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The Aristocats is an American animated feature film produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970.
The film is noted for being the last film project to be approved by Walt Disney himself, as he died in late 1966, before the film was released.

In Paris, France, in 1910, a mother cat named Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live in the mansion of retired opera singer Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, along with her English butler Edgar. She early on settles her will with her lawyer Georges Hautecourt, an aged, eccentric old friend of hers, stating that she wishes for her fortune to be left to her cats, who will retain it until their deaths, upon which her fortune will revert to Edgar. Edgar hears this from his own room through a speaking tube and is unwilling to wait for the cats to die naturally before he inherits Madame Adelaide's fortune, and plots to remove the cats from a position of inheritance.
source: Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAxUXs0gWo - trailer

keywords: cats, aristocratic family, kidnapping, music

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A Bug's Life (stylized a bug's life) is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

A misfit ant, Flik is looking for "tough warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers. Flik recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

source: Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhGlMv3UCXA
keywords: insects, ants, bullying

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Hop is a 2011 Easter-themed live-action and animated comedy film from Universal Picturesand Illumination Entertainment, directed by Tim Hill and produced by Chris Meledandri and Michele Imperato Stabile.
On Easter Island, a young rabbit named E.B. is intended to succeed his father, Mr. Bunny , as the Easter Bunny. Intimidated by the calling's demands and ignoring his father's orders, E.B. runs away to Hollywood to pursue his dream of becoming a drummer. Mr. Bunny sends his three ninja royal guards, the Pink Berets, to find his son. Meanwhile, Easter Chicks Carlos and Phil plot a coup d'état against Mr. Bunny to take over the Easter organization.

source: Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rltIeQW3Bo - trailer

keywords: rabbits, adventure, Easter Bunny, conspiracy

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Annabelle's Wish is a 1997 animated Christmas film that revolves around a young calf who aspires to learn to fly and become one of Santa Claus' reindeer.

The story of the film is based on an old legend, that Santa Claus (or God in the original legend) gives animals the ability to speak on Christmas. The film takes place in a fictional rural farming community named Twobridge somewhere in Tennessee where a young calf named Annabelle is born on Christmas Eve. Upon meeting Santa Claus, she becomes fascinated with reindeer and their ability to fly, and wishes to fly herself.

source: Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_7EU_YnN4 - full movie (51 minutes)

keywords: calf, Santa Clause, Christmas, reindeer, ambition

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Madagascar (2005) DreamWorks – animation, comedy, adventure.

Four animals from New York Central Park Zoo set off for a journey to Madagascar, where they discover that life really is a jungle.
Keywords: zoo, lion, giraffe, zebra, escape.

Brother Bear (2003)
85 min - Animation | Adventure | Family - 1 November 2003 (USA)

Plot Keywords: Bear | Revenge | Spirit | Mammoth | Moose | See more »
Taglines: Welcome to a world where animals rule and the only human around... isn't human anymore. See more »

When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.

trailer at

Dinosaur (2000)
82 min - Animation | Adventure | Family - 19 May 2000 (USA)

Plot Keywords: Dinosaur | Lemur | Egg | Meteor | Iguanodon | See more »
Taglines: You have never seen anything like this.
Genres: Animation | Adventure | Family | Thriller

Trailer at

Secretariat (2010)
123 min - Drama | Family | History - 8 October 2010 (USA)

A true story about an amazing horse. You will be amazed and experience greatness.

Penny Chenery Tweedy and her colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

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The Ant Bully
Warner bros., USA 2006
(in Romanian: Lucas, spaima furnicilor)

A boy who was bullied by those bigger than him resorts to bullying insects, ants that are, of course smaller than him.
The magician-healer of the ant colony has a cure for him: he will magically resize the boy, bringing him at the same height as ants...



Tags: bully, insect, ant, colony, animal society, responsibility to animals

ANTZ
Dreamworks, USA, 1998



This is the first of the ant-themed movies. The poer (and oppression) of the group, the heroism of the individual. Ants have to face their enemy, termites, big killer ants...

insect, ant, colony, gregarious animal, colony,
individual vs community, heroism