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Plot Summary:
Dr Cadabra, an eccentric magician, lives in outer space with his son Abra and their pets - Stella the star cat and Zodiac the space dog. When all four are busy elsewhere, two villains, B.L. Z'Bub and Klaw the Rat King, take off with the Cosmic pipe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tripping
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Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)
Plot Summary:
This is an animated story covering the ancient legend of Beowulf, as narrated by Grendel himself, the "monster" in the legend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, crying, psychotronic, independent film
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The Magic Riddle (1991)
Plot Summary:
The Magic Riddle is a 1991 Australian animated feature film directed and written by Yoram Gross. The film's plot features elements of famous fairytales including Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio. Robyn Moore provides the voice of Cindy and various other characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anime, independent film, 2d animation
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Puff the Magic Dragon: The Land of the Living Lies (1979)
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Sandy is a little girl with a penchant for whoppers. However, when her lies start go so far as to implicate the innocent for her own misdeeds, Puff decides to step in. Using his magic, Puff takes Sandy to the Land of Living Lies where everyone tells the most ridiculous lies and honesty is persecuted. Only when Sandy realizes the need for honesty can she help Puff escape this insane world. Written by Kenneth Chisholm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: crying
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Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965)
Plot Summary:
Pinocchio tries to save the Earth from Astro the Space Whale.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, independent film
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Archon Defender (2009)
Plot Summary:
Archon Defender follows the path of a young woman, Colette, as she seeks her way through adversity to redemption, as the world she once knew is torn apart by war and tyranny. Archon Defender is a solo production by Director David T. Krupicz, who created this 65 minute feature film during a 3 year production, using obsolete older versions of production software running on second hand computers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: avant garde, exciting, captivating, suspense, anime, independent film
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Star Paws (2016)
Plot Summary:
An evil kitten known as Adventure Cat needs to get his paws on an ancient bone with magical power in order to take over the universe. It's up to an elite group of space dogs, headed by the intrepid General Ruff, to make sure Adventure Cat doesn't succeed!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Ranma 1/2: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China (1991)
Plot Summary:
When Prince Kirin of the 7 Lucky Gods shows up at the Tendo dojo looking for his bride-to-be, guess who's accidentally holding the scroll that signifies his future mate? Why, Akane, of course, and the rest of the Ranma crew is forced to take a boat to China in order to save her from the horrors of marriage and a diet of pickled vegetables.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, shounen, teen comedy
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Black Beauty (1987)
Plot Summary:
Produced by Burbank Films Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet and crashing into it, achieving his "destiny." It's up to Tom, Becky, and Huck to convince him that his judgment is wrong and that he still has much to offer humanity that might make a difference. Their efforts aren't just charitable; if they fail, they will share Twain's fate. Along the way, they use a magical time portal to get a detailed overview of the Twain philosophy, observing the "historical" events that inspired his works.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: claymation, disturbing, philosophical, experimental, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious, allegory, meta
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Flatland (2007)
Plot Summary:
Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds himself in the middle of two upheavals: the rise of martial law by the circular leadership of Flatland, and the arrival of A Sphere, CEO Of Messiah, Incorporated, a creature from a hitherto-unknown third dimensional world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, mindfuck, independent film, 3d animation, art film, biting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mind bending
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Children of the Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, seinen
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Pinocchio 3000 (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a little robot known as Pinocchio 3000 whose greatest wish is to become a real boy. The year is 3000. Geppetto, with the help of his faithful assistant, Spencer the cyber penguin, and by the holographic fairy Cyberina, creates Pinocchio, a prototype superrobot equipped for emotions. But before he can be given a heart and become a real boy, Cyberina insists that Pinocchio learn the difference between right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, Spain, Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: computer animated, touching, feel good, humorous, futuristic, anime, exciting, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale
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The Phoenix: Space Chapter (1987)
Plot Summary:
This is the third part of "The Phoenix" series of the Kadokawa Haruki Office Co., Ltd. version. It is an animation version of the original story by Tezuka Osamu that depicts the cruelty of love through the fate of spacemen destined to drift through the universe after losing their mother ship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime
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Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: 2d animation
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Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986)
Plot Summary:
This animated adventure goes back in time to the Care Bears' first-ever Caring Mission, when True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse touch down on Earth to boost the spirits of some unhappy kids at summer camp. But the evil Dark Heart has other plans, and convinces one of the campers to help him capture the Care Bears. Will our lovable heroes' Care Stare be enough to vanquish the villain -- and convince his apprentice that good's the way to go?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, crying, scary, fairy tale, sentimental, light, inspirational, unusual plot structure
