Best movies like Heavy Traffic
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Plot Summary:
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: adult animation, surreal, psychedelic, parody, mind bending, dark, social, psychotronic, black comedy, cult classic
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American Pop (1981)
Plot Summary:
American Pop is an American animated film that tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: adult animation, intense, disturbing, sentimental, captivating, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, stylized, adult cartoon
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Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fantastical tale based on true events, about five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, adult animation, humorous, psychological, atmospheric, semi serious, anime, visually stunning, touching
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Cheatin' (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: surreal, adult animation, stylized, humorous, semi serious, anime, visual, visually stunning, offbeat, independent film
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Coonskin (1974)
Plot Summary:
A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: adult animation, surreal, grindhouse, psychedelic, dark, claymation, cult classic, adult cartoon, independent film, clever
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Free Jimmy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Norway, UK, Denmark
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cynical, realistic, adult animation, humorous, dark comedy, road movie, dark, anime, offbeat, witty
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Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, adult cartoon, suspense, anime, offbeat, biting, adult animation, multicultural
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Dante's Inferno (2007)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, witty, semi serious, adult animation, manga, anime, clever, offbeat, futuristic
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Idiots and Angels (2008)
Plot Summary:
Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he finds himself fighting those who want these wings for their own dark plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, adult animation, humorous, semi serious, psychedelic, cult classic, mind bending, black comedy, anime, mind blowing
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Vampires in Havana (1985)
Plot Summary:
Scientists Werner Amadeus, son of Count Dracula, develops an anti-sun formula for vampires. He moves to Cuba with his nephew Joseph Emanuel. Joseph grows up drinking the formula and forgets his origin, becoming Pepe, a trumpet player mixed up with revolutionaries in 1933 Havana. Soon he will be in the centre of a dispute for his uncle's formula between vampire factions from the USA: the Capa Nostra Society and from Europe: the Vampiro Group.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Cuba, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, adult animation, black comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, anime, cult classic, humorous, stylized
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Dirty Duck (1974)
Plot Summary:
Willard, a mild mannered insurance adjuster, teams up with a foul-mouthed fowl who takes Willard on a surreal quest to become less uptight - and possibly get laid in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: adult animation, surreal, experimental, claymation, spooky, independent film, erotic, offbeat, humorous, not serious
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Fritz the Cat (1972)
Plot Summary:
A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, adult animation, disturbing, grindhouse, surreal, controversial, cult classic, dark comedy, erotic, dark
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Greedy Guts (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck, art house, suspenseful, humorous, dark, dark comedy
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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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Lucas Bros Moving Co (2013)
Plot Summary:
The stand-up comedy of New York-based identical twins Kenny and Keith Lucas (The Lucas Brothers) gets animated. With the help of the people of Greenpoint, the twins run a moving company called Lucas Bros. Moving Co. Their customers are often apprehensive to hire such a scrawny duo, but the brothers like to remind them that that's why God made two of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, not serious, feel good, light, adult cartoon, realistic
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Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
Plot Summary:
An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: adult animation, dark comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, 2d animation, cult film
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Black Dynamite (2011)
Plot Summary:
Black Dynamite is an American animated television series based on the 2009 film of the same name, although the series follows a separate continuity, with some back-references to the film. The series was announced shortly after the release of the film, the 10-minute pilot episode was released on Adult Swim Video on August 8, 2011, and the full series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on July 15, 2012. Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Tommy Davidson and Kym Whitley reprise their film roles as Black Dynamite, Bullhorn, Cream Corn and Honeybee, respectively.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, humorous, realistic, anime, adult cartoon, funny, psychedelic, sitcom, grindhouse
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Moral Orel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired a sneak peek on Adult Swim on December 13, 2005, before it officially aired on January 23, 2006 to December 18, 2008. It has been described as "Davey and Goliath...meets South Park".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, parody, witty, cynical, black comedy, sitcom, adult cartoon, claymation, thought provoking
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Wonder Showzen (2005)
Plot Summary:
Wonder Showzen is an American sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by John Lee and Vernon Chatman of PFFR. The show is rated TV-MA. The show's format is that of educational PBS children's television shows such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company, parodying the format with adult-oriented content. In addition to general controversial comedy, it satirizes politics, religion, war, sex, and culture with black comedy. Every episode begins with a disclaimer, accompanied by the sound of someone screaming "Don't eat my baby!", which reads: "Wonder Showzen contains offensive, despicable content that is too controversial and too awesome for actual children. The stark, ugly and profound truths Wonder Showzen exposes may be soul-crushing to the weak of spirit. If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian.".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal, parody, sketch comedy, adult animation, humorous, not serious, adult cartoon, absurd, funny, psychedelic
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Home Movies (1999)
Plot Summary:
