Movies like Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
Original name: Psiconautas, los niƱos olvidados
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Birdboy and his animal friends plan their escape from an ecologically devastated island in this surreal, animated fantasy.
Style: suspense, gloomy, disturbing, psychological, captivating, allegory, adult animation, tense, sad, claymation ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, pursuit, stranded, hallucination, escape, death, monster, violence, island, friends, anthropomorphic animal, danger, coming of age, arthouse horror, police officer, cemetery, dinosaur, dragon, demon, crocodile, children, cat, hunting, fishing ...
Time: 2010s

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Most similar movies to Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, adult animation, psychological and disturbing films with plots about murder, death, violence, danger, mature, surrealism and gore mostly in Animation, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Birdboy: The Forgotten Children: The Plague Dogs (1982), Unicorn Wars (2022), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Belladonna of Sadness (1973), Angel's Egg (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: depression, loneliness, violence, insanity, philosophy, infiltration, existentialism, death, end of the world, post apocalypse, angel, high school ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo
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The Plague Dogs (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, ...
Style: adult animation, disturbing, heartbreaking, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dog, laboratory, pets, animal rights, chase, danger, mature, animal testing, escapades, fugitives, furry, welfare ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: england, europe
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Unicorn Wars (2022)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An army of bear cubs train and indoctrinate young recruits for the war against the unicorns, which threatens the safety of the cubs. Brothers Bluet and Tubby, along with a group of inexperienced cadets, are sent on a dangerous mission to save the ...
Style: semi serious, tense, captivating, humorous, adult animation ...
Plot: unicorn, bear, war, battles, blood, forest, violence, flashback, fight, supernatural being, brother brother relationship, mother son relationship ...
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100%
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style: anime, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: world war two, hunger, war, orphan, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, anti war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
Style: anime, psychedelic, hentai, adult animation, experimental ...
Plot: deal with the devil, wedding, surrealism, snake, rape, witch, trippy, female nudity, occult, woman, pagan, women ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: japan, france
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. ...
Style: futuristic, anime, philosophical, cyber, surreal ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, distopia, androids, investigation, robot, hacker, ghost in the shell, technology, computers and web ...
Time: future, 2030s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, hong kong, asia
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Angel's Egg (1985)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Style: anime, gothic, avant garde, dark fantasy, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, egg, girl, little girl, flood, angel, religion, minimal dialogue, moving, bible, steampunk, arthouse horror ...
Place: europe, japan
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80%
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Isle of Dogs (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved ...
Style: crying, adult animation, artsy, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, date night
Plot: dog, politician, robot, rescue, friendship, stop motion, freedom, resistance, island, protest, boy, dog lover ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 2030s, future, 21st century
Place: japan
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The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the middle of October 1998, Enjou Tomoe is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Ryougi Shiki. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days after the incident there are still no broadcasts ...
Style: anime, disturbing, psychotronic, manga, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, psychopath, danger, surrealism, sociopath, teenage boy, murder, flash forward, mature, porn, yin and yang, news report ...
Place: big ben london, london
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Devilman Volume 3: Devilman Apocalyps (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in ...
Style: anime, adult anime
Plot: violent, cannibalism, tragic love, cannibal, demon, devil, fight, guts, death, blood, violence, love ...
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Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style: anime, surreal, futuristic, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, experiment, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, distopia, psychic power, protest, post apocalyptic, military, post thermonuclear war, hallucination, motorcycle ...
Time: future, 2010s, distant future, year 1988, year 2019 ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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The Swallows of Kabul (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
Style: social, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, political ...
Plot: dispute, dog, death, religious conflict, religious differences, life is a bitch, woman, social relations, society, religious persecution, religious hypocrisy, social problems ...
Time: future, year 1998
Place: afghanistan
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Ringing Bell (1978)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Chirin is an innocent though adventurous young lamb whose carefree life on the farm comes to an abrupt end when a wolf murders his mother. Confused and angry, Chirin pursues the wolf into the mountains, seeking revenge. The laws of nature are ...
Style: anime, disturbing, adult animation, 2d animation
Audience: kids
Plot: revenge, coming of age, tragedy, anthropomorphism, death, rabbit, outcast, determination, sheep, dog, wolf, mountain ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Padak is beautiful and cruel, sad and lively. Planned in 2007, this feature-length CG animation film shares the realistic trend of the recent Korean animation, but manages not to lose the delicate sensibility inherent to animation. The world seen by ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, anime, adult animation
Plot: fish, marine life, escape, life, sea, restaurant, escape attempt, running for your life, animal, animal life, struggle for survival, runaway ...
