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Plot Summary:
Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s. Originally released in 80 minutes length, The Puppetoon Movie also exists in a subsequently expanded ten minutes longer version.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime
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Friends Forever (2009)
Plot Summary:
The unsuccessful actor and vagabond Johnny Mauser needs a change from all the trouble that he has experienced while living in the city. The perfect place to take a little break seems to be in Mullewapp, a little village with a cosy little farm. Soon he becomes friends with Franz von Hahn and Waldemar. And when the sheep Cloud suddenly disappears, the three new friends have to manage their first adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anime
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Two Buddies and a Badger (2015)
Plot Summary:
A zany, musical road movie about two old friends and a badger who embark on an excessively grand adventure. Starring the musical duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, world famous in Norway.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Animation
Country: Norway
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime
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Bobbleheads: The Movie (2020)
Plot Summary:
Get ready for a big shake-up when misfit bobbleheads take on trashy humans and a slobbery dog who crash their home with plans to swap a new baseball player bobblehead for a valuable one of them. With some guidance from Bobblehead Cher, they find the courage to bobble-up for an outrageous battle of wits and wobble.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Donald Duck Goes West (1965)
Plot Summary:
This compilation of previously released western-themed Disney cartoons features Two Gun Goofy (1952), Up a Tree (1955), Californy er Bust (1945), Donald's Gold Mine (1942), Pests of the West (1950), Beezy Bear (1955), The Legend of Coyote Rock (1945), Wide Open Spaces (1947), A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956), Good Scouts (1938) and Pueblo Pluto (1949).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, humorous, stylized, not serious
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No. 12: Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
Plot Summary:
The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, anime, independent film, silent, silent film
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The Little Engine That Could (2011)
Plot Summary:
Featuring an all-star cast, the timeless story comes to life in this all-new, feature-length film filled with fun and adventure!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: uplifting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, exciting
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Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1982)
Plot Summary:
Mighty Mouse must save the galaxy from evil cat Harry the Heartless and rescue Queen Pureheart in this animated children's adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, independent film
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Gumby: The Movie (1995)
Plot Summary:
The band is back together! Gumby reunites with The Clayboys to perform at a concert benefiting local farmers. But things take an unexpected turn when Gumby s dog, Lowbelly, reacts to the music by crying tears of real pearl! Fortune turns into disaster as Gumby s archenemies, the Blockheads, devise an elaborate scheme to dognap Lowbelly and harvest her pearls for themselves. When the Blockheads initial plan fails, they kidnap The Clayboys as well...and replace them with clones! The battle between Clayboys and clones is filled with trains and planes, knights and fights, thrills and spills. True to classic Gumby adventures, Gumby: The Movie takes viewers in and out of books, to Toyland, Camelot, outer space and beyond!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: claymation, stylized, anime, cult classic, independent film, exciting, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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10 Lives (2024)
Plot Summary:
Beckett is a pampered and selfish cat who totally takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt. All that is about to change, however, when he carelessly loses his ninth life.