Home Movies is an American animated television sitcom that was originally broadcast from April 26, 1999 to April 4, 2004. Brendon Small is the creator, head writer and lead musician of Home Movies. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky and Janine Ditullio also lent their voices to the show. The plot surrounds eight-year-old Brendon, who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his baby sister, Josie. He is also friends with his alcoholic, short-tempered soccer coach, John McGuirk. Home Movies developed a cult following during its run, and is still considered a cult show to this day. Home Movies was produced by Soup2Nuts, and originally aired on UPN, but the network cancelled the series after 5 episodes. Cartoon Network, seeing potential for the series, purchased the rights to it, and aired it as the first program on their nighttime adult-oriented Adult Swim block on the day of the block's launch on September 2, 2001. As part of Adult Swim, it finished the first season of 13 episodes and was picked up for three additional 13 episode seasons. Creator Small would later go on to create the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse and co-creator Bouchard would go on to create the animated Bob's Burgers for the Fox network.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, epic, sitcom, offbeat, witty, not serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
When they can no longer stomach the ever-growing weed of suburban crime, Jay and Silent Bob take on the mantles of costumed avengers Bluntman and Chronic, smashing the super-villains they accidentally create! Can the Doobage Duo save their beloved Jersey 'burbs from their new arch enemies, The League of Shitters? While clearly not the comic book movie the world wants, GROOVY MOVIE is the comic book movie the world needs!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, adult animation, anime, exciting, offbeat, talky, 2d animation
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Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
You're not hallucinating (but they are)... It's the legendary toker jokers Cheech ?& Chong as you've never seen them before -- in their very first Animated Movie. Catch the buzz as their most outrageous routines and laugh-out-loud lines from their Grammy Award-winning albums come to life, including "Dave's not here," "Let's make a dope deal" and more. With help from a bud-lovin' body crab named Buster, Cheech & Chong "the masters of smokin' word" deliver the ultimate comedy high and give you the munchies for more.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, not serious, anime
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Lil' Pimp (2005)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a nine-year-old pimp, Lil' Pimp, who hustles his ho's around the neighborhood. Along with his Mom, Pop, pimpin' pals Fruitjuice and Nagchampa, as well as superfine ho's, Yam Basket and Honeysak, and his loveable pet gerbil Weathers, who has Tourette's syndrome, Lil' Pimp generates laughs, magic and brutal honesty.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, adult animation, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, witty
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes controversial but always hilarious, Robert Smigel's "TV Funhouse" cartoons have contained some of Saturday Night Live's most memorable material in recent years. Ace and Gary, "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" (voiced by Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert), host this critically acclaimed collection, which features hits like "X-Presidents," "Saddam and Osama," "The Narrator That Ruined Christmas," "Smurfette," "The New Adventures of Mr. T," "Fun With Real Audio" and more, with appearances by the full cast of SNL. No subject is off limits. Learn what's really inside the Disney vault, what Jewish folks do on Christmas Eve, and what makes Michael Jackson float. As Mr. T would say, "If you believe in yourself, drink your school, stay in drugs, and don't do milk, you can get work!".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, adult animation, captivating, humorous, sketch comedy, absurd, spoof, exciting, contemplative, cult film
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
Plot Summary:
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, satirical, surreal, brutal, humorous, psychedelic, controversial, cult classic, witty
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Cool World (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jack Deebs is a cartoonist who is due to be released from jail. His comic book "Cool World" describes a zany world populated by "doodles" (cartoon characters) and "noids" (humanoids). What Jack didn't realize is that Cool World really does exist, and a "doodle" scientist has just perfected a machine which links Cool World with our world. Intrigued at seeing his creating come to life, Jack is nonetheless wary as he knows that not everything in Cool World is exactly friendly.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, adult animation, anime, cult classic, surreal, stylized, mind bending, controversial, humorous, witty
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Shame of the Jungle (1975)
Plot Summary:
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and the Molar Men, Shame sets off to rescue her with only his faithful friend Flicka at his side. He heads for that darkest of areas.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, sex comedy, cult classic, parody, humorous, not serious, satirical, independent film, spoof
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BoJack Horseman (2014)
Plot Summary:
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 1982 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, sad, cynical, exciting, funny
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South Park (1997)
Plot Summary:
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 399000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, adult animation, parody, dark comedy, cynical, sitcom, witty, controversial, humorous, offbeat
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Drawn Together (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drawn Together is an American adult animated sitcom, which ran on Comedy Central from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007. The series was created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, and uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. Like that of MTV's The Challenge and VH1's The Surreal Life, the show's eight characters are a combination of personalities that were recognizable and familiar prior to the series. Differently, however, Drawn Together used caricatures of established cartoon characters and stock characters. In addition, their character traits parody personality types that are typically seen in reality TV shows. Comedy Central advertised it as the first animated reality show, and in some episodes, characters participate in challenges that are similar to reality TV challenges. After only three seasons the show was cancelled but still maintains a strong fan base. Subsequently, The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! was released on April 20, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, adult cartoon, surreal, not serious, humorous, witty, sitcom, funny, offbeat
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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
Plot Summary:
The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college. Written by pepperann210.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, talky, not serious, witty, hilarious, adult animation, clever, parody, spoof