8.0

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

1964, USA

• Actors: Burl Ives, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Larry D. Mann, Stan Francis, Paul Kligman, Janet Orenstein, Alfie Scopp, Carl Banas, Corinne Conley, Peg Dixon
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
• Director(s): Kizo Nagashima
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...

  8.0

A Garfield Christmas Special

1987, USA

• Actors: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, Pat Carroll, Pat Harrington Jr., David L. Lander, Julie Payne
• Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical
• Director(s): Phil Roman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Garfield, Jon and Odie go to Jon's grandmother's house for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma.

  7.9

Shrek

2001, USA

• Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel, Peter Dennis, Clive Pearse, Jim Cummings, Bobby Block, Chris Miller, Cody Cameron, Kathleen Freeman, Michael Galasso, Christopher Knights, Simon J. Smith, Conrad Vernon, Jacquie Barnbrook, Guillaume Aretos, John Bisom, Matthew Gonder, Calvin Remsberg, Jean-Paul Vignon, Val Bettin, Andrew Adamson, Charles Dennis, Elisa Gabrielli
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Andrew Adamson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a green ogre called Shrek discovers his swamp has been 'swamped' with all sorts of fairytale creatures by the scheming Lord Farquaad, Shrek sets out, with a very loud donkey by his side, to 'persuade' Farquaad to give his swamp back. Instead, a deal is made. Farquaad, who wants to become the King, sends Shrek to rescue Princess Fiona, who is waiting for her one true love. But once they head back with Fiona, it starts to become apparent that not only does Shrek like Fiona, but Fiona is keeping something secret.

  7.9

Aladdin

1991, USA

• Actors: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried, Douglas Seale, Charles Adler, Jack Angel, Corey Burton, Philip L. Clarke, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Darling, Debi Derryberry, Bruce Gooch, Jerry Houser, Vera Lockwood, Sherry Lynn, Mickie McGowan, Patrick Pinney, Phil Proctor, Brad Kane, Lea Salonga, Bruce Adler
• Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Ron Clements
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu. When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar's plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a "diamond in the rough" can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin might fight that description, but that's not enough to marry the princess, who must (by law) marry a prince.

  7.9

The Iron Giant

1999, USA

• Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, Christopher McDonald, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Kay Bergman, Ollie Johnston, Jack Angel, Michael Bird, Devon Cole Borisoff, Rodger Bumpass, Robert Clotworthy, Jennifer Darling, Zack Eginton, Paul Eiding, Bill Farmer, Charles Howerton, Sherry Lynn, Mickie McGowan, Ryan O'Donohue, Phil Proctor, Patti Tippo, Brian Tochi, Bob Bergen, Frank Thomas
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Brad Bird
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the story a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.

  7.9

Akira

1987, Japan

• Actors: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ôkura, Tarô Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka, Masayuki Katô, Yôsuke Akimoto, Masato Hirano, Yukimasa Kishino, Kazuhiro Kamifuji, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Fukue Itô, Issei Futamata, Kôzô Shioya, Michitaka Kobayashi, Hideyuki Umezu, Satoru Inagaki, Kayoko Fujii, Masami Toyoshima, Yuka Ôno, Tarô Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki, Bob Bergen
• Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Katsuhiro Ôtomo
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.

  7.9

Jûbê ninpûchô

1993, Japan

• Actors: Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Daisuke Gôri, Toshihiko Seki, Shûichirô Moriyama, Richard Barnes, Sonny Byrkett, Richard Cansino, Dean Elliott, Richard Epcar, Michael Forest, Dougary Grant, Bradley Lavelle, Wendee Lee, Edward Mannix, Joan-Carol O'Connell, Maureen O'Connell, Andrew Philpot, Anthony Rocissano, Joe Romersa, Doug Stone, Jimmy Theodore, Kirk Thornton
• Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
• Director(s): Yoshiaki Kawajiri
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

A Journeyman ninja by name of Jubei stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a beautiful ninja girl.

