Old and modern: 10 St. Nicholas Day cartoons for a cozy evening. Trailers

It's too early to watch cartoons about the rebel Grinch, the adventures of Santa Claus, or, say, Rudolph the Dreaming Reindeer. Leave them for the Christmas and New Year celebrations. What should you choose instead? Stories with a winter atmosphere or that remind children and adults of certain values... It can be both old classics and modern masterpieces.

In honor of St. Nicholas Day, OBOZ.UA has prepared a selection of cartoons that will diversify your holiday evening. Allow yourself to relax and return to your childhood for at least a few hours.

1. "The AristoCats" (1970)

Country: USA

Director: Wolfgang Reiterman

Running time: 1 hour 18 minutes

This is a story for those who love Paris, cats, and jazz... The wealthy Madame Adelaide Bonnfamily plans to leave a huge inheritance to her pets (the Duchess's cat and kittens Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse), who have a talent for music. The greedy butler Edgar finds out about this and decides to get rid of the furry animals by taking them to Provence. Find out if the Duchess and her children will be able to return home and punish the offender.

2. "Balto" (1995)

Country: USA

Director: Simon Wells

Running time: 1 hour 17 minutes

This animated film is based on real events of 1925. It tells the story of the legendary sled dog Balto, or rather a half-dog-half-wolf, who lived for a long time on an abandoned ship with his friend (the grumpy goose Boris). When he came out to people, they made fun of him. And even among dogs, because of his "unclean" origin, he did not find support... Everything changed when the city of Nome, on the edge of Alaska, was struck by an outbreak of diphtheria (a deadly and contagious disease). What exactly did Balto do to become a world-famous hero? We will not spoil it.

3. "Ice Age" (2002)

Country: USA

Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldana

Duration: 1 hr 21 min.

20,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, animals, including the gloomy mammoth Manfred, the annoying sloth Sid, and the cunning saber-toothed tiger Diego, migrate south. One day, the main characters find a small human cub and decide to return it to the tribe. This is not so easy to do: people have already left their settlement, which was attacked by predators...

4. "Happy Feet" (2006)

Countries: USA, Australia

Director: George Miller

Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes

If you are born into a family of emperor penguins, you must sing well. On the Antarctic ice, the only way to find a mate is to sing your heart out. Mumble the penguin does not know how to do this. However, he has another talent - he is a great tap dancer. These rhythmic movements upset his parents. As for the flock... They laugh at the eccentric. Fortunately, he continued to improve his skills and later saved the birds from death with the help of tap dancing. Are you intrigued to know how he did it?

5. "Frozen" (2013)

Country: USA

Directed by: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck

Duration: 1 h 42 min.

This is a touching story about love, sacrifice, and the strength of family ties. The main character Elsa has the magical ability to create and control ice and snow. Such a gift is truly valuable if you don't lose control of it... And that's exactly what happened. The girl brought eternal winter to the kingdom of Arendelle and fled from the palace to the mountains to avoid harming anyone else. Her sister Anna knew that this was done unintentionally, so she went in search of Elsa. She was accompanied by Christoph, the ice axe, Sven, the faithful reindeer, and Olaf, the funny snowman. I wonder if the sisters will be able to break the icy spell and bring warmth and harmony back to the kingdom?

6. "Arctic Dogs" (2019)

Countries: USA, UK, Canada, South Korea

Director: Aaron Woodley

Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes

Swifty the fox works for the Arctic Postal Service. He dreams of joining an elite courier unit, but it is impossible. Only noble breed dogs are accepted. In desperation to prove himself, the fox steals a sled and delivers the parcel to a mysterious place. There he comes across the secret lair of the walrus Otto von Walrus, where he learns that he plans to melt the Arctic and get rich from oil and gas reserves. Swift decides to thwart his plans. But how exactly?

7. "Titina" (2022)

Countries: Norway, Belgium

Directed by: Kajsa Ness

Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes

This animated film is based on a true story. Umberto Nobile, an Italian engineer, was enjoying a quiet life with his beloved dog named Titina, whom he found on a street in Rome. Suddenly, he received a call from the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who ordered an airship to conquer the North Pole. Nobel liked this idea, so he designed the aircraft and in 1926 went on an expedition with Amundsen and his four-legged friend.

8. "Smallfoot" (2018)

Country: USA

Directors: Cary Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig

Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes

The creators of this animated film decided to show a world where the yetis (just like in our legends, but vice versa) tell each other horror stories about people called "smallfoots". Some of them sometimes find material evidence of the existence of "mythical creatures". For example, toilet paper, which was called "a scroll of intricate wisdom." However, most people are convinced that this is nonsense, fiction... What happens if humans and yetis actually collide? Will they be able to get along with each other, or will they start a feud?

9. "Soul" (2020)

Country: USA

Director: Pete Docter

Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes

A middle-aged man named Joe Gardner dreams day in and day out about the moment when he will take the stage as a popular jazz pianist. However, he continues to work as a music teacher in an average American school. When he gets the chance to fulfill his dream, unfortunately, on the eve of the momentous event, Joe falls into a sewer manhole. His soul falls into a strange world where immature souls live. The musician was not going to die... In order to return to Earth, he has to help soul number 22 understand what he wants in life. Many of her mentors failed to do this.

10. "Abominable" 2019)

Countries: USA, China

Directors: Jill Calton and Todd Wilderman

Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes

A young girl, Lu, accidentally finds a yeti on the roof of an apartment building in Shanghai. She named him Everest (because he came from there), and decided to help her friends Chen and Peng get home with their new friend. Later, Lu learned that her Bigfoot had escaped from a top-secret laboratory. So, now the zoologist Zara and the insidious Bernish are chasing them to continue to conduct experiments on the poor thing.

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