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Plot Summary:
A city where suicide is the only growing business. A shop where you can get everything to cater this urge. In the hand of one family for centuries.. till they get a happy baby. And he has to power to make all around him happy as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, bleak, mind bending, psychedelic, sad, surreal, 3d animation
Best tv shows and movies like The Suicide Shop (2012):
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Dagashi Kashi (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shikada Kokonotsu's father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu's father is famous and she wants him to join her family's company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, shounen, parody
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The Wild Adventures of El Santos (2012)
Plot Summary:
Santos, a fighter finished pacheco overweight and suffers from his recent divorce with Busty Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild woman fighter. To get out of your depression, Santos begins a campaign to help Sahuayo Zombies (gray and harmless characters with which fully identifies). However, his philanthropic campaign soon becomes a very profitable business that leverages Santos for their benefit. The population becomes a zombie plague and Busty Santos threatens to dispose of them. However, the Peyote Murderer (rivals Santos) who gets rid of the zombies. But the world without zombies turns out to be worse than anyone could have imagined and the only chance to save the nation is that the Saints and the Peyote work together to return to repopulate the world Sahuayo zombies.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, captivating, entertaining, surreal
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U (2006)
Plot Summary:
Since her parents passed away, Princess Mona lives by herself in a castle with two hideous, ghastly characters, Goomi and His Lordship. One day her sobs draw the attention of a unicorn, called U, who wants to comfort and protect Mona for as long as she needs. U becomes Mona's companion, her confidant and her inseparable friend. While Mona grows into a beautiful princess, a group of charming, peaceful and fanciful Yeah-Yeah’s settles in the neighboring forest. They have no particular special powers, yet they soon bring about major changes in everyone's lives, especially in Kulka, the dreamy musician.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, anime
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Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fantastical tale based on true events, about five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, adult animation, humorous, psychological, atmospheric, semi serious, anime, visually stunning, touching
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Aya of Yop City (2013)
Plot Summary:
Love stories in Yopougon, a neighborhood of the Ivory Coast capital.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, touching, adult animation, anime, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Freaknik: The Musical (2010)
Plot Summary:
A rap group heads to Atlanta to participate in Atlanta's revived Freaknik festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, adult animation, anime, cult classic, offbeat
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Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 3069 and the Earth has been robbed of all its natural resources, destroyed by war and ozone depletion.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, adult animation, independent film, offbeat, biting, underground film, suspense, campy
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Plot Summary:
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, surreal, philosophical, absurd, spoof, existential, hilarious, black comedy, sketch comedy
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Nerdland (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring actor John (Paul Rudd) and wannabe screenwriter Elliot (Patton Oswalt) are slacker best friends who have seen their dreams of stardom fizzle. With their 30th birthdays looming, they set out on a mission to become famous in the 24/7, celebrity-obsessed world. Through it all, our disheartened duo inadvertently become key witnesses in a high profile crime that sets the news cycle on fire, making them household names... but only if they can survive the infamy and worldwide shame.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, anime, cult classic
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Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Queer Duck: The Movie is the relentlessly funny, feature-length extension of the animated series Queer Duck, created by frequent The Simpsons scripter Mike Reiss. Sexually scandalous yet sweet, the movie is a cascade of pop-culture stereotypes of gays in America, punctuated by rapid-fire references (as with The Simpsons) to, well, just about everything: classic movies, game shows, Gilbert and Sullivan, Paul Lynde. Hey, there's even a storyline: Queer Duck (voiced by Jim J. Bullock) and his partner of 18 months ("That's a lifetime in gay years"), Harvey Fierstein sound-alike Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator (Kevin Michael Richardson), hit a relationship crisis when the fey fowl is wooed by a brassy Broadway broad. Queer Duck wonders if he'd be happier being straight. While Gator the waiter spills his problems to a compassionate Conan O'Brien (thanks for the cameo).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, adult animation, parody, offbeat, queer cinema, campy
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Free Jimmy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Norway, UK, Denmark
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cynical, realistic, adult animation, humorous, dark comedy, road movie, dark, anime, offbeat, witty
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Dante's Inferno (2007)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, witty, semi serious, adult animation, manga, anime, clever, offbeat, futuristic
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The Tune (1992)
Plot Summary:
Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest to write a hit tune brings him to the wacky world of Flooby Nooby, where he just might learn to write songs from the heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: adult animation, psychedelic, surreal, confusing, anime, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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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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Mutant Aliens (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mutant Aliens is a wildly humorous yet poignant story about an astronaut, his daughter, and 5 violent, yet sympathetic, alien creatures who seek revenge against a space industry baron.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: adult animation, semi serious, humorous, stylized, surreal, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, psychedelic
