Movies Similar to Animated Shorts: BBC Introducing Arts

Red Velvet(2018)

A New York gay professor is haunted and lost. A tale of cultural politics in dystopian scenario that is relevant to today's social climate, commenting on meanings attached to gender, phobia, and trauma.

The Knock on the Door(2019)

Meike and Ursula are planning to start a family. They arrange for a donor to help them. Meike is excited and ready. But is Ursula?

Being and Nothingness(2019)

When sixteen-year-old Lola is forced to relocate to Casper, Wyoming with her anxious, existentialist mother - she ends up falling for her eccentric grandmother's ranch hand.

The Professor(2013)

An ex-professor and her gang of student radicals kidnap a famous news anchor and force him to read the 'real news' live on the internet.

Confidence(1998)

In a candlelit room at 1:30 a.m., a dominatrix finishes with a client and relaxes with her wig, gloves, collar, and chains off. A knock at the door surprises her, and in comes an old client ...

Trying(2021)

A friendship breakup film. "Trying" follows Nora and Sarah, two childhood best friends who haven't seen each other in almost a year, as they meet for coffee and take a walk around Glassell Park in Los Angeles. Inspired by films like My Dinner with Andre and The Before Trilogy, as well as Esther Perel's podcast, "Trying" explores a critical moment in Nora and Sarah’s relationship as they confront the fear of having grown apart but T-R-Y to reconnect.

Cherry Blossoms in March(2024)

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life.

The Old Man(2019)

Alan, a 70-something widower, struggles to accept the fact that he's not the young and healthy man that he used to be. This is sparked after his daughter suggests that he should move into an assisted living home.

Checkmate(2025)

When starting a chess game, João does everything he can to try to emerge victorious. During the game, strange things start to happen in your home. To try to understand what is happening, João will need to gather strength to defeat his biggest adversary: ​​himself.

Tomorrow's Shame(2024)

Realizing he won't be able to pay his mortgage, Pierre faces a heartbreaking decision: to evict Micheline, his tenant and friend, who is behind on her payments.

On Sunday(1963)

Here, Here(2019)

Years after mining operations began, a once rugged and undisturbed town changes drastically. Koi, 22, returns home for the first time since leaving for college, and does so with an infected ear. He joins his mother Tonet in waiting for his father, both of them clueless as to whether his father could make it home alive after an accident in the extraction tunnel. As Koi reconnects with his hometown in slow decay, he fears the impending possibility of losing both his father and his hearing. Part fiction, part experiment, and purposefully blurring the distinction, Here, Here is a loose visual study on landscapes and terrains, both natural and beyond.

While the Unicorn Is Watching Me(2014)

On a chilly Sunday morning, a man awakens to the mischievous stare of a unicorn that seems to have come straight out of his dreams. Carried along by an early morning sensuality, his fantasies transform his lonely apartment into a garden of delights, in which this young creature can freely reap the fruits of his desires.

Ruth(2024)

The year 2000. Maya, a young Londoner, goes to the small village of her Spanish girlfriend, Ruth, who has just died in an accident. She wants to say goodbye, but the shock and anxiety of presenting herself as the “foreign girlfriend” to family and friends she doesn't know and who speak a different language, is compounded by the perplexity of discovering that nobody knows who she is.

No Horizon(2013)

After a jailbreak on an interplanetary POW transport ship, a prison guard loyal to his culture an commander is shown the true nature of his lifelong enemy. Coming face-to-face with a captain leaves him questioning everything he has been taught. Should he continue to blindly follow the rhetoric of his society or finally make his own decisions.

Victoria Station(2003)

A controller in a London cab office looks for a driver to pick up a fare from Victoria Station. The driver who answers has never heard of Victoria Station. And he already has a "passenger on board", albeit a very unusual one.

Fili di memorie(2022)

A Summer Solstice Story(2023)

The first summer to spend together with Toru. In the hot, humid room, Yuko can think only about Toru. As she peeks into Toru's room through binoculars.... The story depicts a summer day filled with love and madness of a girl who waits for her beloved to return home.

Cashback(2004)

Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?

Un lugar mejor(2013)

Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of going to a better place.