Top Rated Animation Movies on Kanopy - Page 15

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.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

1999

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

1999
8.7
An animated short film based on a 1989 wordless picture book by Bill Martin Jr. "In this lively alphabet rhyme, the letters of the alphabet race up the cocunut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom! Boom!" -- Amazon.com
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.
Me + Her

2014

Me + Her

2014
6.3
Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.
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.
Chimp & Zee

1968

Chimp & Zee

1968
4.3
A hunter goes into the jungle to capture a rare blue-tailed simian. That's when he sees Chimp, who happens to be the blue-tailed creature he's hunting for...
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

2012

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

2012
6
Marjorie the cow lives in a run-down stable in the middle of Bethlehem. Nothing exciting ever happens in Bethlehem until now… there’s a census or something and there’s going to be some sort of street party – that’s what Marje has heard, anyway!
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.
This World Is Not My Own

2023

This World Is Not My Own

2023
6
Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south - it's all part of Nellie Mae Rowe's boundless universe. This World Is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist's world and her life spanning the 20th century.
It’s Nice in Here

2023

It’s Nice in Here

2023
5.8
A fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same fateful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.
Down To The Bone

2009

Down To The Bone

2009
8.5
Little Michael has vicious allergies, and when babysitter Meredith arrives for a night of no-nonsense, he's swiftly dispatched to the yard...where his delicate condition takes a turn for the worse.