List of traditional animated feature films
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This list of animated feature-length films compiles animated
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 feature
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s from around the world and is organized alphabetically under the year of release (the year the completed film was first released to the public). Theatrical releases as well as made-for-TV
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

 and direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 movies are included.

In order to qualify for this list, films must be "over 40 minutes long and have animation in at least 75% of their running time, or have at least 40 minutes of animation in total." Although general definition of feature film is 70 min, they must include all new stories and animation if they are package films. Package films including little or fewer than 10% of new animation are not included. Stop-motion, cutout and silhouette animation are not included on this list because of the reason they do not use traditional drawings/cel progress of animation. Computer animation is not included ether as it can be flash animation (in 2-D), CGI and 3-D progress.

1970
1970 in film
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

  • The Aristocats
    The Aristocats
    The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970 and stars Eva Gabor and Phil Harris, with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar the butler, the villain of the story...

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  • A Christmas Carol (Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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  • Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, (Kureopatora) ( )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( )
  • Horton Hears a Who!
    Horton Hears a Who! (TV special)
    Horton Hears a Who! is a 1970 television half-hour long special based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, Horton Hears a Who!. It was produced and directed by Chuck Jones - who previously produced the Seuss special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - for MGM Television...

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  • The Phantom Tollbooth
    The Phantom Tollbooth (film)
    The Phantom Tollbooth is a 1970 American live-action/animated film based on Norton Juster's 1961 children's book The Phantom Tollbooth. This film was produced by Chuck Jones at MGM Animation/Visual Arts. Jones also directed the film, save for the live action bookends directed by fellow Warner Bros....

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  • Santa and the Three Bears
    Santa And The Three Bears
    Santa and the Three Bears is a 1970 animated featurette, which aired on television regularly during the holiday season. It was later released on video in 1992 by Kids Klassics and distributed by GoodTimes Home Video in the VHS format....

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1971
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...

  • Benny's Bathtub
    Benny's Bathtub
    Benny's Bathtub is a 1971 Danish animated film directed by Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist Møller. The film relates the story of a boy who flees the boring world of adults into a magical land in the bottom of his bathtub...

    , Bennys badekar ( )
  • Daisy Town
    Daisy Town (1971 film)
    Daisy Town is a 1971 French-Belgian film based on the comic series Lucky Luke. A Lucky Luke comic with the title Daisy Town was released in 1982-Plot:...

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  • The Legend of Robin Hood
    The Legend of Robin Hood
    The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.-Plot:Robin has been raised as the son of John Hood, a groundskeeper, but learns that he is in fact the long lost son of the Earl of Huntingdon...

    ( / )
  • Shinbone Alley
    Shinbone Alley (film)
    Shinbone Alley is a 1971 animated feature film based on the Joe Darion, Mel Brooks, and George Kleinsinger musical of the same name as well as the original Archy and Mehitabel stories by Don Marquis. It was directed by John David Wilson.-Plot:...

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1972
1972 in film
The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio
    Un burattino di nome Pinocchio
    Pinocchio is a 1972 Italian animated film adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio.-Production:...

    , Un Burattino di nome Pinocchio
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  • Anteojito and Antifaz, a Thousand Intents and an Invention
    Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento
    Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento is a 1972 Argentine animated film written and directed by Manuel García Ferré. The film premiered in Argentina on September 14, 1972...

    , Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento
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  • Fritz the Cat
    Fritz the Cat (film)
    Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi as his feature film debut. Based on the comic strip of the same name by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States...

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  • Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia's first animated feature film, released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter.The plot follows Young Marco, a descendant of Marco Polo, and his companion Sandy the Seagull, on a journey to the mythical kingdom of Xanadu, to help Princess Shining...

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  • Snoopy, Come Home
    Snoopy, Come Home
    Snoopy, Come Home! is a 1972 animated musical film, produced by Cinema Center Films, National General Pictures and Lee Mendelson Films, directed by Bill Meléndez, and based on the Peanuts comic strip. The songs are by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman...

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  • Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
    Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
    Tintin and the Lake of Sharks is a Tintin animated film, directed by Raymond Leblanc . It was not written by Hergé, who supervised, but by the Belgian comics creator Greg , a friend of Hergé...

    , Tintin et le lac aux requins
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  • Treasure Island
    Treasure Island (1972 animated film)
    Treasure Island is a 1972 animated feature film produced by Filmation and released by Warner Bros. in 1972 . In this adaptation, Jim Hawkins travels with sidekick Hiccup the Mouse.In 1980, the movie was broadcast on NBC....

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1973
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

  • The Adventures of Hijitus, Las Aventuras de Hijitus ( )
  • Belladonna
    Kanashimi no Belladonna
    , also known as "The Tragedy of Belladonna", is a 1973 feature film produced by the Japanese animation studio Mushi Production and distributor Nippon Herald Films...

    , 哀しみのベラドンナ (Kanashimi no Beradona) (Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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  • Charlotte's Web
    Charlotte's Web (1973 film)
    Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions and based upon the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White...

    ( )
  • Fantastic Planet
    Fantastic Planet
    Fantastic Planet is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux, production designed by Roland Topor, written by both of them and animated at Jiří Trnka Studio. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by...

    , La planète sauvage
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  • Heavy Traffic
    Heavy Traffic
    Heavy Traffic is a 1973 American animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, which begins, ends, and occasionally combines with live-action, explores the often surreal fantasies of a young New York cartoonist named Michael Corleone, using pinball imagery as a metaphor for...

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  • Hugo the Hippo
    Hugo the Hippo
    Hugo the Hippo is a 1973 animated film produced by the Pannónia Filmstúdió of Hungary and co-produced in the United States by Brut Productions, a division of French perfume company Faberge...

    , Hugó, a víziló
    ( / )
  • Johnny in the Valley of the Giants, Joë petit boum-boum ( )
  • Adventures of Mowgli aka. Maugli, Маугли (Maugli) ( )
  • Robin Hood
    Robin Hood (1973 film)
    Robin Hood is an 1973 American animated film produced by the Walt Disney Productions, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973...

    ( )

1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...

  • Down and Dirty Duck ( )
  • Dunderklumpen!
    Dunderklumpen!
    Dunderklumpen! is a 1974 Swedish family film directed by Per Åhlin, which combines animation and live action. The story involves several musical numbers. It was released on 26 September 1974.- Plot :...

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  • Journey Back to Oz
    Journey Back to Oz
    Journey Back To Oz is a 1974 animated film and the official sequel to the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum's second Oz novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, although Baum received no screen credit. However, the Wizard was nowhere to be found, at least in the...

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  • The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
    The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
    The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is a 1974 animated film directed by Robert Taylor. It is an adult animation featuring a series of drug-induced vignettes both related and unrelated to life in the 1970s. Starring Skip Hinnant as the voice of the titular feline protagonist, the film is a sequel to...

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  • The Three Wise Men, Los Tres Reyes Magos ( )

1975
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

  • Coonskin
    Coonskin (film)
    Coonskin is a 1975 American animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi, about an African American rabbit, fox, and bear who rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering corrupt law enforcement, con artists and the Mafia...

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  • Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
    Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
    Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done is a 1975 British animated film musical, based on the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.The comically convoluted plot is a pastiche of many in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon, particularly Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer,...

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  • Everybody Rides the Carousel
    Everybody Rides the Carousel
    Everybody Rides the Carousel is a 1975 independent animated film about the stages of life. It was directed by John Hubley and written and produced by Hubley and his wife Faith...

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  • Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
    Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
    is a Japanese anime film based on Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale, released in 1975 by Toei Animation. Unlike the later Walt Disney Pictures animated film adaptation released 14 years later, this film is closer to Andersen's original story, notably in its preservation of the original...

    , アンデルセン童話 にんぎょ姫 (Anderusen dōwa ningyo hime) ( / / / )
  • Petete and Trapito
    Petete y Trapito
    Petete y Trapito is a 1975 Argentine animated film directed by Manuel García Ferré....

    , Petete y Trapito
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  • Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Flåklypa Grand Prix ( )
  • Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle
    Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle
    Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle is a 1975 adult-oriented French/Belgian animated film directed by cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger. The film was the first foreign-animated film to receive both an X rating and wide distribution in the United States....

    aka. Jungle Burger ( / )

1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...

  • Mattie the Goose-boy
    Mattie the Goose-boy (film)
    Mattie the Goose-boy is a 1977 Hungarian animated film directed by Attila Dargay. It is based on the eponymous poem, written in 1804 by Mihály Fazekas.-Cast:* András Kern as Mattie the goose-boy* Péter Geszti as young Mattie the goose-boy...

    , Lúdas Matyi ( )
  • Once Upon a Girl
    Once Upon a Girl
    Once Upon a Girl is a 1976 X-rated live-action/animated film written, produced ,and directed by Don Jurwich. It was animated by a group of animators who had worked for Disney, according to the director in an interview included with the DVD release...

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  • Once Upon a Time
    Once Upon a Time (1976 film)
    Once Upon a Time is a 1973 West German animated musical film written and directed by Roberto Gavioli and Rolf Kauka. The story is based on the German fairytale "Frau Holle", or "Mother Hulda".-Plot:...

    , Maria d'Oro und Bello Blue
    ( / )
  • Robot Taekwon V
    Robot Taekwon V
    Robot Taekwon V is a South Korean animated film directed by Kim Cheong-gi and produced by Yu Hyun-mok, the prominent director of such films as Obaltan . It was released on July 24, 1976, immediately becoming a mega-smash hit in the late 1970s, and consequently inspired a string of sequels in...

    , 로보트 태권브이 (roboteu taegwon beui) ( )
  • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
    The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
    The Smurfs and the Magic Flute is a 1976 Belgian animated film starring the Smurfs, directed by their creator, Peyo. Though the film premiered in 1976 in Belgium, and 1979 in the United Kingdom, an English language version was not released in the United States until 1983, in the wake of the...

    , La flûte à six schtroumpfs
    ( / )
  • The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix is an animated feature film based on the Asterix comic book series. René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, the creators of the series, wrote the story and directed the film themselves; with co-direction by Pierre Watrin and the screenplay co-written by Pierre Tchernia, a...

    , Les douze travaux d'Astérix
    ( )

1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

  • Allegro non troppo
    Allegro non troppo
    Allegro Non Troppo is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia. The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy...

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  • Dot and the Kangaroo
    Dot and the Kangaroo
    -Film adaptations:The book was adapted into a film in 1977 which featured a combination of animation and live-action. The main character, Dot, was voiced by Barbara Frawley. The film also featured Spike Milligan as the voice of Platypus. The movie featured an original soundtrack including several...

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  • A Flintstone Christmas
    A Flintstone Christmas
    A Flintstone Christmas is a 60-minute animated Christmas television special featuring The Flintstones. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and aired on NBC on December 7, 1977. This special is not to be confused with the episode "Christmas Flintstone" which aired during the show's run...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Gulliver's Travels (/ )
  • Halloween Is Grinch Night
    Halloween is Grinch Night
    Halloween Is Grinch Night is a 1977 25-minute TV special and prequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. It won the 1977 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. It premiered on ABC on October 29, 1977...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Hobbit ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Magic Pony ( ), a redubbed Western release of the 1975 remake of the 1947 film The Humpbacked Horse.
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is the 22nd full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977....

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  • The Mouse and His Child ( / )
  • Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
    Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
    Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is a 1977 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Meléndez, and the third in a series of movies based on the Peanuts comic strip...

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  • Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
    Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
    Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure is a 1977 American animated film directed by Richard Williams. It was produced by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, and released by 20th Century Fox...

    ( )
  • The Rescuers
    The Rescuers
    The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The 23rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York and shadowing...

    ( )
  • Space Battleship Yamato
    Space Battleship Yamato
    is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers...

    ,
    宇宙戦艦ヤマト, Uchū Senkan Yamato ( )
  • Wizards
    Wizards (film)
    Wizards is a 1977 American animated post-apocalyptic science fantasy film about the battle between two wizards, one representing the forces of magic and one representing the forces of industrial technology. It was written, produced, and directed by Ralph Bakshi...

    ( )

1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....

  • Arrivederci Yamato ( )
  • Black Beauty ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman: Gekijô-ban
    Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman: Gekijô-ban
    is the 1978 movie version of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.- Plot :Sosai X traveled millions of light years to reach the planet Earth and creates a mutant Berg Katse. 30 years later he is the leader of the terrorist organisation known as Galactor. They want to conquer the world...

    ( )
  • The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
    J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is a 1978 American fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. It contains both animation and live action footage which is rotoscoped to give it a more consistent look throughout the length of the movie. It is an adaptation of the first half of the high fantasy...

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  • Mystery of Mamo
    Mystery of Mamo
    The Secret of Mamo, or The Mystery of Mamo, is the most common English name for the 1978 first animated feature film based on the Lupin III character created by Monkey Punch, originally released in Japan as simply and now known there as in order to differentiate it from the four others that...

    aka Lupin the Third and the Secret of Mamo ( )
  • The Stingiest Man in Town
    The Stingiest Man In Town
    The Stingiest Man in Town is a Christmas special created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, which featured traditional animation rather than the Animagic most often used by the company...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Talking Parcel
    The Talking Parcel
    The Talking Parcel is a 1974 book by Gerald Durrell in which children are transported to the fantasy land of Mythologia to save it from cockatrice...

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  • The Water Babies
    The Water Babies (film)
    The Water Babies is a 1978 animated feature film based on the book The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley.-Plot:When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it, he jumps into a violent river. There he encounters a wondrous civilization of anthropomorphic...

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  • Watership Down
    Watership Down (film)
    Watership Down is a 1978 English adventure drama animated film written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the book by Richard Adams. It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions...

