10 Worth To Watch Stop-Motion Films

What is stop-motion?

It's a filmmaking technic that requires mainly handmade products. According to Wikipedia:

Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back. Any kind of object can thus be animated, but puppets with movable joints (puppet animation) or plasticine figures (clay animation or claymation) are most commonly used. Puppets, models, or clay figures built around an armature are used in model animation. Stop motion with live actors is often referred to as pixilation. Stop motion of flat materials such as paper, fabrics or photographs is usually called cutout animation.

So with that definition let's move on our list:

1- Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)

This is considered as the first stop-motion film. I personally like to see the very first version of the film genres. I'm curious to see the evolution, so it's interesting to watch.

2- Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926)

The story comes from One Thousand and One Nights. The screening technique is called silhouette animation, the shadow of puppets. Its music and visual animation really make this film inspiring.

3- Le Roman de Renart (1937)

I totally recommend it if you're an adorant to medieval literature. As originally it was French satirical literary cycles that have the elements of a fable. The principal character Renart constantly tricks and fools everyone including The King. It makes little nuances to the classification of medieval society.

4- A Midnight Summer Night's Dream (1959)

With the title's clear preference, it's based on the famous play Shakespeare. Made in Czechoslovak, the sequence of puppets creates a dreamy ambiance.

5- Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

I kinda made a sudden jump to a more modern era but I couldn't wait anymore. This work of art shaped the popularity of stop-motion films. Tim Burton's screening has gothic, dark, and oppositely naive, heart-warming elements at the same time. Every goth's first love could be Jack Skellington. He and Sally was a long time ago the definition of true love. I was amazed by the songs and story the first time I watched it. It created black butterflies in my stomach. I falling love with stop-motion thanks to this film.

6- Blood Tea And Red String (2006)

It's an indie dark fantasy stop-motion production. The story tells the dependence on the beauty that haunts the creature's mind. The aristocratic mice and the bird creatures give their everything for the sake of having a hauntingly aesthetic being. The eery music with the dominance of the color red impacts the creepiness of the film.

7- Coraline (2009)

Coraline is based on a fictional story by Neil Gaiman. Coraline the main character feels like her parents are unseemingly to her so she became pissed off about that state. One day she discovers a secret passage. In that passage, she finds her parents lookalike except for the buttons on the eyes of the clones. The copy of her mother promised Coraline to be neverendingly happy all together. With the longing for a caring family environment, Coraline accepts to stay with the button-eyed copy of her mother.

8-Mary and Max (2009)

Mary and Max broke my heart for a lot of reasons. It's the most sincere, touching, and melancholic stop-motion film on this list. The film gives a sorrowful smile to the face of the audience. The story is about Max who is a Jewish autistic man living all alone in the city and Mary who has poverty, weird family. Their friendship begins with a coincident encounter. The pen-friendship opens different views of daily life struggles such as attempting to find ever-lasting love, the occurrence of loneliness in a big city, and feeling abandoned, and misunderstood by society. These are everything that makes the essential themes of this film. Having the emotion of unbelonging to the world we was born in and trying to discover a person who can comprehend all our being without judging our whole existence.

9-Fantastic Mr.Fox (2009)

Fantastic Mr. Fox is made from Roald Dahl's storybook about a fox who is extremely smart and sneaky. Wes Anderson's production was created by real movements of actors. The film contains all the classic elements of Wes Anderson's movie technic: the power of symmetry, quirky main characters, and the loyalty of characters to their loved ones. This film is one of the productions that tell the civilized animal pretending like human and shows the contradictional alignment of civilization and maintaining one's true savage nature.

10-Ma Vie De Courgette (2016)

It's a naïve production, I would describe it as. In an orphanage, the children try to heal their abandoned situation by themselves. Their own interaction reflects the specific perspective of childhood toward the world. Overall, there's a possibility of a few tear drops at the end of the film.