  7.9

Toki o kakeru shôjo

2006, Japan

• Actors: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sachie Hara, Yuki Sekido, Midori Ando, Shannon Chan-Kent, Andrew Francis, Takayuki Handa, Saffron Henderson, Maryke Hendrikse, Emily Hirst, David Hurwitz, Utawaka Katsura, Kristie Marsden, Yôji Matsuda, Sonoka Matsuoka, Tadashi Nakamura, Kyle Rideout, Fumihiko Tachiki, Natalie Walters, Keiko Yamamoto, Shiori Yokohari, Alex Zahara
• Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Mamoru Hosoda
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

A teenage girl finds that she has the ability to leap through time. With her newfound power, she tries to use it to her advantage, but soon finds that tampering with time can lead to some rather discomforting results.

  7.9

Macskafogó

1986, Hungary, Canada, West Germany

• Actors: Miklós Benedek, Gyula Bodrogi, Ilona Béres, Péter Haumann, András Kern, Ferenc Kállai, János Körmendi, István Mikó, Károly Mécs, Vera Pap, Zsuzsa Pálos, László Sinkó, Gyula Szombathy, Maria Bircher, Dean Hagopian, A.J. Henderson, Pierre Lenoir, Carla Napier, Rob Roy, Michael Rudder, Vlasta Vrana, Zoltán Bezerédy, Gyula Buss, Szilvia Dallos, Antal Farkas, Margit Földessy, János Gálvölgyi, Zoltán Gera, János Horkay, Gyula Horváth
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
• Director(s): Béla Ternovszky
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the year 80 AMM (After Mickey Mouse) on planet X the crime-syndicated Cats try to erase the Mouse-population once and for all. A scientist of the mice, prof. Fushimishi seems to have found the weapon against the threat - so Intermouse calls it's best, but now retired agent - Nick Grabowsky - to get the plans. As a distraction for the Cats, they also send a second agent - Seargent Lazy Dick - for the mission.

  7.9

Mind Game

2004, Japan

• Actors: Koji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii, Seiko Takuma, Tomomitsu Yamaguchi, Toshio Sakata, Jôji Shimaki, Rintarou Nishi, Kenichi Chujou
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
• Director(s): Masaaki Yuasa
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place. Nishi (and some friends) attempt to break out of their trap, and discover what it truly means to be alive along the way. This is a mind-bending trip that uses some of the most innovative animation ever created.

  7.9

Prep & Landing

2009, USA

• Actors: Dave Foley, Sarah Chalke, Mason Vale Cotton, David DeLuise, Peter Jacobson, Lino DiSalvo, Derek Richardson, William Morgan Sheppard, Nathan Greno, Hayes MacArthur, Kasha Kropinski, Adam Shapiro, Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers, William J. Caparella, Terri Douglas, Anne Lockhart
• Genre: Animation, Short, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Kevin Deters
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Wayne gets a new rookie partner, Lanny, after his previous partner got the promotion he wanted. Lanny has to remind Wayne of the Spirit of Christmas and the importance of being an elf in Santa's Prep and Landing elite unit.

  7.8

Tangled

2010, USA

• Actors: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett, Paul F. Tompkins, Richard Kiel, Delaney Rose Stein, Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, Tim Mertens, Michel Bell, Bob Bergen, Susanne Blakeslee, June Christopher, Roy Conli, David Cowgill, Terri Douglas, Chad Einbinder, Pat Fraley, Eddie Frierson, Jackie Gonneau, Nicholas Guest, Bridget Hoffman, Daniel Kaz, Anne Lockhart, Mona Marshall, Scott Menville
• Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
• Director(s): Nathan Greno
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life.

  7.8

Coraline

2008, USA

• Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane, Aankha Neal, George Selick, Hannah Kaiser, Harry Selick, Marina Budovsky, Emerson Hatcher, Jerome Ranft, Christopher Murrie, Jeremy Ryder, Carolyn Crawford, Yona Prost
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Henry Selick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.

  7.8

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1937, USA

• Actors: Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan, Adriana Caselotti, Eddie Collins, Pinto Colvig, Marion Darlington, Billy Gilbert, Otis Harlan, Lucille La Verne, James MacDonald, Scotty Mattraw, Moroni Olsen, Purv Pullen, Harry Stockwell
• Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): David Hand
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The first, and by far most memorable full-length animated feature from the Disney Studios, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" may have been superseded technically by many of the films that followed it. But its simple story of a charming little princess saved from the evil deeds of her wicked step-mother, the queen, by a group of seven adorable dwarfs made history when it was first released in December, 1937 and has since become an incomparable screen classic.

