Movies that have no/minimal humans but are still emotional for the viewer.

[Scarim Coral]

How about Castaway? Afterall the film is about a guy stuck on a deserted island as he learn to adapt the new surrounding as he try to get off it.

 

[Frybird]

Regarding what i've said somewhere above, i'd like to put a link to a video right....

...here... http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/bs/30301-brad-makes-sarah-cry-qshort-circuit-2q

 

[Carl goes to mars]

How many replicants where there meant to be in Blade Runner. Harrison Ford is chasing a load of replicants and then, spoiler, you find out that he may himself be a replicant. I suppose it's not emotionally moving though. Oh, and the characters are like humans.hmmm. Does that count.

Read "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" It was much more emotionally moving than blade runner ever was.

I'd have to say watership down. Cliche? Perhaps but boy was there some heart in that movie.

 

[floppylobster]

King Kong (1933).

 

[Squilookle]

Milo and Otis? What about Babe?

Captcha: 'youratin division'. NO YOU'RE A TIN DIVISION

 

[Skylants]

WATERSHIP DOWN!

Watership Down
Watership Down
Watership Down

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

name 90% of classic disney movies/cartoons

winnie the pooh?

it goes on and on and onn....

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Dark Crystal, as has been mentioned.
"7"
Dinosaur [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0130623/]
Bambi
Milo and Otis
The terrifying Watership Down
Pixar's first piece: The Desklamps
Most of the bizzare children's pseudo-educational stuff - Teletubbies, In The Night Garden, Morph, Trap Door, Mio and Mao...

Look at this and tell me if you can see any "human" in it.
or sense...

 

[fibchopkin]

My first thought was "Batteries not Included". There are definitely humans, but the story revolves around the little robot alien saucer dudes. Also- I would argue that ET falls into this category. There may only be one alien, but almost all of the drama and heartwrenching scenes invovled center round the relationship between Eliot and ET.
Possibly Avatar as well?

 

[Wintermoot]

what about Toy-Story 3?

 

[fibchopkin]

Ooooh- I just thought of one that exactly fits your criteria (even though it makes me bleed from the eyeballs every time my three year old demands that we watch it)- Beverly Hills Chihuahua. It was utterly vapid- but there are barely any human characters and it's all about the dogs, not animated, has minimal special effects and a bunch of action sequences, even a romantic subplot.

 

[SimonCharlesHanna]

EDIT: haha okay more rules. LIVE ACTION (meaning not cartoon, anime or CGI). And it has to be a FICTIONAL narrative.

That's not really a sensible rule given that a Transformers movie spurred your question - after all, they're CGI. Excluding animation would exclude Transformers - it would also exclude classic Ray Harryhausen style stop motion animtion, plus traditional animation and live action hybrids like Song of the South and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

That leaves you with real animals, puppets and guys in rubber suits. Star Wars maybe? Old Yeller? Planet of the Apes? The Dark Crystal?

Don't confuse A CGI film like Shrek or Final Fantasy (they are classed as CGI right?) as opposed to a live action film with CGI effects in them.

Edit: Although I can see where the line starts to blur. Toy Story also falls in the CGI film category.

The interesting thing is all the films that either have..live animals or Toys all seem to have Human personalities and mostly distinctly human voices.

 

[ms_sunlight]

EDIT: haha okay more rules. LIVE ACTION (meaning not cartoon, anime or CGI). And it has to be a FICTIONAL narrative.

That's not really a sensible rule given that a Transformers movie spurred your question - after all, they're CGI. Excluding animation would exclude Transformers - it would also exclude classic Ray Harryhausen style stop motion animtion, plus traditional animation and live action hybrids like Song of the South and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

That leaves you with real animals, puppets and guys in rubber suits. Star Wars maybe? Old Yeller? Planet of the Apes? The Dark Crystal?

Don't confuse A CGI film like Shrek or Final Fantasy (they are classed as CGI right?) as opposed to a live action film with CGI effects in them.

Edit: Although I can see where the line starts to blur. Toy Story also falls in the CGI film category.

The interesting thing is all the films that either have..live animals or Toys all seem to have Human personalities and mostly distinctly human voices.

I'm not - I think the line is blurred when it goes beyond CGI effects to characters being added wholesale in post-production. The transformers are essentially animated characters in a live-action film, just like Jessica Rabbit was, or Jerry the mouse was when he danced with Gene Kelly. It makes the distinction between an animated and a live-action film meaningless.