Movies like Hachi: A Dog's Tale
If Hachi: A Dog's Tale's mix of friendship, loyalty and pet stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Hachi: A Dog's Tale's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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A Dog's Purpose
2017 · Directed by Lasse Hallström · 100 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Lasse Hallström · Shares: human animal relationship, dog, pets · Also family and drama
A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
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The Fox and the Hound
1981 · Directed by Richard Rich · 82 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, dog, pets · Also drama and family
When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper.
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Megan Leavey
2017 · Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite · 116 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: human animal relationship, dog, pets
The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED…
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022 · Directed by Peter Baynton · 35 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, hopeful · Also family and drama
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
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A Dog's Journey
2019 · Directed by Gail Mancuso · 109 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: dog, pets · Also family and drama
A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.
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A Dog's Way Home
2019 · Directed by Charles Martin Smith · 96 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: dog, pets · Also drama and family
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
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Max
2015 · Directed by Boaz Yakin · 111 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: dog, pets · Also drama and family
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.
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Mr. Church
2016 · Directed by Bruce Beresford · 104 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, hopeful
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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Inside Out
2015 · Directed by Pete Docter · 95 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: family relationships, hopeful · Also family and drama
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through…
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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · Directed by Kelly Reichardt · 80 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, dog · From the same decade (2000s)
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
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A-X-L
2018 · Directed by Oliver Daly · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, friends
The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002 · Directed by Kelly Asbury · 83 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: pets · Also family and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.