Movies Like Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)

Dolphin Tale 2 is a 2014 drama, family film from Charles Martin Smith with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Dolphin Tale and Jaws 3-D.

Drama Family

Dolphin Tale

2011

A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

6.9

MagicScore

Jaws 3-D

1983

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

4.5

MagicScore

Revenge of the Creature

1955

In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.

5.6

MagicScore

Suncoast

2024

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

6.7

MagicScore

Flipper

1963

Sandy is distraught when, having saved Flipper by pulling out a spear, his father insists the dolphin be released. A grateful Flipper, however, returns the favor when Sandy is threatened by sharks.

5.7

MagicScore

Bernie the Dolphin

2018

A brother and sister who befriend a badly sunburned dolphin separated from his family and uncover a secret plan that could destroy the beach and their new friend's home. The kids must devise a clever plan to stop the bad guys, protect the sea life, and, most importantly, save their best friend, Bernie.

5.9

MagicScore

Flipper

1996

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime.

5.5

MagicScore

Cruel Jaws

1995

A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.

4.2

MagicScore

Terror from the Year 5000

1958

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

3.5

MagicScore

#10

Flipper's New Adventure

1964

While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called by most) is away, Sandy learns that the family home, built on state land, is being torn down to make way for a highway. In turn, Sandy would be sent to live with relatives, while Flipper would be sent to the seaquarium permanently. Not wanting to be separated from Flipper, Sandy, using his skiff, runs away with Flipper. A distraught Po returns home to look for his son. Meanwhile, the Hopewell family from Britain are vacationing in the area. Their sailboat is hijacked by three escaped convicts, who take the father, Halsey, hostage, and set the three Hopewell women - mother Julia, and teen-aged daughters Gwen and Penny - adrift, they who eventually land on the island where Sandy is hiding... Written by Huggo

6.9

MagicScore

#11

Life During Wartime

2010

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).

5.9

MagicScore

#12

The Red Turtle

2016

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

The Creature Walks Among Us

1956

Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.

5.3

MagicScore

#14

2 Lava 2 Lantula!

2016

When an unprecedented amount of sinkholes erupt all over Florida, a new nest of fire spitting LAVALANTULAS is awakened… wreaking their fiery havoc all over the sunshine state.

5.1

MagicScore

#15

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!

2015

The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.

4.6

MagicScore

#16

Finding Nemo

2003

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.

7.8

MagicScore

#17

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

2010

Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy races across the beach to the ocean while avoiding being caught by seagulls and crabs. Thus begins Sammy's incredible fifty-year ocean journey where he overcomes obstacles, both natural and man-made, while trying to fulfill his dream of travelling around the world. Along the way he meets his best friend, a fellow turtle named Ray, and never forgets about Shelly, a turtle he saved that first day on the beach and the one he's always loved.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

Loggerheads

2005

A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.

5.8

MagicScore

#19

Deep Sea 3D

2006

Sea life in a whole new way. Deep Sea 3D, an underwater adventure from the filmmakers behind the successful IMAX® 3D film Into the Deep, transports audiences deep below the ocean surface. Through the magic of IMAX®; and IMAX 3D, moviegoers will swim with some of the planets most unique, dangerous and colorful creatures, and understand this inspiring underworld.

6.6

MagicScore

#20

The Bermuda Depths

1978

Scientists pursuing the mysteries of the deep are threatened by a beautiful girl who seems to have returned from the dead and by a prehistoric sea creature that dwells in the deadly Bermuda Triangle.

5.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Dolphin Tale 2?

The top films similar to Dolphin Tale 2 by MovieMagicScore are Dolphin Tale (6.9), Jaws 3-D (4.5), Revenge of the Creature (5.6). Each shares drama/family themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Dolphin Tale 2 worth watching?

Dolphin Tale 2 holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 361 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Dolphin Tale 2?

Dolphin Tale 2 (2014) is a drama, family film directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Winter The Dolphin, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff.

Where can I find more recommendations like Dolphin Tale 2?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Dolphin Tale 2

This ranked list pairs Dolphin Tale 2 (2014), a drama and family film from Charles Martin Smith, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Winter The Dolphin take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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