    ( / )

1979
1979 in film
The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....

  • The Adventure of Sudsakorn
    The Adventure of Sudsakorn
    The Adventure of Sudsakorn is a 1979 Thai animated fantasy film. The only cel-animated feature film ever made in Thailand, it was directed by Payut Ngaokrachang. It was released in Thailand on Songkran Day, April 13, 1979...

    ,
    สุดสาคร, Sudsakhorn ( )
  • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
    The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
    The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny...

    ( )
  • The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
    The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
    The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone is a 45-minute Halloween television special featuring the Flintstones. It was produced in 1979 by Hanna-Barbera Productions and first aired on October 30, 1980 on NBC.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Galaxy Express 999 ( )
  • Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
    Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
    is a yonkoma manga series by Hisaichi Ishii which ran in the weekly Manga Action magazine from 1978 to 1979 in Japan. After that series ended, Ishii continued creating more baseball gag comics which were then collected under the title and released from 1985 to 1989.The main character of the gag...

    ( )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( / ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space
    Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space
    Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space is a 1979 French animated science fiction film directed by Jean Image.- Plot :...

    , Pluk, naufragé de l'espace
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  • Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
    The Castle of Cagliostro
    is a 1979 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is one of the films featuring master thief Arsène Lupin III.The second animated Lupin III movie and arguably the best known, Castle of Cagliostro was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who also co-directed the first...

    ( )
  • Nezha Conquers the Dragon King
    Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King
    Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King is a 1979 Chinese animated film. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

    aka. Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King, 哪吒闹海 (Nezha nao hai) ( )
  • Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Taro the Dragon Boy ( )
  • Ubu et la grande gidouille
    Ubu et la Grande Gidouille
    Ubu et la Grande Gidouille is a 1987 French animated film directed by Jan Lenica. It is based on Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi. The film was released on 11 November 1987 in France. Michel Poujade and Janine Grillon were the main actors. Les Films Armorial was the production company of the film....

    ( )

1980
1980 in film
- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....

  • Animalympics
    Animalympics
    Animalympics is a 1980 animated film produced by Lisberger Studios and released by Warner Bros.. Originally commissioned by the NBC network as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael...

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  • Be Forever Yamato
    Be Forever Yamato
    is the third theatrical film based on the classic anime series Space Battleship Yamato . The film is unique for switching from monaural VistaVision to Quadraphonic CinemaScope when the Yamato enters the Double Galaxy.-Plot:The Black Nebula Empire, last seen in Yamato: The New Voyage, lands a...

    ( )
  • Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) ( )
  • The Christmas Raccoons
    The Christmas Raccoons
    The Christmas Raccoons is the first of four television specials before the main animated television series succedding it, The Raccoons, took place. It was first broadcast on December 17, 1980.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Return of the King
    The Return of the King (1980 film)
    The Return of the King, also known as The Return of the King: A Story of the Hobbits, is a 1980 animated television special created by Rankin/Bass and Topcraft. The film is an adaptation of the third volume in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Snow White Christmas
    Snow White Christmas
    A Snow White Christmas, released in 1980 is a Christmas cartoon-movie that is 50 minutes long and dedicated to the young children.-Plot summary:The movie is a sequel to the original Snow White story with some elements of the original story...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Yogi's First Christmas
    Yogi's First Christmas
    Yogi's First Christmas is a 1980 holiday-themed television film first aired on November 21, 1980 and produced by Hanna-Barbera. Throughout the 1980s it was offered to U.S...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)

1981
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....

  • American Pop
    American Pop
    American Pop is a 1981 American animated musical drama film produced and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music....

    ( )
  • The Fox and the Hound
    The Fox and the Hound (film)
    The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature loosely based on the Daniel P. Mannix novel of the same name, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in the United States on July 10, 1981...

    ( )
  • Heavy Metal
    Heavy Metal (film)
    Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian fantasy-animated film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine....

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  • The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
    The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
    The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is a 1981 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences produced by Friz Freleng, hosted by Bugs Bunny...

    ( )
  • The Raccoons on Ice
    The Raccoons on Ice
    The Raccoons on Ice is the second of four specials leading up to the television series The Raccoons. It initially aired on December 20, 1981.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Ringing Bell
    Ringing Bell
    is the 1978 anime film adaption of the book of the same name written by Takashi Yanase. It is most notable by fans and critics as a G-rated children's film which makes a sharp-sudden turn into a Dark and Violent story. It is also recognized as one of the only Japanese shock films directed towards...

    aka. Bell of Chirin, チリンの鈴 (Chirin no Suzu) ( )
  • Vuk
    Vuk (film)
    The Little Fox, known in Hungary as Vuk, is a 1981 Hungarian animated film produced by Pannónia Filmstúdió, based on the novel Vuk by István Fekete...

    ( )

1982
1982 in film
-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...

  • Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
    Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
    Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales is a 1982 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny...

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  • The Flight of Dragons
    The Flight of Dragons
    The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated movie produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson. The film centres upon a quest undertaken to...

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  • The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat
    The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat
    The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat is an animated musical television special and crossover starring two of Dr. Seuss' famous characters, The Grinch and The Cat in the Hat. It premiered on May 20, 1982 on ABC and won two Emmys.-Plot:...

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  • Heidi's Song
    Heidi's Song
    Heidi's Song is a 1982 animated musical feature film produced by Hanna-Barbera. The film is based on the novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri. Among the voice cast of the film are Lorne Greene as Grandfather, Margery Gray as Heidi and Sammy Davis Jr...

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  • Hey Good Lookin'
    Hey Good Lookin'
    Hey Good Lookin is a 1982 American animated film written, directed, and produced by Ralph Bakshi. The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1950s and focuses on Vinnie, the leader of a gang named "the Stompers," his friend, Crazy Shapiro, and their girls, Roz and Eva...

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  • The Last Unicorn
    The Last Unicorn (film)
    The Last Unicorn is a 1982 fantasy film produced by Rankin/Bass for ITC Entertainment and animated by Topcraft. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Peter S. Beagle, who also wrote the film's screenplay...

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  • Disney's Halloween Treat
    Disney's Halloween Treat
    Disney's Halloween Treat is a 47-minute Halloween-themed clip show which first aired on The Wonderful World of Disney in 1982 and featured a compilation of Disney animated shorts involving spooky or supernatural themes as well as excerpted segments from Disney feature films. The credits also...

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  • Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase
    Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase
    The serialized Mighty Mouse story "The Great Space Chase" from The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle Saturday morning series made it into a 1982 movie by Filmation....

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  • The Plague Dogs
    The Plague Dogs (film)
    The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The film was written-for-screen, directed and produced by Martin Rosen, who also directed Watership Down, the film version of another novel by Adams, produced by Nepenthe Productions and released by...

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  • The Secret of NIMH
    The Secret of NIMH
    The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 animated film directed by Don Bluth in his directorial debut. It is an adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's 1971 children's novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The film was produced by Aurora Pictures and released by United Artists. While released to critical acclaim,...

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  • The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (1982 film)
    is a 1982 Japanese anime feature film directed by Fumihiko Takayama, from a screenplay by Yoshimitsu Banno and Akira Miyazaki, which is based on the 1900 children's novel by L...

    (Ozu no mahôtsukai) ( / )
  • Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper
    Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper
    Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper is an animated television special starring Yogi Bear and company. It is the third and final Yogi Bear Christmas special...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)

1983
1983 in film
-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...

  • Mickey's Christmas Carol
    Mickey's Christmas Carol
    Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company. It was directed and produced by Burny Mattinson...

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  • Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
    Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
    Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island is a 1983 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales...

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  • Fire and Ice
    Fire and Ice (1983 film)
    Fire and Ice is a 1983 animated film, a collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, distributed by 20th Century Fox, which also distributed Bakshi's 1977 release, Wizards...

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  • The Raccoons and the Lost Star
    The Raccoons and the Lost Star
    The Raccoons and the Lost Star was a precursor TV Special to the animated series The Raccoons and debuted in 1983. It came after the first two Raccoons seasonal specials, which were The Christmas Raccoons in 1980 and The Raccoons on Ice in 1981...

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  • Rock & Rule
    Rock & Rule
    Rock & Rule is a 1983 Canadian animated film from the animation studio Nelvana. It was produced and directed by the company's founders, Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, and Clive A. Smith. The film features the voices of Greg Salata, Susan Roman, and Don Francks, with Catherine O'Hara, Chris...

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  • Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
    Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
    Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a Disney Winnie the Pooh animated featurette, based on two chapters from the books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, originally released theatrically on March 11, 1983, before the 1983 re-issue of The Sword in the Stone...

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1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Kaze no tani no Naushika ( )
  • The Raccoons: Let's Dance!
    The Raccoons: Let's Dance!
    The Raccoons: Let's Dance! was the last of four Raccoons specials. Unlike the previous three, it was a direct-to-video release by Embassy Home Video...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)

1985
1985 in film
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...

  • Asterix Versus Caesar
    Asterix Versus Caesar
    Asterix Versus Caesar is the first of the 1980s Asterix films and the fourth film adaption based on the Asterix comic books...

    , Astérix et la surprise de César
    ( )
  • Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines
    Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines
    Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines is a special animated TV mini-series that was aired on the animated half-hour TV series Super Sunday and Super Saturday containing 9 segments that ran for 6 minutes each and every weekend, along with Jem, Robotix, and Inhumanoids...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Black Cauldron
    The Black Cauldron (film)
    The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985...

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  • The Care Bears Movie
    The Care Bears Movie
    The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Canadian animated film, the second feature production from the Toronto animation studio Nelvana. One of the first films based directly on a toy line, it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions, the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, orphanage owners...

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  • The Dagger of Kamui
    The Dagger of Kamui
    is a Japanese novel series by Tetsu Yano released by Kadokawa Shoten from 1984 to 1985.The series was adapted in 1985 into an anime film directed by Rintaro and animated by Madhouse and Toei Animation. The screenplay was adapted by Mori Masaki, and character designs were created by Moribi Murano,...

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  • Here Come the Littles
    Here Come the Littles
    Here Come the Littles is a 1985 children's animated film, produced in Luxembourg by DIC Entertainment and distributed by Atlantic Releasing...

    ( / )
  • Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
    Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
    Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is an animated film released on November 15, 1985 by Warner Bros., and produced by DiC Entertainment and Hallmark Cards...

    ( / )
  • The Secret of the Sword
    The Secret of the Sword
    He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword is a 1985 American animated feature film produced by Filmation. Although released before the series She-Ra: Princess of Power began, the film was a compilation of the first five episodes with minor edits made....

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  • Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
    Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
    Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 animated movie. It was written by animation writer Jeffrey Scott and was originally released in 3-D by Atlantic Releasing. Starchaser was one of the first animated movies to mix traditional and computer animation. It is the only 3-D film distributed by...

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1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

  • The Adventures of the American Rabbit
    The Adventures of the American Rabbit
    The Adventures of the American Rabbit is an animated film released in 1986 by Clubhouse Pictures, and subsequently on DVD by MGM.-Plot:The story begins just after the birth of Robert Rabbit...

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  • An American Tail
    An American Tail
    An American Tail is a 1986 American animated adventure film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment. The film tells the story of Fievel Mouskewitz and his family as they immigrate from Russia to America for freedom. However, Fievel gets lost and must...

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  • Asterix in Britain
    Asterix in Britain (film)
    Asterix in Britain is an animated film released in 1986; the fifth Asterix feature film, and the last from Dargaud Films. It is based on the book of the same name...

    , Astérix chez les Bretons
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  • Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World
    Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World
    Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World is a 1987 TV special created by DIC Entertainment with Saban Productions featuring popular Mattel character Barbie. The story was based upon the Barbie and the Rockers line of dolls, which featured Barbie as the leader of a rock band...

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  • Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
    Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
    Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation is a 1986 children's animated film produced by LBS Communications, Inc. and Canadian animation studio Nelvana. The third animated feature from Nelvana, it was directed by Dale Schott, written by Peter Sauder and produced by Nelvana's three founders...

    ( / )
  • Fluppy Dogs ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • GoBots: War of the Rock Lords
    GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
    GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords is an animated movie based on the Gobots toy and TV franchise. This movie was produced by Hanna-Barbera and released to theaters in 1986 by Clubhouse Pictures...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Great Heep
    The Great Heep
    The Great Heep was a 48-minute, animated television special that aired on June 7, 1986. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, and was a follow-up to the Star Wars: Droids series.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Great Mouse Detective
    The Great Mouse Detective
    The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures...

    ( )
  • Heathcliff: The Movie
    Heathcliff: The Movie
    Heathcliff: The Movie is a 1986 low budget animated film from DiC Entertainment, released by Atlantic Releasing under their Clubhouse Pictures label. Paramount Home Video released Heathcliff: The Movie on VHS in 1988...

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  • Sport Goofy in Soccermania
    Sport Goofy in Soccermania
    Sport Goofy in Soccermania is a Disney cartoon. During its 1987 debut it was preceded by a mockumentary showing past Goofy cartoons of him always getting everything wrong, and leading into the cartoon special where the audience is finally shown a competent, athletic Goofy who is the hero.-Plot:In...

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  • Liberty and the Littles ( )
  • My Little Pony: The Movie
    My Little Pony: The Movie
    My Little Pony: The Movie is a 1986 animated feature film based on the Hasbro toy line, My Little Pony. It was released on June 20, 1986 by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group...

    ( )
  • Robotech: The Movie
    Robotech: The Movie
    Robotech: The Movie is a 1986 American-Japanese science fiction animated film based on the Robotech TV series and Robotech franchise created by Harmony Gold USA...

