Synopsis:
In this colorful stop-motion animation with a satirical edge, a carnival of animals—including a frog, a chameleon, and a bird—compete in a wild wrestling match.
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One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
- Action
- Family
- Adventure
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Three kids spend the night at their grandpa’s house. To fill the silence after losing their grandma, the family’s storyteller, they begin to create their own stories and discover the power of imagination. This uplifting stop-motion film celebrates creativity and its healing magic.
- Fantasy
- Family
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The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.
- Adventure
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While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit’s realm where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It’s not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. He must summon the spirit-powers and all his courage to stop man and nature from destroying each other.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Adventure
- Action
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An early spring morning, Water-Spider – who is roused from his winter sleep in a snail shell takes a bath. After an argument with the cross spider, the two spiders become close friends…
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Adventure
- Family
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FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.
- Drama
- Comedy
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Eleven-year-old Tony has a unique feature he was born with – he glows. He spends his days at home in his blanket bunker and dreams about having a friend. Before Christmas, a peculiar girl named Shelly moves into his house and turns his world upside down. Together, they embark on an adventurous search for the origin of the mysterious tufts of darkness which suck the sunshine out of their house.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Adventure
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This stop-motion feature tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
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Section 9 keeps track of a famous revolutionary, Marcelo Jarti, who keeps visiting Japan on a suspiciously regular basis.
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Drama
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A young girl thinks her new heart transplant came from an unreliable source, which causes Kusanagi to begin a personal crusade.
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Drama
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Kusanagi keeps an eye on a chat room for news about the Laughing Man and learns that several participants are not who they appear.
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Drama
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Batou must come to terms with something dark from his past as he tracks down a serial killer; Section 9 learns why the American CIA were sent to Tokyo.
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Drama
