15 Best Movies About Dolphins You Can Watch
Dolphins have always attracted people with their beauty, intelligence, and playfulness. That made a lot of filmmakers make movies about them. In this article, we are bringing you the best movies about dolphins you can find out there.
Now, movies about dolphins are usually family-friendly, warm movies, and this is what we are bringing you in this article. Nice and warm movies with a few amazing documentaries around dolphins.
Check them out below and choose your next watch about dolphins.
Dolphin Tale (2011)
When he first meets a rescued dolphin at Clearwater Marine, the rehabilitation center where she lives, Sawyer (Nathan Gamble) rallies his friends and family to save Winter and convince a pioneering doctor (Oscar winner Morgan Freeman) to create a unique prosthesis that would the dolphin regained the ability to swim.
Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
It’s been a few years since young Sawyer Nelson and the dedicated team at Clearwater Marine Animal Hospital, led by Dr. Clay Haskett, rescued Winter. With the help of Dr. Cameron McCarthy, who developed a unique prosthetic tail for a wounded dolphin, they managed to save her life.
But their fight is not over. Winter’s surrogate mother, an elderly Panama dolphin, has died, leaving Winter without the only pool friend she’s ever known. However, the loss of Panama may have even more serious consequences for Winter, who, according to USDA regulations, cannot live alone because dolphins’ social behavior requires them to be paired with other individuals.
Time is running out to find her a mate before another aquarium takes away the beloved Winter team in Clearwater.
The Cove (2009)
In the 1960s, Richard O’Barry, the world’s leading dolphin trainer, worked on the popular movie Pinball. When one of the dolphins died in his arms, he realized that part of his career dedicated to training was a mistake and that animals have the same right to freedom as humans. He decided that he would not give up until he returned the last dolphin to its natural habitat.
Dolphin Reef (2018)
Echo is a young bottlenose dolphin who can’t quite decide if it’s time to grow up and take on new responsibilities-or give in to his silly side and just have fun. Dolphin society is tricky, and the coral reef that Echo and his family call home depend on all of its inhabitants to keep it healthy.
Beneath the Blue (2010)
A drama about the kidnapping of Rasca, a particularly intelligent and specially trained dolphin. dr. Hawk and his team at the underwater research center investigate the life, habits and language of dolphins. With the help of a computer program, they manage to communicate with them in a language that is understandable to both species: snorting.
Hawk’s daughter Alyssa is especially devoted to working with dolphins, prefers to stay in the water and is one of the main “teachers”, and her best student is the female Rasca. Hawk and his team are shaken by the news that fifteen dead dolphins have been found. They know that the US Navy’s sonar tests are the cause, but Captain Blaine rejects such a possibility…
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited vocabulary.
When the dolphins are stolen, he discovers they’re to be used in an assassination attempt. Now he is in a race to discover who is the target, and where the dolphins are, before the attempt is carried out.
A Ring of Endless Light (2002)
Based on the Novel by Madeline L’Engle. During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
Free Willy (1993)
Growing up without biological parents, Jesse (J. J. Richter) often changes foster parents and actually lives on the streets, hanging out with a few best friends, including Perry (M. Bacall). One night, Jesse and Perry end up at an amusement park where Jesse is frightened by Willy the killer whale who was recently captured to become the park’s main attraction.
Jesse ends up in the police, where officer Dwight (M. Williamson) decides to take him in with a married couple Glen (M. Madsen) and Annie Greenwood (J. Atkinson). Although the Greenwoods are caring and considerate towards him, the embittered boy causes their only problems, and the only thing he looks forward to is visiting the amusement park where he becomes friends with the equally unhappy Willy.
And while Willy’s trainers Rae (L. Petty) and Randolph (A. Schellenberg) believe in the whale’s abilities, the greedy park owner Dial (M. Ironside) concludes that he will benefit more from the animal if he kills it…
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
Two years after helping Willy (Keiko) escape from captivity, Jesse (Jason James Richter) lives with his foster parents, the Greenwood family. Into Jesse’s life comes his half-brother Elvis (Francis Capra), to whom Jesse remained the only relative after the death of their mother.
For the holidays, the Greenwood family goes on vacation and Jesse meets his old friends Randolph and Willy the killer whale again. But soon the idyllic gathering is interrupted by a danger that endangers the lives of marine life, as well as people.
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
After saving Willy the whale from certain death a few years ago, teenager Jesse (JJ Richter) dedicates himself to protecting the largest marine mammals.
At the invitation of his old acquaintance Randolph (A. Schellenberg), Jesse becomes part of the crew of a research ship whose member is also an oceanologist Drew (A. Corley). Although the two will not get along at first, they will be connected by a joint mission to save endangered animals threatened by unscrupulous whalers and their plan to illegally sell whale meat to Japan and Russia.
At the same time, the boy Max (V. Bery) goes fishing with his father John (P. Kilpatrick), not realizing that he has been making money hunting whales for years. When Max meets Jesse, a friendship will be born between them that will be crucial for Willy and the other animals in the moments of saving a flock of whales from their ruthless hunters.
Eye of the Dolphin (2006)
Alisa (Carly Schroeder) is a very troubled 14-year-old. Ever since her mother drowned, she has been causing nothing but trouble, and has even gotten to the point of being suspended from classes. Already at the end of her strength, her grandmother decided to take her to her father, whom Alisa thought was dead. But James (Adrina Dunbar) studies communication with dolphins in the Bahamas. He didn’t even know he had a daughter, and the science of parenting is completely foreign to him.
“Eye of the Dolphin” is a touching family story about a girl who after a tragedy, i.e. the death of her mother, finds it difficult to find her place in the world.
Bernie The Dolphin (2018)
The plot of this family adventure takes place in Florida and tells the story of a brother and sister who accidentally become friends with a dolphin that has been separated from its family.
Through a play of random events, the two discover the secret intention of evil people who will try to destroy the beach, and thus the home of their new friend. Hana and Ivan must come up with a clever plan to stop the bad guys, protect the sea animals and, most importantly, save their friend Bernie.
Flipper (1963)
Sandy Ricks (Halpin), is a young boy who lives with his father (Connors) in Florida. During one fishing trip, Sandy manages to persuade her father to take in a dolphin that they injured with a harpoon. Despite the initial disagreement, the father decides to comply with his son’s wishes.
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 eventually land on the island where Sandy is hiding. Not wanting to be detected since he doesn’t want to …
Flipper (1996)
A mother sends her son Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood) to Coral Key, one of the islands of the Florida Keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks (Paul Hogan).
Sandy likes absolutely nothing there until she meets a new friend, a dolphin named Flipper, whose appearance brings the nephew and uncle together and thanks to which Sandy experiences a summer adventure she will never forget.
