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Movies: Best "cutout animation" Movies


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Princes and Princesses(2000)

3.9/5 (with 90 votes)

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout animation, with black silhouetted characters performing the action against backlit backdrops in striking colors.

Directed by Michel Ocelot

House(1958)

12min | Animation
2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

The Three Inventors(1980)

13min | Animation
3.9/5 (with 13 votes)

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machine which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...

Directed by Michel Ocelot

Fine Feathers(1968)

5min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity.

Directed by Evelyn Lambart

Shinbone Alley(1970)

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write poetry, using a typewriter, and begins to enjoy his new life. Archy develops deep feelings for the lovely but self-destructive cat Mehitabel, but will have to fight to win her from bad-boy tomcat Bill.

Directed by John David Wilson - With Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken, Alan Reed, John Carradine, Hal Smith, Joan Gerber, ...

The Fox and the Hare(1973)

3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

As winter gives way to spring in the Russian wilderness, a crafty fox promptly expels a defenceless hare from his warm, comfortable residence, claiming the house for himself and leaving the poor owner to sleep outside under the stars. An assortment of compassionate animals – a wolf, a bear, a bull – take pity on the disheartened hare, and attempt to evict the cunning fox, but to no avail. Along comes a hilariously militant rooster, proud and tenacious, who marches into the hare's house and doesn't give up until the fox has been hounded back into the wilderness.

Directed by Yuri Norstein

Hamfat Asar(1965)

13min | Animation
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the structure or script for the film involved a process of controlled hallucination, whereby I sat quietly without moving, looking at the background until the pieces began to move without my inventing things for them to do. I found that, given the chance, they really did have important business to attend to, and my job was to furnish them with the power of motion. I never deviated from this plan." —Canyon Cinema.

Our Lady of the Sphere(1969)

2.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery.

Directed by Larry Jordan

Papageno(1935)

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

Directed by Lotte Reiniger

Notes on a Triangle(1966)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz. The film's artist and animator is René Jodoin, whose credits include Dance Squared and several collaborations with Norman McLaren.

Directed by René Jodoin

A La Mode(1959)

6min | Animation
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

Directed by Stan Vanderbeek

Glitch in the Grid(2011)

1h 22min | Drama, Animation, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.

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Breathdeath(1963)

15min | Animation
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the surrealism of life. A collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact (Why is Harpo Marx playing a harp in the middle of a battlefield?) with inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks death ... a parabolic parable.

Man in the Frame(1966)

10min | Animation, Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.

Directed by Fyodor Khitruk

One Thousand and One Trifles(1972)

9min | Animation
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A collection of mechanical-biological hybrids from the artist's workshop and a variety of rules written on different boards, gathered in order to secure projects and for entertainment.

A Colorful Lie(1966)

5min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The protagonist dreams of a better life, and his dreams take the form of colorful magazines.

Blah(2002)

Award-winning cut-out animation making a full statement on bravado by using two empty words. Available in full at -- https://youtu.be/zJiyvyskYmQ.

Animated Genesis(1952)

22min | Animation

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

It's Snow(1974)

5min | Animation

Colour cut-out animation inspired by the shape of snowflakes and touched with the airy magic of these fragile designs. While music tinkles invitingly, snowflakes roll and whirl, pulse and glitter, shining with the many hues of twinkling lights. Made without words, this is a joyous film to please the fancy and captivate eye and ear.

The Swallow(2014)

6min | Animation

Three women, three generations. This is a Chinese family without love in 1940s.

You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...(1968)

5min | Animation

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop music soundtrack. Mouris says, “I shot another 100 foot roll on classmate Jerry Strawbridge’s home animation stand, and edited that into the best sequences from QUICK DREAM. The whole film was a tongue-in-cheek series of odd couples/couplings, which the title suggested. The FRANK FILM photo collage animation evolved here.” - Yale.

Paradise Lost(1970)

4min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other woodland creatures succumbing to air pollution caused by human inventions.

Burglars of "Baghdad" Castle(1926)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been invaded and he must use the stone to defeat his new enemy.

Pan With Us(2003)

4min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A frenetic and poetic flight on the wings of classic Greek mythology.

Dance Squared(1961)

A square dances.

Mary's Birthday(1951)

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

Spheres(1969)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.

Altair(1994)

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.

Moonlight Sonata(1979)

2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

"After GYMNOPEDIES, I had long wanted to animate a film specifically for a pre-selected piano piece by [Erik] Satie. MOONLIGHT SONATA is that film. It was totally designed for the 'Gnossienne V' and the movements of the animation are timed to the overall rhythms as well as the specific beats of the music." - Lawrence Jordan.