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Plot Summary:
Padak is beautiful and cruel, sad and lively. Planned in 2007, this feature-length CG animation film shares the realistic trend of the recent Korean animation, but manages not to lose the delicate sensibility inherent to animation. The world seen by the live fish in the water tank of a sushi restaurant shows the stifling modern city life of people who live according to set rules. The fish do not know when their life would end, and the power game and conflicts created in small tank provide interesting allegories. The unique characters tailored for a mackerel, flatfish and bass add funny and moving stories. The fish’s movement and water texture enhance the true beauty of animation. Also, musical-style scenes that appear at intervals display a feast of colors and lines flowing across the screen with sorrowful music, as if to console the exhausted life of city people.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, anime, adult animation
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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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xxxHOLiC The Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)
Plot Summary:
Invited to a wealthy client's mansion, time-traveling witch Yuko and her companions arrive to find a group of collectors assembled to participate in a mysterious auction. And the mystery only deepens when the collectors go missing one by one. As more guests disappear and strange occurrences abound, Yuko and her friends realize they must solve the mystery before they vanish as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, adult animation
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The Ones Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Iride Akatsuki and seven other charismatic game streamers wake up in the world of a mysterious free-to-play game called Naka no Hito Genome. Now they are competing in real-life games with life-or-death stakes, but clearing several game tasks could earn them 100 million lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The King of Pigs (2011)
Plot Summary:
After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyeong-Min kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Seok. Jong-Seok now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own novel. For the first time in 15 years they meet. Kyeong-Min and Jong-Seok both hide their own current situations and begin to talk about their middle school days.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, adult animation, disturbing, depressing, crying, 2d animation
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Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
Plot Summary:
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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Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (2010)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2314 AD, two years have passed since the defeat of the Innovators and the exposure of the A-Laws' crimes against humanity. The A-Laws have been abolished and their infrastructure integrated into the Earth Sphere Federation Army. However, the world's exposure to GN Particles has resulted in many people awakening as True Innovators. Celestial Being has returned to the shadows to rebuild and quietly observe the infantile peace. However, an abandoned probe from an expedition to Jupiter 130 years ago approaches Earth bringing a new crisis with it, one that threatens all of mankind. While Celestial Being begins their final mission to save humanity from an unimaginable threat, Gundam Meister Setsuna F. Seiei is about to discover the true purpose of his evolution as an Innovator. Aeolia Schenberg's plan has moved into its final stage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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The Girl Without Hands (2016)
Plot Summary:
A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychological, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense, sad, adult animation, stylized, anime
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The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of October 1998, Enjou Tomoe is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Ryougi Shiki. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days after the incident there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, psychotronic, captivating, suspense, manga, adult animation, dark drama, surprise ending, ambiguous ending
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GARAKOWA - Restore the World (2015)
Plot Summary:
A floating space without gravity where an infinite number of lights shine in different colors: The "Box of Wisdom." Inside of this box, there are multiple worlds, multiple timelines, and there used to be many different people. This is where Dual and Dorothy were fighting with enemies called "Viruses." Worlds infected by viruses must be erased. That is the duty, the job of these girls. However, one day, Dual and Dorothy feel the presence of a new Virus. Arriving at the scene, they see a girl being attacked by Viruses. After saving the girl, the duo wait for her to awaken so they can ask who she is, where she came from, and where she is going. Finally, when the girl opened her eyes, she gave her name, Rimo, and whispered only one sentence... "I must return to the flower patch...".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives (2012)
Plot Summary:
The side story takes place in 2017 a.t.b., between the rise of the “Black Knights” organization and the return of the supposedly "dead" Zero. The setting is in Europe, where the European Union (E.U.) allied nations are being invaded by the overwhelming forces of the Holy Britannian Empire. On the verge of defeat, the E.U. army forms a special unit known as “W-0″, of which a young pilot named Akito Hyuga is a member. Leila Malkal , a former Britannian Aristocrat comes to the E.U.'s aid, commanding the “Wyvern” Knightmare corps comprised of Japanese teenagers. They recklessly plunge into a battlefield, where the survival rate is extremely low, at about 5% only. They fight for their freedom and for a "home" to which they can return.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, seinen
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The Fake (2013)
Plot Summary:
A convict returns to his home town to torturing again his family and face his neighbors trying to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, realistic, thought provoking, adult animation, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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High-Rise Invasion (2021)
Plot Summary:
High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. Finding a way to survive this bizarre world, find her beloved brother, and escape becomes her top priority, but she is beset by danger not just from the mysterious Masks, which possess both inhuman strength and cruelty, but other survivors turned cruel or desparate by the insanity of the high-rise world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mysterious, ecchi, captivating, suspense, disturbing, shounen, psychological thriller, tense, futuristic
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Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi's uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a horrendously deformed, legged fish that Kaori kills. More and more of these creatures appear and portend a horrific change for the animal life in the area. A phone call from Kaori's fiancé Tadashi in Tokyo quickly shows the scope of this epidemic, when he is also attacked by these mechanized fish. Kaori immediately sets out on an perilous voyage to find out what happened to Tadashi, helped by Shirakawa — a videographer in search of the truth behind all this.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing, dark fantasy, manga, weird
