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1. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
PG | Animation, Adventure, Family | Completed
Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as ... See full summary »
Writers: Marc Haimes, Chris Butler, Shannon Tindle | Director: Travis Knight | Stars: Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Rooney Mara, Ralph Fiennes
2. Coraline (2009)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Fantasy
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
Writers: Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman | Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders
Votes: 141,090
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Writers: Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach | Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Votes: 137,110
4. Corpse Bride (2005)
PG | 77 min | Animation, Drama, Family
When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.
Writers: Tim Burton, Carlos Grangel, John August, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler | Directors: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson | Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman
Votes: 186,448
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.
Writers: Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson | Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey
Votes: 219,531
6. Hell and Back (2015)
R | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell.
Writers: Tom Gianas, Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov | Directors: Tom Gianas, Ross Shuman | Stars: Nick Swardson, Mila Kunis, Bob Odenkirk, T.J. Miller
Votes: 2,251
7. Mary and Max (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
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.
Writer: Adam Elliot | Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries
Votes: 117,234
8. The Boxtrolls (2014)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
Writers: Irena Brignull, Adam Pava, Alan Snow, Anthony Stacchi, Phil Dale, Vera Brosgol | Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade
Votes: 40,015
9. Frankenweenie (2012)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.
Writers: Leonard Ripps, Tim Burton, John August | Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau
Votes: 72,796
10. ParaNorman (2012)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Writer: Chris Butler | Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi
Votes: 71,423
11. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.
Writer: Gideon Defoe | Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt | Stars: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman
Votes: 36,581
12. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
G | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn join Mark Twain on his airship to meet Halley's Comet.
Writers: Susan Shadburne, Mark Twain | Director: Will Vinton | Stars: James Whitmore, Michele Mariana, Gary Krug, Chris Ritchie
Votes: 1,823
13. Harvie Krumpet (2003)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.
Writers: Adam Elliot, Luke Elliot | Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kamahl, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth
Votes: 6,505
14. Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Unrated | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there ... See full summary »
Writers: Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Director: Jules Bass | Stars: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, Phyllis Diller
Votes: 2,085
15. The Trap Door (1984– )
5 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
3D plasticine animation, featuring Berk, a blue creature who lives as servant to the unseen 'Thing Upstairs' in an old dark house. Every time the trap door opens a new adventure begins for ... See full summary »
Creators: Terry Brain, Charlie Mills | Star: William Rushton
Votes: 876
16. Mary Shelley's Frankenhole (2010– )
TV-MA | 15 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror
After mastering immortality, mad scientist Victor Frankenstein turns his attention to time travel, creating a number of wormholes connected to his Eastern European village, allowing him ... See full summary »
Creator: Dino Stamatopoulos | Stars: Jeff Bryan Davis, Britta Phillips, Mark Rivers, Scott Adsit
Votes: 498
17. Bump in the Night (1994–1995)
TV-Y | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The misadventures of a small green monster named Mr. Bumpy, a blue monster named Squishington, and a rag doll named Molly Coddle in a bedroom of a 10 year old boy.
Creators: Ken Pontac, David Bleiman Ichioka | Stars: Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Gail Matthius, Scott McAfee
Votes: 402
18. Peter & the Wolf (2006)
32 min | Animation, Short, Family
An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he's bullied. When a... See full summary »
Writers: Suzie Templeton, Marianela Maldonado, Sergei Prokofiev | Director: Suzie Templeton
Votes: 3,252
19. Fuyu no hi (2003)
105 min | Animation
Writer: Bashô Matsuo | Directors: Mark Baker, Jacques Drouin, Co Hoedeman, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Yôichi Kotabe, Yuriy Norshteyn, Bretislav Pojar, Raoul Servais, Shinichi Suzuki, Isao Takahata, Koji Yamamura | Stars: Ryuta Kashiwagi, Kyôko Kishida, Noboru Mitani, Mutsumi Sasaki
Votes: 313
20. The Hunting of the Snark (2015)
65 min | Animation
A group of strange individuals embark on a voyage with the aim of capturing 'The Snark'.
