Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "zookeeper"

1. Split (IX) (2016)

PG-13 | 117 min | Horror, Thriller

Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula

Votes: 554,272 | Gross: $138.29M

2. Bullet Train (2022)

R | 127 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common.

Director: David Leitch | Stars: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry

Votes: 428,092 | Gross: $103.37M

3. Rampage (2018)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.

Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Votes: 185,003 | Gross: $101.03M

4. Life of Pi (2012)

PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu

Votes: 667,021 | Gross: $124.99M

5. We Bought a Zoo (2011)

PG | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning

Votes: 151,787 | Gross: $75.62M

6. Primeval (2007–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller, Juliet Aubrey

Votes: 15,444

7. The Mighty Boosh (2003–2007)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

Surreal British comedy in which Vince Noir and Howard Moon have adventures filled with oddball characters while working as Zoo Keepers, before pursuing a musical career and running a second-hand shop.

Stars: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Michael Fielding, Rich Fulcher

Votes: 24,049

8. Cat People (1982)

R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

A woman who was orphaned from a young age finally reunites with her older brother. Matters start to go awry when she slowly discovers the true nature of her family.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole

Votes: 23,916 | Gross: $7.00M

9. Osmosis Jones (2001)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A policeman white blood cell, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Chris Rock, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood

Votes: 38,771 | Gross: $13.60M

10. Back to the Outback (2021)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they're monsters, a group of Australia's deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback.

Directors: Harry Cripps, Clare Knight | Stars: Eric Bana, Tim Minchin, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie

Votes: 10,498

11. Zookeeper (2011)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A group of zoo animals decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper find love, without opting to leave his current job for something more illustrious.

Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Ken Jeong

Votes: 65,201 | Gross: $80.36M

12. Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond

Votes: 105,662 | Gross: $68.22M

13. Tiger King (2020–2021)

TV-MA | 45 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A rivalry between big cat eccentrics takes a dark turn when Joe Exotic, a controversial animal park boss, is caught in a murder-for-hire plot.

Stars: Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, John Reinke, Jeff Lowe

Votes: 86,989

14. Sex Pot (2009 Video)

Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

Two potheads find a stash of weed that makes women very horny.

Director: Eric Forsberg | Stars: Rollin Perry, Seth Cassell, Michelle Penick, Rana Davis

Votes: 2,798

15. Dragon Wars: D-War (2007)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Once in 500 years, ancient mythical creatures come to Earth, wreaking havoc and destruction. This time they must be stopped.

Director: Hyung-rae Shim | Stars: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Craig Robinson

Votes: 25,370 | Gross: $10.98M

16. Zappa (1983)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the early '60s, 3 Danish classmates join a "den"/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later escalates.

Director: Bille August | Stars: Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt, Morten Hoff, Lone Lindorff

Votes: 2,980

17. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean

Votes: 7,184

18. Zoo (I) (2017)

PG | 97 min | Adventure, Family, History

Young Tom Hall (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save "Buster" the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941.

Director: Colin McIvor | Stars: Toby Jones, Seamus O'Hara, Penelope Wilton, Ian McElhinney

Votes: 1,427

19. Magic of Disney's Animal Kingdom (2020– )

TV-PG | 40 min | Documentary

A documentary series which takes viewers behind the scenes with the animal-care experts, veterinarians, and biologists at Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot's SeaBase aquarium.

Stars: Josh Gad, Tasha Johnson, Dan, Meloni Jones

Votes: 478

20. The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)

91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave.

Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Sheen

Votes: 5,921

21. Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966)

30 min | Animation

The educational misadventures of a fast-talking penguin and his dumb walrus friend.

Stars: Kenny Delmar, Don Adams, Bradley Bolke, Larry Storch

Votes: 467

22. Prehistoric Park (2006)

60 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama

Nigel Marven travels back in time to rescue exotic creatures on the brink of extinction. CGI is used to create animals no longer seen on earth, from woolly mammoths, and T Rex, to dinosaur-eating crocodiles.

Stars: Rod Arthur, Suzanne McNabb, Nigel Marven, David Jason

Votes: 1,776

23. The Wild Beasts (1984)

Unrated | 92 min | Horror

The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose.

Director: Franco Prosperi | Stars: Lorraine De Selle, Antonio Di Leo, Ugo Bologna, Louisa Lloyd

Votes: 1,181

24. Legend of the Werewolf (1975)

85 min | Horror

Paris, 19th century. A man who has been raised by wolves works at a zoo. But on full moon nights he transforms into a dangerous beast. Professor Paul is in charge of hunting him down as the young man develops an obsession for a prostitute.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle

Votes: 942

25. The Zookeeper (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War

In the midst of a devastating civil war in an Eastern European country, a disillusioned ex-Communist is left behind to take care of the animals in the capital's zoological gardens until a U.N. rescue force arrives.

Director: Ralph Ziman | Stars: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri

Votes: 4,354

26. Jasper Mall (2020)

85 min | Documentary

A year in the life of a dying shopping mall.

Directors: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb

Votes: 1,525

27. Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (1971)

G | 85 min | Family, Drama

Barney (Jack Klugman) owns the last working farm in Manhattan. For various reasons, city officials have decided to close it down. A special event is planned to raise awareness and money to ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Mann | Stars: Jack Klugman, Norma French, Reuben Figueroa, David Mann

Votes: 94

28. Zoombies (2016)

TV-14 | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a strange virus quickly spreads through a safari park and turns all the zoo animals undead, those left in the park must stop the creatures before they escape and zombify the whole city.

Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Ione Butler, Andrew Asper, LaLa Nestor, Kim Nielsen

Votes: 2,945

29. Turtle Diary (1985)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they ... See full summary »

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon

Votes: 829 | Gross: $2.16M

30. Robocroc (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A rocket carrying nano robots crash lands shortly after takeoff into a zoo. The bots are released and find their way into a massive crocodile. The croc, now programmed to kill, will target anything and anyone for its next meal.

Director: Arthur Sinclair | Stars: Corin Nemec, Lisa McAllister, Keith Duffy, Steven Hartley

Votes: 1,135

31. Snow (2004 TV Movie)

120 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Set in San Ernesto, California with only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden needs to rescue a young reindeer from a zoo.

Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Tom Cavanagh, Ashley Williams, Patrick Fabian, Bobb'e J. Thompson

Votes: 2,056

32. Little Miss Dolittle (2018)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

An 11-year-old girl can talk to animals. When a thief causes trouble at the local zoo, she comes to the rescue.

Director: Joachim Masannek | Stars: Peri Baumeister, Aylin Tezel, Meret Becker, Christoph Maria Herbst

Votes: 564

33. Working for Peanuts (1953)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Chip 'n Dale live next door to a zoo and spot the elephant's stash of peanuts. They go after them, but both the elephant and his keeper, Donald, are too clever. Then the boys realize the ... See full summary »

Directors: Jack Hannah, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Dessie Flynn, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash

Votes: 699

34. Aloys (2016)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy

A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.

Director: Tobias Nölle | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejcí, Yufei Li

Votes: 2,252

35. Operation Snatch (1962)

83 min | Comedy, War

Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Day | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Sanders, Lionel Jeffries, Jocelyn Lane

Votes: 68

36. Dva lidi v zoo (1989)

89 min | Comedy

Twin brothers are sent to Grandpa to spend some days. The Grandpa is a vet at a zoo and barely has time or patience to deal with the boys, most of the time the boys just help the animals by feeding, petting or playing their violins.

Director: Marie Polednáková | Stars: Miroslav Machácek, Jirina Jirásková, Martin Morávek, Jan Morávek

Votes: 117

37. Avida (2006)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy

The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.

Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Anselme, Fernando Arrabal, Anne Benett, Beu

Votes: 665

38. Zoo in Budapest (1933)

Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance

An orphan girl escapes her caregivers to be with a young man raised at the zoo whose only previous friends are the animals.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright

Votes: 510

39. Nahota na prodej (1993)

102 min | Crime

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Director: Vít Olmer | Stars: Lukás Vaculík, Jirí Krampol, Karla Triska, Marie Reisnerová

Votes: 112

40. The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering ... See full summary »

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 420

41. The Impossible Elephant (2001)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Family

The lonely boy who magically got the elephant he wished for from a falling star.

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Mia Sara, Nicholas Lea, Mark Rendall, Alex Doduk

Votes: 178

42. 10 Promises to My Dog (2008)

117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A teenage girl adopts a homeless puppy and names it "Socks". They take care of each others since then, until one day when she is thinking Socks to be smaller than she thought it used be...

Director: Katsuhide Motoki | Stars: Rena Tanaka, Ryô Kase, Mayuko Fukuda, Chizuru Ikewaki

Votes: 707

43. Owl and the Sparrow (2007)

PG | 97 min | Drama

In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.

Director: Stephane Gauger | Stars: Cat Ly, The Lu Le, Han Thi Pham, Trong Hai

Votes: 968 | Gross: $0.05M

44. Keepers of the Wild (1992 TV Movie)

55 min | Documentary

National Geographic TV special follows elephant keeper Charlie Gray in Canada, bat keeper Sue Barnard in Georgia, big cat keeper Jack Castor in California, former zookeeper Margaret Cook ... See full summary »

Director: Allison Argo | Star: Glenn Close

45. Mitti (2001)

155 min | Action, Drama

A psychopathic gangster rapes and murders a woman and then her brother kills everyone responsible one by one.

Director: Iqbal Durrani | Stars: Ferdous Ahmed, Sharbani Mukherji, Rani Rajkumar, Arif Zakaria

Votes: 35

46. Bucking the Tiger (1917)

25 min | Comedy, Short

Squire Laurie, the village skinflint, takes a circus tiger as security for a loan. Arthur, who loves Lillian, the old man's daughter, hates tigers, having bucked them, but when Laurie's ... See full summary »

Director: Robin Williamson | Stars: Ben Turpin, Arthur Currier, Lillian Hamilton, Edward J. Laurie

Votes: 12

47. La tête de maman (2007)

95 min | Drama

Lulu is 15 years old, living in an idealized French countryside with her parents. Her mother has been depressed and sickly as far back as she can remember, a state which is about to be ... See full summary »

Director: Carine Tardieu | Stars: Karin Viard, Chloé Coulloud, Kad Merad, Pascal Elbé

Votes: 411

48. Tigers in the City (2012)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A brilliant character comedy about friendship set in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Director: Juraj Krasnohorsky | Stars: Kristína Tóthová, Tomas Mastalir, Milan Ondrík, Lubomír Bukový

Votes: 78

49. Good Night, Gorilla (1998)

Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short

There is someone at the zoo making hilarious mischief you won't want to miss!

Directors: Don Duga, Irra Verbitsky | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Renée Nalbandian, Brianna Gagne

Votes: 15

50. Roar (2006– )

30 min | Documentary, Family

Following keepers in Port Lympne and Howletts wild animal parks in Kent as they take care of the animals.

Stars: Johny Pitts, Rani Price, Matthew Skilton, Alex Dolan