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Plot Summary:
The future? The Earth is dying under the onslaught of industry, the polar caps are melting, the ozone layer is nearly destroyed... To save the planet, the Doctor must overcome the combined forces of some of the most feared of his old adversaries. But he must also confront a far greater enemy - one that has already reverted him to his Fourth Incarnation - in order to save both the past and future Doctors before they are taken out of time and cease to exist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Macross Delta is set in the year 2067, eight years after the events of Macross Frontier. The story focuses on Walküre, a team of talented idols and the Delta Squadron, a team of experienced Valkyrie pilots as they battle against the Var Syndrome, a mysterious phenomena that is consuming the galaxy, alongside the mysterious Aerial Knights Valkyrie fighter team of the Kingdom of Wind. This film recompiles scenes from the television anime with new scenes to tell a different story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, mecha, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Young Ruuji Familon finds a Liger-type Zoid during a salvage mission. Initially, the village is attacked by Bio-Raptor Bio-Zoids, and later a Bio-Megaraptor. After the village generator is destroyed in combat, Ruuji takes the Murasame Liger Zoid and leaves the village alongside Ra-Kan and Rei Mii to find a generator mechanic or the village will be destroyed. Through his journey Ruuji learns he must fight against Digald.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 24 min
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From the farthest reaches of the galaxy comes the magical, mystical, brilliantly animated adventures of Sebastian Star Bear who lives in the Great Bear Constellation. Called to Earth from a distant planet, Sebastian becomes a furry crusader for truth, justice. He must go to Earth to save his fellow bear-mates from the evil Draco.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Animation
Country: Netherlands, Taiwan, China
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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The Toa Metru return to their glorious city of Metru Nui to finally accomplish their mission, only to find the city in ruins, overrun by the dreaded Visorak horde. Captured by their new enemy and transformed into hideous Toa Hordika, our heroes must find a figure out of myth to be cured of their mutations and fulfill their destiny before the beast within overtakes them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Denmark
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious
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Brijes are magical animal spirits that have been in contact with human beings since the beginning of time. Every human had his brije: The human cared for his brije and vice versa. When the human turned 13 the old shamans performed the ritual a synchronizing ritual trough which the human and the brije were able to transform into the warrior form: a physical state in which the human acquired the powers of his brije and extraordinary strength needed to perform acts of heroism. Unfortunately hundreds of years ago, with the birth of modern science and technology, this union was severed and humans stopped believing in magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Animation, Adventure
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, offbeat
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, serious, suspenseful, stylized, anime, spiritual, esoteric
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In a city of darkness, they are the light. From some of the world's most visionary animators comes an action-packed, feature-length adventure of two young warriors in the battle between the forces of good and evil! Kira and Eli are the newest members of the Guardian Force, a group of angel warriors sworn to protect the world from the powers of evil. Not yet full Guardians, the young duo still has a lot to learn, but when darkness descends over the city, the time for training is over. Faced with the responsibility of delivering hope to a lost city, they must learn to work together to drive back the soldiers of darkness and grow into the warriors they are destined to become.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, futuristic
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, humorous
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, captivating
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Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995)
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The Z Warriors discover an unopenable music box and are told to open it with the dragon balls. The contents turn out to be a warrior named Tapion who had sealed himself inside along with a monster called Hildegarn. Goku must now perfect a new technique to defeat the evil monster.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
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Doctor Who: Dreamland (2009)
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This sensational new animated adventure finds the Doctor (voiced by David Tennant) hooked up with two new companions – Cassie and Jimmy – and pits him against a new alien race, the monstrous Viperox, led by Lord Azlok. Day Springs, Nevada, 1958. During a visit to a local diner, the Doctor befriends a young waitress, Cassie, and her friend Jimmy. When the Doctor examines an extraterrestrial artefact, he draws the attention of a mysterious man in black, an alien warrior and Colonel Stark, commanderof Dreamland – the military base also known as Area 51. So begins a momentous mission for the Doctor, who with the help of his new companions and Jimmy’s grandfather, Night Eagle, sets out to rescue the stranded alien, Rivesh Mantilax, and his wife, Saruba Valek, from the clutches of the American military – and from the terrifying alien race, the Viperox, led by the ruthless Lord Azlok.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, humorous, computer animated
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Embittered by Superman's heroic successes and soaring popularity, Lex Luthor forms a dangerous alliance with the powerful computer/villain Brainiac. Using advanced weaponry and a special strain of Kryptonite harvested from the far reaches of outer space, Luthor specifically redesigns Brainiac to defeat the Man of Steel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, epic, fast, psychotronic, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
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Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, captivating, crying
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Universal Century 0087, as the civil war between the AEUG and the Titans continues, Kamille meets a mysterious girl named Four. But his encounter with Four, one of the Titans' "cyber-Newtypes," fills his heart with anguish. The grief-stricken Kamille fights his way back to space to find the new mobile suit Z Gundam waiting for him. Meanwhile Paptimus Scirocco, the man from Jupiter, has added his strength to that of the Titans. And a third power is finally making its move, in the form of the Zeon remnants of Axis... With enhanced animation and a theme song by GACKT, the tragic romance of Kamille and Four unfolds in this second part of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam feature trilogy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, rough, serious
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon (1992)
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U.C. 0083 - Three years after the end of the catastrophic One Year War, peace on Earth and the colonies is shattered by the presence of the Delaz Fleet, a rogue Zeon military group loyal to the ideals of the late dictator Gihren Zabi. Delaz Fleet's ace pilot Anavel Gato, once hailed as "The Nightmare of Solomon", infiltrates the Federation's Torrington base in Australia and steals the nuclear-armed Gundam GP02A "Physalis" prototype. Rookie pilot Kou Uraki - with the aid of Anaheim Electronics engineer Nina Purpleton and the crew of the carrier Albion - pilots the Gundam GP01 "Zephyranthes" prototype in an attempt to recover the stolen Gundam unit and prevent another war from breaking out.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018)