Writers: Saranne Bensusan, Lewis Carroll | Director: Saranne Bensusan | Stars: Laurence Aldridge, Saranne Bensusan, Simon Fox, Shiraz Khan
Votes: 384
21. Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000– )
56 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
An anthology series that centres around a new story every episode
Star: Nigel Planer
Votes: 262
22. Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
17 min | Animation, Short, Thriller
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As ... See full summary »
Writers: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | Directors: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | Star: Laurie Maher
Votes: 1,926
23. Little from the Fish Shop (2015)
72 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Everyone's familiar with Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, the story of a love capable of forgiving even the greatest betrayal. In Jan Balej's film - a work filled with ... See full summary »
Writers: Hans Christian Andersen, Ivan Arsenyev, Jan Balej | Director: Jan Balej | Stars: Ivana Chýlková, Nina Divísková, Petr Forman, Radek Holub
Votes: 37
24. Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)
Unrated | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
It is the year 3069 and the Earth has been robbed of all its natural resources, destroyed by war and ozone depletion, and is now only a barren desert. The humans who inhabit this empty ... See full summary »
Writer: John Roecker | Director: John Roecker | Stars: Nick 13, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Armstrong, Rob Aston
Votes: 564
25. The Pied Piper (1986)
53 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
Writers: Kamil Pixa, Viktor Dyk | Director: Jirí Barta | Stars: Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Michal Pavlícek, Vilém Cok
Votes: 655
26. The Sandman (1991)
10 min | Animation, Short, Horror
On a dark night, as the clock strikes eight, a mother sends her child upstairs to bed with only a candle for light. The child is wary, then frightened. The child hears something climbing ... See full summary »
Writer: E.T.A. Hoffmann | Director: Paul Berry
Votes: 806
27. Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
71 min | Animation, Fantasy
A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.
Writer: Christiane Cegavske | Director: Christiane Cegavske
Votes: 731
28. Truckers (1992– )
11 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Under the floorboards of an old department store live the gnomes, tiny people for whom things like Outside and Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a group of new gnomes arrive from... See full summary »
Stars: Joe McGann, Debra Gillett, Rosalie Williams, John Jardine
Votes: 145
29. Mythic Journeys (2009)
93 min | Documentary
An inventive fusion of documentary, story, artwork and animation. Despite the fact that myth has always existed, surprisingly few people today are aware of even the classic myths or the ... See full summary »
Writers: Steven Boe, Whitney Boe | Directors: Steven Boe, Whitney Boe | Stars: Mark Hamill, Tim Curry, Lance Henriksen, Steven Aizenstat
Votes: 111
30. The Story of the Fox (1930)
65 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and ... See full summary »
Writers: Jean Nohain, Antoinette Nordmann, Roger Richebé, Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Directors: Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz | Stars: Claude Dauphin, Romain Bouquet, Sylvain Itkine, Léon Larive
Votes: 683
31. Bobby Yeah (2011)
23 min | Animation, Short, Horror
Bobby Yeah is a subhuman creature who experiences a series of increasingly bizarre, nightmarish encounters after stealing a malevolent baby's prized pet.
Writer: Robert Morgan | Director: Robert Morgan
Votes: 227
32. The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1985 TV Movie)
G | 50 min | Family, Animation, Musical
At a council convened by The Great Ak, the forest being tells the story of Santa Claus to explain why he deserves to made immortal.
Writers: Jules Bass, L. Frank Baum | Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Earl Hammond, Earle Hyman, Larry Kenney, Lynne Lipton
Votes: 670
33. O Apóstolo (2012)
80 min | Animation, Horror
An escaped prison convict attempts to retrieve a loot hidden years ago in a lonely village. Sinister elders, strange disappearances, spirits, a peculiar priest and even the Archpriest of ... See full summary »
Writer: Fernando Cortizo | Director: Fernando Cortizo | Stars: Carlos Blanco, Xosé Manuel Olveira 'Pico', Paul Naschy, Jorge Sanz
Votes: 378
34. Edison & Leo (2008)
79 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A genius inventor's world threatens to fly apart at the seams. His son, who has electricity crackling through his veins due to an accident in his father's laboratory, discovers the truth about his father's past.
Writers: George Toles, Daegan Fryklind | Director: Neil Burns | Stars: Powers Boothe, Gregory Smith, Carly Pope, Jay Brazeau
Votes: 158
35. Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe (2012)
80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Writers: Enrique Cortés, Mario Jacob, Walter Tournier | Director: Walter Tournier | Stars: Omar Aranda, Marcelo Armand, Diego Brizzi, Mariano Chiesa
Votes: 87
36. Hansel and Gretel (1954)
Approved | 72 min | Animation, Family, Music
An "electronic puppet" version of the Humperdinck opera, adapted for children and using spoken dialogue as well as Humperdinck's music.
