swap_horiz Shapoklyak Alternatives

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The Hand

“The Hand” is a 1965 Czech stop-motion animated short film by Jiří Trnka. It features a remarkably detailed puppet hand...

Czech 1965 Short Puppet

9.2 Excellent

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Street of Crocodiles

The Brothers Quay’s *Street of Crocodiles* is a haunting 1986 stop-motion film exploring themes of decay and distorted c...

Surreal Short 1986 Puppet

9.0 Excellent

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The Pied Piper

Jiri Barta’s *The Pied Piper* is a 1985 Czech stop-motion film based on the classic fairy tale. Utilizing meticulously c...

Fairy Tale Czech Puppet 1985

8.5 Great

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Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf is a 2006 stop-motion animated film based on Sergei Prokofiev’s classic musical composition. The film...

Musical 2006 Short Puppet

8.4 Great

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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

Jan Švankmajer’s Cabinet presents a collection of intensely surreal stop-motion films created between 1984 and 1989. The...

Surreal 1984 Short Puppet

8.3 Great

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My Life as a Zucchini

My Life as a Zucchini is a Swiss-French stop motion animated film crafted from clay figures. The story follows a young b...

Drama Switzerland France 2016

8.2 Great

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The Tale of the Fox

“The Tale of the Fox” is a groundbreaking 1930 French stop-motion film created by pioneer Eadweard Muybridge and his son...

French Puppet Fable Starewicz

8.1 Great

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The Mascot

1933 French stop-motion short by Ladislas Starevich in which a toy dog embarks on a surreal nighttime journey through a...

Fantasy Short Puppet Starewicz

7.9 Good

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The Emperor's Nightingale

1949 Czech stop-motion puppet feature by Jiří Trnka, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale blending pu...

Fairy Tale Czech 1949 Puppet

7.8 Good

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Gena the Crocodile

1969 Soviet stop-motion animated film directed by Roman Kachanov that introduced the characters Cheburashka and Gena the...

Children Soviet Puppet 1969

7.8 Good

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Mad God

2021 American stop-motion film by visual effects legend Phil Tippett, a passion project he began in the late 1980s that...

Experimental Dark 2021 Puppet

7.8 Good

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Prince Bayaya

1950 Czech stop-motion puppet feature by Jiří Trnka, adapting a traditional Czech fairy tale and considered one of his e...

Fairy Tale Czech Puppet 1950

7.6 Good

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The Czech Year

1947 Czech stop-motion puppet feature by Jiří Trnka depicting traditional Bohemian folk customs, festivals, and legends...

Folk Czech 1947 Puppet

7.5 Good

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Frankenweenie (1984)

1984 American live-action short film directed by Tim Burton for Disney, in which a boy reanimates his dead dog, drawing...

Horror 1984 Short Puppet

7.5 Good

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The House

2022 British Netflix anthology of three stop-motion dark fables set in the same house across different time periods, eac...

Netflix Dark Anthology 2022

7.5 Good

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The Good Soldier Švejk

Czech stop-motion animated adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical novel, directed by Jiří Trnka and depicting the bumb...

Comedy Czech 1954 Puppet

7.3 Good

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Komaneko: The Curious Cat

2006 Japanese stop-motion short film series directed by Tsuneo Goda at Dwarf Studios, following a cat named Komaneko who...

Japanese Children 2006 Short

7.2 Good

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Prehistoric Beast

1984 American stop-motion short film by Phil Tippett depicting a realistically rendered dinosaur, later incorporated int...

1984 Dinosaur Short Puppet

7.0 Good

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Cheburashka Goes to School

1983 Soviet stop-motion animated short directed by Roman Kachanov, the fourth and final film in the original Cheburashka...

Children Soviet Puppet 1983

6.8 Fair

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Hansel and Gretel

Stop-motion puppet adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, a subject that has attracted numerous puppet and clay an...

German Fairy Tale Children 1954

6.0 Fair