🏷 Discover The Best Gorilla Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Unleash the Power of Primates: Exploring the Best Movies and TV Shows Featuring Gorillas

Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure through the world of cinema, where the majestic gorilla takes center stage. From heartwarming dramas to action-packed blockbusters, our curated list of movies and TV shows will transport you to the lush jungles and captivating habitats of these incredible creatures. Discover the best of gorilla-themed entertainment and experience the raw emotion and power of these magnificent animals.

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Virunga (2014)

7.9 234 votes

Genre: Documentary, War

Country: Congo, United Kingdom

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park’s borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.

Plot: gorilla, democratic republic of the congo

Cast

Charlton Heston

Roddy McDowall

Kim Hunter

Maurice Evans

Planet of the Apes (1968)

7.7 4.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: G

Story: Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Plot: space marine, bondage, human evolution, based on novel or book, gorilla, dystopia, chimpanzee, slavery, ...

Cast

Chris Pratt

Anya Taylor-Joy

Charlie Day

Jack Black

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

7.6 10.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: gorilla, plumber, villain, anthropomorphism, based on video game, toad, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Tony Goldwyn

Minnie Driver

Glenn Close

Alex D. Linz

Tarzan (1999)

7.4 7.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: G

Story: Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...

Plot: baby, africa, gorilla, adoption, cartoon, villain, feral child, tarzan, ...

Cast

Andy Serkis

James Franco

Freida Pinto

John Lithgow

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

7.3 12.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

Plot: san francisco, california, solidarity, gorilla, intelligence, dystopia, zoo, chimpanzee, ...

Cast

Andy Serkis

Jason Clarke

Toby Kebbell

Gary Oldman

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

7.3 12.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Style: shocking

Plot: san francisco, california, peace, solidarity, gorilla, intelligence, dystopia, chimpanzee, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Andy Serkis

Woody Harrelson

Karin Konoval

Terry Notary

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

7.2 9.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Plot: suicide, civil war, escape, winter, mutation, peace, solidarity, gorilla, ...

Time: 2040s

Cast

Owen Teague

Freya Allan

Kevin Durand

Peter Macon

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

7.1 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Plot: empire, kingdom, gorilla, dystopia, chimpanzee, post-apocalyptic future, eagle, sequel, ...

Cast

Stan Laurel

Oliver Hardy

James Finlayson

Billy Gilbert

The Chimp (1932)

6.5 51 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 25 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.

Plot: circus, gorilla, black and white, flea circus, short film

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Donald Sutherland

Maura Tierney

Instinct (1999)

6.5 660 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Plot: prison, research, gorilla, instinct, murder, mute, jungle, psychologist, ...

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Naomie Harris

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Rampage (2018)

6.5 7.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

Plot: monster, wolf, mutation, gorilla, giant monster, lizard, giant lizard, creature, ...

Cast

Clark Gable

Ava Gardner

Grace Kelly

Donald Sinden

Mogambo (1953)

6.4 180 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: NR

Story: On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Plot: human vs nature, gorilla, safari, man between two women, sexual tension, tension, african bush, unhappy marriage, ...

Place: kenya

Cast

Joe Mantegna

Lara Flynn Boyle

Joe Pantoliano

Brian Haley

Baby's Day Out (1994)

6.4 1.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

Plot: chicago, illinois, baby, kidnapping, gorilla, stupidity, hoodlum, child kidnapping, ...

Cast

Charlize Theron

Bill Paxton

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Peter Firth

Mighty Joe Young (1998)

6.3 889 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG

Story: As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When Gregg O'Hara arrives from California and sees the animal, he convinces Jill that Joe would be safest at his wildlife refuge. But Strasser follows them to the U.S., intent on capturing Joe for himself.

Plot: dying and death, gorilla, uganda, poacher, remake, primatologist, giant ape, king kong

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Tim Roth

Helena Bonham Carter

Michael Clarke Duncan

Planet of the Apes (2001)

5.8 4.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

Plot: space marine, gorilla, revolution, dystopia, space suit, chimpanzee, slavery, time travel, ...

Cast

Brendan Fraser

Leslie Mann

Thomas Haden Church

John Cleese

George of the Jungle (1997)

5.7 2.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rainforest full of animal friends: Tookie, his big-beaked toucan messenger; Ape, a witty talking gorilla; and Shep, a peanut-loving pooch of an elephant. But when poachers mess with George's pals, the King of Swing swings into action.

Plot: san francisco, california, africa, gorilla, narration, lion, feral child, tarzan, ...

Zookeeper (2011)

5.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but he's more comfortable with the animals than with females of his own species as proven by his failed marriage proposal to the self-absorbed Stephanie several years ago. The animals have listened to Griffin pine over her for years and, after she reappears in his life, they decide to help Griffin rekindle the relationship and become the alpha male she wants him to be. They inadvertently reveal their secret ability to talk and, after Griffin's initial shock, teach him the rules of courtship, animal-style. Surprisingly, the animals' advice really works and Griffin is about to get everything he's ever dreamed of--or is he?

Plot: depression, marriage proposal, wedding reception, gorilla, ex-girlfriend, zoo, restaurant, anthropomorphism, ...