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Child of Kamiari Month (2021)
Plot Summary:
A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film adapts and expands the Planetarian visual novel by Key. The story is set in a dystopian future where biological and nuclear warfare has left a once prosperous civilization in complete ruin. The film tells the story of an old man travelling around with a mobile planetarium projector to show people the stars.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing
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The Wolf House (2018)
Plot Summary:
María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet—, is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, adult animation, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, mind bending
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The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History (2014)
Plot Summary:
After slipping in a bath house, Conan appears to have lost his memory. Worse yet, it looks like he will be used in a hit job.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Felidae (1994)
Plot Summary:
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, neo noir, detective, slasher, tense, offbeat, serious, surreal, psychological
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Osama Game (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kanazawa Nobuaki has transferred to a high school far from where he used to live. Due to an incident at his old school, Nobuaki is afraid of getting close to his new classmates and keeps himself at a distance, but he starts opening up because of a sports day inter-class relay. Then a single text message from someone calling themselves the "King" is sent to everyone in class. Nobuaki's classmates think it's a simple prank and don't take it seriously - but Nobuaki knows that a death game is about to begin, and struggles to oppose it.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, surreal
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Kakegurui Twin (2022)
Plot Summary:
Determined to climb up the social ladder, Mary Saotome invests everything she has into what her elite high school values most: high stakes gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Tomodachi Game (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yuuichi Katagiri believes that friends are more important than money, but he also knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip, because he has promised his four best friends that they will all go together. However, after the class' money is all collected, it's stolen! Suspicion falls on two of Yuuichi's friends, Shiho Sawaragi and Makoto Shibe. Soon afterwards, the five of them are kidnapped, and wake up in a strange room with a character from a short-lived anime. Apparently, one of them has entered them into a "friendship game" in order to take care of their massive debt. But who was it, and why did they have such a debt? Could they have stolen the money from class to pay for entry into the game? Yuuichi and his best friends will have to succeed in psychological games that will test or destroy their faith in one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, captivating, suspense
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Speckles: The Tarbosaurus (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story is set 70 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Korean Peninsula the same way they ruled the rest of the earth. Spotty is a curious and playful Tarbosaurus child, and along with his mother and siblings, he lives happily in the forest. One day the cunning One-eye, an older Tyrannosaur looking for a new home, attacks Spotty’s herd and separates Spotty from his family. Alone, he befriends another lost girl Tarbosaur who becomes his friend and constant companion for two decades and the mother of his own children. But Spotty’s troubles with One-eye are not over, and revenge, death, fear, and sadness are all in Spotty’s future―as is happiness and hope.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, entertaining, romantic, scenic, anime, 3d animation
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Fishtales (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a shark attack leads to Cleo and Puffer's eight-legged octopus friend Ollie getting lost in the ocean, a fun-loving manta ray named Crash helps them search the sea to find their lost mate. Along their journey they meet all sorts of fascinating creatures of the deep and learn about each and every one of them during their aquatic adventure.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: tense, feel good, captivating, anime
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Fish N Chips: The Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fish, a fish, is desperate to evolve into a landling. Chips, a cat, would like to return to his privileged lifestyle. Both of them need a talisman to achieve their goal. Unfortunately they are fighting for the same one, a magical bone.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, anime
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Seoul Station (2016)
Plot Summary:
Suk-gyu is desperately looking for his runaway daughter. He spares neither money nor effort and after a while his search leads to results. One of his contacts claims to have found the girl. But joy is replaced by shock when he finds out that she works as a prostitute in the center of Seoul. Suk-gyu decides to pose as a client to get close to his daughter. But just before the long awaited and dreaded reunion, panic breaks out at nearby Seoul Station. The place is very popular with the homeless of the Korean capital. And one of them, who had died during the day, comes alive again and start attacking and eating another misfortunate. The undead cannibal epidemic spreads like wildfire. The authorities hermetically close off the city center and decide to wait out the end of the outbreak, until there’s no one left….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, tense, suspense, exciting, bloody, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological
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The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain (2008)
Plot Summary:
July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is Asagami Fujino; a girl who was the boys' plaything until recently, who Shiki believes to be "one of her kind".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, dark drama, adult animation, adult anime
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, rough, suspenseful, touching
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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
Plot Summary:
Birdboy and his animal friends plan their escape from an ecologically devastated island in this surreal, animated fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, gloomy, disturbing, allegory, adult animation, tense, sad, claymation
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Watership Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: emotional, adult animation, disturbing, serious, sad, bleak, dark, cult classic, anime, tense
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Back To The Sea (2012)
Plot Summary:
When little fish Kevin is swept up in a net and taken from his home in the vast oceans to the small glass fish tank of a restaurant, he must find a way to escape and make his way back home.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: 3d animation, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime, mockbuster