Living Cartoons: Live Action Films by Animators

In Mike Judge’s outrageous classic, one man awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet.

Persepolis co-directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud make the leap from animation to live action with this expressionistic adaptation of Satrapi's moving graphic novel about a grief-stricken musician.

Tim Burton’s classic comic twist on supernatural horror stars Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Winona Ryder as a gaggle of ghosts.

An unemployed circus clown applies for a job as a handyman at an apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, unaware that the ad is meant to lure people to slaughter.

Jayne Mansfield stars in Frank Tashlin’s wild send-up about a Monroe-like movie queen and a low-level adman played by Tony Randall.

In the not-so-distant future, desperate young people risk everything to play an illegal and potentially lethal virtual war game in this cinematic adventure from Mamoru Oshii.

Shin Ultraman offers a delightful reimagining of one of Japan's classic superheroes—full of cosmic twists, charismatic villains, and giant Kaiju.

Director Hideaki Anno offers a new take on the motorcycle-riding, insect-inspired Kamen Rider superhero franchise in this film about a man who becomes stripped of all humanity.

An extremely satisfying zombie-horror film from Yeon Sang-ho about a group of somewhat noble, somewhat terrible survivors trying to stay alive aboard a train journeying across South Korea.

A landmark screwball comedy from Hollywood’s golden age, this film follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a “forgotten man” at the city dump.

Rude, raunchy, and totally outrageous, Brendan Faser stars as a post-comatose man trying to control his horn-dog alter ego as it attempts to wreak havoc all over the real world.

Agent Ethan Hunt and his elite team go underground after a bombing of the Kremlin implicates the IMF as international terrorists in Brad Bird’s big-budget contribution to the Mission Impossible franchise.

When their beloved television is stolen, Beavis and Butt-head get up off their couch and set out on a wild cross-country quest from Las Vegas to the White House to find it.

Finding irreverent humor in the darkest of circumstances, this masterfully moving animated fable follows a precocious, punk-loving girl growing up amid the cultural upheaval of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

From director Mamoru Oshii, this glorious cyber-punk mindbender explores gender, class, and the implications of artificial intelligence through an elite, cybernetically enhanced force of operatives.

A marvelous feast of puppetry and animation, Tim Burton’s spooky-season instant classic features the voices of Danny Elfman, Catherine O’Hara, and Paul Reubens.

A young boy rescues a huge robot which has rocketed to earth from space and tries to protect the genial giant from a nosey government agent in Brad Bird’s captivating animated classic.

The End of Evangelion, director Hideaki Anno’s feature-length film that picks up right where the series left off, provides a provocative end to the series that ushered in a new era of Japanese animation.