Dark animated movies
 

If you know any animated movies that has a darker theme or more adult-ish, comment it/them below.

I've already watched:
-Grave of the Fireflies
-Princess Mononoke
-Fantastic Mr. Fox
-Akira
-Wall-E
-Spirited Away (I dunno, but I think this is more for adult)

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Coraline.

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Mary and Max.
Waltz With Bashir
Persepolis

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Watership Down. Not the biggest fan of it but I like it how it straightforwardly handles the violent content of the book... by showing it directly in an awesome way.

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On that note, The Plague Dogs is dark.

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When The Wind Blows

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South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. :D

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Fritz the Cat

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It's Such a Beautiful Day.

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Ninja Scroll

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Afro Samurai
Sorry not a movie but a must watch revenge series with only 5 episodes.

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There are some very dark messages in Spirited Away that make the whole thing more sinister. Also, I was pretty terrified of this film when I was a kid :lol:

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Midori

Adult/violent/serious animations? That is my field of specialization.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...9;s_Island.jpg
(second world war drama, like Grave of the Fireflies)

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20140508164643
(violent fantasy martial arts, like a serious Dragonball with blood)

Expelled from Paradise:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...AdVMbDLpd1C6GB
(not that dark though the concept of uploading the minds of humanity into a mainframe is rather terrifying)

http://www.floydianslip.com/images/albums/full/54.jpg
(World War 3, enough said)

Perfect World of Kai (silly title for an adult serious film):
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IU4WACqjQIg/maxresdefault.jpg

4 Mamoru Oshii's films:

1) Ghost in the Shell:
http://cdn2-www.superherohype.com/as...-1995-02-g.jpg
(cyborgs, cyberpunk, violent, serious, emotionally distant)

2) Ghost in the Shell 2:
http://www.absoluteanime.com/ghost_i...-innocence.jpg
(really cr*ppy poster though, cyberpunk, violent, serious, emotionally distant, the same as GitS)

3) Patlabor The Movie:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...vie_poster.png(very impressive film, the plot is a mystery thriller and everything is strictly adult)

4) Patlabor 2:
http://moviefiles.alphacoders.com/235/poster-23518.jpg
(science fiction political thriller, has giant robots but that's standard in Japanese science fiction fare}

Patlabor 3 (weaker than the first 2 but still pretty good, not directed by Oshii anyway):
http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/CoverAr...ified/8941.jpg

Satoshi Kon's films:

1) Paprika:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-XuRLCIO6bk/maxresdefault.jpg
(psychological science fiction film, think of Inception (2010) but actually good, since inception is just a second rate copy of Paprika)

2) Perfect Blue:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...5/52/Pblue.jpg
(psychological thriller, think of Hithcock but animated)

3) Millennium Actress:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Sennenyoyu.jpg
(sublime drama film)

PMMM's film trilogy (looks childish at the beginning but it gets dark really fast and goes really down the darkness pit)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...arebellion.jpg
(dark fantasy tragedy, lots of pink as well)

Memories:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yo-GVtMVlVM/maxresdefault.jpg
(collection of artistic short films, including a horror animated short at the beginning, the brilliant Magnetic Rose)

Mindgame:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...indgame001.gif
(Masaki Yuasa's film, it's not among his best works but very impressive pscyhological action/drama experimental animation)

Also, Miyazaki's movies aimed at teenagers besides Princess Mononoke is Nausicaa and he made two movies aimed at middle aged adults: Porco Rosso and Wind Rises.

And, finally the best one: the masterpiece of fanservice animation, GUNBUSTER
http://shrani.si/f/41/tQ/1hqBwkqv/29...327f88dcbo.jpg
(full of explosions, heavy drama, cute girls, the ultimate OVA anime, a classic for the ages)

I can recommend many more other movies if you want.

You watched that?
http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/anime/9/4297l.jpg
Really mediocre IMO.

They made a movie as well:

Afro Samurai: Resurrection.

But it's pretty bland and mediocre. Has some really high quality animation though.

I always liked American Pop way back when
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxnRq8yUQNY

One of the best animes ever. Better than PMMM and only a little bit worse than some Ghibli films (a lot darker and more mature than both, though).

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Huh, I'll have to check out that adaptation of Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show.