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51. Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011)
TV-G | 6 min | Animation, Short
This acclaimed animation short depicts the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt at age 8 from a concentration camp, in a cross-generational collaboration between Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton & 10-yr-old 1st-time animator Perry Chen.
Director: Kevin Sean Michaels | Star: Ingrid Pitt
Votes: 18
52. Dope Sheet (1997–1999)
Documentary
Magazine series about the world of animation.
Stars: Sarah Ann Kennedy, Simon Mattacks, Johnny Daukes, Joanna Quinn
53. How to Kiss (1988)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As a brave couple demonstrates, the narrator uses quotes, examples and advice to help us all reach the highest heights in the art of kissing.
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Chris Hoffman
Votes: 620
54. Santa, the Fascist Years (2008)
TV-PG | 3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
We all think of Santa as "Jolly old St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores Santa's flirtation with politics and greed.
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Matthew Modine
Votes: 288
55. I Think I Was an Alcoholic (1993)
5 min | Animation, Short
A recovering alcoholic tells the story of his drinking, his troubled youth, his paralyzing car accident, and his new sobriety in a series of brutally honest, witty, and irreverent cartoons.
Directors: Kelley Baker, John Callahan, Laura Di Trapani | Star: John Callahan
Votes: 30
56. The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (2010)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love.
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 285
57. Hitler's Folly (2016)
67 min | Comedy
"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt Disney.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Dana Ashbrook, Eden S. Bales, Catherine Branscome, Lukas Chin
Votes: 63
58. Brooklyn Breeze (2019)
4 min | Animation, Short
Animated short showing images of cranes and fire hydrants cavorting around the Brooklyn skyline and dockyards.
Director: Alex Budovsky
Votes: 13
59. Trump Bites (2018– )
5 min | Animation, Comedy, News
Every day, the president unleashes a torrent of exaggerations, insults, threats, and self-pity. What's going on inside that fevered brain? Trump Bites is a series of short animated fantasies based on actual Trump audio clips.
Stars: Donald Trump, Miles Shebar, J.L. Cauvin
Votes: 39
60. City Walk (2013– )
28 min | Documentary
"City Walk" is the only television series that journeys by foot across the country for a ground's eye view of urban America. Experience the vibrant streets and sidewalks of Los Angeles, New... See full summary »
Stars: Neha Bhatt, Bob Sallis, Daphne Miller, Irene Davis
Votes: 8
61. How to Make Love to a Woman (1996)
R | 5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
An animated look at the 11 essential steps to make the pilgrim's progess from finding a woman to making love to her. Along the way, our prototypical man gets advice about her eyes, her hair... See full summary »
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Daniel Kaufman
Votes: 519
62. Al TV (2006 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy, Music
Weird Al's 10th special promotes his latest album "Straight Outta Lynnwood".
Directors: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Seth Green, John Kricfalusi, Bill Plympton, Matthew Senreich | Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Kierstin Cunnington, Kevin Federline, Seth Green
Votes: 65
63. Lucas, the Ear of Corn (1977)
Unrated | 4 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the moment he ultimately meets his fate as a meal for a young boy.
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Bill Plympton
Votes: 129
64. 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989)
5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Bill Plympton
Votes: 931
65. Birth (2009)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
Director: Signe Baumane | Stars: Clyde Baldo, Kimmy Gatewood, Karen Gilliam, Rebecca Honig
Votes: 79
66. Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.
Director: Alexsiya Flora | Stars: John Andrews, Ralph Bakshi, Signe Baumane, Jerry Beck
Votes: 83
67. Classical Baby: The Dance Show (2005 TV Special)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Dance moves inspired by George Balanchine, Martha Graham and others are on display in this animated family special.
Director: Amy Schatz
Votes: 17
68. Animated Self-Portraits (1989)
8 min | Animation, Short
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 19 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
Directors: Jirí Barta, Sally Cruikshank, Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo, David Ehrlich, Kihachirô Kawamoto, Renzo Kinoshita, Pavel Koutský, Candy Kugel, Mati Kütt, Nikola Majdak, Josko Marusic, Bill Plympton, Priit Pärn, Maureen Selwood, Jan Svankmajer, Osamu Tezuka, Riho Unt, Hardi Volmer, Dusan Vukotic
Votes: 309
69. Your Face Global Jam (2018)
4 min | Animation, Short
In 1987, Bill Plympton, now heralded as "The King of Indie Animation" was nominated for an Oscar for his debut hand-drawn animated short film "Your Face." For 2017, animators around the ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Mora, Mike Schneider
70. Self Portrait (II) (1988)
Unrated | 15 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 376
71. The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2007– )
30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
"The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery" is a hosted horror movie show with Reyna Young as "Miss Misery".
Stars: Reyna Young, Dylan Walshe, John Stanley, Priscilla Ozuna
Votes: 9
72. Guns on the Clackamas: A Documentary (1995)
Comedy
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Keith Scales, Micheal Thomas Parks, Danny Bruno, William C. Tate
Votes: 50
73. Sex and Violence (1997)
R | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In eight minutes, animator Bill Plympton gives us 24 vignettes: seven are clearly about sex, 10 about violence, and seven others deal with human frailties, particularly the body as it ages.... See full summary »
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 540
74. Spiral (2005)
6 min | Animation, Short
Animation is used to explore the hypnotic principles of movement and form through the use of abstract shapes.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Evelyn Ciampa, Mark Goulet
Votes: 28
75. Des mots de minuit (1999– )
Talk-Show
Des Mots De Minuit is a cultural television program from France Télévisions, produced and presented from September 1999 by Philippe Lefait, former journalist and presenter for France 2. The... See full summary »
Stars: Philippe Lefait, Alexandra Lemasson, Minh Tran Huy, Jacques Bonnaffé
76. The Fan and the Flower (2005)
TV-MA | 7 min | Animation, Short
An ill-fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower magically creates a fairy-tale ending.