    ( ), a re-edited and re-voiced theatrical version composed of footage from the Megazone 23
    Megazone 23
    is a four-part original video animation created by AIC, written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama, and directed by Noboru Ishiguro, Ichiro Itano, Kenichi Yatagai and Shinji Aramaki. The series was originally titled but the title was changed just before release....

    OVA and Southern Cross TV series ( )
  • The Transformers: The Movie
    The Transformers: The Movie
    The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated feature film based on the animated series of the same name. It was released in North America on August 8, 1986 and in the UK on December 5, 1986....

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  • When the Wind Blows ( 

1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

  • The Big Bang
    The Big Bang (1987 film)
    The Big Bang a.k.a. Le Big-Bang is an X-rated animated science fiction fantasy film, originally released in 1987 by 20th Century Fox in France and Entertainment Film Distributors, Ltd. in the United Kingdom...

    , Le Big-Bang (France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    /Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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  • Black Magic M-66
    Black Magic M-66
    is a cyberpunk manga written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. It was first published as a dōjinshi in 1983, and was later reprinted in tankōbon format by Seishinsha in 1985....

    (Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    )
  • The Brave Little Toaster
    The Brave Little Toaster (film)
    The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated adventure film adapted from the 1980 novel of the same name by Thomas Disch. The film was directed by Jerry Rees and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is set in a world where household appliances and other electronics have the ability to speak...

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  • The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
    The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
    The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland is the third theatrically released film in the Care Bears animated franchise. It was released in the United States and Canada on August 7, 1987 by Cineplex Odeon Films, and is based on Lewis Carroll's Alice stories...

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  • The Chipmunk Adventure
    The Chipmunk Adventure
    The Chipmunk Adventure is a 1987 American animated film featuring the characters from NBC's Saturday morning cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Chipmunk Adventure was directed by Janice Karman from a screenplay by Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr....

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  • Dot Goes to Hollywood
    Dot Goes to Hollywood
    Dot Goes to Hollywood is a 1987 Australian film directed by Yoram Gross.-Plot:Yoram Gross's eighth Dot movie finds us in Australia with Dot and a koala named Gumley dancing and singing in the streets. There are signs that tell of an epidemic that is going around. It is an eye disease and it is...

    aka. Dot in Concert ( )
  • The Emerald City of Oz
    The Emerald City of Oz
    The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L. Frank Baum's fourteen Land of Oz books. It was also adapted into a Canadian animated film in 1987. Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently...

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  • G.I. Joe: The Movie
    G.I. Joe: The Movie
    G.I. Joe: The Movie is a 1987 animated film spun off from the animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the original Hasbro toyline. It was produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions and was animated in Japan by Toei Animation.Created at the height of the G.I. Joe craze in...

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  • The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
    The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
    The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is an animated TV movie, featuring the first meeting between the characters from The Flintstones and The Jetsons...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Marvelous Land of Oz
    The Marvelous Land of Oz
    The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This and the next...

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  • Ozma of Oz
    Ozma of Oz
    Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L....

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  • Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
    Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
    Pinocchio and the Emperor of The Night is a 1987 animated film that was released on December 25, 1987 by New World Pictures. and is a unofficial sequel to Pinocchio . Created by the now defunct Filmation Studios, the movie underperformed at the box office, having a cost of $10 million but making...

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  • Robotix: The Movie ( / )
  • Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
    Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
    Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers is an animated television movie produced by Hanna-Barbera for the Superstars 10 series. It was aired in August 1987.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
    Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
    Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats is a 1987 animated movie for television and it is part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series. The TV film's plot is essentially an extended remake of the original show's episode, "The Missing Heir".- Plot :...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Wind in the Willows
    The Wind in the Willows (1987 film)
    The Wind in the Willows is a 1987 American animated film directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass. It is an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Set in a pastoral version of England, the film focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters and contains themes of...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( )
  • Yogi's Great Escape
    Yogi's Great Escape
    Yogi's Great Escape is a made for television film and the first produced as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series. It first aired in syndication November 19, 1987.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose
    Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose
    Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose is a 1987 animated movie for television produced by Hanna-Barbera as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)

1988
1988 in film
-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

  • Akira
    Akira (film)
    is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and starring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira....

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  • Bravestarr: The Legend ( )
  • The Care Bears Nutcracker Suite ( )
  • Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
    Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
    Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is a 1988 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and animated bridging sequences, starring Daffy Duck. It is the final Looney Tunes project in which Mel Blanc provided the voices of the characters. The film was released to theaters by...

    ( )
  • Garfield: His 9 Lives
    Garfield: His 9 Lives
    Garfield: His 9 Lives is a 1984 book of illustrated short stories showing the "nine lives" of comic strip character Garfield...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound
    The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound
    The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound is a 1988 American animated television movie that stars Huckleberry Hound. It was a part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series of televised movies. This television feature is a parody of various western movies, the title is a take-off of The Good, the...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Happy Birthday, Garfield
    Happy Birthday, Garfield
    Happy Birthday, Garfield is an hour-long animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. The special was first broadcast May 17, 1988 on CBS. It has only been released on VHS home video.-External links:* at Internet Movie Database...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • The Land Before Time
    The Land Before Time
    The Land Before Time is a 1988 American animated adventure film directed and co-produced by Don Bluth , and executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall....

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  • My Neighbor Totoro
    My Neighbor Totoro
    , is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan...

    , Tonari no Totoro ( )
  • Oliver & Company
    Oliver & Company
    Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated film in which a homeless kitten named Oliver joins a gang of dogs to survive on the 1980s New York City streets. The film was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and became the twenty-seventh animated feature released in the Walt Disney Animated...

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  • Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
    Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
    Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw is a 1988 animated feature film distributed by TriStar Pictures. The film is based on the Tonka/Mattel toy line and Hanna-Barbera television series of the same name. It was directed by Pierre DeCelles, and stars the voices of Brennan Howard, B. J...

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  • Rockin' with Judy Jetson
    Rockin' with Judy Jetson
    Rockin' with Judy Jetson is a 1988 musical made-for-TV movie produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired in syndication as a part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series. It is based on the animated television series The Jetsons.-Plot:...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
    Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
    Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School is a 1988 TV-movie produced for syndication by Hanna-Barbera as part of the Superstars 10 film package.-Plot:...

    ( / ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
    Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
    Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf is a 1988 animated movie for television produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was the last to air as part of the Superstars 10 series...

    ( ) (Made-For-TV)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...

    ( )

1989
1989 in film
-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

  • All Dogs Go to Heaven
    All Dogs Go to Heaven
    All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 Irish-English animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford...

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  • Asterix and the Big Fight
    Asterix and the Big Fight (film)
    Asterix and the Big Fight is a 1989 animated movie directed by Philippe Grimond as a French-German co-production which was produced by Yannick Piel as Astérix et le coup du menhir. It is based on the Asterix comic book series. The movie has a different plot from the book of the same name...

    ( / )
  • Babar: The Movie
    Babar: The Movie
    Babar: The Movie is a 1989 drawn-animated film made by Canada's Nelvana Limited and France's Ellipse Programme, and distributed by New Line Cinema. It is based on the characters of Jean de Brunhoff's eponymous children's books, and was a follow-up to the first season of the HBO TV series...

    , Le Triomphe de Babar ( / )
  • The BFG
    The BFG (film)
    The BFG is a 1989 animated film based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was first shown on Christmas Day 1989 on ITV1 in the UK.The film was dedicated to animator George Jackson who worked on numerous Cosgrove Hall Productions-Plot:...

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  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan ( )
  • Dragon and Slippers, Sárkány és papucs :hu:Sárkány és papucs( )
  • Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone aka. Dragon Ball Z: Return my Gohan!!, ドラゴンボールゼット オラの悟飯を返せッ! (Doragonbōru Zetto: Ora no Gohan wo kaese!?) ( )
  • The Four Musicians of Bremen, Los Cuatro Músicos de Bremen ( )
  • The Journey to Melonia: Fantasies of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
    Resan till Melonia
    The Journey to Melonia is a 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated fantasy adventure film directed by Per Åhlin, very loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. It was Per Åhlin's first fully animated feature film, since his earlier films Out of an Old Man's Head and Dunderklumpen! had both used...

    , Resan till Melonia ( / )
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
    Kiki's Delivery Service
    is a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film produced, written, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the fourth theatrically released Studio Ghibli film.The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1989...

    , Majo no takkyubin ( )
  • Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
    Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
    is a made-for-TV anime movie produced by Studio Pierrot for NTV and based on the novel by Ken'ichi Sakemi. It is often incorrectly thought to be produced by Studio Ghibli due to the character designs by Katsuya Kondō , partially due to an error in its first fan translation that attributed the...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • The Little Mermaid
    The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
    The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was originally released to theaters on November 14, 1989 and is the twenty-eighth film in...

    ( )
  • Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
    Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
    Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, known in Japan as simply Nemo, is a 1989 animated film directed by Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz. Loosely based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, the film went through a lengthy development process with a number of screenwriters...

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  • Patlabor: The Movie, 機動警察パトレイバー the Movie (Kidō keisatsu patoreibā the movie) ( )
  • Project A-ko 4: FINAL
    Project A-ko 4: FINAL
    is the fourth Project A-ko movie.-Story:The Alpha Cygnans—still searching for their "lost princess"--return to Earth, this time with a fleet of three thousand ships. A-ko and B-ko continue their rivalry, especially over Kei, which leaves C-ko feeling left out...

    , プロジェクトA子 完結篇 (Project A-ko: Kanketsuron) ( )
  • Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle ( )
  • Venus Wars
    Venus Wars
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It was serialized in the Gakken magazine Nora Comics from 1987 to 1990...

    ( )

1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

  • DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
    DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
    DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is a 1990 American animated feature film based on the animated children's television series DuckTales. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 3, 1990. Although it was a theatrically released animated film, it was the first feature outside...

    ( )
  • Jetsons: The Movie
    Jetsons: The Movie
    Jetsons: The Movie is a 1990 animated science fiction film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released on July 6, 1990, by Universal Pictures based on the hit cartoon series, The Jetsons . The movie features the final voice roles of George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc who both died during production of the film...

    ( )
  • The Rescuers Down Under
    The Rescuers Down Under
    The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990...

    ( )

1991
1991 in film
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...

  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is a 1991 American animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio and released by Universal Pictures. It is the sequel to An American Tail, and the fourth installment in terms of the series' fictional chronology...

    ( )
  • Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
    Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...

    ( )
  • Cinderella ( /( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Dragon Ball Z 5: Battle of the Strongest vs. the Strongest
    Cooler's Revenge
    Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, also known by its Japanese title , or by Toei's own English title The Strongest Rivals , is the fifth Dragon Ball Z feature movie, originally released in Japan on July 20, 1991 at the Toei Anime Fair along with the second Magical Tarurūto-kun movie and the first...

    aka. Cooler's Revenge, とびっきりの最強対最強 (Dragonball Z 5: Tobikkiri no saikyô tai saikyô) ( )
  • Felix the Cat: The Movie
    Felix the Cat: The Movie
    Felix the Cat: The Movie is a 1988 animated film based on the cartoon and comic strip character of the same name. It was made in Europe during 1986 and 1987, but was not officially released in the United States until 1991.-Plot:...

    ( )
  • Garfield Gets a Life
    Garfield Gets a Life
    Garfield Gets a Life is a half-hour animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast May 8, 1991 on CBS. It has been released on both VHS and DVD home video...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Jack and the Beanstalk ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Only Yesterday ( )
  • Rock-A-Doodle
    Rock-A-Doodle
    Rock-a-Doodle is a 1992 American animated re-telling of Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United States on April 3, 1992.-Plot:Chanticleer is a proud rooster whose...

    ( )
  • Rover Dangerfield
    Rover Dangerfield
    Rover Dangerfield is an animated feature film produced by Hyperion Pictures and released by Warner Bros., starring the voice talents of comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who also wrote and co-produced the film. It is about a street dog named Rover, who is owned by a Las Vegas showgirl. Rover gets dumped...

    ( )
  • The Seventh Brother ( / / / / / )
  • A Wish for Wings That Work
    A Wish for Wings That Work
    On December 13, 1991, an animated special was released. It was directed by Skip Jones and was produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio for Universal Cartoon Studios...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)

1992
1992 in film
The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...

  • Aladdin ( )
  • Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (1992 film)
    Beauty and the Beast is an 48-minute animated film originally released on May 4th, 1992, and based on the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single theme song, "The Beauty in the Beast",...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Bébé's Kids
    Bebe's Kids
    Bébé's Kids is a 1992 animated comedy film produced by the Reginald Hudlin and Hyperion Pictures, directed by Bruce W...

    ( )
  • Cool World
    Cool World
    Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he created, and is seduced by one of his characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to...

    ( )
  • FernGully: The Last Rainforest
    FernGully: The Last Rainforest
    FernGully: The Last Rainforest is a 1992 Australian-American animated film directed by Bill Kroyer, produced by Peter Faiman and Wayne Young, and written by Jim Cox based on a book of the same name by Diana Young. It is a film with a strong environmental theme...

    ( / )
  • Freddie as F.R.O.7
    Freddie as F.R.O.7
    Freddie as F.R.O.7 is a 1992 British animated film written and directed by Jon Acevski. It is a parody of James Bond. The film was inspired by bedtime stories Acevski told to his son about his favourite toy frog working as a secret agent. -Plot:...

    ( )
  • Little Mermaid ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Magic Voyage
    The Magic Voyage
    The Magic Voyage is a German animated film, released theatrically in Germany as Die Abenteuer von Pico und Columbus by Bavaria Film in 1992. It was released on VHS in Germany by Warner Home Video. The film was later dubbed in English and released direct-to-video in the United States and Canada...

