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10 Best Movies Like Working for Peanuts

If you loved Working for Peanuts, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Mickey's Elephant

Mickey's Elephant

1936★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Working for Peanuts for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A friend shipped Mickey a baby elephant named Bobo as a playmate for Pluto. Pluto's first introduction is to Bobo's trunk, through a fence. He's not thrilled, and marches away. The...

#2
Elmer Elephant

Elmer Elephant

1936★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Working for Peanuts for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Little Elmer Elephant has a crush on Tillie Tiger and his affection is reciprocated. Trouble is, the pint-sized pachyderm is beset by bullies who ridicule his trunk and make his li...

#3
All in a Nutshell

All in a Nutshell

1949★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Working for Peanuts for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Donald steals Chip and Dale's nuts for his nut-butter shop, which is shaped like a giant walnut, Chip and Dale, roll and "shoot" Donald into a nearby lake....

#4
Horton Hears a Who!

Horton Hears a Who!

2008★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Working for Peanuts for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despi...

#5
The Wise Little Hen

The Wise Little Hen

1934★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Working for Peanuts for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but the...

#6
Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull

1938★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Working for Peanuts for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveal...

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