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Alois Nebel (2011)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a disĀ­patcher at the small railway ...
Style: neo noir, adult animation, atmospheric, tense, psychological ...
Plot: surrealism, mysterious character, uncover truth, society, haunted by the past, railroad, murder, train, superhero, revenge, mental disorder, cat ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic, poland, central europe
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Boogie (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on the comic "Boogie, el aceitoso".In a city where crime rules the streets, Boogie shows up. only to make things brutally worse. A hired thug, with a blatant disregard for human life ā€“ especially those that are less fortunate, and ...
Style: adult animation, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: hitman, gangster, rivalry, negotiation, violence, femme fatale, danger, murder, frame up, mature, dark humor, urban ...
Time: 21st century
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The Island of Giant Insects (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After an airplane crash during a school trip, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates were stranded on a seemingly deserted island. Mutsumi found the other survivors, and used her wilderness knowledge to help them. She expects that they will be rescued in ...
Style: anime, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: survivor, insect, island, teenager, female nudity, lesbian, life & death, stranded, characters in danger, danger, lgbt, monster ...
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Based on the horror game Ao Oni by noprops. Five members of the cultural anthropology club at an old western-style school are trying to come up with ideas for their presentation at the school's culture festival, when they find a collection of ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological
Plot: game, demon, haunted house, uncover truth, school, notoriety, murder, supernatural, evil force, paranormal activity, ghost, curse ...
Place: japan
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ERASED (2016)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story: Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his ...
Style: anime, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, childhood, serial killer, murder, child abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, abusive mother, death, kidnapping, mystery killer, disappearance ...
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Midori (1992)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min.
Story: After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.
Style: anime, disturbing, suspense, adult anime, extreme horror ...
Plot: murder, body horror, orphan, circus, female nudity, freak, rape, jealousy, child abuse, extreme, illusion, terror ...
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Place: japan
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Despair Arc serves as the "prelude" to the series, as it tells the backstory of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B and how they became corrupted Remnants of Despair.
Style: anime, psychological, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: teacher, desperation, school, insanity, human experiment, teachers and students, memories, experiment, secret, schoolboy, experiment gone awry, high school life ...
Time: 2010s
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The Apostle (2012)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A prisoner recently escaped from prison tries to recover the loot he hid a few years earlier in a remote and secluded village, but what there is is a sentence worse than jail. Claims elderly, strange disappearances, spirits, a peculiar priest and to ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, adult animation ...
Plot: stop motion, village, curses spells and rituals, social relations, danger, imaginary, escapades, obsessive quest, surrealism, legend, folklore, halloween ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Dark Stranger (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.
Style: suspense, psychological, psychotronic, tense, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, female artist, ghost, supernatural power, revenge, obsessive quest, death, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, killings, fear, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Felidae (1994)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
Style: adult animation, disturbing, neo noir, detective, slasher ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cat, murder, mad scientist, investigation, electric torture, dismemberment, nightmare, animal sex, talking animal, mysterious death, murder investigation, brutality ...
Time: 90s
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The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Style: fairy tale, touching, atmospheric, feel good, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, heroic mission, friendship, against the odds, laboratory, rat, rescue, illness, family problems, cure, danger, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Dead Space: Downfall (2008)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: On a deep space mining mission to a remote planet, an ancient religious relic - thought to be proof of the existence of God - is unearthed and brought aboard. When the unholy artifact unleashes a long-dormant alien race, its glimpse of Heaven ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, anime ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, alien monster, deadly creature, imaginary, danger, violence, infection, survival horror, spacecraft, body horror, self sacrifice, zombie ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min.
Story: August 1995: Mikiya first meets Shiki in a white kimono during a snowing day. Later on, at the high school freshmen ceremony, Mikiya sees Shiki in the crowd and chases after her, introducing himself to her. But Shiki hides a big secret: A wave of ...
Style: anime, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: murder, boy girl relationship, murder mystery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, secret, classmate classmate relationship, relationships, schoolgirl, classmate, mature, porn ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Violence Voyager (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Following an end-of-term school ceremony, the American boy Bobby decides to go with his friend Akkun into the mountains outside their village, to a place perfect for a secret base. On the way they stop into a mysterious amusement park. They have fun ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, dark, adult animation ...
Plot: violence, amusement park, escapades, violent, psychopath, trap, psycho killer, trapped, mentally unstable, body horror, dog, dog attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Greedy Guts (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, killer child, folk horror, absurdism, tree, baby, monster, dark humor, obsession, couple relations, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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