Top 50 Obscure Animated Movies

A sequence of surreal cutout animation imagery, largely without a discernible narrative.

The vengeful son of a murdered feudal lord meets a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime in this unusual animated film where still manga drawings are accompanied with sound.

A dark and grotesque story of a married couple the wife, a mechanical monster made up of iron bits and her henpecked husband.

A father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.

After being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.

Little Dick, the well-endowed dwarf servant of Master Limpcock is being pursued Nymphomania, an ugly witch who must have 69 orgasms to turn herself beautiful again.

Mild-mannered insurance-adjuster Willard teams up with a foul-mouthed fowl who takes him on a surreal quest to become less uptight--and possibly get laid.

The Sultan of Zanzibar has a problem--his harbor is infested with sharks. To solve the problem, he brings in twelve hippos to keep the sharks away, and it works. But once the hippos are no longer needed, they become a nuisance and are massacred by Aban Khan--all but one little hippo named Hugo. What will become of the last of the Zanzibar hippos?

Shame, the ape man of the jungle, sets off to rescue his woman, June, when a gang of giant penises kidnaps her.

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply.

Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

An innocent lamb learns about life and death when he seeks revenge upon the wolf who slaughtered his mother.

A young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.

Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague.

In the year 2000 the dinosaurs return to Earth after 65 million years, now having evolved further into super monsters, to destroy mankind (who had believed that they were long since extinct) and take over the world.

Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.

A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.

Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

A five-year project of hand-painted cut-out animation, this story goes from a paradisaical garden to the interior of the Mosque of St. Sophia, and centers around Sophia, an early Greek and Gnostic embodiment of spiritual wisdom.

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.

While protecting a signatory to a peace treaty between their peoples, a male human and a female demon discover that their mutual attraction may be the key to unifying their worlds.

Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

A colony of cockroaches lives peacefully in a messy bachelor's apartment until his new girlfriend moves in.