    , Die abenteuer von Pico und Columbus ( )
  • Pinocchio
    Pinocchio (1992 film)
    Pinocchio is a direct-to-video 49-minute animated film originally released on May 11th, 1992. It is based on the classic children's novel of the same name by Italian author Carlo Collodi and adapted by Roger Scott Olsen. The film was produced by Diane Eskenazi of American Film Investment...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Porco Rosso
    Porco Rosso
    Porco Rosso, known in Japan as is the sixth anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992, of an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed and transformed into...

    ( )
  • Sinbad
    Sinbad (1992 film)
    Sinbad is an animated film originally released on May 18th, 1992 and based on the classic Arabian Nights tale, Sinbad the Sailor. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single theme song, "As brave as a man can be", written and composed by Richard Hurwitz and John...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Three Musketeers ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Thumbelina
    Thumbelina (1992 film)
    Thumbelina is a 49-minute animated film originally released on June 8, 1992 and based on the classic story, Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen...

    ( /[ ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
    Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
    Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, also referred to as Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation or How I Spent My Vacation, is a 1992 American direct-to-video animated film from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment. The film was produced in...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Tom and Jerry: The Movie
    Tom and Jerry: The Movie
    Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a 1992 American animated musical film directed by Phil Roman, and produced by Film Roman and Turner Pictures. It is a film adaptation of the Tom and Jerry series of theatrical shorts....

    ( )

1993
1993 in film
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...

  • Aladdin ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Amazon Jack aka. Go, Hugo, Go!, Jungledyret ( )
  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
    Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
    Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is a 1993 animated superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, and is a spin-off of the Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series...

    ( )
  • Comet in Moominland ( / )
  • Coo: Tōi Umi kara Kita Coo ( )
  • Crayon Shin-chan: Action Kamen vs Haigure Devil ( )
  • David Copperfield
    David Copperfield (1993 film)
    David Copperfield is a 1993 traditionally-animated musical feature-length adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story of the same name. It was directed by Don Arioli and features the voices of Sheena Easton, Julian Lennon, Howie Mandel, Andrea Martin, Kelly LeBrock, Michael York, Joseph Marcell...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Dragon Ball Z 8: Burn Up!! A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle
    Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan
    Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, known in Japan as , is the eighth Dragon Ball Z feature movie. It is also the longest Dragonball Z film and second longest film of the franchise...

    aka. Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan, 燃えつきろ!!熱戦・烈戦・超激戦 (Doragon bôru Z 8: Moetsukiro!! Nessen retsusen-chô gekisen) ( )
  • Dragon Ball Z 9: The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super-Incredible Guy
    Bojack Unbound
    Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, originally known in Japan as , is the ninth Dragon Ball Z feature movie. It was released in Japan on July 10, 1993 at the Toei Anime Fair, where it was shown alongside the Dr. Slump movie N-cha! Pengin-mura yori Ai wo komete and the first YuYu Hakusho movie. The...

    aka. Bojack Unbound, 銀河ギリギリ!!ぶっちぎりの凄い奴 (Dragon Ball Z 9: Ginga girigiri!! Butchigiri no sugoi yatsu) ( )
  • Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle
    Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle
    is an anime TV Special based on the Neo Geo SNK video game, Fatal Fury 2 and is a sequel to the previous TV movie, Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf. The movie was directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and once again features character designs by Masami Ōbari...

    , バトルファイターズ餓狼伝説2 (Batoru Faitāzu Garō Densetsu Tsū) ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Happily Ever After ( )
  • Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
    Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
    Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby is an animated television movie based on the 1960s series classic, The Flintstones. It first aired on ABC on December 5, 1993. It is the sequel to I Yabba-Dabba Do! and is followed by A Flintstone Family Christmas, which aired less than two weeks later on the same channel...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • I Can Hear the Sea aka. The Ocean Waves, 海がきこえる (Umi ga Kikoeru) ( )
  • I Yabba-Dabba Do!
    I Yabba-Dabba Do!
    I Yabba-Dabba Do! is a made-for-TV animated film based on the original series, The Flintstones and its spinoff, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show. It premiered on ABC on February 7, 1993. Many attribute this movie's inspiration to the success of the remake of Father of the Bride...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Jonny's Golden Quest
    Jonny's Golden Quest
    Jonny's Golden Quest is a 1993 animated television movie produced by Hanna-Barbera and originally aired on the USA cable channel. It attempts to fill back-story holes that were left unexplored in the original Jonny Quest cartoon series. It was in particular a follow-up to The New Adventures of...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Ninja Scroll
    Ninja Scroll
    is a 1993 Japanese animated action thriller film set in feudal Japan, written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri who was best known for his previous thriller Wicked City . The character designs were done by Yutaka Minowa. The movie is in homage to the Ninpōchō series, ninja novels by Futaro Yamada...

    ( )
  • Once Upon a Forest
    Once Upon a Forest
    Once Upon a Forest is an animated film produced by Hanna-Barbera in association with HTV Cymru/Wales, Ltd. and released on June 18, 1993 by 20th Century Fox....

    (/ )
  • Patlabor: The Movie 2
    Patlabor: The Movie 2
    is a 1993 Japanese anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, who also directed Patlabor: The Movie. The movie has taken some liberties from being a mecha-themed movie in theme to a political-themed one with domestic and international issues that the Japanese government had faced during the 20th century...

    ( )
  • The Princess and the Goblin
    The Princess and the Goblin (film)
    The Princess and the Goblin is a 1992 European animated fantasy film directed by József Gémes. It is an adaptation of 1872 novel of the same name by George MacDonald....

    (/ / )
  • Sailor Moon R: The Movie 劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンR (Gekijouhan Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon R) ( )
  • The Thief and the Cobbler
    The Thief and the Cobbler
    The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated feature film, famous for its animation and its long, troubled history. The film was conceived by Canadian animator Richard Williams, who worked 28 years on the project. Beginning production in 1964, Williams intended The Thief and the Cobbler to be his...

    ( // ) (released as Arabian Knight and The Princess and the Cobbler; heavily edited versions. Unofficial restorations of the original film are available)
  • We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)
    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1993 American animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to theaters on November 24, 1993 for the United States. It was rated G by the MPAA...

    ( )

1994
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

  • A Christmas Carol ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Cinderella
    Cinderella (1994 film)
    Cinderella, originally released directly to video in 1994, is a 48-minute animated film adapted from the classic fairy tale, "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Happy, the Littlest Bunny ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Lion King
    The Lion King
    The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...

    ( )
  • Macross Plus: Movie Edition
    Macross Plus
    is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...

    ( )
  • The Pagemaster
    The Pagemaster
    The Pagemaster is a 1994 adventure fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Welker, and Leonard Nimoy...

    ( )
  • Pocahontas
    Pocahontas (1994 film)
    Pocahontas is a 45-minute direct-to-video animated film produced by Jetlag Productions. It was distributed by GoodTimes Home Video and originally released on October 19, 1994. The film was produced by Mark Taylor and directed by Toshiyuki Hiruma. Writer Jack Olesker adapted the script from the...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Pochacco's Exciting Birthday ( )
  • Pom Poko
    Pom Poko
    is a 1994 Japanese animated film, the eighth written and directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli.Consistent with Japanese folklore, the tanuki are portrayed as a highly sociable, mischievous species, able to use "illusion science" to transform into almost anything, but too...

    , 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko) ( )
  • The Return of Jafar
    The Return of Jafar
    The Return of Jafar is a 1994 American animated film that is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 animated film Aladdin, both produced by The Walt Disney Company. The film was released on May 20, 1994 and serves as the origin of the Aladdin animated series...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Sailor Moon S: The Movie 劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンS (Gekijouhan Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S) ( )
  • Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture
    Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture
    Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture is an 1994 anime film based upon the 1993 SNK video game Samurai Shodown. It was released by SNK in association with Fuji TV and NAS.-Cast:English Cast*Marcy Rae as Shiro Amakusa Tokisada*Milton Lawrence as Haohmaru...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights
    Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights
    Arabian Nights is a 1994 television special produced by Hanna-Barbera and premiered on syndication on September 3, 1994. It is animated with bright colors, stylized character designs and a flater style to the previous television movies, and musically scored by veteran animation composer Steven...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Slam Dunk: Conquer the Nation, Hanamichi Sakuragi!
    Slam Dunk (manga)
    is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide,...

    ( )
  • Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
    Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
    Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, known as in Japan and Australia, is a 1994 Japanese animated film adaptation of the Street Fighter II fighting games written by Kenichi Imai, directed by Gisaburō Sugii and animated by Group TAC. The film, originally released in Japan on August 8, 1994, has...

    ( )
  • The Swan Princess
    The Swan Princess
    The Swan Princess is a 1994 American animated film based on the ballet "Swan Lake". Starring the voice talents of Jack Palance, John Cleese, Steven Wright, and Sandy Duncan, the film is directed by a former Disney animation director, Richard Rich, with a music score by Lex de Azevedo...

    ( )
  • Taxandria
    Taxandria (film)
    Taxandria is a partially animated fantasy film by Raoul Servais, based on a book by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, and starring, among others, Armin Mueller-Stahl...

    ( / / )
  • Thumbelina
    Thumbelina (1994 film)
    Thumbelina is a 1994 American animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Bluth based on Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina. The film was produced by Don Bluth Entertainment and was released to movie theaters by Warner Bros...

    ( / )
  • A Troll in Central Park
    A Troll in Central Park
    A Troll in Central Park is a 1994 animated feature-length film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, creators of films such as Thumbelina, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven. It was released on October 7, 1994 by Warner Bros...

    ( )

1995
1995 in film
-Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....

  • Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland (1995 film)
    Originally released directly to video in 1995, Alice in Wonderland is a 46-minute animated film based on the classic novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Balto
    Balto (film)
    Balto is a 1995 American animated comedy-drama film directed by Simon Wells and produced by Amblimation, and the first of the overall trilogy. The film is based on a true story about the dog of the same name who helped save children from the diphtheria epidemic in the 1925 serum run to Nome...

    ( )
  • Black Beauty ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Curly, the Littlest Puppy ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • A Goofy Movie
    A Goofy Movie
    A Goofy Movie is a 1995 American animated musical comedy film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Animation France S.A. and Walt Disney Animation Australia , and released in theaters on April 7, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures...

    ( )
  • Heidi
    Heidi (1995 film)
    Originally released directly to video in 1995, Heidi is a 49-minute animated film based on the classic story of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The movie was produced by Jetlag Productions and it was distributed to DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment, as part of their "Collectible Classics" line.-...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Hercules
    Hercules (1995 film)
    Hercules is a 1995 film that is about the story of the Greek demigod Hercules, the son of Zeus and Alcmene. While the original story was more violent, this version toned down certain elements like removing Zeus' disguise as Amphitryon to seduce Alcmene, the killing of his children to make a more...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Jungle Book ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Little Red Riding Hood
    Little Red Riding Hood (1995 film)
    Little Red Riding Hood is a 48-minute direct-to-video animated film produced by Jetlag Productions. It was distributed by GoodTimes Home Video and originally released on VHS on July 31, 1995. The film was produced by Mark Taylor and directed by Toshiyuki Hiruma Takashi...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Magic Gift of the Snowman ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Nutcracker ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Pebble and the Penguin
    The Pebble and the Penguin
    The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 animated musical film, based on the true life mating rituals of the Adelie Penguins in Antarctica, produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The film was released to theatres on April 11, 1995 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States and...

    ( / )
  • Pocahontas
    Pocahontas (1995 film)
    Pocahontas is the 33rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was originally released to selected theaters on June 16, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures...

    ( )
  • Sleeping Beauty
    Sleeping Beauty (1995 film)
    Originally released directly to video in 1995, Sleeping Beauty is a 48-minute animated film adapted from the classic fairy tale, "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Snow White
    Snow White (1995 film)
    Originally released directly to video in 1995, Snow White is a 46-minute animated film based on the classic story, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Sailor Moon Supers: The Movie aka Sailor Moon Supers the Movie: Black Dream Hole, セーラー9戦士集結! ブラック・ドリーム・ホールの奇跡 (Sailor 9 Senshi Shuuketsu! Black-Dream-Hole no Kiseki) ( )
  • Whisper of the Heart
    Whisper of the Heart (film)
    is a 1995 Japanese animated drama film based on the manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. It was directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the first theatrical Studio Ghibli feature to be directed by someone other than Miyazaki or Takahata, and the only film to be directed...

    ( )
  • The Wind in the Willows (Made-for-TV)

1996
1996 in film
Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

  • All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
    All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
    All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is a 1996 American animated family film, and a sequel to United Artists' 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven. It is directed by Larry Leker and Paul Sabella...

    ( )
  • Amazon Jack 2: The Movie Star, aka. Hugo the Movie Star, Jungledyret 2 - den store filmhelt ( / / / )
  • Aladdin and the King of Thieves
    Aladdin and the King of Thieves
    Aladdin and the King of Thieves is a 1996 animated film that is the second direct-to-video sequel to the Disney animated feature Aladdin...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Beavis and Butt-head Do America
    Beavis and Butt-head Do America
    Beavis and Butt-head Do America is a 1996 animated feature film, based on the TV series, Beavis and Butt-Head. It was produced by Paramount Pictures in association with Geffen Pictures and MTV Films, and co-written and directed by creator Mike Judge. The film grossed $20.11 million in its opening...

      ( )
  • Galaxy Express 999
    Galaxy Express 999
    is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the...

    ( )
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is inspired by Victor Hugo's novel of...

    ( )
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is inspired by Victor Hugo's novel of...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Space Jam
    Space Jam
    Aside from Jordan, a number of NBA players and coaches appeared in the film. Larry Bird portrays a friend of Jordan who joins him for a game of golf. When the Monstars steal the NBA players' talent, they invade a game between the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, causing the Knicks' Patrick...