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Paul Giamatti
Votes: 672
77. J. Lyle (1994)
75 min | Comedy
A sleazy lawyer, who owns an apartment building, torments the inhabitants so they'll move out allowing him to build a toxic waste dump in its place.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Richard Kuranda, Jennifer Corby, John Bader, Kirsten Mogg
Votes: 26
78. Boomtown (1985)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U. S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Ruth Maleczech, Valeria Vasilevski
Votes: 180
79. Austin Movie Show (2004–2007)
90 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Jegar Erickson, Leila Hernandez, Heath Allyn, Larry Soileau
80. Sex & Violence 3 (2019)
2 min | Animation, Short
A new compendium of totally twisted gags from the mind of Bill Plympton.
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: John Holderried
Votes: 16
82. Push Comes to Shove (1991)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
It's the little things that really hurt.
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 396
83. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: TMZ (2011 Music Video)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Tom Kenny
Votes: 41
84. Mondo Plympton (1997)
53 min | Animation, Biography, History
A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Chris Hoffman, Daniel Kaufman, Ruth Maleczech, Maureen McElheron
Votes: 110
85. Footprints (2014)
TV-PG | 4 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A man follows footsteps in search of a mysterious visitor to his house.
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 272
86. Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4 (1997 Video)
Unrated | 43 min | Animation, Short
A collection of animated shorts
Directors: David Donar, Craig McCracken, Bill Plympton, John Wardlaw | Star: John Wardlaw
Votes: 19
87. Plympmania (1996)
7 min | Short, Animation
A collection of hilarious comedy pieces that originally aired as transition sequences on the FOX-TV sketch comedy show "The Edge"
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 20
88. Smell the Flowers (1996)
2 min | Animation, Short
A stressed-out businessman decides to quit and smell the flowers, literally, but then falls back into old habits.
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 31
89. The Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Animation
Collective screening of the Academy Award nominated short films from the Animation category for 2011.
Directors: Geefwee Boedoe, Bastien Dubois, Max Lang, Moritz Mayerhofer, Teddy Newton, Bill Plympton, Andrew Ruhemann, Jakob Schuh, Shaun Tan
Votes: 45 | Gross: $1.35M
90. How Much Is That Window in the Doggie? (1991)
1 min | Animation, Short
Director: John Callahan
Votes: 7
91. More Sex and Violence (1999)
TV-MA | 6 min | Animation, Short
Twelve skits in six minutes: the first one and the final three are about sex, in between are sketches of blood, death, murder, truck crashes, a tough day on the toilet, a slip on a banana ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Plympton | Star: Karen Skurka
Votes: 202
92. One of Those Days (1988)
G | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
One man's day in suburbia goes from bad to worse to the absolute pits.
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 308
93. Love in the Fast Lane (1987)
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A distracted executive buys an anniversary gift for his wife and gets MUCH more than he bargained for.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Linda Eklund, Chris Hoffman, Eve Schwast, Kathryn Schweitman
Votes: 101
94. Tokyo Onlypic 2008 (2008)
137 min | Animation, Sport
Directors: Kan Eguchi, Richard Fenwick, Ignacio Ferreras, Tôru Hosokawa, Masaya Kakehi, Tetsurô Kodama, Riichiro Mashima, Takanobu Mizuno, Hiroyuki Nakano, Bill Plympton, Keiko Sootome, Takashi Taniguchi | Stars: Yûki Himura, Fumio Kitagami, Jun'ichi Mogi, Shôko Nakagawa
Votes: 57
95. Horn Dog (2009)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short
Here our plucky canine fends off an obese dog, attacking oysters, and a wayward killer violin bow, while trying to win the love of his heart's desire.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Mike Juarez, Greg Sextro, Barnold, Risa
Votes: 158
96. Dutchman Revisited (2021)
Documentary
Director: Lukas Persson | Stars: Amiri Baraka, Rita Fredricks, Shirley Knight, Bill Plympton
97. Demi's Panic (2021)
10 min | Animation, Short
"Demi's Panic" follows the story of Demi, a young Latina professional living in NYC, whose prophetic dreams become all too real when an invisible danger causes catastrophic loss. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Maria Arrendondo, Madison Eberhardt, Bill Larson, Tony Maestrone
Votes: 24
98. Imagine the Dreams (2019)
150 min | Documentary
Imagine the Dreams (I) explores Pop Culture in the comic book industry and how artists share words of wisdom for aspiring artists. And fans share what it means to them to be part of the mysterious Cosplay community.
Director: Lucinda Lewis | Stars: Vitaly S. Alexius, Andy Animal, Andrew Babulak, Robert S. Birchard
99. Waiting for Her Sailor (2012)
1 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Waiting for her sailor to return home, a woman on a cliff watches closely as a ship approaches.
Director: Bill Plympton
Votes: 31
100. Shuteye Hotel (2007)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Mystery
A film-noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become victims of this evil force.
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Carrie Keranen, Mike Juarez
Votes: 177