The Red Heels

2020

Mime Your Manners

Mime Your Manners is an animated shirt film about an arrogant man is given a taste of his own medicine when he's transformed into a mime and in order to be freed must grow to be a better person

2020

Windup

A father tries to stay connected with his unconscious daughter through music. He plays a windup music box and hopes she can hear it while fighting with his own emotions to stay strong. Meanwhile, his daughter follows the melody in her dreams and looks for a way back.

2023

My Year of Dicks

An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early '90s.

8.0

The Glass Marble

Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’

5.6

1983

Another Side of the Moon

A comic film about traditional Caucasian hospitality.

7.0

2016

One Hell of a Plan

Two burglars release dozens of cats into a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag of loot. However, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night the burglars ever spent.

5.7

2008

No Place Like Home

There is no place like home, there is no place like hell. The first in Rosto AD's Thee Wreckers Tetralogy.

5.2

2015

Jonas and the Sea

A boy casts aside everything in pursuit of his dream, a quest we all share: the quest to find a place he can call home, even if it's underwater. He loves to swim with fishes and builds an ingenious machine to be able to dive.

5.0

1965

M.S. Chanda

Short animated film by Yanagihara Ryouhei.

4.7

1960

Fashion

A short film satirizing consumerism.

5.0

Two Samurai

Short animated film by Yanagihara Ryouhei.

3.5

1967

Flower

A short film by Kuri Youji. A man plants a flower and waits for it to bear fruit...

1976

The Gourd-Bottle

Independent animation by Suzuki Shin'ichi.

Time

Short animated film by Manabe Hiroshi

4.7

1967

Shadow

Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.

6.7

2014

One, Two, Tree

One day, a tree like any other jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow.

1977

Karma

In his early experimental short Karma (カルマ, 1977), Aihara uses water as his central motif. The film is hand drawn and appears to be shot on 16mm using a blue filter. At first we can only see tiny specks on the screen, coming and going like snow flurries. The specks gradually grow larger and take the shape of bubbles, then even larger into rivulets of water on a transparent surface.

5.0

1971

Oni Love Song

The love story between a girl whose parents were murdered and a murderer known as a demon.

Locus

Short animated film by Yoji Kuri.

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7.2

2003

Destino

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.

8.3

2023

Once Upon a Studio

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

7.0

2011

Hawaiian Vacation

The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.

7.5

2006

The Little Matchgirl

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

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7.4

2012

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

After a hurricane levels his city, a young man wanders into a mysterious library where books literally come to life. This film won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2012.

2017

Gone Fishing

On Motunui, Maui tries to catch a fish with his magical fishhook, only to be comically foiled by the ocean.

8.1

2021

Far from the Tree

On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.

1933

The Pied Piper

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

7.6

2013

Get a Horse!

Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.

6.9

1941

Lend a Paw

Jealous over Mickey's attention to a kitten, Pluto's devil-self argues with his angel-self over whether or not to rescue the kitten when it falls into a well. The angel-self wins, and Pluto is treated like a hero. In the end, he and the kitten become friends.

7.5

2017

Lou

A Pixar short about a lost-and-found box and the unseen monster within.

7.1

2012

Tangled Ever After

The kingdom is in a festive mood as everyone gathers for the royal wedding of Rapunzel and Flynn. However, when Pascal and Maximus, as flower chameleon and ring bearer, respectively, lose the gold bands, a frenzied search and recovery mission gets underway. As the desperate duo tries to find the rings before anyone discovers that they’re missing, they leave behind a trail of comical chaos that includes flying lanterns, a flock of doves, a wine barrel barricade and a very sticky finale. Will Maximus and Pascal save the day and make it to the church in time? And will they ever get Flynn’s nose right?

6.4

2011

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.

7.1

2022

Groot's Pursuit

Groot investigates a spooky noise that’s been haunting the Quadrant, which leads to an intense dance off.

7.7

2010

Day & Night

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

6.9

2005

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.

6.0

1932

Babes in the Woods

Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.

6.3

2006

Mater and the Ghostlight

Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight, and as everyone races home Mater is left alone primed for a good old-fashioned scare.

7.3

1968

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood.

7.1

2020

Lamp Life

Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.