    ( )

1997
1997 in film
-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

  • The Adarna Bird aka. The Mystical Bird, Ibong Adarna ( )
  • Anastasia
    Anastasia (1997 film)
    Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It was the first feature film to be released by Fox Animation Studios....

    ( )
  • Anastasia ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Annabelle's Wish
    Annabelle's Wish
    Annabelle's Wish is a 1997 animated Christmas film that revolves around a young calf who aspires to learn to fly and become one of Santa Claus' reindeer. It is narrated by Randy Travis and stars veteran voice actress Kath Soucie...

    ( / ) (Direct to Video)
  • Babes in Toyland
    Babes in Toyland (1997 film)
    Babes in Toyland is a 1997 American animated musical film based on the original story. The animated feature stars Joseph Ashton, Lacey Chabert, Raphael Sbarge, Cathy Cavadini, Christopher Plummer, and Charles Nelson Reilly.-Plot:...

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  • Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
    Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
    Beauty and The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 animated holiday special produced by The Walt Disney Company. It is a midquel that takes place within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast...

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  • Cats Don't Dance
    Cats Don't Dance
    Cats Don't Dance is a 1997 animated musical comedy film, notable as the only fully animated feature produced by Turner Entertainment's feature animation unit . The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment...

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  • Hercules
    Hercules (1997 film)
    Hercules is a 1997 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fifth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker...

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  • I Married a Strange Person!
    I Married a Strange Person!
    I Married a Strange Person! is a 1997 musical animated feature film by Bill Plympton. When Grant Boyer's satellite TV dish is hit by two birds in mid-coitus, just days before his own wedding, he gains a special secret power. His imagination is no longer something that just goes on in his head -...

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  • The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
    The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
    The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island is a 1997 animated film directed by Roy Allen Smith. This is the first film in the series in which Anndi McAfee is the voice of Cera, and Aria Noelle Curzon is the voice of Ducky...

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  • Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
    Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
    Lapitch the Little Shoemaker is an animated film for children that was originally released in Croatian theatres in 1997 by Croatia Film. Produced on vintage cel equipment during the early 1990s, this was the third feature from Croatia Film's animation unit and director Milan Blažeković, after The...

    , Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića
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  • Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off
    Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off
    Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off is a Disney direct-to-video animated film released on 8 April 1997. It is a compilation of three episodes from the animated television series Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series.-External links:...

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  • Perfect Blue
    Perfect Blue
    is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon and written by Kon and Sadayuki Murai based on the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. Junko Iwao plays Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese pop-idol group called "CHAM!", who decides to pursue her career as...

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  • Pippi Longstocking
    Pippi Longstocking (1997 film)
    Pippi Longstocking is a 1997 animated musical film from AB Svensk Filmindustri and Nelvana, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren. It was distributed theatrically by Legacy Releasing and on DVD by Warner Bros., and was served as a pilot of a spin-off television series on HBO in...

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  • Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
    Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
    Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin is a 1997 direct-to-video film from Walt Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh. The film follows Pooh and his friends on a journey to find and rescue their friend Christopher Robin from the "Skull"...

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  • Princess Mononoke
    Princess Mononoke
    is a 1997 epic Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster...

    , もののけ姫 (Mononoke Hime) ( )

1998
1998 in film
-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...

  • Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
    Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
    Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero is a 1998 direct-to-video animated feature film based on Batman: The Animated Series and is a sequel to the episode Deep Freeze. It won the Annie Award for Best Home Video Animation. It was produced by Warner Bros...

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  • Belle's Magical World
    Belle's Magical World
    Belle's Magical World is a 1998 direct-to-video Disney midquel film and the third installment in the Beauty and the Beast trilogy. It was originally released on February 17, 1998, and features the voices of Paige O'Hara as Belle, Robby Benson as The Beast, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden...

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  • The First Snow of Winter
    The First Snow of Winter
    The First Snow of Winter is an animated television film produced by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment and Link Entertainment and first aired on the BBC on December 25, 1998 It features the voices of Miriam Margoyles, Dermot Morgan, Kate Sachs, Sorcha Cusack, and Neil McCaul.- Synopsis :On a winter day in...

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  • The Legend of Su-Ling (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
    The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
    The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Video on October 27, 1998. The film is the sequel to the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King...

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  • Mulan ( )
  • Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
    Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
    Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is a 1998 straight-to-video sequel to the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas. The film is inspired by true events in the life of Pocahontas which took place several years after her encounter with John Smith and the founders of Jamestown...

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  • Pokémon: The First Movie
    Pokémon: The First Movie
    Pokémon: The First Movie, originally released as , is a 1998 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, the chief director of the Pokémon television series. It is the first theatrical release in the Pokémon franchise...

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  • The Prince of Egypt
    The Prince of Egypt
    The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film and the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the...

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  • Quest for Camelot
    Quest for Camelot
    Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne,...

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  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is a 1998 animated film based on the film of the same name by Robert May. It was the first theatrical feature from GoodTimes Entertainment, long known as a home video company. The film's animation was produced by Yowza! Animation, Wang Film Productions &...

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  • The Rugrats Movie
    The Rugrats Movie
    The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 American animated film, produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and first released in theaters in the United States on November 20, 1998....

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1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

  • Doug's 1st Movie
    Doug's 1st Movie
    Doug's 1st Movie is a 1999 animated film based on the Disney version of the Nickelodeon television series Doug. The film was directed by Maurice Joyce, and stars the regular television cast of Tom McHugh, Fred Newman, Chris Phillips, Constance Shulman, Frank Welker, Alice Playten, and Guy Hadley...

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  • Faeries
    Faeries (film)
    Faeries is a 1999 British animated film directed by Gary Hurst and featuring the voices of Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott and Jeremy Irons.-Main cast:*Kate Winslet – Brigid*Jeremy Irons – The Shapeshifter*Dougray Scott – The Faery Prince...

  • Fantasia 2000
    Fantasia 2000
    Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was the 38th feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and a sequel to 1940's Fantasia...

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  • Gen¹³
    Gen¹³
    Gen¹³ is a fictional superhero team and comic book series originally written by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi and illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. It was originally published by Image Comics under the banner Wildstorm, which went on to become an imprint for DC Comics, who continued publishing the Gen¹³...

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  • The Iron Giant
    The Iron Giant
    The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney...

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  • The King and I
    The King and I (1999 film)
    The King and I is a 1999 animated film adaptation of the stage musical The King and I, which in turn is adapted from the Anna Leonowens story. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Morgan Creek Productions, and released theatrically by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment on March 19, 1999...

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  • Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
    Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
    Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is a direct-to-video animated Christmas movie made by Walt Disney Home Video in 1999. The video features Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Pete, Goofy, Max, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Scrooge McDuck, Mortimer Mouse, Figaro the Kitten and Chip 'n...

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  • My Neighbors the Yamadas
    My Neighbors the Yamadas
    is an anime film directed by Isao Takahata and released by Studio Ghibli on July 17, 1999. The movie is a family comedy that is presented in a comic strip style which is unusual since all the other Studio Ghibli movies are presented in the traditional anime style of Studio Ghibli...

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  • The Nuttiest Nutcracker
    The Nuttiest Nutcracker
    The Nuttiest Nutcracker is a 1999 direct-to-video Christmas film loosely based on the classic tale The Nutcracker, directed by Harold Harris, starring the voices of James Belushi, Cheech Marin, and Phyllis Diller...

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  • Olive, the Other Reindeer
    Olive, the Other Reindeer
    Olive, the Other Reindeer is a CGI animated Christmas television special written by Steve Young, and directed by Oscar Moore. The feature was produced by Matt Groening's The Curiosity Company and animated by DNA Productions...

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  • Tarzan
    Tarzan (1999 film)
    Tarzan is a 1999 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999...

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  • Tarzan of the Apes
    Tarzan of the Apes (1999 film)
    Tarzan of the Apes is an animated musical adventure film produced by Diane Eskenazi and Darcy Wright and written by Mark Young . Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries was used as the score during the opening scenes of the film...

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2000
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

  • Ah! My Goddess: The Movie
    Ah! My Goddess: The Movie
    is a 2000 Japanese animated film directed by Hiroaki Gōda, written by Michiko Yokote and Yoshihiko Tomizawa, animated by Anime International Company and co-produced by Kodansha, Dentsu, Sega Enterprises, Pony Canyon, Nippon Shupan Hanbai, AIC, MOVIC and Shochiku, based on the manga of the same name...

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  • Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman
    Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman
    Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman is a 2000 animated horror-themed direct-to-video film, produced by Bagdasarian Productions and Universal Animation Studios, distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and based on characters from Alvin and the Chipmunks...

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  • Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
    Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
    Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is a 2000 direct-to-video animated film featuring the comic book superhero Batman and his archenemy, the Joker...

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  • Blood: The Last Vampire
    Blood: The Last Vampire
    Blood: The Last Vampire is a 2000 anime film produced by Production I.G and SPE Visual Works and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The film premiered in theaters in Japan on November 18, 2000...

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  • The Boy Who Saw the Wind
    The Boy Who Saw the Wind
    is an animated film based on the novel by C.W. Nicol. Directed by Kazuki Omori, it was broadcast in Japan on Brain's Base and Hitachi-Maxell on July 22, 2000. It was also broadcast in France by AK Video, in Spain by HBO and in Russia by MC Entertainment...

    , 風を見た少年 (Kaze o mita shōnen) ( )
  • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
    Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
    Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins aka Buzz Lightyear of Star Command the Beginning is a 2000 Disney animated direct-to-video film that acts as a pilot to the television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command...

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  • Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card
    Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card
    is the second anime film, sequel, and the finale to the anime television series adaptation of Clamp's Cardcaptor Sakura. The animation was produced by Madhouse, while it was directed by Morio Asaka and written by Nanase Ōkawa . It won the Feature Film Award at the 2000 Animation Kobe.. The film was...

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  • Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes ( )
  • Digimon: The Movie
    Digimon: The Movie
    Digimon: The Movie is a 2000 American film adaptation of the first three Japanese Digimon films distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film used footage from the films Digimon Adventure , Our War Game!! , and Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals .In comparison to...

    An american adaption condensing footage from the first three Japan released Digimon movies ( / )
  • The Emperor's New Groove
    The Emperor's New Groove
    The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures through Buena Vista Distribution on December 15, 2000. It is the 40th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics...

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  • Escaflowne
    Escaflowne (film)
    is an anime film produced by Sunrise and animated by Studio BONES. Directed by Kazuki Akane, the film is a re-telling of the twenty-six episode anime television series The Vision of Escaflowne...

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  • An Extremely Goofy Movie
    An Extremely Goofy Movie
    An Extremely Goofy Movie is a 2000 American direct-to-video animated film made by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Douglas McCarthy, it is the sequel to A Goofy Movie, featuring the return of characters from the television series Goof Troop...

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  • Franklin and the Green Knight: The Movie ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Heavy Metal 2000
    Heavy Metal 2000
    Heavy Metal 2000 is the 2000 follow-up to the 1981 animated cult film Heavy Metal, based on the fantasy magazine of the same name. The story itself is based on the graphic novel, The Melting Pot, written by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot...

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  • Help! I'm a Fish
    Help! I'm a Fish
    Help! I'm a Fish is a 2001 Danish animated film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Michael Hegner.Unlike some European animation, this film was recorded and animated in the English language to increase international distribution...

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  • Is It Fall Yet?
    Is It Fall Yet?
    Is It Fall Yet? is the first of two movie-length installments featured in MTV's animated series Daria.The two telemovies, Is It Fall Yet? and Is It College Yet?, chronicled, respectively, the summer hiatus between the school years of seasons four and five, and the second served as the show's...

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  • Joseph: King of Dreams
    Joseph: King of Dreams
    Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American animated musical film and the first direct-to-video release from DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis in the Bible and also serves as a prequel to the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt.- Plot :Joseph is...

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  • The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
    The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
    The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire is a film released in 2000 and the seventh film in The Land Before Time series.-Plot:...

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  • The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
    The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
    The film's official soundtrack was released on September 19, 2000. The soundtrack was released internationally on October 31, 2000 in a special edition double pack with the original film's soundtrack...

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  • Monster Mash
    Monster Mash (2000 film)
    Monster Mash is a Universal Animation Studios animated feature based on the stories of Frankenstein, The Wolfman, and Dracula.The film was released with Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman, and 4 Archie's Weird Mysteries episodes on the Monster Bash...

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  • The New Bremen Musicians, Новые бременские (Novyye bremenskiye) ( )
  • One Piece: The Movie ( )
  • Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns
    Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns
    Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns, released in Japan as , is an animated film based on the Pokémon anime, and is the direct follow-up to Pokémon: The First Movie. It originated as a feature-length TV special in Japan on December 30, 2000 and was released on VHS and DVD in Japan on March 21, 2001...

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  • Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Pokémon: The Movie 2000, originally released in Japan as , is a 1999 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama as the second Pokémon feature-length film, complementing the Orange Islands saga of the series and featuring several new Pokémon, including Lugia and Slowking...

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  • Read or Die
    Read or Die (OVA)
    The OVA based on the Read or Die manga series created by Hideyuki Kurata was created by Studio Deen in early 2001 and distributed outside Japan by Manga Entertainment in 2003. The series, directed by Koji Masunari, features the main characters of the original manga such as Yomiko Readman and Joker...

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  • The Road to El Dorado
    The Road to El Dorado
    The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure comedy film by DreamWorks. The soundtrack features songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, the music team from Disney's The Lion King....

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  • Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, also known as The Rugrats Movie 2: Rugrats in Paris and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II, is 2000 American animated film, and the sequel to the 1998 film The Rugrats Movie that follows the continuing adventures of the Rugrats. In the film, Chuckie Finster takes...

