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Movies like Motherland Tree (1987)

The best movies like Motherland Tree (1987) are The House (2022), Waking Life (2001) and The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023). If Motherland Tree hooked you with its animation, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. 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

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  2. 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

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  3. The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023)

    GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  4. Tale of Tales (1979)

    Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  5. 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

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  6. Get a Horse! (2013)

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

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  7. 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

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  8. 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

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  9. Cats in the Museum (2023)

    A cartoon about the famous four-legged inhabitants of the St. Petersburg Winter Palace - museum cats that protect the territory of the State Hermitage from rats and mice.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  10. Sing: Thriller (2024)

    Buster Moon dreams up a star-studded spectacle set to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in this animated short featuring characters from the hit "Sing" films.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  11. America: The Motion Picture (2021)

    A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

  12. 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

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  13. The Little Prince (2015)

    Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  14. Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011)

    Po and the Furious Five uncover the legend of three of kung fu's greatest heroes: Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  15. Coonskin (1975)

    A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated tale of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  16. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)

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

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  17. 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

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  18. Revolting Rhymes (2017)

    Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  19. Minions & More Volume 1 (2022)

    This collection of 10 short films produced by Illumination includes: From the "Despicable Me" franchise: Puppy (2013); Minion Scouts (2019); Training Wheels (2013); The Secret Life of Kyle (2017); Santa's Little Helpers (2019). From the "Grinch" franchise: The Dog Days of Winter (2019). From the "Secret Life of Pets" franchise: Norman Television (2016); Weenie (2016). From the "Sing" franchise: Love at First Sight (2017). From the "Lorax" franchise: Forces of Nature (2012).

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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  20. Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)

    Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Motherland Tree?

The closest matches to Motherland Tree are The House (2022), Waking Life (2001) and The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Motherland Tree?

Start with The House (2022), the closest match to Motherland Tree.

What is the highest-rated movie like Motherland Tree?

Get a Horse! (2013), rated 7.6/10 by 287 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Motherland Tree?

Sing: Thriller (2024) is the most recent release on this list.

How are movies similar to Motherland Tree chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Motherland Tree, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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