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
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Films
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The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.
- Comedy
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Victoria Musci represents herself and her film Giggino 'o Bello.
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Randy is plagued by an ant infestation.
- Comedy
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Randy stays at home to watch his uncle.
- Comedy
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Randy's family experiences bloody accidents.
- Comedy
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A screaming man crashes through Randy's fence.
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Randy's friend visits after he causes a car wreck.
- Comedy
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A doctor arrives after Randy shocks himself while trying to fix a broken lamp.
- Comedy
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Randy loses his temper when his wife disturbs him by running on a noisy treadmill.
- Comedy
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A series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors. Randy makes small talk with a neighbor.
- Comedy
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The animals of Africa pitch in to help Dr. Dolittle tend to a troop of ailing gorillas, orangutans, and baboons.
- Adventure
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The animals of Africa pitch in to help Dr. Dolittle tend to a troop of ailing gorillas, orangutans, and baboons.
- Adventure
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Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s-book character ventures to Africa in order to cure a band of sick monkeys.
- Adventure
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This short animated fable unfolds in a kingdom of frogs threatened by a monster.
- Drama
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Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.
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A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.
- Drama
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Faith and John Hubley visualize the spirit of childhood imagination in this slice-of-life short set to recordings of their daughters Emily and Georgia at play.
- Family
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A loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her, sets off to make a chicken with peppers, even though she doesn't know how to cook.
- Comedy
- Family
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The caliph of Baghdad is transformed into a stork by his wicked uncle in this adaptation of a tale by Wilhelm Hauff.
- Drama
- Fantasy