Movies like Effigy House (2024)

Destino (2003)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

The House (2022)

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Duck Amuck (1953)

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)

In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)

Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011)

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

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Heavy Traffic (1973)

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Everything Will Be OK (2006)

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Unidentified Flying Mater (2009)

Mater finds a small UFO called Mator and they have a night out. Later, when Mator is captured by military forces, Mater sneaks up and saves him with the help of Lightning McQueen and the UFO's mother.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Anomalisa (2015)

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Hawaiian Vacation (2011)

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

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1 (2007)

Experience these masterpieces of storytelling from the creative minds that brought you Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and many more. With revolutionary animation, unforgettable music and characters you love, these dazzling short films have changed the face of animation and entertainment and are sure to delight people of all ages for years to come.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Piper (2016)

A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. In the process, she encounters a traumatic experience that she must overcome in order to survive.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Day & Night (2010)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Mad God (2021)

A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Waking Life (2001)

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

The Blue Umbrella (2013)

It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

For the Birds (2000)

One by one, a flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire. Sitting close together has problems enough, and then comes along a large dopey bird that tries to join them. The birds of a feather can't help but make fun of him—and their clique mentality proves embarrassing in the end.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Sanjay's Super Team (2015)

SANJAY'S SUPER TEAM follows the daydream of a young Indian boy, bored with his father's religious meditation, who imagines "a kind of ancient, Hindu version of The Avengers," with the gods appearing like superheros.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Saurus City (2025)

In a fantastical world where dinosaurs roam alongside humans, a grizzled retired knight is pulled back into action to help a young woman in distress, only to uncover a threat to the entire kingdom. Hunted by the vengeful Shrouded Knight and his monstrous creations, the aging warrior must risk everything to deliver the one thing that can save them all—a baby.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

En Rang Par Deux (2020)

The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about the fundamental value of making music together.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations (1966)

Fabulous animals bathed, rested and had fun on the summer beach of the southern town. Suddenly, the rest was interrupted by an urgent message on a hanging poster: "Everyone needs to vaccinate vaccinations from elephant to fly!". However, all the animals, having read the message, as if nothing had happened, began to rest, dance and sunbathe again. And only Behemoth, worried, began to ask everyone how scary and painful it was to vaccinate.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

The Buffalo Boy and His Flute (1963)

A young boy who likes to play the flute dreams that he has lost his water buffalo.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Cassini's Grand Finale (2017)

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Urbanissimo (1967)

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Francis (2013)

Francis is a short story written by american novelist Dave Eggers. This is the story of a young boy growing up in the suburbs of chicago. He spent his vacations in Quetico Provincial Park, up on the border of Minnesota and Canada. But he won't be going back any day soon, not after what happened to a girl called Francis Brandywine.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

COMBO (2009)

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Guard Dog Global Jam (2011)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation