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Plot Summary:
Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Poland, Serbia, Lithuania
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: adult animation, historical drama, 2d animation
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Plot Summary:
Plot unknown. Described as a film set in Houston during the summer of 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, 2d animation
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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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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: adult animation, social, art film
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Funan (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cambodia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, adult animation, anime, touching, visually appealing, social, sad
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Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Plot Summary:
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: adult animation, captivating, exciting, sentimental, light, stylized, anime, cult classic, crying, period drama
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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 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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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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American Pop (1981)
Plot Summary:
American Pop is an American animated film that tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: adult animation, intense, disturbing, sentimental, captivating, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, stylized, adult cartoon
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Tengers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Whilst working on "the great South African novel," an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of Johannesburg.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: adult animation, claymation, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Tehran Taboo (2017)
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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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)
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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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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Aoi Bungaku Series (2009)
Plot Summary:
A theatrical film version of Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku Series anime. The film will re-edit the four episodes based on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) novel, which have character designs inspired by manga artist and novel illustrator Takeshi Obata. This "director's cut" will include new "navigation" footage which is being created specifically for the film with narrator Masato Sakai.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, anthology, depressing, adult animation, manga
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Miss Hokusai (2015)
Plot Summary:
The time: 1814. The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo. A much accomplished artist of his time and now in his mid-fifties, Tetsuzo can boast clients from all over Japan, and tirelessly works in the garbage-loaded chaos of his house-atelier. He spends his days creating astounding pieces of art, from a giant-size Bodhidharma portrayed on a 180 square meter-wide sheet of paper, to a pair of sparrows painted on a tiny rice grain. Third of Tetsuzo's four daughters and born out of his second marriage, outspoken 23-year-old O-Ei has inherited her father's talent and stubbornness, and very often she would paint instead of him, though uncredited. Her art is so powerful that sometimes leads to trouble. "We're father and daughter; with two brushes and four chopsticks, I guess we can always manage, in a way or another.".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating, manga, fairy tale
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Giovanni's Island (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, adult animation, manga
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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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The Tragedy of Man (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jankovic’s adaptation of the eponymous play, is divided into multiple parts and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: epic, adult animation, existential, psychedelic, spiritual, experimental, satanic, claymation, anime, cult classic
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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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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985)
Plot Summary:
This is an Australian made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia. The film is an adaptation on Jules Verne's classic French novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, History, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, semi serious, psychotronic
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My Love Affair with Marriage (2022)
Plot Summary:
From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grew older something didn't seem right with the concept of love: the more she tried to conform, the more her body resisted. A story about the acceptance of the inner female rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Luxembourg, USA, Latvia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, independent film, 2d animation
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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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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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Technotise: Edit & I (2009)
Plot Summary:
Technotise: Edit & I is a Serbian animated feature film. The plot is set in 2074 in Belgrade. The main character is Edit Stefanović, a female psychology student who, after failing the same university exam for the sixth time, decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body that will record everything she sees to help pass the exam. Edit also has a job at a scientific and social research company, in taking care of Abel Mustafov, an autistic math genius who discovered a formula that connects all forces in the world, but no computer was able to calculate it fully without becoming self aware and shutting down immediately after that. After Edit sees the formula graph, the chip calculates the formula, able to "survive" thanks to its connection to Edit, develops a parallel personality and affords her abilities greater than she ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: adult animation, cyber, anime, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, experimental, surreal, claymation
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Anomalisa (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, adult animation, depressing, atmospheric, art house, psychological, emotional, melancholic, meditative, philosophical
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Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
Plot Summary:
An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: adult animation, dark comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, 2d animation, cult film