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My 100 Favorite Animation Movies:
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Animation movies spanning the spectrum of emotions and art styles.
Some of the movies have no links, you can find the Yamato and InuYasha movies on YouTube, as well as Alita, Babar and Nocturna.
Oblivion Island, is still missing, ironically.


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Movie: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( 1987 )
An animated fantasy-adventure. Set one thousand years from now, the Earth is ravaged by pollution and war. In the Valley of the Wind lives Nausicaä, Princess of her people. Their land borders on a toxic jungle, filled with dangerous over-sized insects. Meanwhile, two nearby nations are bitterly engaged in a war and the Valley of the Wind is stuck in the middle.
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Movie: Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie ( 1996 )
Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the planet for years. He finds it in Ryu, a young wanderer who never stays in one place long enough for Bison to find him. He does, however, get a fix on Ken Masters, an American martial arts champion who studied with Ryu as a child under the same master. Meanwhile, Major Guile of the United States Army is forced to team up with Chun Li from China in hopes of apprehending Bison and putting a stop his international ring of crime.
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Movie: Akira ( 1988 )
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
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Movie: The Iron Giant ( 1999 )
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
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Movie: Ratatouille ( 2007 )
A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant.
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Movie: Ghost in the Shell ( 1996 )
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
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Movie: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 )
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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Movie: WALL·E ( 2008 )
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
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Movie: 9 ( 2009 )
In a world destroyed in a war between man and machine, a hand-stitched doll with the number 9 written on its back comes to life. The world he has awakened in is frightening, but he quickly learns that he is not alone and that there are others like him, also with a single digit written on their back. The first one he encounters is 2 who tells him something of what happened to the world. 2 is also thrilled with the disk 9 is carrying, one with three unique symbols on the front. 9 soon learns that the disk and some of the other dolls who are prepared to die for the good of humankind may be the last hope for man's salvation.
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Movie: Ponyo ( 2008 )
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
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Movie: Spirited Away ( 2001 )
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
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Movie: Up ( 2009 )
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
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Movie: The Jungle Book ( 1967 )
Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
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Movie: Aladdin ( 1992 )
Aladdin is a poor street urchin who spends his time stealing food from the marketplace in the city of Agrabah. His adventures begin when he meets a young girl who happens to be Princess Jasmine, who is forced to be married by her wacky yet estranged father. Aladdin's luck suddenly changes when he retrieves a magical lamp from the Cave of Wonders. What he unwittingly gets is a fun-loving genie who only wishes to have his freedom. Little do they know is that the Sultan's sinister advisor Jafar has his own plans for both Aladdin and the lamp.
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Movie: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole ( 2010 )
Soren (Jim Sturgess), a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's.
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Movie: The Land Before Time ( 1988 )
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
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Movie: The Animatrix ( 2003 )
The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.
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Movie: My Neighbor Totoro ( 1988 )
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
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Movie: Space Battleship Yamato ( 1978 )
Gamilons are a race of evil aliens that are trying to destroy the planet Earth. However, a group of civilians look to the battleship Yamato for its space travel and go on a mission to bring back a neutralizer that will get rid of the radiation from the Earth.
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Movie: Uchû senkan Yamato: Kanketsuhen ( 1983 )
A watery world called Aquarius that is destined to destroy all of the planet Earth. Can the great Yamato stop this devastation?
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Movie: Howl's Moving Castle ( 2004 )
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
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Movie: Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror ( 2009 )
A teenage girl discovers a magical world, which forces her to come to terms with her grief for her deceased mother, and her tenuous relationship with her father.
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Movie: Steamboy ( 2004 )
In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.
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Movie: Gunnm ( 1993 )
In a distant future, a the young cyborg Gally is found on a scrapheap by the Cyberdoctor Daisuke Ido, who rebuilds her and becomes her surrogate father.
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Movie: The Secret of NIMH ( 1982 )
Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children on the Fitzgibbon farm. She is preparing to move her family out of the field they live in as plowing time approaches, however her son Timothy has fallen ill, and moving him could prove fatal. Mrs. Brisby visits The Great Owl, a wise creature who advises her to visit a mysterious group of rats who live beneath a rose bush on the farm. Upon visiting the rats, Brisby meets Nicodemus, the wise and mystical leader of the rats, and Justin, a friendly rat who immediately becomes attached to Mrs. Brisby. While there, she learns that her late husband, Mr. Jonathon Brisby, along with the rats, was a part of a series of experiments at a place known only as N.I.M.H. (revealed earlier in the story as the National Institute of Mental Health). The experiments performed on the mice and rats there boosted their intelligence, allowing them to read without being taught and to understand things such as complex mechanics and electricity. The rats and Mr. Brisby escaped from N.I.M.H. and came to live on the Fitzgibbon farm. The rats created a home for themselves under Mrs. Fitzgibbon's rose bush, creating an elaborate habitation of beautiful chambers, elevators, and Christmas lights. However, the rats are unhappy in their dependence on the humans, who they are stealing electricity from, and have concocted a plan to leave the farm and live independently. Because of her husband's prior relationship with the rats, they agree to help Mrs. Brisby move her home out of the path of the plow. However, the evil Jenner and his unwilling accomplice Sullivan, who wish to remain beneath the rose bush, yet plot to kill Nicodemus during the move.