Writers: Adelheid Wette, Padraic Colum, Brüder Grimm | Director: John Paul | Stars: Anna Russell, Mildred Dunnock, Frank Rogier, Delbert Anderson
Votes: 137
37. Shisha no sho (2005)
70 min | Animation, Drama
The story takes place as Buddhism is being introduced to Japan from China. Iratsume, a woman of noble descent, one night sees a luminous vision that she believes to be the Buddha, ... See full summary »
Writer: Shinobu Origuchi | Director: Kihachiro Kawamoto | Stars: Kyôko Kishida, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Rie Miyazawa
Votes: 160
38. Mad God: Part 1 (2014)
12 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
MAD GOD is an experimental animated film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and warpigs. Directed by legendary visual effects and stop-motion craftsman Phil Tippett, ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Tippett | Star: Niketa Roman
Votes: 18
39. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
76 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common ... See full summary »
Writers: Jirí Brdecka, Josef Kainar, Howard Sackler, William Shakespeare, Jirí Trnka | Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton, Tom Criddle
Votes: 197
40. Jedné noci v jednom meste (2007)
76 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror
A feature-length narrative animated film from one of the directors of Fimfárum 2. Mysterious and extraordinary stories of loneliness. What all can happen during one night in one city? Do ... See full summary »
Writers: Ivan Arsenyev, Jan Balej | Director: Jan Balej | Star: Jirí Lábus
Votes: 252
41. Sagan om Skrotnisse och hans vänner (1985 TV Mini-Series)
175 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Skrotnisse and his son Kalle works in a junk yard, situated in the middle of a small town. Skrotnisse has a childhood friend, the inventor and hermit Bertil Enstöring. He has written down ... See full summary »
Stars: Christer Boustedt, Sven Lindberg, Helge Skoog, Runo Sundberg
Votes: 555
42. The Emperor's Nightingale (1949)
55 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches... See full summary »
Writers: Vítezslav Nezval, Hans Christian Andersen, Jirí Brdecka, Jean Cocteau, Phyllis McGinley, Jirí Trnka | Directors: Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec | Stars: Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna, Boris Karloff
Votes: 234
43. Imagination (2007)
70 min | Fantasy
Dr. Reineger is a child neuro-psychologist who has become confident that the twin Anna has a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome, rendering her unable to cope with reality. As for her... See full summary »
Writer: Eric Leiser | Director: Eric Leiser | Stars: Ed K. Gildersleeve, Nikki Haddad, Jessi Haddad, Courtney Sanford
Votes: 187
44. The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990 TV Movie)
60 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
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 ... See full summary »
Writer: John Hambley | Director: Francis Vose | Stars: Robin Bailey, Maurice Denham, Jimmy Hibbert, Martin Jarvis
Votes: 287
45. Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
G | 82 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Writers: Shintarô Tsuji, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Thomas Joachim, Eugene A. Fournier | Director: Takeo Nakamura | Stars: Michele Lee, Melissa Gilbert, Lurene Tuttle, Christopher Lee
Votes: 110
46. Fimfárum Jana Wericha (2002)
100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Writers: Aurel Klimt, Jirí Kubícek, Jan Werich | Directors: Aurel Klimt, Vlasta Pospísilová | Stars: Ota Jirák, Jan Werich
Votes: 363
47. Lavender Castle (1999–2000)
10 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Lavender Castle is a place of mystery and legend, fabled throughout the universe, a floating city of light, a place of peace, harmony and all the things that have ever been dreamt of. It is... See full summary »
Stars: Kate Harbour, Jimmy Hibbert, David Holt, Rob Rackstraw
Votes: 43
48. Fimfárum 2 (2006)
90 min | Animation
Writers: Jan Balej, Aurel Klimt, Jirí Kubícek, Bretislav Pojar, Jan Werich | Directors: Jan Balej, Aurel Klimt, Bretislav Pojar, Vlasta Pospísilová | Stars: Ota Jirák, Jan Werich
Votes: 146
49. The Legend of the Sky Kingdom (2004)
73 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Three children make a daring escape from the underground city in which they are slaves of the Evil Emperor, and go in search of the fabled Sky Kingdom and the great Prince Ariel.
Writer: Phil Cunningham | Director: Roger Hawkins | Stars: Jason Linforth, Miriam Hamblin, Gabriel Phillips, Lucian Msamati
Votes: 31
50. The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981 TV Short)
25 min | Animation, Short, Family
An Irish sailor is stranded on an island full of Leprechauns and soon finds himself aiding them in protecting their gold from a greedy Hag.
Writer: Romeo Muller | Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Art Carney, Peggy Cass, Bob McFadden, Ken Jennings
Votes: 249