Highest-Rated Movies about 'Stop Motion'

Gladiator (2000), Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975), Mary and Max (2009), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), My Life as a Zucchini (2016), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Lego Movie (2014), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Stop Motion movies.

#16. The Parent Trap (1961)

Storyline: Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.

Plot Keywords: summer camp, father daughter reunion, mother daughter reunion, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, single father ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#17. Institute Benjamenta (1995)

Storyline: Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: servant, snow, mirror, master servant relationship, mansion, ice, german accent ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#18. Blood Tea and Red String (2006)

Storyline: Stop-motion fairy tale for adults. This dialogue free film tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire. The Mice commission the Oak Dwellers to create a beautiful doll for them. When she is complete, the Creatures fall in love with her and refuse to give her up. Resorting to thievery the Mice abscond with her in the middle of the night. Meet fantastical creatures and view dazzling scenery as the Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak journey through this mystical land to reclaim their love. See the mice descend into debauchery as they become drunk on blood tea! See what happens when the Oak Dwellers eat the yellow fruit!—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: puppet, egg, insect, mask, stop motion animation, f rated, blood ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#19. ParaNorman (2012)

Storyline: In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago. Eventually, Norman decides to cooperate, but things don't go according to plan. Now, a magic storm of the witch threatens Blithe Hollow as the accursed dead rise. Together with unexpected new companions, Norman struggles to save his town, only to discover the horrific truth of the curse. With that insight, Norman must resolve the crisis for good as only he can.

Plot Keywords: gay, zombie, stop motion, horror for children, medium, outcast, ghost ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#20. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)

Storyline: Always outclassed by fierce opponents such as Cutlass Liz, Peg Leg Hastings, and Black Bellamy, the hopeless, Pirate Captain, decides it's high time he won the prestigious 1837 "Pirate of the Year Award". However, this is easier said than done, as the determined captain embarks on a foolhardy quest along with his ragtag crew of misfits which involves Queen Victoria herself, an extremely rare dodo bird, and a brilliant young scientist named Charles Darwin. Will Pirate Captain manage to pull off a surprise victory?

Plot Keywords: based on book, monkey, rum, evil queen, pirate ship, steamship, betrayal ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#22. Screamers (1995)

Storyline: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.

Plot Keywords: stop motion, ruins, android, killer robot, elevator shaft, part stop motion, cult film ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#23. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

Storyline: While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket into Earth orbit to assist the exploration of outer space in Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message on their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites mysteriously fell back to Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens, who ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days in order to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes the last hope of the human race against the hostile aliens.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: female in swimsuit, bare chested male, spaceship, spacesuit, tape recording, time freeze, spaceship crash ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#24. Muppets from Space (1999)

Storyline: After Gonzo receives messages from his breakfast cereal, he determines that he is an alien and tries to contact his alien brethren, but is captured by an overzealous secret government agency determined to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. It's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help reunite him with his long-lost family.

Plot Keywords: brain, brain surgery, outer space, x rayed skeleton, sequel, volkswagen, flying saucer ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#25. Dreamscape (1984)

Storyline: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.

Plot Keywords: pantyhose, shower, lucid dream, dream sequence, train, assassination attempt, murder ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#26. Krampus (2015)

Storyline: When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max (Emjay Anthony) gets disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Meanwhile, this lack of festive spirit unleashes the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers. All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own, laying siege to the fractured family's home and forcing them to fight for one another if they hope to survive.

Plot Keywords: christmas, demon, surprise ending, folklore, mythology, santa claus, german ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#27. The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

Storyline: Six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and Nya are tasked with defending their island home, called Ninjago. By night, they're gifted warriors, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they're ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school.

Plot Keywords: training, superhero, dragon, magic, mask, masked superhero, four word title ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#28. The Sweet Escape (2015)

Storyline: Following the disappearance of his wife, a man finds himself on a dark and twisted trail of discovery through the labyrinthine halls of his apartment building. Led on a wild goose chase by cryptic messages from his mysterious neighbours, he becomes entangled in a hellish nightmare as he unlocks their strange fantasies of sensuality and bloodshed. The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears is a visually dazzling experience from the creators of Amer that takes you on a journey into mystery and blood soaked terror that you will never forget.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: giallo, female nudity, violence, experimental film, male nudity, apartment, blood ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#29. The Giant Behemoth (1959)

Storyline: The dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean disturbs a prehistoric monster than can project electric shocks and radioactive beams. After terrorizing the English coast, it is discovered that if the creature is destroyed with conventional weaponry it would spread a dangerous amount radioactive contamination over the entire country, with this fact preventing the military from attacking the monster as it nears London.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>

Plot Keywords: radiation, stop motion, radioactivity, rampage, u boat, remake, dead fish ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#30. R.I.P.D. (2013)

Storyline: In Boston, the dirty cop Nick hides gold that he has stolen from drug-dealers with his partner Hayes in the backyard of his house. However, on the next morning, Nick tells Hayes that he will deliver the evidence to the police since he loves his wife Julia and he could not face her acting that way. Nick and Hayes are assigned to a raid against a dangerous gang and unexpectedly Hayes kills Nick. Nick is drawn by a tunnel and based on his previous experience in the police department, he is assigned in the afterlife by the Proctor to join the Rest in Peace Department that protects the living world from the undead and work with the old-fashioned agent Roy. Roy and Nick accidentally find that Hayes in plotting a scheme to revert the sense of the tunnel to the afterlife and bring the Apocalypse to Earth.

Plot Keywords: based on comic book, boston massachusetts, detective, buddy comedy, buddy cop, gunslinger, gun fu ...

Movie Details Click Here!