Meet a bright selection of cartoons that give unique emotions to viewers of any age. You will find touching stories about friendship and courage, and modest humor, incredible graphics and deep moral messages.
These films combine fun adventures, heart-warming dramas and fantasy worlds to provide something close to everyone’s heart. Embark on an exciting journey with the heroes and enjoy high-quality animation during the upcoming weekends and long winter holidays that bring you to bed.
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1. Wild Robot (2024)
Original title: Wild Robot.
Genre: cartoon, children’s, adventure, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.4 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 8.3 (IMDb)
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Chris Sanders
Roles duplicated: Katya Kheifetz, Dmitry Tikhonov, Daniil Postnikov, Ivan Stavissky
About what: Robot ROZZUM 7134, shipwrecked on a deserted island, tries to adapt to changing conditions and makes friends with the animals living there.
Where to watch: Rutub
2. Christmas (2024)
Original title: It’s Christmas
Genre: cartoon, children’s, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.3 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.8 (IMDb)
Country: UK
Director: Simon Otto
Voiced by: Bill Nighy, Brian Cox, Guz Khan, Zazie Hayhurst
About what: Wellington-on-Sea faces an exceptional Christmas when the worst snowstorm on record changes everyone’s plans – including Santa’s.
Where to watch: Google
3. Memoirs of a Snail (2024)
Original title: Memoirs of a snail.
Genre: cartoon, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.0 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.9 (IMDb)
Country: Australia
Director: Ben Adamjamin Elliott
Voiced by: Jacki Weaver, Sarah Snook, Charlotte Beasley
About what: Australia, 1970s. In the city of Cranberry there lives a woman named Grace Poodle. She loves reading romance novels and collecting decorative snails.
One day, Pinky appears in her life, an elderly and eccentric woman with whom she becomes close friends. From this moment on, Grace’s life is again filled with pleasure and bright colors.
Where to watch: Google
4. Orion and the Darkness (2024)
Original title: Orion and the Darkness.
Genre: cartoon, children’s
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.5 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.3 (IMDb)
Country: France, USA
Director: Sean Charmatz
Voiced by: Jacob Tremblay, Paul Walter Hauser, Colin Hanks, Mia Akemi Brown, Ike Barinholtz
About what: The boy Orion is terrified of heights, of pets, but most of all of the dark. The daytime rain itself comes to Orion and goes with him on a night journey to confirm its harmlessness.
Where to watch: Rutub
5. Leo (2023)
Original title: Leo
Genre: cartoon, children’s, musical
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.5 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.0 (IMDb)
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim
Voiced by: Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander
About what: Leo the lizard and Squirtle the turtle live in a terrarium in an elementary school classroom. One day Leo learns that lizards of his species live up to 75 years, and when he figures out that he is already 74, he realizes in horror that his life has passed, and he hasn’t really seen anything.
Just then, the substitute teacher decides to teach the kids responsibility and assigns them to take the class pets home for the weekend. Leo tries to achieve this and throw himself into the revolution, but in the process he blurts out and is now forced to give life advice to fifth graders so that they do not tell anyone about his secret.
Where to watch: Rutub
6. Horror story and mystery of the city of light (2023)
Genre: children’s
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.1 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 5.3 (IMDb)
Country: Australia, USA
Director: Ricard Cousso, Tania Vincent
Roles duplicated: Eva Finkelstein, Ivan Kalinin, Ilya Isaev, Denis Nekrasov
About what: Young Arki is the most unusual teenager on the planet. She befriends intelligent beings and constantly invents amazing devices. When her father is kidnapped by a dangerous scientist, the girl must face her fears and lead her search for him to the mysterious city of light.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
7. Arcane (2021-2024)
Genre: cartoon, sci-fi, fantasy, action, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.8 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 9.1 (IMDb)
Country: USA, France
Director: Pascal Charrue, Arnord Delo
Roles duplicated: Tatyana Abramova, Gleb Gavrilov, Alexander Gavrilin, Aliya Nasyrova
About what: This animated series is based on the League Of Legends game universe. It takes place in two fictional cities, aristocratic Piltover and Zaun, with underground slums where the poor live and reserves. A failed laboratory robbery is what first triggers a return to the world of forbidden magic. The plot of the second season will focus on the “escalating conflict” between the two cities, as well as the fate of the two separated sisters Wei and Jinx.
The show cost $250 million to produce including advertising, making it the most expensive animated series ever.
Where to watch: Rutub
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