Movies: Balloon

Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the hu...

Poppy Valentine, a young circus performer who has grown up in her family's traveling circus, has never dreamed of what life would be like outside of its fences. However, now in her mid-20s and with more unwelcomed responsibility weighing her down, sh...

A hippie drops acid with two chicks and goes on a weird trip....

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The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This...

With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to ...

Two hopeful migrants must make the long, arduous journey across a desolate landscape toward the promise of a better life only to discover their destination may no longer be the place they believed it was....

When social hermit May hires a birthday clown for herself, she doesn’t expect Germayne, a disillusioned Pierrot to show up for the job. After May’s emotional baggage spills through her carefully constructed facade right in the middle of it, Germayne ...

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner....

A rowdy young girl befriends a depressed robot at the beach and the two set out to steal a balloon....

Two male dolls compete to win the heart of female doll Dolly Daisy....

Sonny falls asleep while his mom reads him a bedtime story and wakes up in Balloon Land, a magical world filled with giant balloon people and animals....

Through no fault of his own, Scott must pursue the inflated menace that got away from him....

This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after the Méliès TRIP TO THE MOON a couple of years earlier. Second, it uses a dozen cuts, irised lenses -...

Teacher Mr. Schubert and student Fred seperately enter the empty school on a Saturday to test out what they cannot be in everyday life. Something special happens as they both wander through school....

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When a balloon gets separated from its bunch, it must go on an adventure to get back to its friends, learning to accept its imperfections along the way....

Back in 1987, CGI was still relatively new. Pixar had only produced three shorts by that time and they tended to be extremely simple. And, such projects took years and were still created using massive mainframe computers--as PCs were not fast enough ...

Three men in a descending hot air balloon over an icy sea must get rid of weight. After a vote, they throw one out of the basket. The man clings to the long line under the balloon and refuses to let go....

A man blows balloons until they burst and thus expresses his accumulated aggression....