Swapped

One day on an island, a young Pookoo makes a fatal mistake involving a Javan bird and a magical pod that causes bodies to be swapped. A fantasy involving animals…

The Journey to Melonia

After a shipwreck, a motley group of people end up in a paradise island called Melonia; two of them have sinister plans related to a nightmarish place called Plutonia. Per…

Howl’s Moving Castle

A young hatter called Sophie encounters a witch who turns her into an old woman; she finds an ally in a wizard called Howl. Hayao Miyazaki found inspiration in both…

Kiki’s Delivery Service

13-year-old witch Kiki takes her cat Jiji and flies away on her broomstick, leaving her family to find an independent new life in a city. Hayao Miyazaki followed up on…

Zootopia 2

Judy and Nick are now partners at the Zootopia Police Department and find themselves working a case that leads to a snake and a powerful family. It took a decade…

My Neighbor Totoro: A Friend in Need

Photo: Ghibli When it came to animation, 1988 was an interesting year. In the U.S., Disney released Oliver & Company, an animated take on ”Oliver Twist” that earned a profit…

Oliver & Company

An orphaned kitten in New York City called Oliver makes friends with a group of street dogs who hang out with Fagin, a petty thief. The last film Disney made…

Elio

Young orphan Elio dreams of space, but when he’s abducted by aliens he finds himself representing Earth in negotiations with a warlord. The fact that the original LGBTQ-colored characterizations that…

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Amélie, the daughter of a Belgian couple living in Japan, is born in the 1960s, believing she’s a god until she reaches the age of two and an earthquake and…

Bamse and the City of Thieves

After several animated shorts made in the 1960s and ’70s, this was the first feature starring Rune Andreasson’s friendly but super-strong bear Bamse. The story (which shares similarities with the…