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Plot Summary:
Badger, Rat and Mole are trying to save Toad Hall and its owner, their rich irresponsible airhead playboy friend Toad, from himself, as well as financial ruin, the court and a gang of conspiratorial weasels who have their eye on the place.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crying, allegory
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Wind in the Willows (1988)
Plot Summary:
Based on Kenneth Grahame's classic children's yarn, this charming animated tale follows four colorful talking critters: the blithe Mr. Toad, the sensible Mole, the urbane Rat and the cranky but insightful Badger. When Mr. Toad's passion for cars lands him in dutch, it's up to his three woodland cohorts to bail him out and restore his reputation by outfoxing a horde of underhanded weasels.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Heidi's Song (1982)
Plot Summary:
Much under-rated animated feature film from the people behind the classic film "Charlotte's Web" (and most notably Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, and Tom and Jerry). Unlike the limited animation they developed for television, H-B Studios' "Heidi's Song" features rich, gorgeous, and colorful scenery, a beloved classic story, and wonderful songs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, independent film, 2d animation, cult film
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The Daydreamer (1966)
Plot Summary:
A fictional account of a teen-aged Hans Christian Anderson. In this film, young Hans runs away from home and each time he falls asleep he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mystical, anthology, mythical, psychotronic, independent film, fable
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The Wind in the Willows (1983)
Plot Summary:
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, weird
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The BFG (1989)
Plot Summary:
Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is soon put at ease, as she learns that BFG's job is to collect, catalog and deliver pleasant dreams to children. She joins him that night, but a mean giants follow them, planning to eat the children of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, cult classic, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, independent film, 2d animation, corny, cult film
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The Magician's Elephant (2023)
Plot Summary:
Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His one one question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: 3d animation, computer animated
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A Troll in Central Park (1994)
Plot Summary:
A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws require all trolls to be mean ugly and scare humans whenever possible. As a punishment, he is exiled to a world of concrete, where he should live a life of proper trolldom: Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, semi serious, touching, anime, sentimental, cult classic, hilarious, independent film, scary
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The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
Part of The Book of Pooh series, which offers preschool kids simple life lessons and scholastic pointers, The Book of Pooh: Stories From the Heart uses puppetry and computer animation to tell Christopher Robin's imaginative tales. Kids join Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger for an afternoon of storytelling and lesson learning.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: educational, funny, light, captivating
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My Father's Dragon (2022)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, modern fairy tale, entertaining, anime, 2d animation, wild
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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, sad, sweet, sentimental, entertaining, bleak, southern gothic, cult classic, crying, exciting
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Babes in Toyland (1997)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's favorite nursery rhyme characters come magically and musically to life in this animated adventure based on the classic holiday tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mysterious, anime, independent film, fairy tale, touching, humorous, semi serious, christmas special
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Cricket on the Hearth (1967)
Plot Summary:
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: christmas special
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Plot Summary:
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, light, sweet, melancholic, humorous, stylized, semi serious, clever, colorful
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Charlotte's Web (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: colorful, light, sweet, feel good, humorous, sad, tear jerker, sentimental, anime, cult classic
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An American Tail (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, sentimental, touching, retro, dark, sad, claymation, crying, exciting
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The Last Unicorn (1982)
Plot Summary:
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, anime, exciting, feel good, stylized, light, sweet, colorful, sentimental, epic fantasy
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The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Plot Summary:
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, arthurian, stylized, sentimental, mystical, mythical, retro, spiritual
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The Hobbit (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by the evil dragon Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, uplifting, psychedelic, adult animation, grindhouse, fantasy adventure, humorous, semi serious, dark fantasy
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The Return of the King (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, anime, fantasy adventure, epic, humorous, stylized, semi serious, cult film
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The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998)
Plot Summary:
Timmy meets a girl mouse and they set off to find the Great Owl.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Plot Summary:
During an ordinary day in Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh sets out to find some honey. Misinterpreting a note from Christopher Robin, Pooh convinces Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Eeyore that their young friend has been captured by a creature named "Backson" and they set out to save him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, fairy tale, sweet, stylized, feel good, sentimental, funny, cult classic, inspirational
Similar in 82%
Smallfoot (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, 3d animation, computer animated, colorful, fairy tale, inspirational, anime, psychotronic, colourful
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Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
Plot Summary:
Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: christmas special, claymation, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, crying
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Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)
Plot Summary:
Geppetto prepare for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: christmas special, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
Plot Summary:
Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from melting until the Fourth of July so that Frosty and Rudolph can help Lilly's circus and Milton can marry his girlfriend on the high-wire, and Santa will use his sleigh to make sure everybody gets back to the North Pole in time...which leaves Winterbolt alone at the North Pole on the Fourth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: christmas special, claymation, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Jack Frost (1979)
Plot Summary:
In this delightful animated tale, Pardon-me Pete (Buddy Hackett), the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife--a tall order! But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated then he thought. The girl he loves is kidnapped by the evil Cossack who is threatening to destroy the entire town. But the only way that he can save her and the town is to have his magic powers back. Jack Frost is a heartwarming tale that is sure to entertain the whole family!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: christmas special, claymation, exciting, touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Plot Summary:
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: sweet, touching, claymation, christmas special, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, buddy comedy, allegory
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Frosty the Snowman (1969)
Plot Summary:
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and Karen, a young girl who he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sweet, christmas special, anime, crying, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, sentimental, light
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Plot Summary:
A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a small baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grew up, he wanted to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Mayor is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, the Winter Warlock who lives between the Kringles and Sombertown, but Kris manages to melt the Warlock's heart and deliver his toys.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sweet, christmas special, banned
Similar in 79%
The Lorax (2012)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, computer animated, colorful, 3d animation, fairy tale, funny, humorous, inspirational, intellectual