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Plot Summary:
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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The Summit of the Gods (2021)
Plot Summary:
A photojournalist’s obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sport
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: adult animation, non-linear, 2d animation, extraordinary, vintage
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)
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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Vivaldi's Four Seasons Animated (2015)
Plot Summary:
There are four animated segments in this beautiful, musical animated movie and those are (as they appear in Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"): Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Explore Vivaldi's extraordinary world of music with this full length animation and beloved music that will live on forever!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Croatia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime
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Ville Neuve (2018)
Plot Summary:
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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A Man is Dead (2018)
Plot Summary:
Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by brick. But with awful work conditions protests quickly arise and a strike begins. Violent confrontations happen during manifestations. Until one man falls. The next day René Vautier lands at Brest clandestinely to make a movie about the movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, visually appealing, adult animation, documentary filmmaking
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Louise by the Shore (2016)
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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Wrinkles (2011)
Plot Summary:
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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My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002)
Plot Summary:
Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him constantly leave him; his best friend, Jun-ho, is going to study in Seoul and in some ways his widowed mother is "leaving" him too by paying more attention to her new boyfriend. To escape, he goes to a dream world, where he meets a girl named Mari. The story follows Nam-woo in discovering himself and maturing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, stylized, touching, serious, adult animation, korean anime, whimsical
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The Murder Case of Hana & Alice (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Entergalactic (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: adult animation, anthology, 2d animation
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The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)
Plot Summary:
Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, claymation, experimental, adult animation, independent film, cult film
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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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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 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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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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White Fang (2018)
Plot Summary:
A loyal wolfdog’s curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three distinctly different masters.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, computer animated, 2d animation
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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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I Lost My Body (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: adult animation, psychological, non-linear, anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, philosophical, sad
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Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2020)
Plot Summary:
After meeting one bright, sunny day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, manga
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Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are two close friends who are part of the Kitauji High School music club. Quiet and reserved Yoroizuka plays the oboe while lively and popular Kasaki plays the flute. The group has decided to play Liz and the Blue Bird, a song inspired on a fairy tale about the relationship between a girl and a bird. The musical piece puts both Mizore and Nozomi on the spotlight due to a solo part by Yoroizuka and forces the two girls to reexamine their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating, fairy tale, yuri
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Plot Summary:
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Sport
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, UK, Latvia, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, humorous, adult animation, witty, anime, feel good, semi serious, atmospheric, melancholic
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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Flavors of Youth (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three different stories of youth set in different cities of China. 1 Shanghai Love. 2 Sunny Breakfast. 3 Small Fashion Show. Directed by Zhenxing Yi, the plot revolves around a young man working in Beijing. He used to live with his grandma in his less developed hometown Hunan. While he is drown in his childhood reminiscence, he receives an unexpected call – Grandma is in critical condition.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anime, anthology, light, manga, psychological, atmospheric, uplifting, sweet, captivating, scenic
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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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Snoopy Come Home (1972)
Plot Summary:
When Snoopy receives a letter from his original owner Lila, he goes to visit her in the hospital while Charlie Brown and the gang are on the lookout for him. Suddenly, Snoopy feels that he must go live with Lila, but must say goodbye to all his friends. In his adventure to the hospital, he encounters numerous "No Dogs Allowed" signs, an annoying little girl who desires to keep him, and more!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sweet, touching, sentimental, entertaining, adult cartoon, feel good, humorous, semi serious, crying, independent film
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his best friend!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, fairy tale, heartbreaking, anime
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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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Masameer: The Movie (2020)
Plot Summary:
Danah, a Saudi girl with a passion for artificial intelligence embark on a journey to create good in the world using robotics. Meanwhile, three friends Saad, Saltooh and Kalb hit rock bottom and go on a journey of their own to prove themselves to society by becoming crime fighting superheroes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: adult animation, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, anime, unusual plot structure
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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Plot Summary:
When Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during the Christmas season, Lucy suggests that he become director of the school Christmas pageant. Charlie Brown accepts, but is a frustrating struggle. When an attempt to restore the proper spirit with a forlorn little fir Christmas tree fails, he needs Linus' help to learn the meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: christmas special, sweet, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light, atmospheric, thought provoking