20 cartoons that will help you overcome a bad mood

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Short cartoons from around the world will help you overcome despondency and believe that happiness can wait around every turn.

1. Toilet Story - Love Story

• Director: Konstantin Bronzit.
• Russia, 2007.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

One day, a public toilet employee finds a bouquet of flowers at her workplace. History repeats itself over and over again. Who leaves flowers?

2. Blue umbrella

• Director: Sashka Unzeld.
• USA, 2013.
• IMDb: 7, 7.

The story of a blue umbrella, who was stunned when he saw a red umbrella. And if their eyes are destined to meet, then they will understand that they are simply made for each other.

3. Object on vacation

• Director: Seth Boyden.
• USA, 2015.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

A thousand-year life of a stone against the background of pictures of the struggle between nature and human civilization. The film was shortlisted for the Oscar in 2016.

4. Unlucky Jenkins, Lucky Lou

• Directors: Michael Bilinger, Michelle Kwon.
• USA, 2014.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

If someone is overtaken by a streak of failures, then it must be followed by a white streak. Usually it is, but this theory does not apply to one of the main characters of this animated short.

5. A very lonely rooster

• Director: Leonid Shmelkov.
• Russia, 2015.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

An attraction story about a charmingly stupid, very shy and undoubtedly very lonely rooster living in a fantasy world. A very funny and completely absurd movie of last year's Berlinale prize-winner.

6. Octopuses

• Director: Thierry Marchand.
• France, 2007.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

Another Oscar nominee. Two octopuses fight desperately for their lives with a stubborn restaurant chef in a comic pursuit through the streets of a small Greek village.

7. Pyk-pyk-pyk

• Director: Dmitry Vysotsky.
• Russia, 2014.
• IMDb: 6, 1.

The inhabitants of the forest, forgetting about their own contradictions, unite in the face of an external enemy. The easiest way to deal with him, if guided by the principles of the rhythmic musical composition "Pizzicato" Leo Delibes.

8. Log Jam

• Director: Alexey Alekseev.
• Russia, 2008.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

In the animated series Forest Orchestra, three musicians - Bear, Rabbit and Wolf - try to rehearse in the forest, regardless of the circumstances. Whether rain, night, hunters or snakebites - the show must go on!

9. Bugs

• Director: Mikhail Aldashin.
• Russia, 2002.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

The insects would be absolutely happy if not for harmful people, from whom there is only evil and inconvenience. Once their patience ran out, and they staged a real rally in the hope that they would be heard. But will their efforts lead to a result?

10. Rubicon

• Director: Gil Alcabets.
• Germany, 1997.

The ideal solution to the classic riddle: how to transfer a wolf, sheep and cabbage across the river, observing the main condition - all participants in the process must remain safe and sound.

11. Golden Oldies

• Directors: Dan Welsink, Jost Liuvma.
• Netherlands, 2016.
• IMDb: 7, 8.

A romantic story about a teenager, the most beautiful girl in town and a jukebox.

12. Life with Herman H. Rott

• Director: Chintis Lundgren.
• Croatia, 2015.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Herman is a rat who lives alone in a dirty apartment. One day a neat cat with all its belongings appears at his doorstep.

13. Tour of the choir

• Director: Edmund Jansons.
• Latvia, 2012.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

The boys' choir goes on tour. In the hands of a strict conductor, the guys are obedient musical instruments. But it is worth leaving them alone, and they again become just playful children.

14. Deer and Rabbit

• Director: Peter Vats.
• Hungary, 2013.
• IMDb: 8, 5.

The friendship between the Rabbit and the Deer is undergoing a serious test due to the new passion of the Deer, who is trying to find a three-dimensional formula.

15. Afternoon lesson

• Director: Oh Soro.
• South Korea, 2015.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

The story of a student who struggles with sleep in every possible way during evening lectures.

16. Logorama

• Directors: François Alo, Gervais de Grezi, Ludovic Hopelein.
• France, 2009.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

Cartoon advertisement. In 16 minutes of timekeeping, mentions of about 2,500 companies come into view. Also in the cartoon there are parodies of several cartoons and films.

17. Una Furtiva Lagrima

• Director: Carlo Vogele.
• USA, 2012.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

The aria of one fish, which, having fallen into the fisherman's nets, ended up in a frying pan.

18. Zebra

• Director: Julia Ocker.
• Germany, 2013.
• IMDb: 7, 9.

One day a zebra crashes into a tree and learns something.

19. Moon

• Director: Enrico Casarosa.
• USA, 2011.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

Three in the boat and the moon in the sky. The old man, father and son go on a night fishing trip.

20. Round safari

• Directors: Kira Bushor, Annie Habermel, Konstantin Papau.
• Germany, 2012.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

Everything about this safari is round. Round zebras, jaguar, flamingos and even a crocodile. Fat and clumsy inhabitants of the savannah lead everyday life, but the size of the characters in the cartoon "Round Safari" does not allow them to do it with the ease that we are used to expect from representatives of the wild.