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Scoob! (2020)
Plot Summary:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang team-up with various Hanna-Barbera characters to save the world from the evil Dick Dastardly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, 3d animation, anime, cult classic, surprise ending, psychotronic, detective, computer animated, entertaining, feel good
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Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report (1994)
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When the Spirit World is flooded due to an unusual rainfall which overflows the River Sanzu (aka the River Styx), Lord Koenma senses an extremely powerful enemy. He entrusts Death God Botan, to deliver to Spirit Detective Yusuke, a mysterious item which must be protected from the invading enemy. However, by the time Botan finds Yusuke, she's too weak to explain the situation. Yusuke and his friends are left in the dark about the new enemy, but not for long. Soon it is a battle for Earth between mere Spirit Detectives and the almighty king of the Netherworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, semi serious, juvenile, shounen
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Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, light, talky, colorful, computer animated, fantasy adventure, offbeat, serious, 3d animation
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Little Longnose (2003)
Plot Summary:
When he refused to support power-hungry witch, the good shoemaker's boy, Jacob is transformed into a hunchbacked dwarf with overlong nose. Of their mother no longer recognized, mocked by the people of the city and driven away, Jacob runs one day a goose on the road. Together with the spring animal - in fact the king's daughter Greta enchanted - Jacob is now trying to make the transformation to reverse and put the wicked witch craft.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, touching, thought provoking, semi serious, anime, spooky, exciting
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Welcome to the Space Show (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five children save the life of a dog-like alien while at a self-run summer camp. He attempts to reward them by taking them to an alien colony on the Moon. Events take a turn for the worse when his report on that attack that injured him causes passage from the Moon to the Earth to be banned, and children are stranded in space. The children need to find a way back home before camp ends and their parents discover that they are missing. They also have to avoid the poachers that injured their alien friend, and now seem to be stalking them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, light, futuristic, exciting, urban fantasy
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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns a homeless boy named Ricky, or Ted in the Japanese version. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Sylvester the crow (named Crow in the Japanese edition), and Ricky's companions, a talking dog and a toy soldier, they travel the Milky Way to the Planet of Blue Hope, which has been taken over by the Queen of Purple Planet and her evil group of robots. Armed with water-pistols and water balloons, which melt the villains, Ricky and Gulliver restore Blue Hope to its doll-like owners.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
Plot Summary:
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, cult classic, mysterious, anime, tense, retro, gothic, period piece, creepy
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Wizards (1977)
Plot Summary:
An ambiguous battle between good and evil wages in a post-apocalyptic earth populated by netherworld creatures who have re-emerged after the nuclear winter. Two wizard twin brothers - the evil Blackwolf and the good Avatar - battle for supremacy. The war turns in Blackwolf's favor when he discovers the methods of warfare used by the ill-fated humans of the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, adult animation, anime, surreal, stylized, grindhouse, cult classic, dark, apocalyptic, mind bending
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Vixen: The Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
Originally from Africa, Mari McCabe grew up an orphan after her parents were killed by local greed, corruption and wanton violence. But Mari refuses to succumb to the terrors surrounding her. Inheriting her family's Anansi Totem, Mari can access the powers of animals - anything from the super-strength of a gorilla to the speed of a cheetah. As Vixen, she fights valiantly to protect the world from threats like those that claimed her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, anime
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Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Plot Summary:
As a lionhearted boy who can’t wield magic strives for the title of Wizard King, four banished Wizard Kings of yore return to crush the Clover Kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set between Episode II and III the Clone Wars is the first computer animated Star Wars film. Anakin and Obi Wan must find out who kidnapped Jabba the Hutts son and return him safely. The Seperatists will try anything to stop them and ruin any chance of a diplomatic agreement between the Hutt's and the Republic.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Singapore, Australia, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, entertaining, futuristic, stylized, serious, computer animated, psychotronic, epic, intellectual
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Justice League: Doom (2012)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Mark Waid's "Tower of Babel" story from the JLA comic. Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: light, witty, exciting, serious, suspenseful, anime, epic, adult animation, colorful, sexy
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The Death of Superman (2018)
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When a hulking monster emerges from an underground resting place and begins a mindless rampage, the Justice League is quickly called in to stop the colossal force of nature. But it soon becomes apparent that only Superman can stand against the monstrosity that has been nicknamed Doomsday.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic, serious, captivating, intense, suspense, action adventure, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, detective
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: claymation, feel good, atmospheric, humorous, not serious, 3d animation, hilarious, parody, scary, suspense
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Treasure Planet (2002)
Plot Summary:
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But, soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent on mutiny!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, entertaining, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, anime, feel good, retro, educational