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1. Fantastic Planet (1973)
PG | 72 min | Animation, Sci-Fi
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
Director: René Laloux | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart
Votes: 36,890 | Gross: $0.19M
2. Angel's Egg (1985 Video)
Not Rated | 71 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, Keiichi Noda
Votes: 12,031
3. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Not Rated | 62 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Sara Cushman, Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 210
4. The Wolf House (2018)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
Directors: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León | Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause, Karina Hyland, Carlos Cociña
Votes: 4,767
5. Salad Fingers (2004– )
TV-MA | 10 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The surreal life of Salad Fingers, an unknown creature living in an apocalyptic wasteland.
Stars: David Firth, Cachet
Votes: 3,278
6. The Tragedy of Man (2011)
PG | 160 min | Animation, Drama, History
Adam's and Eve's epic journey throughout history trying to find the meaning of human life. Do we grow in wisdom as centuries pass, or just drift towards an inevitable doom?
Director: Marcell Jankovics | Stars: Gyula Balázsi, Péter Benkö, Ágnes Bertalan, Péter Blaskó
Votes: 1,150
7. The Old Mill (1937)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
Directors: Graham Heid, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Elvia Allman, Marie Arbuckle, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster
Votes: 4,869
8. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Don Hertzfeldt closes his trilogy as Bill struggles to piece together his shattering psyche.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Sara Cushman, Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 3,231
9. Rejected (2000)
Unrated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Robert May, Jennifer Nyholm, Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 8,886
10. I Am So Proud of You (2008)
22 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery, in this second chapter to "Everything Will Be OK".
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Star: Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 1,967
11. The Death Lullaby (1985)
27 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A semi-surreal disturbing visual narration that focuses among other things on a child that's being bullied by other kids.
Director: Hiroshi Harada | Stars: Kiyohiko Inami, Katsuhito Takahashi
Votes: 216
12. Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor (2007)
21 min | Animation, Short, Horror
Surreal events occur when a hapless country doctor visits an ill boy one cold night.
Director: Kôji Yamamura | Stars: Sensaku Shigeyama, Shigeru Shigeyama, Doji Shigeyama, Shime Shigeyama
Votes: 1,373
13. The Dam Keeper (2014)
TV-G | 18 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A little pig, who keeps his town safe from a cloud of pollution with his windmill dam, is ignored by a thankless public and bullied at school. When a new kid arrives, things begin to change.
Directors: Robert Kondo, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi | Stars: Lars Mikkelsen, Courtney Lockwood
Votes: 2,497
14. Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992)
TV-G | 7 min | Animation, Short
Two-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists.
Director: Joan C. Gratz | Star: Jean G. Poulot
Votes: 867
15. A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
TV-Y | 6 min | Animation, Short
Displays the hand turning, opening and closing, pointing at the viewer, and flexing its fingers, ending with a shot that seemingly travels up inside the hand.
Directors: Ed Catmull, Frederic Parke | Star: Ed Catmull
Votes: 459
16. The Dub Room Special! (1984 Video)
92 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
Direct to video film by Frank Zappa. Features footage from two of his concerts: a 1974 Los Angeles concert and a 1981 New York City concert. It also includes clay animation by Bruce Bickford.
Directors: Dick Darley, Clark Santee, Frank Zappa | Stars: Frank Zappa, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson
Votes: 222
17. Wisdom Teeth (2010)
16+ | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Help from a friend to pull the wisdom teeth does not end as expected.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Don Hertzfeldt, Roxanna Kitten Brown
Votes: 1,247
18. A Short Vision (1956)
TV-MA | 6 min | Animation, Short
The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.
Directors: Joan Foldes, Peter Foldes | Star: James McKechnie
Votes: 429
19. Curious Alice (1971)
11 min | Animation, Short, Family
This is an education film for public school children, about drugs, narcotics, psychedelics, alcohol, amphetamines, and barbiturates abuse in the context of the Alice In Wonderland story.
Stars: Elizabeth Jones, Sparky
Votes: 205
20. Malice in Wonderland (1982)
4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
Like 'Alice in Wonderland' - but surreal, sexual and utterly horrifying.
Director: Vince Collins
Votes: 479
21. Moonwalk (2010)
Unrated | 22 min | Short
A rare film combining art and science, Moonwalk is a large-scale, immersive experience in hemispherical fulldome format. It is an experimental film about humanity's relationship with the ... See full summary »
Director: Clea T. Waite | Stars: Megan Gay, Erik Hansen
22. Simulacra (2020)
6 min | Animation, Short
An elderly Buddhist woman recalls a ritual from her past, undertaking a journey of duality expressed through her many identities.
Director: Curry Sicong Tian | Stars: Cailyn Rice, Taylor Unwin, Emiko Yamaguchi
23. Escalation (II) (1968)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An anti-Vietnam War cartoon mocking U.S. President, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson. The author showed it at film festivals, college campuses during the U.S. presidential election year in 1968, ... See full summary »
Director: Ward Kimball | Star: Paul Frees
Votes: 70
24. My Grandmother Is an Egg (2021)
9 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. She has lived up to her fate. T'ung-yang-hsi is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised ... See full summary »
Director: Wu-Ching Chang | Stars: Yu-Chin Chang, Yu-Hsia Chang, Yu-Jan Chang, Yu-Lin Chang
Votes: 11
25. Jade Leaf (1985)
5 min | Animation, Short
Jade Leaf is an abstract computer painting inspired by botanical forms. The images were made with a keyboard on a Cubicomp and IBM-AT, using Lumena, Easel and PC-10 software. Digital images... See full summary »
Director: Joanna Priestley
26. Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev (1960)
2 min | Animation, Short
Combines live photography and collage animation in one film. A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place.
Director: Stan Vanderbeek | Star: Nikita Khrushchev
Votes: 59
27. Drux Flux (2008)
5 min | Animation, Short
Comprised of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry.
Director: Theodore Ushev
Votes: 111
28. Silhouettes of Jazz (2009)
4 min | Animation, Short
The viewer is guided through the history of jazz music by examining sculptures which exhibit different distinct silhouettes when viewed from different angles.
Directors: Mario Deuss, Dominik P. Käser, Martin-Sebastian Senn
Votes: 6
29. Casino Night (2015)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man, feeling lucky goes for a night of gambling, to sad results.
Director: PilotRedSun | Star: PilotRedSun
Votes: 35
30. The Dancing Bulrushes (1985)
5 min | Animation, Short
A short film animated with sand, frame by frame, on a sheet of glass, lit from below. Based on a traditional Ojibwa Native American tale about Coyote, the Trickster.
Directors: Joanna Priestley, Steven Subotnick | Star: Fran Bennett
Votes: 10
32. Capitalism: Slavery (2007)
3 min | Animation, Short
An experimental short film of an antiqued image of cotton pickers which is animated.
Director: Ken Jacobs
Votes: 213
34. Tran Scan (2004)
Not Rated | 8 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi. "A swift, elegant, and mysterious time-lapse drive across Canada during which the point of view magically remains constant to the horizon." - Northwest Film/Video Festival.
Director: Stephen Arthur
Votes: 14
35. Dreams of Mourning (2004)
5 min | Animation, Short
A man wakes, only to find himself inside a painted landscape - a moving Monet. The dream scape is in constant flux, nature reshapes and reforms around him, in conflict, like his desire to ... See full summary »
Director: Warren Nightingale | Star: Paul Cameron Miller
36. Elevator (2002)
2 min | Animation, Short
A man travels through the different stages of life in a crazy elevator ride while at work.
Director: Yorico Murakami
Votes: 8
37. Nimbus (2020)
6 min | Animation, Short
The great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus, in Colombia also known as María Mulata) is a highly sociable bird that has also appropriated Caribbean cities as a new habitat. In this video,... See full summary »
Director: Sandra Rengifo
38. Viewmaster (1978)
PG | 3 min | Animation, Short
Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.
Director: George Griffin
39. Transformation (1959)
5 min | Short
An experimental animation film of the process of abstract painting set to free-form Jazz music.
Director: Ed Emshwiller
40. Lapis (1966)
10 min | Animation, Short
Mathematically precise early computer-aided animated piece based around the meditative-like inward and outward flow of images of the mandala.
Director: James Whitney
Votes: 403
41. Phantasia (2024)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A digital film by Jorge Moneo Quintana after two X-ray images from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Director: Jorge Moneo Quintana
42. Tengri (2012)
6 min | Animation, Short
Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the corpse lands becomes a simple tomb.
Director: Alisi Telengut
43. The Liminal Series (2006)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Short
Imagines nature's scales, from the minuteness of subatomic particles to the immensity of an expanding universe, within a context of digital distortions such as pixilation, color artifacts, ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Lee
44. Hush Baby (2009)
4 min | Animation, Short
A curious baby is protected from an environment of temptation. Overturning the popular association of animation with children's entertainment, Hush Baby depicts a baby's struggle against confinement and restriction.
Director: Wei Keong Tan
47. Trigger Love (2018)
3 min | Animation, Short
Trigger love brings to the attention of people the sheer abruptness, senselessness and irreversibility of gun massacres.
Director: Sourav Roy
48. Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand (2006)
15 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
In an age of technological integration and urban life, people turn to the natural world for a wilderness experience. What draws us to the remote corners of land and sea when we realize ... See full summary »
Director: Corrie Francis Parks
Votes: 6
49. What Manner of Person Art Thou? (2008)
65 min | Animation
God-sent serial killers looking for their wayward kin. Two isolated, traditional Christian villages are eviscerated by ergot poisoning and the only survivors, Elijah Yoder and Enoch Troyer,... See full summary »
Director: Erin Cosgrove | Stars: Crist Ballas, Don Bergsten, Bob Beverage, Gary Brown
50. Prisoner of War (2009)
2 min | Animation, Short
The story of a starved man confined to a prison cell whose mind morphs his surroundings until he is driven to complete insanity.
Director: Jason Ronzani