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Plot Summary:
On the last day of summer, Louise, an old woman realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in a small seaside resort town, abandoned by everyone. The weather quickly turns for the worse followed by the seasonal tides. Fragile and coquettish, not nearly as well-prepared as a would-be Robinson Crusoe, Louise isn’t likely to make it through the winter. Yet, Louise takes her abandonment as a challenge. She’s going to survive, confronting the elements as well as her memories, which have found the perfect occasion to join in the adventure….
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, existential, aesthetic, surreal
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Plot Summary:
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime
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Robot Dreams (2023)
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Dog lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80's NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: adult animation, 2d animation
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Ville Neuve (2018)
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Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend's house and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their stormy reunion.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: adult animation, independent film
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Marona's Fantastic Tale (2019)
Plot Summary:
Marona, an innocent and empathetic little female dog, remembers the life she has shared with different masters, whom she has loved unconditionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: France, Romania, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, stylized, art house, anime
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Wrinkles (2011)
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Based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title (2008 Spanish National Comic Prize), WRINKLES is a 2D animated feature-length film for an adult audience. Wrinkles portrays the friendship between Emilio and Miguel, two aged gentlemen shut away in a care home. Recent arrival Emilio, in the early stages of Alzheimer, is helped by Miguel and colleagues to avoid ending up on the feared top floor of the care home, also known as the lost causes or "assisted" floor. Their wild plan infuses their otherwise tedious day-to-day with humor and tenderness, because although for some their lives are coming to an end, for them it is just a new beginning.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sad, touching, sentimental, humorous, anime, compassionate, social, stylized, realistic
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The Art of Happiness (2013)
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Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, contemplative, realistic, stylized, anime, adult animation, gloomy
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The Senior Class (2016)
Plot Summary:
By agreeing to keep his crush's secret, a college student becomes her friend. But things soon fall apart when she gets swept up in scandalous rumors.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, light, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, semi serious, adult animation
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Chico & Rita (2010)
Plot Summary:
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, stylized, sexual, anime, adult animation, erotic, dark, romantic drama, realistic
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The Murder Case of Hana & Alice (2015)
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Prequel to 2004 coming-of-age live-action film Hana & Alice. After her parents separate, 14 year-old Tetsuko (who will soon be nick-named Alice) moves with her mother to a new town in what she calls "The Boonies" and must enroll as a transfer student in a new middle school. She immediately finds herself bullied due being assigned the seat of "Judas" who is said to have been murdered over a year before. She is told that if anybody knows his fate it would be Hana, the recluse in the house next door, who has been unable to bring herself to attend class since "Judas" disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, psychological, touching, adult animation, yuri
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The Prophet (2014)
Plot Summary:
Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Qatar, France, Lebanon, Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: stylized, thought provoking, inspirational, mind bending, anime, sincere, scenic, tragic ending, adult animation, art house
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Tehran Taboo (2017)
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The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, disturbing, social, adult animation, art house
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Ringing Bell (1978)
Plot Summary:
Chirin is an innocent though adventurous young lamb whose carefree life on the farm comes to an abrupt end when a wolf murders his mother. Confused and angry, Chirin pursues the wolf into the mountains, seeking revenge. The laws of nature are brutal, however, and hatred alone won't be enough to avenge the loss of his mother. Only the strong survive in the wild, and obtaining that strength may change Chirin forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, adult animation, 2d animation, cult film
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The Swallows of Kabul (2019)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, War
Country: France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: social, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, political, disturbing, adult animation, deep, crying, 2d animation
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Loving Vincent (2017)
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The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, UK, USA, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: adult animation, thought provoking, artsy, sincere, visually stunning, captivating, disturbing, art film, philosophical, psychedelic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime
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Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
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A messy bachelor's apartment is a paradise for the huge colony of cockroaches living there: no sprays, no traps, and plenty of food. When the homeowner's girlfriend moves in, however, the party comes to an abrupt end, and the roaches must quickly adapt to a life of struggling for survival. Combines animation with live actors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, allegory
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Alois Nebel (2011)
Plot Summary:
A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Europe. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, adult animation, atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, noir, experimental, claymation, anime
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My Dog Tulip (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, anime, stylized, independent film, 2d animation
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The Painting (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: stylized, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, political, social, psychological, inspirational, psychedelic, spiritual
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The Red Turtle (2016)
Plot Summary:
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, anime, bleak, stylized, colorful, surreal, visual, adult animation, manga, serious
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My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
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After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, compassionate, adult animation, sincere, romantic, independent film, captivating, funny, offbeat
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$9.99 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Israel, Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, ironic, adult animation, touching, contemplative, claymation, black comedy, cult classic, adult cartoon
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A Silent Voice (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet, inspirational, biting, manga, adult animation, epic
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Waking Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, psychological, stylized, clever, adult animation, mindfuck, intellectual
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The Congress (2013)
Plot Summary:
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, Robin Wright decides to take her final job: preserving her likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her digital doppelganger will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want, with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio’s head animator, Wright’s double rises to immortal stardom. With her contract expiring, she is invited to speak at Miramount's "Futurological Congress". However, a group of terrorists plot an attack on the convention.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, USA, India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, thought provoking, mind bending, stylized, psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, cerebral, psychological thriller
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Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Plot Summary:
A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anime, psychedelic, hentai, adult animation, experimental, adult anime, mind bending, surreal, psychological, retro
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 301000
Genere: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: depressing, anime, touching, heartbreaking, sad, emotional, harsh, dramatic, sentimental, tear jerker
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The Plague Dogs (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, heartbreaking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, psychedelic, offbeat, depressing
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Plot Summary:
The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding the series, while also opening up some new possibilities.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal, cult classic, adult animation, existential, mindfuck, atmospheric