Top 20 movies like Line 17
Top 20 Movies like Line 17
- 1. Emily
- 2. Closet Space
- 3. Scripta volant
- 4. Promises
- 5. creator
- 6. Ygg's Bird
- 7. tick tack
- 8. Better back then
- 9. Rootless Heart
- 10. Specimens of Obsessions
- 11. Where Did I Come From?
- 12. Curtain Razor
- 13. The Man with the Beautiful Eyes
- 14. Enter the Freeman
- 15. Intolerance III: The Final Solution
- 16. From the Dolphin
- 17. JAM FISH
- 18. BONNIE
- 19. Ants in the sky
- 20. Spots Spots
1. Emily (Emily)
An old florist reminisces on her life. She has always been very generous to the people around her, but will the generosity ever be returned? Will she ever receive flowers herself?
2. Closet Space
A couple moves into their new apartment and experiences the horrors of... their closet space.
It has an average vote of 6.784 on TMDB.
3. Scripta volant (Scripta volant)
I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.
4. Promises (約束)
It was a season when the tree leaves turn red. There was a woman crying in front of the child’s . She takes the shadow off. . . her dead son. Just to stay with him she runs with the shadow in her arms through the town at night. Then she makes a promise. . .
5. creator (creator)
A man is left alone in empty white space. He starts to create his own world with materials popped up out of nowhere and build a house and made animals. But there is a hole in this world and he wonders about it. In the meanwhile he learns there is the border where they can survive around the hole.
6. Ygg's Bird (ユッグの鳥)
We are all living in a food chain. All of the living beings support each other as predator-prey relationship in the balance of nature. Yet there is a huge and ferocious bird. It is so brutal that all the creatures are afraid of it. . . Everything repeats itself, slightly changing form.
7. tick tack (tick tack)
A little Chinku thinks his father does not love him. And when he thinks his grandfather, his only supporter, rejects his hand for help, Chinku feels betrayed. . . Chinku draws circles with a huge and heavy pencil, which the time to fly fast. . .
8. Better back then (少女のいと 魔法のいと)
A girl is kept on the by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch. . . what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done?
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Rootless Heart (さまよう心臓)
Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .
10. Specimens of Obsessions (標本の塔)
A man jumped out of the window. Why did he have to leap out of his room? As time reverses, his struggles gradually get revealed. He has confined himself to his room and tried to escape from the horrible illusions and the memory of a. . . man. His room was full of specimens and each specimen had a significant name.
11. Where Did I Come From?
An animated sex education video for children based on the best-selling book of the same title. It tells the story of conception through birth in a humorous, sensitive way, answering all the awkward questions parents have found difficult to respond to in an informative and entertaining way
It has an average vote of 4.2 on TMDB.
12. Curtain Razor
Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has a wolf performing this "stupendous act" where he wears a devil hat, cape and the like, drinks nitroglycerin, gasoline and other explosive stuff, then swallows a match. KABOOM! Porky thinks that the act is really good until the wolf's ghost comes in and says that there's a catch... "I can only do it once!"
It has an average vote of 6.364 on TMDB.
13. The Man with the Beautiful Eyes
A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them of all that is strong, natural, and beautiful. What happens later to this man with the beautiful eyes introduces the boys to the gray and uptight world of adulthood that awaits them.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
14. Enter the Freeman (Enter the Freeman)
(Enter the Freeman)
It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.
15. Intolerance III: The Final Solution
Two thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them?
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
16. From the Dolphin (イルカから)
The image of dolphins ties together this story.
17. JAM FISH (JAM FISH)
Depiction of an incident that happened one night. . . as everyone returns to their hometown for the holidays, told from a child’s point of view.
18. BONNIE (BONNIE)
Bonnie is something like the wind, and she was hoping that everything would get blown away.
19. Ants in the sky (空のアリ)
There are creatures like this. In the sky. An ‘ant’ lost on earth and a man left behind. Hey, listen to the request! The man’s ‘ant gathering’ begins.
20. Spots Spots (Spots Spots)
A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes mesmerized by the pattern.