reitherman |
| Produced By: | Walt Disney |
| Story By: | Bill Peet |
| Starring: | Rod Taylor Cate Bauer Betty Lou Gerson Ben Wright Bill Lee Lisa Davis Martha Wentworth |
| Production House: | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed By: | Buena Vista Distribution |
One hundred and one is the most iconic movie based on dogs and one of the best movies ever made on dogs. One Hundred and one Dalmatians is the movie that gives us the most epic villain of all time in the form of Cruella.
Cruella is indeed one of those villains who have to haunt us for most of our childhood. Just like her name, Cruella was a very cruel woman, especially for dogs, and not just dogs for dogs with Dalmatians.
Cruela wants to wear a cloth made by the skin of the dogs with dalmatians, and for that, she steals 101 Dalmatians dogs. Then one family rescue all of the dogs, including their own dogs, and then the family ends up adopting all the Dalmatian dogs.
There is also a sequel of the movie and also a live-action movie, but none of them matched the legacy of the original one, which makes it to be one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
1. Togo – Man’s Best Friend Movies
Ratings: 8.2/10
| Directed By: | Ericson Core |
| Produced By: | Kim Zubick |
| Written By: | Tom Flynn |
| Starring: | Willem Dafoe |
| Production House: | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Distributed By: | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Togo is one of the most visually stunning movies from Disney. The Visual effects work of the movie is top-notch. Plus, the performances of the movie are outstanding, especially Togo, the dog.
Togo, while being an animal he perfectly shows emotions and heart in his performance. Togo is Disney’s one of the best movies. Disney has made so many movies based on dogs, and almost all of them are enjoyable.
Disney knows how to win over their audience, and they successfully do so with their choices of cinema. Togo movie is for both children and adults. Togo is the story of a very stubborn dog who keeps digging out always to train like other dogs.
Togo is undoubtedly one of the best Man’s Best Friend Movies.