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  • Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
    Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
    Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders is the third of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on October 3, 2000, and it was produced, starting in 1999, by Warner Bros. Animation...

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  • The Tigger Movie
    The Tigger Movie
    The Tigger Movie is a 2000 animated comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Jun Falkenstein. Part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, this film features Pooh's friend Tigger in his search for his family tree and other Tiggers like himself...

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  • Titan A.E.
    Titan A.E.
    Titan A.E. is an American animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman released in 2000. The title refers to the spacecraft that is central to the plot, with A.E. meaning "After Earth."...

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  • Tom Sawyer
    Tom Sawyer (2000 film)
    Tom Sawyer is a 2000 direct-to-video animated film from MGM. It is an adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with a cast of anthropomorphic animals instead of humans...

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  • Tweety's High-Flying Adventure ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
    Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
    is a 2000 anime film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. The film is based on Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D novels, D - Demon Deathchase.The film began production in 1997 and was completed with the intention of being shown in American theaters...

    , バンパイアハンターD ( )

2001
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

  • Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn, it is the first science fiction film in the Disney animated features canon and the 41st overall. The film...

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  • Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
    Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
    Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure is a 2001 direct-to-video animated film which was released on February 27, 2001 by The Walt Disney Company as a sequel to the 1955 feature film Lady and the Tramp. The story centers around Lady and Tramp's anthropomorphic puppy, Scamp, and his desire to...

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  • The Little Polar Bear
    The Little Polar Bear
    The Little Polar Bear is a franchise about a Polar Bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, Hans de Beer. It later became an animated TV series, Lars, der Kleine Eisbär, in the early 1990s. The show proved to be popular in Germany, but its English-dubbed...

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    Die Kleine Eisbar ( )
  • Osmosis Jones
    Osmosis Jones
    Osmosis Jones is a 2001 live-action/animated comedy film directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon for the animated segments and the Farrelly brothers for the live-action segments...

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  • Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Pokémon 3: The Movie, originally released in Japan as , is a 2000 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama as the third feature-length Pokémon film. It was released in Japanese theaters on July 8, 2000, and the English adaptation, entitled Pokémon 3: Spell of the Unknown was released...

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  • Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
    Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
    Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street is a Disney direct-to-video animated film released on November 6, 2001. It compiles of four unrelated episodes of the Recess TV series, including the series' Christmas special "Yes Mikey, Santa Does Shave"...

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  • Recess: School's Out
    Recess: School's Out
    Recess: School's Out is a 2001 animated film based on the Disney television series Recess. This film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and was released theatrically nationwide on February 16, 2001. It was released on video and DVD on August 7, 2001.-Plot:School's out at Third Street School, but...

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  • Santa, Baby! ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Spirited Away
    Spirited Away
    is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood and after her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba,...

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  • The Trumpet of the Swan
    The Trumpet of the Swan (film)
    The Trumpet of the Swan is a 2001 animated film produced by RichCrest Animation Studios, directed by Richard Rich, and distributed by TriStar Pictures, being TriStar's first animated film since 1988's Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw.-Plot:...

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  • Waking Life
    Waking Life
    Waking Life is an American animated film , directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame.The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and...

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2002
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

  • The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
    The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
    The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina is a 2002 direct-to-video animated film directed by Glenn Chaika. Its running time is 74 minutes...

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  • The Cat Returns
    The Cat Returns
    is a Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiroyuki Morita, produced by Studio Ghibli and theatrically released in Japan in 2002 and in 2003 in the United States through Walt Disney Pictures....

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  • Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
    Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
    Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is the first direct-to-video sequel to the 1950 Disney film Cinderella. It was made in 2001 and released on February 26, 2002. It was followed by Cinderella III: A Twist in Time in 2007...

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  • Eight Crazy Nights
    Eight Crazy Nights
    Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 animated musical comedy film co-written by and starring Adam Sandler. Unlike most mainstream holiday films, it centers on Jewish characters during the Hanukkah season, as opposed to religious or secular celebration of Christmas...

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  • Hey Arnold!: The Movie
    Hey Arnold!: The Movie
    Hey Arnold!: The Movie is a 2002 animated film based on the 1996-2004 Nickelodeon animated television series Hey Arnold!. The film was released in theaters on June 28, 2002...

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  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is a 2002 direct-to-video sequel to the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Japan...

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  • Initial D: Battle Stage
    Initial D
    is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, and A.C.G.T, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia...

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  • InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
    InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
    is the second movie of the InuYasha movie series. It was released in Japan on December 21, 2002 , and in the United States on December 28, 2004...

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  • Is It College Yet?
    Is It College Yet?
    Is It College Yet? is the second of two movie-length installments featured in MTV's animated series Daria. The first music video for "Breaking Up the Girl" by Garbage premiered as part of the film, featuring a Daria montage, and the song was promoted as the "theme song" for College; the song used...

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  • The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
    The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
    The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water is a 2002 animated film and the ninth film in The Land Before Time series. It was produced and directed by Charles Grosvenor, with the last time they would use the soundtrack composed by James Horner...

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  • Lilo & Stitch
    Lilo & Stitch
    This article is about the movie. For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series.Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 21, 2002...

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  • Metropolis
    Metropolis (anime)
    Metropolis is a 2001 [anime] film and loosely based on the 1949 Metropolis manga created by the late Osamu Tezuka, itself inspired by the 1927 German silent film of the same name, though the two do not share plot elements. The anime, however, does draw aspects of its storyline directly from the...

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  • Millennium Actress
    Millennium Actress
    is a 2001 Japanese anime by director Satoshi Kon and animated by the Studio Madhouse. It tells the story of a documentary filmmaker investigating the life of an elderly actress in which reality and cinema become blurred.-Plot:...

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  • My Beautiful Girl, Mari
    My Beautiful Girl, Mari
    My Beautiful Girl, Mari is a critically successful South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences.-Plot:Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him...

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  • Pokémon 4Ever
    Pokémon 4Ever
    Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi - Voice of the Forest, originally released in Japan as , is a 2001 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and based on the television series Pokémon. It is the fourth official Pokémon film. It was released in Japan on July 14, 2001. The film was directed in Japan by...

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  • Pokémon Heroes
    Pokémon Heroes
    Pokémon Heroes: Latios and Latias, originally released in Japan as , is a 2002 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. It is the fifth film in the Pokémon series, complimenting Pokémon: Master Quest...

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  • Return to Never Land
    Return to Never Land
    Return to Never Land is a 2002 American animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is a sequel to the 1953 film Peter Pan, based on J.M...

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  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 American animated film that was released by DreamWorks. It follows the adventures of a young Kiger mustang stallion living in the 19th century wild west. The film, written by John Fusco and directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, was nominated for the...

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  • Treasure Planet
    Treasure Planet
    Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002...

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  • The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 American animated feature film based on the television series of the same name. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies, and was released on December 20, 2002.-Plot:...

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  • Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
    Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
    A Very Merry Pooh Year is a direct to video Winnie the Pooh film released in 2002 which featured the 1991 Christmas TV special Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too, as well as the new film, Happy Pooh Year....

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2003
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

  • 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
    101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
    101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a 2003 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on January 21, 2003. The film is the sequel to the 1961 Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Atlantis: Milo's Return
    Atlantis: Milo's Return
    Atlantis: Milo's Return, released in 2003, is Disney's twentieth animated direct-to-video sequel. It is a sequel to the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire....

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  • Back to School with Franklin
    Back to School with Franklin
    Back to School with Franklin is the third Franklin movie, released direct-to-video and DVD. It has since aired on Noggin and possibly on other networks as well....

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
    Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
    Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman is a 2003 direct-to-video animated film based on the animated series The New Batman Adventures. It was released in the U.S. in October 2003 and was produced by Warner Bros...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Brother Bear
    Brother Bear
    Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the forty-fourth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. In the film, an Inuit boy pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which...

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  • The Jungle Book 2
    The Jungle Book 2
    The Jungle Book 2 is a 2003 American animated film produced by the DisneyToons studio in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. The theatrical version of the film was released in France on February 5, 2003, and released in the United States on February...

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  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live action/animated adventure comedy film directed by Joe Dante and starring Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton, and Steve Martin. The film is essentially a feature-length Looney Tunes cartoon, with all the wackiness and surrealism typical...

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  • Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
    Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
    Mickey · Donald · Goofy: The Three Musketeers is a direct-to-video animated film adaptation of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers...

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  • Piglet's Big Movie
    Piglet's Big Movie
    Piglet's Big Movie is a 2003 American animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. It is based upon the characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne...

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  • Recess: All Growed Down
    Recess: All Growed Down
    Recess: All Growed Down is a Disney direct-to-video animated film released on December 9, 2003. The film is based on the Disney television series Recess...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Recess: Taking the 5th Grade ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Rugrats Go Wild!
    Rugrats Go Wild!
    Rugrats Go Wild is a 2003 crossover animated film, with two animated Nickelodeon television series Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys. The film was produced by Klasky Csupo and released in theaters on June 13, 2003 by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies.It also makes this the Rugrats series...

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  • Abra-Catastrophe! ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 American animated swashbuckling fantasy aventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation, using traditional 2D animation with some 3D...

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  • Stitch! The Movie
    Stitch! The Movie
    Stitch! The Movie is a direct-to-video animated spinoff of Lilo & Stitch, released on August 26, 2003. It is often considered more of a backdoor pilot for the spinoff series Lilo & Stitch: The Series rather than a sequel to the original film. The story is an introduction to Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625...

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  • Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
    Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
    Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire is the fifth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was completed in 2002, and released on March 4, 2003 and it was produced by Warner Bros...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico
    Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico
    Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico is the sixth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on September 30, 2003, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation...

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  • Tokyo Godfathers
    Tokyo Godfathers
    is a 2003 anime film by the late Japanese director Satoshi Kon.Tokyo Godfathers was Kon's third animated movie, which he wrote and directed. Keiko Nobumoto, noted for being the creator of the Wolf's Rain series and a head scriptwriter for Cowboy Bebop, co-wrote the script with Kon.Tokyo Godfathers...

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  • The Triplets of Belleville aka. Belleville Rendez-Vous, Les Triplettes de Belleville ( / / /)
  • Under Stars and Stripes ( ) (Direct-to-Video)

2004
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

  • Home on the Range ( )
  • Howl's Moving Castle
    Howl's Moving Castle (film)
    is a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones...

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  • The Legend of Atlantis ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Lion King 1½
    The Lion King 1½
    The Lion King 1½ is a 2004 American direct-to-video animated film released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. The film is the third installment in the Lion King series. The DVD went to the Disney Vault in January 2005...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Place Promised in Our Early Days
    The Place Promised in Our Early Days
    is a 90-minute Japanese anime film created and directed by Makoto Shinkai, following his previous work Voices of a Distant Star. As in the previous film, the soundtrack was composed by Tenmon...

    , 雲のむこう、約束の場所 (Kumo no Mukō, Yakusoku no Basho) ( )
  • Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker
    Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker
    Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker, originally released in Japan as , is the sixth film associated with the Pokémon animated series, and is the first one featuring the characters from Advanced Generation. It was accompanied by the short Gotta Dance. It was released in theaters in Japan on July 19, 2003...

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  • Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
    Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
    Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys, originally released in Japan as is the seventh film in the Pokémon series, complementing the seventh season . It is the second film released under Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation in Japan. The original Japanese version was released in theaters on July 17, 2004...

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  • Channel Chasers
    Channel Chasers
    Channel Chasers is the second television film of the animated series The Fairly OddParents. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on July 23, 2004. The film centers on the series' main character 10-year-old Timmy Turner with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda who grant his wishes....

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated film based on the popular Nickelodeon television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The film stars the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Doug Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Tambor, and...

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  • Teacher's Pet
    Teacher's Pet (film)
    Teacher's Pet is a 2004 animated musical film based on the television series of the same name; the film ends the central storyline of the series. The film was produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released to movie theaters in the United States in 2004...

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  • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
    Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
    Springtime with Roo is a direct-to-video animated film, featuring characters from Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh franchise.-Plot:An adaptation of the Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol. An overexcited Roo, along with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore, pay Rabbit a visit to celebrate Easter...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)

2005
2005 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

  • Kim Possible: So the Drama
    Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
    Kim Possible Movie: So The Drama is the second feature-length animated movie of the Kim Possible series. This film includes a mix of traditional animation and computer-generated imagery....

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Kronk's New Groove
    Kronk's New Groove
    Kronk's New Groove is a 2005 direct-to-video animated film released by The Walt Disney Company on December 13, 2005. The film is the sequel to the 2000 animated film The Emperor's New Groove, and features reprises of the roles of David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton and Wendie...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
    The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
    The Legend of Frosty the Snowman is a 2004 animated film produced by Classic Media . This movie has also been bundled with the original 1969 Rankin/Bass special and the CBS sequel. The special airs annually on Cartoon Network in the US...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
    Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
    Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites is the soundtrack to Disney's 2005, home entertainment sequel film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. The song "He Mele No Lilo" had been included in the first film, Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on August 30, 2005.-Track...

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  • Mulan II
    Mulan II
    Mulan II is a 2004 American direct-to-video Disney animated feature directed by Darrell Rooney and Lynne Southerl and is a sequel to the 1998 animated film Mulan. The entire cast from the first film returned, except for Eddie Murphy , Miriam Margolyes , Chris Sanders and Matthew Wilder...

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  • School's Out! The Musical
    School's Out! The Musical
    School's Out! The Musical is a musical television special, based on Nickelodeon's animated television series The Fairly OddParents, created by Butch Hartman. The plot involves Timmy Turner becoming president of "KidWorld" and The Pixies trying to take over the world using the...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
    Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
    Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, originally released in Japan as , is an anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama as the eighth film in the Pokémon franchise. It was released in theaters in Japan on July 16, 2005, followed by the Japanese DVD release on December 22, 2005...

