Movies like Castle of Otranto (1977)

Extraordinary Tales (2015)

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery

The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

In the Fall of 1999, four teenage sleuths and their Great Dane got lost in the woods while in search of a mystery. This is their story.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery

Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)

Velma discovers she's inherited her great-great-uncle's cursed castle in Transylvania, Pennsylvania. The team decide to go there on a spooky adventure.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery

The Pied Piper (1986)

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1991)

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

The Hand (1965)

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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

Alois Nebel (2011)

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)

A mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery

DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery (2022)

John Constantine wakes up in the eerie House of Mystery with no recollection of how he got there. Fortunately, Zatanna and his friends are all there. Unfortunately, they have a bad habit of turning into demons and ripping him to shreds, over and over again!

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

Lonesome Ghosts (1937)

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

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

Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6 (2016)

All alone, Yellow Guy tries to stop a lamp from teaching him about dreams. While Red Guy finds out the truth about the puppets' existence.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Scared Shrekless (2010)

Shrek challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots and his other fairy tale character friends to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's haunted castle, telling scary stories to see who can resist becoming scared and stay the longest.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

ParaNorman (2012)

In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Lou (2017)

A lost-and-found box holds a mysterious and unseen monster within.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · 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 & mystery

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery

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

The Cat That Walked by Himself (1968)

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Guard Dog Global Jam (2011)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Spiral (2005)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Funny Pot (1990)

Once a potter made a pot that could laugh. Whoever takes it in their hands immediately starts laughing.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Warm Snow (2015)

An animated short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. The daughter is waiting for her dinner and is irritated by her father’s nagging questions and suggestions. Soon we’re transported into the surreal and snowy world swirling in her head.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Nevermind The Grief (1983)

A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

It's a Wonderful Day (1975)

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children".

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation