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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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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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Zoku Owarimonogatari (2018)
Plot Summary:
The morning after his high school graduation ceremony, Araragi goes to the bathroom to wash his face but is struck by the sensation that his reflection is watching him. Touching the mirror, Araragi’s hand passes straight through and he is sucked into a mysterious world.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, light, atmospheric, feel good, humorous, captivating, stylized, colorful, fairy tale
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Cryptozoo (2021)
Plot Summary:
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: adult animation, psychological, captivating, disturbing, mind bending, dark, surreal, weird, 2d animation
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Little from the Fish Shop (2015)
Plot Summary:
Deep underneath the sea surface, accompanied by a fish orchestra, the voice of the ocean is telling a story of Little -- the Sea King's daughter. They left the plundered waters of their home to live among humans. They now lead a strenuous life in a somber fish shop in the heart of the harbor district where one day, Little comes to meet a handsome, confident and somewhat fresh young man -- H.H. From this moment on, the life of Little is to take a sea change.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, anime, psychotronic, modern day adaptation, urban fantasy
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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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The Illusionist (2010)
Plot Summary:
Scotland, late 1950s. A struggling illusionist visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: emotional, stylized, unusual plot structure, touching, visual, atmospheric, heartbreaking, talky, sentimental, realistic
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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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The Day of the Crows (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a cabin of the deep of the forest, a child and his father leas a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until the day he discovers the neighbouring village and meets a young girl there, Manon. At her side, he discovers that love exists. From then on he won't cease to search for the place where his father's love for him is hiding.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, stylized, anime, 2d animation
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Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie of Natsume's Book of Friends series. Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a "Yokai seed" that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras' garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, touching, captivating, sincere, romantic, melancholic, surreal, iyashikei
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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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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Sibling's Bond (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tanjiro finds his family slaughtered and the lone survivor, his sister Nezuko Kamado, turned into a Demon. To his surprise, however, Nezuko still shows signs of human emotion and thought. Thus begins Tanjiro's journey to seek out the Demon who killed their family and turn his sister human again. A recap film of Kimetsu no Yaiba, covering episodes 1-5 with extra footage.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hashira Meeting Arc (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko have been apprehended by the Demon Slayer Hashira, a group of extremely skilled swordfighters. Tanjiro undergoes trial for violating the Demon Slayer code, specifically smuggling Nezuko, a Demon, onto Mt. Natagumo. A recap film of Kimetsu no Yaiba, covering episodes 22-26 with some new footage and special ending credits.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Colorful (2010)
Plot Summary:
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, manga, psychological, inspirational, touching, stylized, depressing, deep, adult animation
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Mt. Natagumo Arc (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tanjiro, now a registered Demon Slayer, teams up with fellow slayers Zenitsu and Inosuke to investigate missing person cases on the mountain Natagumo. After the group is split up during a fight with possessed swordfighters, they slowly begin to realize the entire mountain is being controlled by a family of Demon spider creatures. A recap film of Kimetsu no Yaiba, covering episodes 15-21 with some new footage and special ending credits.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu (2017)
Plot Summary:
With help from Meme Oshino, the apparition specialist, Koyomi defeats the three powerful vampire hunters: Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter. Koyomi takes back all the limbs of Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade in order to become a human again.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, gothic, stylized, humorous, adult animation, 2d animation
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Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly (2019)
Plot Summary:
Theatrical-release adaptation of the visual novel "Fate/stay night", following the third and final route. (Part 2 of a trilogy.).
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, adult animation, sincere, psychological
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The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
Plot Summary:
A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dark, disturbing, cult classic, surreal, claymation, adult animation, anime, tripping, fairy tale, atmospheric
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Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Plot Summary:
When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Black and White face their greatest adversaries yet. It is up to the destructive Black to save the fate of the city and up to the gentle White to save Black from his own dark nature. On the street of an unnamed city, literally high-flying urchins Black and White look to protect their turf from invasion from other gangs. While he can be tough in a fight or wielding a weapon, White is an 11-year-old who can't even dress himself. Slightly older, Black is more worldly and treats his buddy with paternal love. Both look on their city as "our town." Also prone to seeing the city as his property is world-weary yakuza leader Suzuki, aka the Rat. Feeling the town has become too placid, Suzuki plots his return, much to the consternation of local police.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, psychedelic, stylized, exciting, enigmatic, disturbing, lyrical, colorful, atmospheric, adult animation
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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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Lesson Faust (1994)
Plot Summary:
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, experimental, philosophical, dark, claymation, cerebral, mindfuck, atmospheric, stylized
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Fate Grand Order: The Grand Temple of Time (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Chaldea Organization must deal with the Grand Temple of Solomon, the King of Magic, which has come to destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing
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To the Forest of Firefly Lights (2011)
Plot Summary:
One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, touching, captivating, sincere, sad, manga, art house, deep, cute
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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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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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Song of the Sea (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, stylized, fairy tale, captivating, sweet, anime, sad, lyrical, visual
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Wolf Children (2012)
Plot Summary:
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anime, heartbreaking, sweet, atmospheric, colorful, sentimental, touching, manga, depressing, epic
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Jiang Ziya: The Legend of Deification (2020)
Plot Summary:
Atop the ruins of war, top commander Jiang Ziya is given the task to banish the Nine-tailed Fox Demon who threatens all mortals' very existence. When he discovers the Nine-tailed Fox's life linked to the soul of an innocent girl, he is faced with a challenging decision: follow the will of heaven or find his own path to righteousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, epic, shounen, 2d animation
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Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bloody, anime, suspense, disturbing, brutal, visually appealing, psychological, adult animation, stylized, anthology
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
Plot Summary:
Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: South Korea, USA, Japan, Poland, China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: adult animation, dark fantasy, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, perverse, adult cartoon