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Movie: Robin Hood ( 1973 )
An imaginative Disney version of the Robin Hood legend. Fun and romance abound as the swashbuckling hero of Sherwood Forest and his valiant sidekick plot one daring adventure after another to outwit the greedy Prince John (Sir Peter Ustinov) and his partner as they put the tax squeeze on the poor.
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Movie: The Lego Movie ( 2014 )
An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.
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Movie: Ice Age ( 2002 )
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
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Movie: Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 )
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Movie: Princess Mononoke ( 1997 )
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
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Movie: The Transformers: The Movie ( 1986 )
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
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Movie: The Emperor's New Groove ( 2000 )
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.
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Movie: The Great Mouse Detective ( 1986 )
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.
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Movie: The Rescuers ( 1977 )
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.
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Movie: DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp ( 1990 )
Scrooge McDuck takes Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Egypt to find a pyramid and magic lamp.
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Movie: The Lion King ( 1994 )
Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
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Movie: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ( 2018 )
Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
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Movie: Watership Down ( 1978 )
Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.
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Movie: Babar: The Movie ( 1989 )
In his spectacular film debut, young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.
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Movie: Metropolis ( 2001 )
Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.
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Movie: Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection ( 2009 )
17 years after the last film, a wandering black hole is approaches the Solar System, and will surely destroy all life on Earth very soon. The decision has been made to evacuate Earth's entire population, to a safer planet light years away
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Movie: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West ( 1991 )
Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan. Unaware of this, the Mousekewitz's begin their journey west, while their true cat friend, Tiger, follows intent on following his girlfriend gone in the same direction.
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Movie: An American Tail ( 1986 )
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Movie: The Fox and the Hound ( 1981 )
A fox named Tod and a hound named Copper vow to be best friends forever. But as Copper grows into a hunting dog, their unlikely friendship faces the ultimate test.
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Movie: Mulan ( 1998 )
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
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Movie: Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time ( 2005 )
InuYasha is a half-demon who was trapped in the Legendary Tree and was set free by Kagome, a girl who traveled 500 years through time. This time, both of them will have to face Menomaru, a Chinese demon whose father, known as Hyoga, came 300 years ago to invade Japan, but was stopped by InuYasha's Father. InuYasha and Kagome, along with Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kaede and Myoga, will try to stop Menomaru in his becoming the most powerful demon ever.
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Movie: InuYasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass ( 2004 )
After seemingly defeating their common enemy, Naraku, what appears to be the near-end of their journey instead leads Inuyasha and Kagome facing against a new threat.
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Movie: InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler ( 2003 )
The legendary sword, So'unga, which belonged to the Great Dog Demon, has been unleashed. It seeks to cover the Earth in an eternal Hell and end all life on it. Inuyasha must join forces with his hateful brother, Sesshoumaru, and put an end to the evil sword that once belonged to their father.
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Movie: Inuyasha the Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island ( 2006 )
50 years ago, Inuyasha was marked with a blood scar on his back, and as of yet, he hasn't gotten revenge. He encounters children with the same scar desperate to find a way to escape. Inuyasha and his friends is taken to an island by the only child who's escaped. Now, none of them can leave until four war gods are defeated, which seems pretty impossible.
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Movie: Pete's Dragon ( 1977 )
In early-20th-century New England, 9-year-old orphan Pete escapes his brutal adoptive parents, the Gogans, with his only friend, a cartoon dragon named Elliott. They successfully escape to Passamaquoddy, Maine and live with lighthouse-keeper Nora and her father Lampie, but the corrupt Dr. Terminus seeks Elliott for medical purposes.
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Movie: How to Train Your Dragon ( 2010 )
Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can't bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.
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Movie: Looney Tunes: Back in Action ( 2003 )
The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.
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Movie: Sky Blue ( 2003 )
2142: Pollution and climate change wiped out most of Earth's population. Ecoban city is built to withstand this. Suppression results in revolt. A childhood couple find each other as adults on opposing sides.
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Movie: All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 )
A canine angel, Charlie, sneaks back to earth from heaven but ends up befriending an orphan girl who can speak to animals. In the process, Charlie learns that friendship is the most heavenly gift of all.
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Movie: Cool World ( 1992 )
When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. The flesh proves weaker than ink, however, as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas.
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Movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 )
A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
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Movie: Open Season ( 2006 )
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear, finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
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Movie: Hotel Transylvania ( 2012 )
Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teenaged daughter.
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Movie: Space Jam ( 1996 )
In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.