  7.8

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005, UK

• Actors: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith, John Thomson, Mark Gatiss, Vincent Ebrahim, Geraldine McEwan, Edward Kelsey, Dicken Ashworth, Robert Horvath, Pete Atkin, Noni Lewis, Ben Whitehead, Christopher Fairbank, James Mather, William Vanderpuye, Nigel Pilkington
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Steve Box
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her ...and our two heroes.

  7.8

Fantasia

1939, USA

• Actors: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Julietta Novis, Corey Burton, Walt Disney, James MacDonald, Paul J. Smith
• Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music
• Director(s): James Algar
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.

  7.8

Gake no ue no Ponyo

2007, Japan

• Actors: Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Jôji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yûki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Akiko Yano, Shinichi Hatori, Tokie Hidari, Eimi Hiraoka, Rumi Hîragi, Tomoko Naraoka, Nozomi Ôhashi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Akihiko Ishizumi, Eiko Kanazawa, Tomie Kataoka, Shiro Saito, Mutsumi Sasaki, Akiko Takeguchi, Yusuke Tezuka, Keiko Tsukamoto, Ikuko Yamamoto, Michiko Yamamoto, Yoshie Yamamoto, Cate Blanchett, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Hayao Miyazaki
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.

  7.8

Batman: Under the Red Hood

2010, USA

• Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, John Di Maggio, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Isaacs, Wade Williams, Carlos Alazraqui, Robert Clotworthy, Gary Cole, Brian George, Kelly Hu, Phil LaMarr, Alexander Martella, Vincent Martella, Jim Piddock, Kevin Michael Richardson, Andrea Romano, Dwight Schultz, Fred Tatasciore, Keri Tombazian, Bruce W. Timm, Michael Villani
• Genre: Action, Animation
• Director(s): Brandon Vietti
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code. Killing is an option. And when the Joker falls in the balance between the two, hard truths are revealed and old wounds are reopened.

  7.8

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

2003, Japan, France

• Actors: Romanthony
• Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Kazuhisa Takenôchi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An unscrupulous music executive and his flunky kidnap an alien, blue-skinned techno band, rob them of their identities, pass them off as human, and foist them on an unsuspecting public on Earth. After their arrival and their impact on the human population, the members of the band try to piece back their identities, escape from the clutches of the evil music executive, and return to their own world.

  7.8

Knick Knack

2003, USA

• Genre: Animation, Short, Family
• Director(s): John Lasseter
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A snowglobe snowman wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a hot party, but the glass dome that surrounds him gets in his way, despite all his efforts.

  7.8

Mickey's Christmas Carol

1983, USA

• Actors: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, Eddie Carroll, Patricia Parris, Dick Billingsley, Clarence Nash, Raúl Aldana
• Genre: Family, Fantasy, Short, Animation
• Director(s): Burny Mattinson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's the same old classic Charles Dickens story with an all star Disney cast. Uncle Scrooge McDuck is appropriately enough Scrooge and is visited by his dead partner and 3 spirits one night to remember the joys of Christmas.

  7.8

"SpongeBob SquarePants" SpongeBob vs. the Big One

2009,

• Actors: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, Dee Bradley Baker, Mark Fite, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bruce Brown, Davy Jones, Johnny Depp, Annette Heick
• Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): C.H. Greenblatt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Spongebob and friends get washed away by a huge wave and find themselves on a island far away. The only way they can come back is to learn how to surf, so they seek out the ultimate surfer: Jack Kahuna Laguna.

  7.7

Pinocchio

1939, USA

• Actors: Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Walter Catlett, Marion Darlington, Frankie Darro, Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Charles Judels, Jack Mercer, Patricia Page, Christian Rub, Evelyn Venable
• Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
• Director(s): Hamilton Luske
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio's "conscience" and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too successful in this endeavor and most of the film is spent with Pinocchio deep in trouble.

  7.7

Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

2005, USA

• Actors: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Lori Alan, Drew Barrymore, Noel Blanc, John G. Brennan, Mike Henry, Gary Janetti, Don LaFontaine, Phil LaMarr, Ron Livingston, Rachael MacFarlane, Kevin Michael Richardson, Kate Rigg, Will Sasso, André Sogliuzzo, Rory Thost, John Viener, Adam West, Wally Wingert, Rene Auberjonois, Ralph Garman, Jennie Garth, Larry Kenney, Lynne Lipton, Jason Priestley, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
• Director(s): Pete Michels
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college.