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Plot Summary:
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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The Motel Life (2012)
Plot Summary:
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, suspense, psychological, realistic, rough, serious, tense, captivating, mumblecore, adult animation
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Nina (2004)
Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Animation, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, anime
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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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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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The Rebirth of Buddha (2009)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Sayako Amanokawa aspires to become a journalist, just like Kanemoto, an elite newspaper writer she looks up to. But Kanemoto, shamed from an erroneous report about a corruption scandal, jumps in front of a train and commits suicide. Since that incident, Sayako suddenly becomes able to see spirits and almost loses her life. However, from that near-fatal incident she experiences something extraordinary. The journalist inside her stirred, she embarks to find out about the truth. But the forces that stand in her way turn out to be much formidable than she ever imagined. [from AnimeNewsNetwork].
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime, spiritual, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, esoteric
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Princess (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, anime, cult classic, crying, 2d animation
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The Art of Happiness (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Welcome to Siegheilkirchen (2021)
Plot Summary:
1960's Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his home town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, anime, computer animated
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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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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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Charlotte (2021)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, adult animation, 2d animation
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Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011)
Plot Summary:
An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, demanding a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Poland
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, disturbing, stylized, adult animation, anime, offbeat, realistic, gloomy
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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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Vincent (1987)
Plot Summary:
A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spiritual, sad, adult animation, anime, independent film, psychological, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching
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Glitch in the Grid (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychological, contemplative, sincere, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, surreal, spiritual
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The Greatest Miracle (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story is focused on three characters who are in crisis: Monica, Mr Chema and Ms Cata. When they feel the necessity of going to church they meet wach other and their lifes change. Under the tutelage of guardian angels, they will understand the true meaning of the Mass, the constant struggle between good and evil and the triumph of faith and hope.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, serious, emotional, anime, computer animated
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Persepolis (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: adult animation, political, thought provoking, black and white, serious, realistic, depressing, social, anime, visually stunning
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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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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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Heavy Traffic (1973)
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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The Breadwinner (2017)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, War
Country: Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, heartbreaking, sincere, suspense, sad, anime, adult animation, serious, educational, manga
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Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Plot Summary:
Much awarded animated documentary, in which director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on animation enabled Folman to illustrate their personal memories and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, disturbing, adult animation, psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, surreal, political
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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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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