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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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Ivan the Incredible (2012)
Plot Summary:
Poor Ivan Olsen is plagued by problems bullied at school and constantly pursued by a gang whose greatest pleasure is filling his pants with water. And when Ivan gets home, his dad doesn't have much sympathy for him either because he is crazy about Tarzan and fails to appreciate Ivan's finer qualities. But one day Ivan gets the chance to live up all of his dad's expectations and give the bullies at school a lesson they will never forget. The big question is whether having superpowers makes life any easier?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, anime, offbeat, computer animated
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Frankenweenie (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, black and white, claymation, spooky, fairy tale, disturbing, humorous, sad, 3d animation
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Mary and Max (2009)
Plot Summary:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, depressing, emotional, adult animation, black comedy, sincere, stylized, sad, gloomy, dark comedy
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Baby Blues (2000)
Plot Summary:
Baby Blues is an animated television series based on the Baby Blues comic strip. The first eight episodes of Baby Blues originally aired in the United States on The WB from July 28, 2000 until August 24, 2000, before the series cancellation. Five then-unaired episodes were later aired on Adult Swim in 2002. Another season consisting of thirteen episodes has been produced, but were never aired or shown to the public in any format.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, adult animation, realistic
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Daria in 'Is It Fall Yet?' (2000)
Plot Summary:
Is It Fall Yet? continues the series' running plot from where it left off at the end of season four. In the final episode of season four ("Dye! Dye, My Darling!"), Daria Morgendorffer kisses Tom Sloane, the boyfriend of Daria's best friend, Jane Lane. The episode ends with the two friends' future uncertain and Tom and Daria's relationship shaky.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: witty, realistic, clever, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, anime, intellectual, adult animation, black comedy
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Monkey Dust (2003)
Plot Summary:
Monkey Dust is a British satirical cartoon, notorious for its dark humour and handling of taboo topics such as bestiality, murder, suicide and paedophilia. There were three series broadcast on BBC Three between 2003 and 2005. Following co-creator Harry Thompson's death, no further series were made.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: cynical, adult animation, dark comedy, surreal, adult cartoon, funny, atmospheric, absurd, controversial, sitcom
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The Goode Family (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Goode Family is an American animated comedy series, which originally aired on ABC from May 27, 2009 to August 7, 2009. The series was created by Mike Judge, and follows the life of an environmentally responsible, albeit obsessive, family. The series takes a comic look at contemporary society. Judge created the show along with former King of the Hill writers John Altschuler and David Krinsky. The show was cancelled after its first season due to low ratings. The series was released on DVD format on January 8, 2013 by Shout! Factory.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, adult cartoon, light, feel good, adult animation
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Fugget About It (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fugget About It is a Canadian adult animated sitcom created by Nicholas Tabarrok and Willem Wennekers for Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block. The show is rated 18A for sexuality, violence, and swearing. The show was created from the Pilot Project contest on Teletoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, light, captivating, feel good, anime, adult cartoon, realistic, not serious
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Mother Up! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rudi Wilson is a former record executive who decides to move to the suburbs and see if she can hold her own in the world of motherhood. What Rudi finds is that her hard-partying lifestyle, frequent drinking and tendency to use profane language don’t necessarily gel with the lifestyles of her neighbours in the suburbs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Robin Harris' Bebe's Kids (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Robin meets the lovely Jamika he thinks he's in heaven. But when he meets her friend Bebe's children, whom she is looking after, he knows he's in hell. Bebe's kids are the most obnoxious, irritating, pain in the butt kids he has ever met. Written by Brian W Martz.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Taiwan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, hood, black comedy, adult cartoon, independent film, offbeat, witty, talky, cynical
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
Plot Summary:
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, satirical, surreal, brutal, humorous, psychedelic, controversial, cult classic, witty
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Duncanville (2020)
Plot Summary:
The series centers on the life of Duncan, a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. Poehler will provide the voice of Duncan and his high-strung mom, Annie, who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, feel good, exciting, witty, weird
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F is for Family (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Murphy's, a lower middle class family living in the 1970s — a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport. “F Is For Family”, is a six-episode animated series based on the comedy of Bill Burr.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, anime, funny, sitcom, semi serious, dark comedy, satirical
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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
Plot Summary:
The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college. Written by pepperann210.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, talky, not serious, witty, hilarious, adult animation, clever, parody, spoof