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Movie: The Secret World of Arrietty ( 2010 )
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
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Movie: Astro Boy ( 2009 )
When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.
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Movie: Balto ( 1995 )
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
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Movie: Metropia ( 2009 )
A complex story of a misaligned man, though good intent, creating a nightmarish Dystopian existence.
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Movie: My Little Pony: The Movie ( 1986 )
Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk.
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Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 )
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
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Movie: Robots ( 2005 )
In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspiration's company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management.
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Movie: Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend ( 1993 )
The relative coexistence of the human world, demon world and beast world is soon to be disrupted by The Overfiend, an immensely powerful demon who'll be reborn after 3000 years to remake the world to his own liking.
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Movie: We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story ( 1993 )
Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and nonviolent. They agree to go to the Middle Future (this era) in order to grant the wishes of children in New York city. They are to meet Dr. Bleeb of the Museum of Natural History, but get side-tracked with their new friends and run into the Captain's evil brother, Professor Screw Eyes, who has other plans for the dinosaurs.
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Movie: Fantastic Planet ( 1973 )
Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan of Terr, a minute human shaped Om slave, and pet, of the giant blue alien Draags. Escaping into the wilderness and with a device used for intellectual advancement of the Draags, Terr finds refuge and support from fellow Oms and using the learning tool, he finds that knowledge is power and then sets to use the new found knowledge to revolt against the Draag masters...
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Movie: Gandahar ( 1988 )
An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.
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Movie: Frankenweenie ( 2012 )
When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.
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Movie: A Goofy Movie ( 1995 )
When Max makes a preposterous promise to a girl he has a crush on, his chances to fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy.
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Movie: Toy Story ( 1995 )
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.
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Movie: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ( 2004 )
SpongeBob takes leave from Bikini Bottom in order to track down, with Patrick, King Neptune's stolen crown.
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Movie: Igor ( 2008 )
Animated fable about a cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant who aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
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Movie: ParaNorman ( 2012 )
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
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Movie: Big Hero 6 ( 2014 )
A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
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Movie: Tarzan ( 1999 )
A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
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Movie: Nocturna ( 2007 )
An orphan boy named Tim is afraid of the dark. However, when the stars start going out in the sky, he finds himself exploring the world of the night, alongside his new friend, the Cat Shepherd.
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Movie: Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland ( 1992 )
A young boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of until he unleashes a century old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself.
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Movie: Hercules ( 1997 )
The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
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Movie: The Little Mermaid ( 1989 )
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
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Movie: Oliver & Company ( 1988 )
A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.
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Movie: Battle for Terra ( 2009 )
The peaceful alien planet Terra faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on it. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
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Movie: Mars Needs Moms ( 2011 )
On Mars, the female babies are nursed by robots while the male babies are dumped in the junkyard under the command of Supervisor. They research Earth and finds that the boy Milo is raised by his Mom with love and discipline. The Martians come to Earth and abduct Mom, to use her brain to instruct the robots about how to raise children. However, Milo sneaks into the spaceship and comes to Mars. He meets Gribble, a young man that behaves like a child and together with the hippie Martian Ki and Gribble's friend Wingnut, they try to rescue Mom and bring her back to Earth. But Supervisor will give her best efforts to stop Milo and his friends.
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Movie: Lensman ( 1984 )
Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companinon, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
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Movie: Aladdin and the King of Thieves ( 1996 )
At long last, Aladdin is about to marry the Princess Jasmine. Despite the presence and encouragement of his friends Genie, Carpet, and Abu, he is fearful and anxious. He is most worried as to what kind of father he will be, having never known his own. But when the 40 Thieves disrupt the wedding trying to steal a magical oracular talisman, Aladdin is drawn into a dangerous quest to stop the thieves...and find his long-lost father.
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Movie: Fist of the North Star ( 1991 )
In a post-nuclear hellscape, a master of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two kids and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to battle the tyrants who kidnapped his lover.
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Movie: Rango ( 2011 )
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
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Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 )
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Movie: The Incredibles ( 2004 )
While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
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Movie: Treasure Planet ( 2002 )
A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.
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Movie: Megamind ( 2010 )
Evil genius Megamind finally defeats his do-gooder nemesis, Metro Man, but is left without a purpose in a superhero-free world.
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Movie: Madagascar ( 2005 )
A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
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Movie: Brave ( 2012 )
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.
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Movie: Wreck-It Ralph ( 2012 )
A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.
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Movie: Despicable Me ( 2010 )
When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.
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Movie: Shrek ( 2001 )
A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
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Movie: A Scanner Darkly ( 2006 )
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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Movie: Memories ( 1995 )
"Memories" is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, "Magnetic Rose," four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by one woman's memories. In "Stink Bomb," a young lab assistant accidentally transforms himself into a human biological weapon set on a direct course for Tôkyô. The final episode, "Cannon Fodder," depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unseen enemy.