20 Best Animation movies like The Employment (2008)

List of the best animation movies like The Employment (2008): Soul, Two Films About Loneliness, Rhino Full Throttle, Timber, World of Tomorrow, Nullarbor, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Feast, Hair Love, A Single Life.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genreadventure, family, cartoon, music
CountryUSA

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:06

Split-screen, bilingual stop-motion film, in which two neighbours turn to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryGermany
Duration00:15

Bruno is making his way through the city searching for its soul. Driven by his curiosity, a challenging imagination and his wild reflection on reality he is lifting the old dusty curtain on the city's crusted perception.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryLuxembourg
Duration00:06

A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they realize only themselves are possible fuel for a warming fire things start heating up.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration01:05

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryAustralia
Duration00:11

An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:23

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:06

This Oscar-winning animated short film tells the story of one man's love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, Canada

When dad has to unexpectedly step in for mom to do his daughter Zuri’s hair before a big event, what seems like a simple task is anything but as these locks have a mind of their own!

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryNetherlands

When Pia plays a mysterious vinyl record single, she suddenly knows how to travel through her own life. Made in collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund, Pathé and SNS Reaal Fonds.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

When a threat no one could have expected bears down on the Marvel Universe, this ragtag, untrained band of teens have no choice but to rise together and prove to the world that sometimes the difference between a 'hero' and 'misfit' is just in the name.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:05

Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.

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Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, adventure, cartoon, short, anime
CountryJapan
Duration00:25

Buta the sword for hire is recruited by the Tufugu Pirates on their voyage to seek a stockpile of treasure. On board he discovers a child Kitsune locked away below deck. After some misunderstandings and with the promise of more money, the two of them go on their own adventure.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, cartoon, short
CountryRepublic of Ireland
Duration00:10

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:07

A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryAustralia, USA, New Zealand
Duration00:23

The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryCanada, France
Duration00:14

Edmond is a misfit at the office. When his co-workers pull a prank giving him donkey ears, Edmond realizes his true nature: he, in fact, is a real donkey.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryDenmark

Minna, a young girl, misuses her newfound ability to create and control other people’s dreams to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson. When her stepsister can no longer wake up, Minna has to enter the dream world to save her.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:55

Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, cartoon, short, anime
CountryJapan

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Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:07

An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

Sorata Kanda, a high school sophomore living in Sakurasou, the den of their academy's problem children, spends his days being dragged around by the strange residents, swearing he's going to escape Sakurasou one day.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:15

After a hurricane levels his city, a young man wanders into a mysterious library where books literally come to life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
CountryFrance, Canada, Belgium

France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:22

Lanny and Wayne are at it again! With the Big 2-5 fast approaching, Wayne and Lanny must race to recover classified North Pole technology which has fallen into the hands of a computer-hacking Naughty Kid! Desperate to prevent Christmas from descending into chaos, Wayne seeks out the foremost Naughty Kid expert to aid in the mission: a bombastic member of the Coal Bucket Brigade who also happens to be his estranged brother, Noel.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryChile
Duration00:11

An old bear goes out every day to a busy street corner. Through a tin marionette theater of his own making, the bear will tell us his life story.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration02:23

As a child, Masamune Makabe once suffered greatly at the hands of a wealthy and beautiful girl named Aki Adagaki, who nicknamed him "Piggy" due to his chubby appearance. Seeking revenge against his tormentor, Masamune works hard to improve himself and returns as an incredibly handsome, albeit narcissistic, high school student. When he encounters Aki once again, he is prepared to exact vengeance. With the aid of the rich girl's maid, Yoshino Koiwai, Masamune slowly begins to build his relationship with Aki, intending to break her heart when the time is right. However, as his friendship with Aki begins to grow, Masamune starts to question the objectives of his devious plans, and if bringing them to fruition is what his heart truly desires.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantasy, comedy, cartoon, short, anime
CountryJapan

Depicts the day that Naruto Uzumaki became the 7th Hokage. Packaged with Boruto the Movie.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, cartoon, short, sport, anime
CountryJapan
Duration00:12

A love story between two people that each have a secret to hide. One a pro-wrestler, the other a Nun. Losing never felt so good.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, USA

When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:04

Maggie Simpson returns to the Ayn Rand School for Tots. There, Maggie's future prospects are deemed to be minimal, so she is left in one of the daycare's less enjoyable rooms, with just a butterfly for company.




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