    , ミュウと波導の勇者 ルカリオ, Myuu to Hadō no Yūsha Rukario ( )
  • Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie is a 2005 Winnie-the-Pooh film, released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film runs at 68 mins., This was the shortest feature-length Pooh film to be released in theaters until The 2011 Film at 63 mins.- Plot :...

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  • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie is a Winnie the Pooh movie which was released direct to video as the sequel to Pooh's Heffalump Movie. It features the segment, Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh....

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  • The Proud Family Movie
    The Proud Family Movie
    The Proud Family Movie is a Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on August 19, 2005. It also marked the end of The Proud Family animated Disney series.-Plot:...

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  • Tarzan II
    Tarzan II
    Tarzan II is a 2005 direct-to-video midquel to the 1999 Walt Disney Feature Animation film Tarzan. It was released on June 14, 2005....

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Batman vs Dracula: The Animated Movie ( ) (Direct-to-Video)

2006
2006 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

  • Bambi II
    Bambi II
    Bambi II is a 2006 Disney animated feature directed by Brian Pimental that initially premiered in theaters in Argentina on January 26, 2006, before being released as a direct-to-video title in the United States on February 7, 2006...

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  • Brother Bear 2
    Brother Bear 2
    The soundtrack to Brother Bear 2 was released August 15, 2006. It is available only on digital outlets such as iTunes and walmart.com. It includes the following tracks:#Dave Metzger - Opening: Brother Bear 2 – 0:34...

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  • The Fox and the Hound 2
    The Fox and the Hound 2
    The Fox and the Hound 2 Soundtrack Album is the album containing songs from Reba McEntire, who was the voice of Dixie in the film, as well as other well-known artists such as Trisha Yearwood, Chip Davis and Little Big Town. Composer Joel McNeely has a few score tracks on the album: "Depressed...

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  • Leroy & Stitch
    Leroy & Stitch
    Leroy & Stitch is an animated TV film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off film of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well...

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  • Paprika, パプリカ (Papurika) ( )
  • Fairy Idol
    Fairy Idol
    Fairy Idol is a Fairly OddParents movie, which premiered on May 19, 2006. The title and plot parody the television show American Idol. Before the premier of the show, an online poll at Nick.com went live to see which character was set to win the contest. At the end of the run, Cosmo was the winner...

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  • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, ポケモンレンジャーと蒼海の王子 マナフィ, Pokémon Renjā to Umi no Ōji: Manafi ( )
  • Re-Animated
    Re-Animated
    Out of Jimmy's Head: Re-Animated is a live-action/animated television film that aired on Cartoon Network on December 8, 2006, the first original live action/animated production produced by the network.Re-Animated was released on DVD September 11, 2007...

    ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • A Scanner Darkly
    A Scanner Darkly (film)
    A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug...

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  • Tales from Earthsea
    Tales from Earthsea (film)
    is a 2006 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Gorō Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.The film is based on a combination of plots and characters from the first four books of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore and Tehanu. The...

    , ゲド戦 (Gedo Senki) ( )

2007
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

  • 5 Centimeters Per Second, 秒速5センチメートル (Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru) ( )
  • Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
    Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
    Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure is the first Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy television movie, the second one being Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen. It was also released on DVD. It premiered on March 30, 2007, even though it premiered in the UK first on February 14, 2007.-Plot:Grim...

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  • Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
    Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
    Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is the second direct-to-video sequel to the 1950 Walt Disney Pictures animated classic Cinderella. Canonically it is a continuation of the original Cinderella, rather than Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, though due to its unusual chronological sequencing it...

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  • Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
    Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
    Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams is a 2007 direct-to-video animated feature produced by DisneyToon Studios. It is the first film in a planned new Disney Princess Enchanted Tales series of direct-to-video films, each featuring new stories about the Disney Princesses...

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  • Naruto: Shippūden the Movie
    Naruto: Shippuden the Movie
    , is a 2007 film directed by Hajime Kamegaki and written by Junki Takegami. It is the fourth movie in the Naruto movie series. It was released on DVD in Japan on April 23, 2008 and on DVD in the US on November 10, 2009. It was announced that the US DVD could be pre-ordered along with the limited...

    , 劇場版 NARUTO -ナルト- 疾風伝 ( )
  • Nocturna
    Nocturna (film)
    Nocturna is a 2007 Spanish-French animated fantasy film directed by Adrià García and Víctor Maldonado. The film was produced by Filmax Animation.-Plot:...

     
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  • Persepolis
    Persepolis (film)
    Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...

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  • The Simpsons Movie
    The Simpsons Movie
    The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons. The film was directed by David Silverman, and stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Tress...

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2008
2008 in film
This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

  • Batman: Gotham Knight
    Batman: Gotham Knight
    is a 2008 direct-to-DVD animated superhero anthology film of six animated short films set in-between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It depicts Batman battling against the mob of Gotham City, as well as other villains...

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  • Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name
    Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name
    is the third animated film adaptation of the anime and manga series Bleach. Directed by Noriyuki Abe, the film was released December 13, 2008. The film's theme music was "Koyoi, Tsuki wa Miezu Tomo", performed by Porno Graffiti and its screenplay was written by Natsuko Takahashi, who is a...

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  • Dayo
    Dayo
    Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia is the Philippines’ first all-digital full-length animated feature film by Cutting Edge Productions, advertised as "tradigital", a mix of traditional animation with 3D animation. It reinvents ghastly images of Philippine mythical creatures into heartwarming characters...

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  • Dashavatar ( )
  • Dead Space: Downfall
    Dead Space: Downfall
    Dead Space: Downfall is an animated film, a prequel to the game Dead Space and takes place during the events of Dead Space: Extraction, while the Necromorphs invade the USG Ishimura after it receives the Red Marker...

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  • Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear ( )
  • Dora Saves the Snow Princess
    Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Snow Princess
    Dora Saves the Snow Princess is a direct-to-video release based on the popular children's series, "Dora The Explorer". It was released September 30, 2008 on DVD. The film is about La Princesa Sabrina, who is locked in a tower by a mean witch, and Dora and Boots, who must save the Snow Forest which...

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  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend ( )
  • Fedot the Hunter
    The Tale of Fedot the Strelets
    The Tale of Fedot the Strelets is a play poem by Russian writer and actor Leonid Filatov, written in 1985 and first published in Yunost in 1987. With a storyline based on Russian folk tales, 'Fedot' is a social and political satire on contemporary realities of life in Russia...

    , Про Федота-стрельца, удалого молодца (Pro Fedota-streltsa, udalogo molodtsa) (( )
  • Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Kenshiro, (Shin Kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken - Kenshirô den) ( )
  • Futurama: Bender's Game
    Futurama: Bender's Game
    Futurama: Bender's Game is the third of the four direct-to-DVD Futurama films that make up the show's fifth season. It was released on November 4, 2008 on DVD and Blu-ray....

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
    Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
    Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs is an animated science-fiction comedy film, the second of the four Futurama straight-to-DVD films. The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2008, followed by a UK release on June 30, 2008 and an Australian release on August 6, 2008....

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Fairly OddBaby
    Fairly OddBaby
    Fairly OddBaby is a 2008 television film and season premiere of The Fairly OddParents’ sixth season, which first aired on February 18, 2008. The episode was the first to air after a one-year hiatus...

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  • Genius Party Beyond ( )
  • Ghatothkach ( )
  • Idiots and Angels ( )
  • Immigrants
    Immigrants (2008 film)
    Immigrants, also known as L.A. Dolce Vita or Immigrants: L.A. Dolce Vita is a Hungarian-American animated film directed by Gábor Csupó. The Hungarian release date was October 30, 2008...

    aka. L.A. Dolce Vita, Immigrants - Jóska menni Amerika ( / )
  • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
    The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
    The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning is a 2008 Disney animated feature film, and the direct-to-video prequel to the 1989 film The Little Mermaid...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
    Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
    , initially titled in English as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. It is Miyazaki's eighth film for Ghibli, and his tenth overall...

    , 崖の上のポニョ (Gake no ue no Ponyo) ( )
  • Sing to the Dawn, 曦望 ( )
  • Turok: Son of Stone ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Urduja
    Urduja (film)
    Urduja is a 2008 animated film adaptation of the legend of the warrior princess Urduja of Pangasinan. It is the first of two locally produced animated films set for release in 2008. The other, Dayo, is set for a December 2008 release, in time for the Metro Manila Film Festival...

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  • Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! Happy Birthday in the Land of Sweets
    Yes! PreCure 5
    is the fourth and fifth Pretty Cure anime series by Toei Animation, comprising the original series and its sequel, , or simply GoGo! . The 5 in the title refers to the fact that this Pretty Cure team has five members...

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2009
2009 in film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...

  • Afro Samurai: Resurrection ( / ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Alice's Birthday
    Alice's Birthday
    Alice's Birthday , is a 2009 Russian animated feature film directed by Sergey Seryogin and produced by Master-film studio. The animated film is based on a story by Kir Bulychyov about Alisa Seleznyova, a young girl living in the second half of the 21st century...

    , День рождения Алисы (Den rozhdeniya Alisy) ( )
  • Case Closed: The Raven Chaser
    Case Closed: The Raven Chaser
    Case Closed: The Raven Chaser, known as , is the 13th movie installment of the manga and anime series Detective Conan. The movie was released in Japan on April 18, 2009. This movie earned 3.5 billion yen in the domestic Japanese box office, making it the highest-grossing movie in the Detective...

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  • Doraemon: The New Record of Nobita: Spaceblazer ( )
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication
    Eden of the East
    is a Japanese anime television series, which premiered on Fuji TV's noitaminA timeslot on April 9, 2009. Created, directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama, it features character designs by Chika Umino and animation production by Production I.G...

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  • Eden of the East - The King of Eden ( )
  • Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows ( )
  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance ( )
  • First Squad
    First Squad
    First Squad is a joint animation project of Japan's Studio 4°C and Russian authors with Molot Entertainment. It won the Kommersant newspaper's prize.-Plot:Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front...

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  • Wishology ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Fresh Pretty Cure! The Kingdom of Toys has Lots of Secrets!?
    Fresh Pretty Cure!
    is a Japanese anime series and the sixth Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation and Satelight, the series premiered on February 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010 on TV Asahi, replacing Yes! PreCure 5 Go Go! on its time slot...

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  • Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
    Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
    Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is the last of a series of four straight-to-DVD Futurama movies. The movie was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Peter Avanzino. Guest stars include Phil Hendrie, Penn Jillette , Snoop Dogg and Seth...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Green Lantern: First Flight
    Green Lantern: First Flight
    # "Main Title" # "The Ring Chooses Hal" # "Hal Meets / The Flight of The Lanterns" # "Labella's Club" # "Going After Cuch" # "The Way I Heard It" # "Bugs in the Baggage" # "Teleport Pursuit"...

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  • The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
    The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
    The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is a 2009 animated comedy exploitation film that also combines elements of horror and thriller films. It is based upon the comic book series created by Rob Zombie that follows the character of El Superbeasto and his sidekick sister, Suzi-X, voiced by Sheri...

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  • Hulk Vs
    Hulk Vs
    Hulk Vs is a 2009 direct-to-video animated film from Marvel Animation and Lionsgate, featuring the Incredible Hulk in two short film battles, one against Wolverine, the other against Thor. Both short films have been rated PG-13 by the MPAA. The animation was by Madhouse, and Kaare Andrews provided...

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  • Lauras Stern und der geheimnisvolle Drache Nian ( )
  • Lascars (film)
    Lascars (film)
    Lascars is a 2009 French animated film with voice stars Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger. The film is a feature film adaptation of the French TV series Les Lascars. The film, which had a budget of €10 million, was co-produced by Canal Plus and France 2 and distributed by Bac Films...

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  • Macross Frontier The Movie: The False Songstress ( )
  • Mai Mai Miracle
    Mai Mai Miracle
    is a Japanese animated film based on Nobuko Takagi's novelization of her autobiography, Maimai Shinko. It was produced by the animation studio Madhouse, distributed by Shochiku, and directed by Sunao Katabuchi....

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  • McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten
    McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten
    McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten is a 2009 animated Hong Kong film directed by Brian Tse. Telling the story of the fictional piglet McDull entering a kung fu academy, the film is the fourth in the line of film starring McDull.- Plot :...

    麥兜响 ( )
  • Naruto Shippūden 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire ( )
  • One Piece Film: Strong World
    One Piece Film: Strong World
    or simply is a 2009 Japanese animated film directed by Munehisa Sakai. It is the tenth feature film based on the shonen manga series One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. The film stars the regular television cast of Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata, Ikue Otani,...

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  • Pretty Cure All Stars DX: Everyone's Friends - the Collection of Miracles!
    Fresh Pretty Cure!
    is a Japanese anime series and the sixth Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation and Satelight, the series premiered on February 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010 on TV Asahi, replacing Yes! PreCure 5 Go Go! on its time slot...

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  • Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
    Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
    also known as , is a 2009 Japanese animated mystery film directed by Masakazu Hashimoto. The film is a continuation of the Professor Layton series...

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  • Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life ( )/ ( )
  • The Princess and the Frog ( )
  • Princess Lillifee, Prinzessin Lillifee ( )
  • Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
    Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
    Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword is the thirteenth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It, along with The Goblin King, was produced and completed in 2008, but Goblin King was released first for the Halloween season. It was released on...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Secret of Kells aka. Brendan and the Secret of Kells ( / / )
  • Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection ( )
  • Summer Wars
    Summer Wars
    is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animated by Madhouse and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Ayumu Saitō...