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Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: anime
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Make Way for Noddy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Noddy, a wooden boy who lives in Toyland, introduces social concepts. He has big musical adventures with his friends and a very big imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, educational, computer animated
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In the Forest of Huckybucky (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the woods there lives a mouse and his friends, and they are always scared of getting eaten by the fox or other predators who can't get food in a fair way. They have to make some laws so they all can live togheter in peace.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime
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Gumby Adventures (1988)
Plot Summary:
The continuous adventures of Gumby and his pals. This time, he runs a farm which includes more pals such as a wooly mammoth, Denali, and a bee, Groobee.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: claymation
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Dinopaws (2014)
Plot Summary:
An animation about three young dinosaurs exploring their unusual world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 10 min
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Pat & Mat (1976)
Plot Summary:
Pat & Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat. It was created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (1977)
Plot Summary:
Easter-themed showcase of classic Warner Bros. cartoons, hosted by Bugs Bunny and Granny.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anthology, humorous, not serious, slapstick
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen (2018)
Plot Summary:
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Estonia, Belgium, Ireland, UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, thrilling, anime
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Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine (2013)
Plot Summary:
The small town of Pinchcliffe is experiencing a great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However, things does not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, anime
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Toys in the Attic (2009)
Plot Summary:
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Prince Charming, lazy Teddy Bear and the plasticine creature Schubert. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Japan, France, Slovakia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, light, captivating, anime, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, computer animated
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Coconut, the Little Dragon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Coconut and his friend Oscar are outsiders on Dragon Island. Coconut is supposed to be a flying dragon but he can't fly and Oscar, a carnivore by nature, is a vegetarian bychoice. Together with the porcupine Matilda they go on fabulous adventures and meet dragons in all shapes and sizes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: colorful, feel good, captivating, entertaining, anime, colourful
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The Legend of the Mummies of Guanajuato (2014)
Plot Summary:
Leo San Juan returns to face the mummys.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Mexico, Canada, China, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Tales of the Riverbank (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tales of the Riverbank tells the story of three friends - Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP the Guinea Pig - who, having swept down the river in a violent storm, embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey, full of comic incident and dramatic danger, becomes even more precarious when they discover that the whole riverbank is threatened by a waffle, Marmalade and Doughnut (WMD) factory which, owned by the evil Fat Cats, is polluting the countryside with increasingly dangerous emissions...the Big Dirt!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, entertaining, feel good, anime, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Impy's Island (2006)
Plot Summary:
Impy's Island (German: Urmel aus dem Eis) is a 2006 German computer-animated feature film based on the children's novel Urmal from the Ice Age by Max Kruse. On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery.... a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times! Little Impy, as the call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. but when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the love able baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, computer animated, fairy tale
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My Little Pony: A Very Pony Place (2006)
Plot Summary:
Unlike the previous three specials, A Very Pony Place features three different stories, each of them focusing on the new characters exclusively released in the special. These were: Lily Lightly, Storybelle, Star Flight, Heart Bright and lastly, Puzzlemint. 1. Come Back, Lily Lightly 2. Two for the Sky 3. Positively Pink.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, anthology
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)
Plot Summary:
Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 chief Easter Bunny, and everyone in April Valley agrees...except for Evil Irontail. Peter must deliver more eggs than this archrival to earn the top spot...and save Easter for children everywhere!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, crying, happy
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: experimental, claymation, cult film
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Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
Plot Summary:
Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil hunt for the varmints who stole their treasure map!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, feel good, humorous, not serious, compilation film, cult film
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The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sudden storm leaves Berry Bitty City with a gigantic problem. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends will have to move their whole tiny town unless they find a way to safely remove a huge boulder that threatens everything they hold dear.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, anime, exciting, sentimental, semi serious
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Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! (2007)
Plot Summary:
While villain Grizzle plots against the Care Bears, it is up to Oopsy Bear to come to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, anime, computer animated
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Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Strawberry Shortcake has a dream of fresh new fields of berry bushes - enough for everyone. But when the greedy Peculiar Purple Pieman rolls into Strawberry Land, he decides to steal Strawberry's dream - and everyone else's dreams too. In order to stop the Purple Pieman and his evil plan, Strawberry and her friends must travel to the Land of Dreams. Along the way, these special friends learn the value of working together to make dreams come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, anime, computer animated
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Bratz: Desert Jewelz (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a magic carpet is compelled by an enchanted ring stolen by thieves during a fashion show, the girls are taken on an unexpected journey to help find a genie lamp and to rescue it before it falls into evil hands. Along the way, the girls make a new friend, Alla, and help her discover the richest treasure of all – friendship! Compelled by the theft of an enchanted ring, a magic carpet gathers a group of girls for a magical journey in search of a genie lamp that must be saved before it falls into the wrong hand. Along the way, the girls meet a new friend who helps them discover that friendship is the most valuable treasure of them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, anime, computer animated