Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), The Jungle Book (1967), From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), The Lion King (1994), Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Ernest & Celestine (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hand-drawn Animation movies.
Storyline: A tiny child and his warrior uncle battle a sorceress who dried up the village well and ate her foes.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, family, fantasy, hero's journey, magic, courage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this classic Walt Disney animation based on Rudyard Kipling's book, Mowgli, an abandoned child raised by wolves, has his peaceful existence threatened by the return of the man-eating tiger Shere Khan (George Sanders). Facing certain death, Mowgli must overcome his reluctance to leave his wolf family and return to the "man village." But he is not alone on his quest: Aided by Bagheera the panther, and later by the carefree bear Balloo (Phil Harris), he braves the jungle's many perils.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, family, musical, disney, classic, jungle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Yokohama teens try to save their school's clubhouse from being demolished.
Plot Keywords: animation, japan, coming of age, romance, 1960s, school, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?
Plot Keywords: animation, disney, musical, classic, adventure, family, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An animated fantasy-adventure. Set one thousand years from now, the Earth is ravaged by pollution and war. In the Valley of the Wind lives Nausicaä, Princess of her people. Their land borders on a toxic jungle, filled with dangerous over-sized insects. Meanwhile, two nearby nations are bitterly engaged in a war and the Valley of the Wind is stuck in the middle.
Plot Keywords: animation, science fiction, adventure, fantasy, environmental, anti-war, post-apocalyptic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rodent supersleuth Basil and his bumbling partner must thwart evil Ratigan's plot to depose the Mouse Queen.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, family, detective, disney, classic, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having lived a life in selfishness, a young prince is cursed by a mysterious enchantress to having the appearance of a monstrous beast. His only hope is to learn to love a young woman and earn her love in return in order to redeem himself. Years later, his chance shows itself when a young maiden named Belle offers to take her ill father's place as his prisoner. With help from the castle's enchanted staff, Belle learns to appreciate her captor and immediately falls in love with him. Back in the village however, an unscrupulous hunter has his own plans for Belle.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, romance, musical, disney, classic, fairy tale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: There is a world where the Bears live above ground in their cities and the rodents live below in their underground ones in mutual fear and hate. However, Celestine, an apprentice mouse dentist, finds at least momentary common cause with Ernest, a poor street Bear musician, that gets them rejected from both their respective worlds. In spite of this misfortune, the exiles find a growing friendship between themselves as their respective talents flower because of it. Despite this, their quietly profound challenge to the founding prejudices of their worlds cannot be ignored as the authorities track them down. When that happens, Ernest and Celestine must stand up for their love in the face of such bigotry and achieve the impossible.
Plot Keywords: animation, family, comedy, adventure, friendship, heartwarming, french ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.—aghaemi
Plot Keywords: animation, historical, war, drama, japan, world war ii, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan's plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo.—Official site
Plot Keywords: animation, drama, biography, historical, war, romance, dream ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Frank and Ollie, the talent behind BAMBI, PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP, THE JUNGLE BOOK, and others, set the standard for such modern-day hits as THE LION KING. It was their creative genius that helped make Disney synonymous with brilliant animation, magnificent music, and emotional storytelling. Take a journey with these extraordinary artists as they share secrets, insights, and the inspiration behind some of the greatest animated movies the world has ever known.—AnonymusB
Plot Keywords: documentary, animation, disney, artists, biography, hand-drawn animation, classic animation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small coastal town, contractor John Marino (Joe Pantoliano) struggles to understand his wife, Mary (Marcia Gay Harden), when she starts behaving strangely. After a doctor's visit, they discover she has schizophrenia. Nothing the doctors do helps, however, so John must live with his wife's incurable mental illness, while also helping their confused child Chris (Devon Gearhart) make sense of it. But as Mary's mental state declines, John finds an unexpected source of comfort in his son.
Plot Keywords: animation, family, drama, emotional, art, mental health, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items that they borrow from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, family, adaptation, children, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from the isle of Iona carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan's determination and artistic vision illuminate the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, medieval, hand-drawn animation, religion, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Abandoned after an accident, baby Mowgli is taken and raised by a family of wolves. As the boy grows older, the wise panther Bagheera realizes he must be returned to his own kind in the nearby man-village. Baloo the bear however thinks differently, taking the young Mowgli under his wing and teaching him that living in the jungle is the best life there is. Bagheera realizes that Mowgli is in danger, particularly from Shere Khan the tiger who hates all people. When Baloo finally comes around, Mowgli runs off into the jungle where he survives a second encounter with Kaa the snake and finally, with Shere Khan. It's the sight of a pretty girl however that gets Mowgli to go to the nearby man-village and stay there.
Plot Keywords: animation, disney, musical, adventure, family, fantasy, classic ...
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