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  • Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
    Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
    # "Markets Crash"# "Main Titles"# "Freeway Chase"# "Admit Something"# "Meteor"# "Metallo"# "High Voltage"# "Framed"# "Luthor talks to Power Girl"# "S.T.A.R...

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  • Technotise Edit & I ( )
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann Chapter, 劇場版 天元突破グレンラガン [螺巌篇】 (Gekijōban Tengen Toppa Guren Ragan [Ragan Hen]) ( )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
    The Velveteen Rabbit
    The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real is a children's novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner. The book was first published in 1922 and has been republished...

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  • Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman (film)
    Wonder Woman is a 2009 direct-to-video animated film focusing on the superheroine Wonder Woman. The plot of the film is loosely based on George Pérez' reboot of the character, specifically the "Gods and Mortals" arc that started the character's second volume in 1987. It is the fourth in the line of...

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  • The World Reflected in the Eyes of a Girl Looking Up at the Heavens ( )

2010
2010 in film
The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...

  • Batman: Under the Red Hood
    Batman: Under the Red Hood
    # "A Death in the Family" # "Main Titles" # "Mob Boss Meeting" # "Amazo" # "Batwing" # "Batmobile to Arkham" # "Interrogation" # "Rooftop Chase" # "Flashback" # "Black Mask Strikes Back"...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Bleach: The Hell Verse
    Bleach: The Hell Verse
    is the fourth animated film adaptation of the anime and manga series Bleach. Directed by Noriyuki Abe. The film's theme song is "Save The One, Save The All", performed by T.M.Revolution and its screenplay was written by Natsuko Takahashi and Ookubo Masahiro, with Tite Kubo, author of the manga,...

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  • Book Girl
    Book Girl (film)
    is a Japanese anime film directed by Shunsuke Tada and produced by Production I.G as a commemoration of Enterbrain's ten year anniversary. The film is based on the light novel series Book Girl written by Mizuki Nomura, with illustrations by Miho Takeoka...

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  • The Borrower Arrietty
    The Borrower Arrietty
    The Secret World of Arrietty, known in Japan as and in the UK as Arrietty, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film based on Mary Norton's juvenile fantasy novel The Borrowers...

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  • Case Closed: The Lost Ship in the Sky
    Case Closed: The Lost Ship in the Sky
    is the 14th film installment of the manga and anime series Detective Conan. The film was released on April 17, 2010 in Japan. This film is confirmed to have Phantom Thief Kid involved in it after his last appearance in The Private Eyes' Requiem. This film earned 3.1 billion yen in the domestic...

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  • Chico and Rita
    Chico and Rita
    Chico and Rita is an animated feature-length film directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. The story of Chico and Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s.-Synopsis:...

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  • Colorful
    Colorful (film)
    is a 2010 Japanese animated feature film directed by Keiichi Hara. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Eto Mori, produced by Sunrise and animated by the animation studio Ascension.-Plot:...

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  • Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride
    Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride
    is a 2010 Japanese anime film....

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  • Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
    Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
    Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is a direct to DVD animated film released on February 9, 2010. The film is a spin-off from Electronic Arts' Dante's Inferno video game.-Plot:...

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  • The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya ( )
  • Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King
    Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King
    , also known as Doraemon the Legend 2010, is a 2010 Japanese film that was released on March 6, 2010. This movie is part of the celebration for the franchise's 40th anniversary and the 30th anniversary since the first Doraemon movie...

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  • The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
    The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
    The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! is an animated direct-to-DVD American comedy film written and produced by original writers and executive producers Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein and directed by Greg Franklin...

    ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • The Dreams of Jinsha ( )
  • Eden of the East - Paradise Lost
    Eden of the East
    is a Japanese anime television series, which premiered on Fuji TV's noitaminA timeslot on April 9, 2009. Created, directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama, it features character designs by Chika Umino and animation production by Production I.G...

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  • Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works ( )
  • Halo Legends
    Halo Legends
    Halo Legends is a collection of seven short anime films set in the Halo science-fiction universe. Financed by Halo franchise overseer 343 Industries, the stories were created by six Japanese production houses: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation...

    ( / ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • HeartCatch PreCure! the Movie: Fashion Show in the Flower Capital... Really?!
    HeartCatch PreCure!
    , also called HeartCatch Pretty Cure! is a Japanese anime series and the seventh Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation, the series premiered on February 7, 2010 on TV Asahi, following Fresh Pretty Cure!, and ended on January 30, 2011, where it was followed by Suite...

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  • Hutch the Honeybee
    Hutch the Honeybee
    is a remake of the 1970s show The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee it was released on31 July 2010. Hutch debuted at No.6 at the Japanese Box Office.-Cast:*Ayaka Saitō*Ayaka Wilson*Naoki Tanaka*Jun Komori*Eiji Bandō*Kōichi Tsutaya*Yui Aragaki...

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  • The Illusionist ( /)
  • Inazuma Eleven: Saikyō Gundan Ōgre Shūrai
    Inazuma Eleven (manga)
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tenya Yabuno. It is based on the Level-5 video game series of the same title. The manga has been published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic since the June 2008 issue...

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  • Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
    Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
    Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is a 2010 original direct-to-video animated film released on February 23, 2010. It is based on the abandoned direct-to-video feature, Justice League: Worlds Collide, which was intended as a bridge between the then-concluding Justice League animated television...

    ( ) (Direct-to—Video)
  • King of Thorn ( )
  • Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st ( )
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer
    Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer
    is an animated film set two years after the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, as the film sees Celestial Being against a group of hostile aliens known as ELS. It is the first Gundam series to have included aliens in any of its franchises...

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  • My Dog Tulip
    My Dog Tulip
    My Dog Tulip is an American independent animated feature film based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by J. R. Ackerley, BBC editor, novelist and memoirist. The film tells the story of Ackerley's fifteen-year relationship with his German Shepherd Queenie, who had had been renamed Tulip for the...

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  • Naruto Shippuden 4: The Lost Tower
    Naruto Shippuden 4: The Lost Tower
    is the seventh overall Naruto film and the fourth Naruto Shippūden film. It was released on July 31, 2010, with advance ticket sale events scheduled for April 17 and June 19. the DVD version of the movie was released on April 27th 2011. Along with film a comical short feature named will be shown...

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  • Phantom Ruler: Zoroark
    Phantom Ruler: Zoroark
    Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, originally released in Japan as , is a Pokémon anime film, the thirteenth in the meta series franchise history and the fourth in the Diamond & Pearl series arc. It was released in Japan on July 10, 2010...

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  • Planet Hulk
    Planet Hulk (film)
    Planet Hulk is a 2010 direct-to-video animated film created by Marvel Animation and released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. It is based on the "Planet Hulk" storyline by Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan.-Plot:...

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  • Pretty Cure All Stars DX2: Light of Hope - Protect the Rainbow Jewel! ( )
  • Redline
    Redline (2010 film)
    is a 2009 science fiction auto racing anime film produced by Madhouse and released in Japan on October 9, 2010. The directorial debut feature of Takeshi Koike, it features the voices of Takuya Kimura, Yū Aoi and Tadanobu Asano, and an original story by Katsuhito Ishii, who also co-writes and sound...

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  • Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
    Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
    Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo is the fourteenth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was produced in 2009 by Warner Bros. Animation and it was released on February 16, 2010. It made its television debut on July 10, 2010 on Cartoon...

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  • Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
    Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
    Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is a 2010 direct-to-video animated film based on the Superman/Batman comic storyline "The Supergirl from Krypton" and is a sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. The art style is partly based on that of Michael Turner, who penciled the Superman/Batman comic book arc...

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  • Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
    Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
    Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes is a 2010 animated direct-to-video film starring Tom and Jerry produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the first Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film to be produced without any of its original creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera...

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  • Welcome to the Space Show
    Welcome to the Space Show
    is a 2010 anime science fiction film.-Plot:Welcome to the Space Show, whose story "surpasses Star Wars in its scale" according to its producers, tells of the four adventures of five schoolmates and an alien dog in space during summer vacation....

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  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Movie: Super Fusion! Bonds that Transcend Time ( )

2011
2011 in film
The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :...

  • All-Star Superman
    All-Star Superman (film)
    All-Star Superman is a direct-to-video animated film based on the acclaimed comic book series All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. The film is the tenth in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line released by Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Animation and the first in the...

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  • Broken Blade 5: Death's Horizon
    Broken Blade
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yunosuke Yoshinaga. Flex Comix published the first tankōbon volume of the manga on April 10, 2007. The manga was previously licensed in North America by CMX, where three volumes were released before CMX shut down. The manga is licensed in Taiwan...

    死線ノ涯 [しせんのはて ( )
  • Broken Blade 6: Bastion's of Sorrow
    Broken Blade
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yunosuke Yoshinaga. Flex Comix published the first tankōbon volume of the manga on April 10, 2007. The manga was previously licensed in North America by CMX, where three volumes were released before CMX shut down. The manga is licensed in Taiwan...

    慟哭ノ砦 [どうこくのとりで ( )
  • Case Closed: Quarter of Silence
    Case Closed: Quarter of Silence
    is the 15th film installment of the manga and anime series Detective Conan. The film was released on April 16, 2011. This film celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the anime...

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  • Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below
    Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below
    is a Japanese anime film created and directed by Makoto Shinkai, following his previous work 5 Centimeters per Second. This film is planned to be his longest animation film to date and is described as a "lively" animated film with adventure, action, and romance centered on a cheerful and spirited...

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  • Dead Space: Aftermath
    Dead Space: Aftermath
    Dead Space: Aftermath is an animated film that bridges the storyline between Dead Space and Dead Space 2.-Plot:When contact with the USG Ishimura and the Aegis VII colony is lost, the Concordance Extraction Corporation sends the ship USG O'Bannon to investigate...

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  • Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: ~Angel Wings~
    Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: ~Angel Wings~
    is an anime film based on the Doraemon franchise that was released in Japan on March 5, 2011 in both IMAX 3D and conventional 2D formats. It is the remake of the Doraemon 1986 movie, Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops...

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  • Marx Reloaded
    Marx Reloaded
    Marx Reloaded is a 2011 German documentary film written and directed by the British writer and theorist Jason Barker. Featuring interviews with several well-known philosophers, the film aims to examine the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the global economic and financial crisis of...

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  • Pretty Cure All Stars DX3: Deliver the Future! The Rainbow~Colored Flower That Connects the World! ( )
  • Heaven's Lost Property the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork
    Heaven's Lost Property the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork
    is a 2011 Japanese anime fantasy film based on the manga and anime series Sora no Otoshimono by Suu Minazuki. It was released on June 25, 2011 in Japan under the directorship of Hisashi Saitō. The film will cover the Hiyori Arc...

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  • Winnie the Pooh ( / )
  • Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension ( ) (Made-for-TV)
  • Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings ( )

Upcoming

If only a projected release year is known them film is considered pending, to be listed under a year the film must an official date regarding at least the quarter it will be released in.

2011
2011 in film
The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :...

  • Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos
    Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos
    is a 2011 anime film based on the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise. The film was first announced after the airing of the final episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood...

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  • Gatchaman ( )
  • Kokurikozaka kara
    Kokurikozaka kara
    is a Japanese manga series by Tetsurō Sayama and Chizuru Takahashi which was serialized by Kodansha from January to August 1980 in the shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi...

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  • K-On! ( )
  • To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku
    To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku
    is a 2011 Japanese anime film , and it is based on the fantasy light novels of the same name by Koroku Inumura. It will be released in Japanese cinemas on 1 October 2011....

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  • Thor: Tales of Asgard ( ) (Direct-to-Video)
  • Victini and the Black Hero ( )

Unknown/Pending

  • The Dream Machine
    The Dream Machine (film)
    is an upcoming anime film by Satoshi Kon. When released, it will be the director's fifth and final feature film. After Kon's death on August 24, 2010, production has continued and is still underway at Madhouse, where the team uses Satoshi Kon's directorial tapes and notes to guide them to...

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  • Evangelion: 3.0
    Rebuild of Evangelion
    Rebuild of Evangelion, known in Japan as , is a Japanese animated film series and a remake of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series. It is being produced by Studio Khara and KlockWorx in partnership with Gainax...

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  • Evangelion: Final
    Rebuild of Evangelion
    Rebuild of Evangelion, known in Japan as , is a Japanese animated film series and a remake of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series. It is being produced by Studio Khara and KlockWorx in partnership with Gainax...

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  • Hotarubi no Mori e
    Hotarubi no Mori e
    is a manga by Yuki Midorikawa. It was adapted into an anime film in 2011....

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  • Last Days of Coney Island
    Last Days of Coney Island
    Last Days of Coney Island is an unfinished project written, produced, directed and animated by filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, about a NYPD detective, the prostitute he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City's run-down amusement...

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  • Lava Kusa – The Warrior Twins
    Lava Kusa – The Warrior Twins
    Lava Kusa: The Warrior Twins is a 2010 animation film written and directed by Dhavala Satyam as a joint venture of Kanipakam Creations with RVML Animation.-Plot:...

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  • Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie ( )
  • Samurai Jack ( )
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2 ( )
  • Phineas and Ferb ( )
  • The Danny Phantom Movie ( )
  • The Fairly OddParents ( )

See also

  • Adult animation
    Adult animation
    Adult animation is a term used to describe animation that is targeted at adults. Animated films and television shows may be considered adult for a number of reasons. Some productions are noted for experimental storytelling and animation techniques, or sophisticated storytelling...

  • Animated television series
  • History of animation
    History of animation
    Animation is a graphic representation of drawings to show movement within those drawings. A series of drawings are linked together and usually photographed by a camera, or scanned into, or generated by a computer...


List of films featuring puppetry.

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