Top Rated Animation Movies on Kanopy - Page 11

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

1981

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

1981
6.5
Cinderella has to stay home while her evil stepsisters go to the ball. You know the rest except everyone here is a penguin (even the mice that become the "horses") and the lost slipper is more like a swimming flipper.
The Trenches

2010

The Trenches

2010
6.6
This animated short by Claude Cloutier is a pictorial account of an attack on Canadian soldiers during WWI. On the edge of the battlefield, recruits are dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a young soldier leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead. Blending archival images and Cloutier’s hypnotizing brushstroke, the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war.
The Little Bird and the Leaf

2012

The Little Bird and the Leaf

2012
5.9
A little bird leaves its nest in pursuit of a leaf — but when a famished fox follows, the bird learns that sometimes you need to think on the fly!
Miffy the Movie

2013

Miffy the Movie

2013
4.8
Miffy, her friends Melanie and Grunty and her dog Snuffy set out on a treasure hunt through the zoo. Father and Mother Bunny give them five riddles through a Treasure Hunt Song, about a color, a shape, a movement, a number and a sound. While discovering animals that answer to the riddles, Miffy and her friends learn how to work together, find creative ways to collaborate and to reward each other for a job well done. And in the end, they are rewarded with a big surprise.
Slice

2021

Slice

2021
7.8
After having a dream about kissing his best friend, Sasha decides he has to declare his feelings to him immediately.
The Last Day of Autumn

2019

The Last Day of Autumn

2019
6.3
Winter is approaching, and the last day of the red-yellow-brown glow of autumn is a good time for the animals in the forest to organize a very special race. Ardently they construct buggies from discarded materials, and as the weather turns frosty, the race is on for the hare, fox, hedgehog, bear, and others. With mutual caring, the forest animals ride toward the finish line and their wintering grounds.
The Little Bird and the Caterpillar

2017

The Little Bird and the Caterpillar

2017
6.3
"The little bird has plenty of peace and quiet high up in its tree, at least until an unexpected guest shows up. The brash caterpillar's keen on devouring the green leaves that the little bird has cared for so tenderly. During the ensuing showdown, the two fail to notice that someone else is hard on their heels, and this character's craving a more savoury snack."
No Snow For Christmas

2018

No Snow For Christmas

2018
6
'No Snow for Christmas' is an animated Christmas carol about the effects of climate change.
Come Again in Spring

2007

Come Again in Spring

2007
6.3
This gentle tale about mortality works in subliminal ways. When an old man is visited by Death at his home in the meadows, he has to delve deep to secure more time for himself. Does he have the strength to find the answers he needs? Can we negotiate our time on earth? How do we reconcile our mortal fate? A lyrical look at a reality as old as humanity, yet as young as today. Based on a story by Richard Kennedy.
The Tesla World Light

2017

The Tesla World Light

2017
5
New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.
I Want My Hat Back

2013

I Want My Hat Back

2013
9
Bear's hat is gone. None of the animals have seen it. He is starting to become despondent, until his memory is sparked by a deer who asks just the right question.
Three Fools

2014

Three Fools

2014
6.7
In a search for a place to settle down, the three friends, Blue, Yellow and Green find their friendship being ruined by greed and headless competition. Only when Blue and Yellow have destroyed and used all surrounding natural resources in their race to build the tallest house on the beach - they discover that Green has found the true values in life on a mountaintop, in harmony with nature, surrounded by family and love.
Finding Babel

2015

Finding Babel

2015
6.3
The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather's writing and in the conflicts of today's Ukraine and Russia. Babel's fiction is woven into Andrei's search with ethereal animation that puts the viewer, like Babel's readers, between fantasy and reality.
Exclamation Mark

1968

Exclamation Mark

1968
5
Short Animation by Stefan Schabenbeck
The Orchestra

2016

The Orchestra

2016
7
In a world filled with beautiful and harmonious music, elderly Vernon always seems to strike the wrong note.
Storybook Classics: The Legend of Hiawatha

1988

Storybook Classics: The Legend of Hiawatha

1988
7
Hiawatha is just a boy when his tribe's wise man foretells of a drought that will plague his people. As a man, Hiawatha is chosen to make a perilous journey to far- away White Mountain, where he must learn the secrets of the Great Bear in order to save his tribe from starvation. Along the way, he battles and outwits many legendary creatures of the forest, including the evil Wind Wolves who haunt the forest of night.
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon

1972

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon

1972
6.3
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia's first animated feature film,[2] released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter. The two sequence directors were Porter's animation director Cam Ford (who had previously worked on the Beatles' Yellow Submarine) and Peter Gardiner.
I Have Your Heart

2013

I Have Your Heart

2013
6.5
This is the story of a good girl with a bad heart, and the boy whose death will save her life.
The Three Little Pigs

1999

The Three Little Pigs

1999
5.3
Once upon a time three pigs named Jorge, Marcos and Joseph lived happily with her mother until one day Mr. Brown Bear them out of their homes because they could not pay the rent. Her mother instructed them each to build a house where they could meet again the whole family. They would not be alone in their task, bad wolf and his sidekick, a nasty weasel, lurked the three little pigs doing their best to annoy their plans. Mark built a simple house of straw, but the wolf knocked with his puffs. Joseph built his house with sticks, but also finished on the ground after a new attack of the wolf. While George works ...
In The Night Kitchen

1987

In The Night Kitchen

1987
8
Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake and so begins an intoxicating dream fantasy in this animated short adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1970 Caldecott Honor children's picture book.