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U.C. 0097, one year after the opening of "Laplace's Box". Despite the revelation of the Universal Century Charter that acknowledges the existence and rights of Newtypes, the framework of the world has not been greatly altered. The conflict later dubbed the "Laplace Incident" is thought to have ended with the downfall of the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves. In its final battle, two full psycho-frame mobile suits displayed power beyond human understanding. The white unicorn and the black lion were sealed away to remove this danger from people's consciousness, and they should now be completely forgotten. However, the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03, which disappeared two years earlier, is now about to show itself in the Earth Sphere once more. A golden phoenix… named Phenex.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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In a Japanese city haunted by nature spirits and demons, a secret war is raging between the renegade demon Eko and a spectral warrior known as the Karas. Eko has mechanized himself and his followers to defend against the unearthly fury of the Karas; in addition to an armored humanoid form, the Karas can transform into any of various heavily armed and armored vehicles. Eko and his followers prefer to live in the material realm in human form, but to continue doing so they must feed on the fluids of human bodies. Their periodic feasts result in massacres that leave only a single traumatized survivor; these "inexplicable" tragedies are the obsession of a marginalized police inspector whose daughter was the survivor of one such massacre. Opposing Eko are the renegade demon Nue, who also lives in the material world in human form but refuses to drink blood or take a mechanized form, and Otoha, a former human who is summoned by the mysterious Yurine to become the new Karas.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, manga
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation I: Heir to the Stars (2004)
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Universal Century 0087. The Titans, a bellicose faction among the Earth Federation Forces, grows powerful and tyrannical, even using poison gas to suppress a civil unrest. Dissident soldiers from the same military stand against them, forming a resistance group called the AEUG. Kamille Bidan, a civilian student, gets entangled in this conflict when he impulsively steals the Gundam Mark II and joins the AEUG, running away from his home space colony. Then he begins to fight along with Char Aznable, a former Zeon ace pilot who has infiltrated the Earth Sphere for reasons of his own. This is the first part of the feature trilogy derived from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and features enhanced animation and theme songs by GACKT.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
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Country: Japan
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 280
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Country: Japan
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In the 21st century mankind was on the brink of destruction. Through genetic engineering however they eradicated such feelings as love and the desire for power. Since women are naturally less aggressive than men, women to man ratio was set to 9:1. Now people are engineered to have skills that others view as being necessary. There is a giant ring that now orbits the earth, that sits there and relays information back to an alien race that sent it. Now a team of five women will try to eradicate the alien threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 96
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Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, anime, exciting, mecha
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
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The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime TV series released in 1984.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 162
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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An untold chapter in the Mass Effect saga, following the early career of Alliance Marine, James Vega, as he leads a squad of elite special forces into battle against a mysterious alien threat known as The Collectors. Stationed at a colony in a remote star system, Vega and his troops must protect the inhabitants from an invasion of the deadly insectoid warriors determined to collect the population for unknown purposes. Soon after the attack, Vega's commanding officer falls in battle, forcing the young officer to embrace the responsibility of leadership for the colony's survival. Having idolized Earth's greatest hero and warrior, Commander Shepard (the central character in the Mass Effect video games), the young and idealistic Vega must now make life and the death decisions that will effect not only the lives of his squad, but the lives of every person in the colony - all of whom he has sworn to protect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, South Korea
Duration: 84 min
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Time Masters (1982)
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On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel – a young boy – alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad who knows the planet Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel… René Laloux, the director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Les Maîtres du temps, his penultimate animated feature film, in 1982. A huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Jean Giraud (aka Moebius). Les Maîtres du temps is a finely animated metaphysical rescue mission, previously seen in English-speaking countries as a dubbed version entitled Time Masters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Switzerland, West Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: stylized, adult animation, surreal, psychedelic, anime, atmospheric, captivating, retro, mind bending, dark
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A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian. After her passing, Palme is visited by a mysterious woman who he mistakenly believes to be Xian. Shaken out of his sadness, Palme accepts her request to deliver something special to a far-off place known as Tama. This sets Palme off on a journey to discover his own emotions, and what it truly means to be human.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, surreal, captivating, suspenseful, weird
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Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)
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When the Punisher takes out a black-market weapons dealer, he stumbles upon a far-reaching terrorist plot devised by a group known as Leviathan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, adult animation, 2d animation
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Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (1996)
Plot Summary:
The last survivor of the dead planet Krypton uses his amazing powers to defend people of his adopted world Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: epic, anime, exciting, serious, stylized, 2d animation
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Ark (2005)
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The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions are locked in eternal war, destroying their home. Led by their priestess Amiel, the Ceveans constructed the Ark in an attempt to flee their world, but the Ark was ceased by the Storrions, enslaving some of the Ceveans and banishing the rest to the wastelands.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, anime, bleak, serious, mecha, computer animated