Best Chinese animation movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch animation films from China, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Summer Summer 2020
This is a secret diary of summer. The entire film is directly animated on time-stamped film, and the improvised painting traces are infinitely magnified through projection and scanning. Summertime collects the emotions that belong to each person’s unique taste and ferments them into small universes, and will eventually disappear with the touch of greenness at the last moment of summer.
90茗记:2nd Life 2007
95The Ants 2007
Ordinary people, nightmares in the evening...
70A Warrior's Dream 2013
A Warrior's Dream is a 3D animated short film with photorealistic visual style. The length of the film is 3'18' .The story is about a martial artist's combat with his imaginary opponent. The martial artist finally realized that the mightiest opponent is himself. The film ends with Bruce Lee's calligraphy 'Walk On'. Thus the director wishes Donnie Yen can walk on as a martial artist like Bruce Lee, the idol of Donnie Yen himself.
80Alice: Otherlands 2015
In the year 1876, a 20 year-old Alice Liddell enters the mentalities and minds (known as "Otherlands") of Jules Verne and Richard Wagner, and discovers the horrors of the human subconscious – especially those of history's most famous minds.
80白蛇2:青蛇劫起 2021
59The Big Girl 8: The Little Match Girl 2014
The characters forced to shoot for the animation studio discover a potential way to return to their own world.
80The Big Girl 3 2011
The princess ends up in a chase against the prince and the Devil.
75The Big Girl 2 2010
After cursed to gain weight by the Devil, the princess persuades him to undo the curse.
75The Song For Rain 2012
The animation tells the story about a gloomy rainy season, a boy who accidentally met a little fox. There are two worlds, one is a humid but oppressive city, the other is bright and natural but needs water.
61Black 2020
An expression and examination of the social problem of black-hearted vaccines that are spreading in China.
70The Big Girl 5 2013
The princess takes part in a competition for resurrection, in a game where contestants are transformed into sushi and must fight to the death before they reach the goal.
70红领巾侠 2010
60The Memory of Ice 2011
Short animated film about the clima crisis from CUC Anima and Gobelins
60So Red and A Little Blue 2015
The fragments of information scatter amongst computer and Internet, and constitute the world of Red and Blue. When they meet, their faces look red, but are their moods also a little blue?
60The Big Girl 7: The Secret of the Animation Company (Part 2) 2013
The princess, the Devil and the prince take part in one of the animation director's lacklustre cartoons.
60Cloud of the Unknown 2020
A girl lives on the edge of (un)reality, and whenever she falls asleep, she disappears into uncanny dreams: a violin with broken strings, a room on fire, vacant streets, infinite staircases; a pair of flying hands guiding her (and us) through thorns and bushes, pulling out endless multiples of herself.
60The Big Girl 6: The Secret of the Animation Company (Part 1) 2013
The prince and the Devil seek a doctor for the princess, but end up breaking into an animation studio where characters like them are being forced to act in a thousand-episode series.
60Encounter 2012
The stop-motion animation is about a mischief boy adventuring in an unknown house and getting caught by the owner who lost her grandson in a car accident years ago. The intruder feels the grandma's sorrow, and tries to help her find peace of mind. The setting is based on the architecture of Suzhou, a historical water-town in Southern China.
50Rabbit Tailor 2013
Rabbit Tailor tells a story about a rabbit tailor who makes puppet dolls and sell them through internet. A Film by Siqi Song Thesis Film from China Central Academy of Fine Arts
50Watermelon Cannon 1979
Watermelon Run is a puppet show animation produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in Mainland China in 1979 . The film is based on Liu Zhengtai 's folktale of the same name, and is divided into upper and lower parts, telling the story of a child soldier during the Shanghai Xiaodaohui uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty .
40Alibeda 2016
2016 graduation work of Zhou Dawei, Huang Xiaozhen and Li Haolong from the Animation Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
40The Big Girl 4 2013
The prince and the Devil attempt to cure the princess from having passed out, while she finds herself in deep consciousness.
40The Puppet 2021
An animation short full of plot twists.
30元日 2015
20Green Grassland 1990
The film is a work on environmental protection. Through the combination of physical objects and animation, it appeals to people to show mercy and love our green grassland.
10Inversion 1990
Inversion, as the name implies, is to turn order and relationships upside-down. Humans admire the shapes, sounds and vigor of other forms of life, while also taking everything away from them, numbed by greed. The human need to take over all will eventually lead to self destruction.
10Paradise 1986
The film interprets the folklore of Hongluo Lake in northern China. The three-headed water monster ravaged Hongluo Lake, destroyed the village fort, and displaced the tribes. A young man named Da Xin in the tribe was looking for a peaceful place to stay away from his hometown. The hardships and ups and downs along the way brought disappointment. Finally, with the help of the Red Conch Fairy, he knew what a happy land is, and he decided to fight to the death.
10Mirror 1989
Mirrors are constantly being replaced on the walls that look like news and newspapers, but the characters reflected in the mirrors are always unsatisfactory..., the last mirror makes everything harmonious. The following truth is extremely disturbing, who is lying! Is it a mirror? Is it a human?
10Sketch Collection 1989
Anthology of animated sketches from the Beijing Science Film Studio.
10Brainy Bubbly Bug Buddies 2 2019
The Brainy Bubbly Bug Buddies are back! It's time to buzz into a spectacular insect-adventure with a bug's-eye view of the habits and habitats of actual insects. Learn incredible facts about some amazing little creatures that will fascinate and inspire kids.
10Lock and Key 1989
This film is one form of the director's explorative expression, utilizing the imagery of locks and keys to symbolize a society turning awry.
10砍柴姑娘 1959
10Extremely Cruel Sadistic Story: The Phantom of Love 2020
Theater is a fictional world constructed for the viewers. To substitute our ideal selves through imitation, we seek inspirations in such performative acts to satisfy our subconscious and primitive needs for blood and thrill. In reality individual selves are always trapped in a state of isolation, constantly trying to communicate in some deep levels while always falling to do so. This need for intimacy is extended to the virtual world as we try establish the existence of the self. The four parallel stories are implicitly linked, and serve as each other’s metaphors.
10Zero One 2018
Zero One is a code-based generative video commissioned by Zero One Technology Festival 2018 in Shenzhen, PR China. This project consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.
65李科长巧难炊事班 1965
10四只小野鸭 1958
10鸽子 1960
10The Straw Man 1985
Based on an ancient proverb (which one could translate into ‘it’s dogged as does it’), this film tells about a fisherman who is disturbed by two pelicans and who disguises himself as a scarecrow to catch the two birds.
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