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Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei will take revenge on his family in China, Lee seeks out expert forger Meg Coburn to obtain the passport he needs to get out of the country, but a band of replacement killers is soon on his trail.

Human clones are beginning to take over the globe after the election of the first clone president.

Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.

Short animation made by anno in his uni days

Without notice, Clara quits her position as The Cup's manager. This causes Jamie, an employee, and Bea Reasonable, The Cup's drag queen owner, to search for her replacement. Bea soon discovers over a series of interviews that The Cup's regulars aren't exactly manager material. When all hope appears to be lost, Josh enters the shop to apply for the position. The interview goes incredibly well, and Bea believes she's found her replacement for Clara... but in a day where nothing has gone Bea's way, can it really be that simple?

What will you do when they come to replace you?

After spending a year in a juvenile center for beating up his stepfather, Todd Turnbull returns to his backwoods hometown a repentant, deeply religious boy. When he finds his best friend, Michael, withering away without any medical attention due to the family's spiritual beliefs, Todd must make a choice: let his friend die; or break his oath of non-violence and take matters into his own hands.

Burglars leaving the scene of their latest loot cross paths with cops ambushing an armed criminal in the same area. Amid the chaos, the burglars take a bar hostage and begin planning their escape not knowing that the armed criminal is in the bar.

A hitman action film set in Singapore, this film was an eight-minute spoof movie that won Jack Neo the Best Director award in the 1998 Singapore International Film Festival Silver Screen Awards. The short was later expanded into a telefilm starring Neo’s frequent collaborators.

While fending off the office bully, a business exec must help the front desk face his possible firing and replacement.

In a turbulent near-future, a young man confronts his grief over his lost love by building a replacement robot.

A boy playing in his backyard discovers he is not alone. One of four films selected for Mars’ “Bite Size Horror“ Halloween campaign.

Tells the story of a corn farmer's son, Kyo Hwan, who meets two mysterious women while driving as a replacement driver.

A hitman most recent kill is found alive.

"I do" becomes "I don't" when a broken-hearted woman stops the wrong wedding. As she tries to correct her mistake by helping the groom win back the bride, she unintentionally starts replacing the bride in the groom's heart.

A disillusioned college employee and aspiring writer discovers a woman virtually identical to herself in a press article about the winner of a prestigious prize.

When Liza gets mysteriously struck by a hit and run driver, her teenage daughter Jessica finds herself alone and with no one to look after her. When wealthy Eva offers to take care of her, Jessica can’t help but be seduced by Eva’s world. However, nothing is what it seems, and Jessica now must come up with a plan to save herself…and her comatose mother.

In 18 minutes, a lone creator combines introspective landscapes, old devices and haunting memories into a whimsical symphony. Amidst Finnish panoramas, near the Russian border, broken video recorders flicker with melancholic sci-fi. Nature is a silent witness, while fragmented memories intertwine to create a visual collage that conveys a quiet sense of introspection.

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A young director films a year and a half from his ground floor window in Berlin. He observes the light on the asphalt, construction workers on the other side of the street and accidentally, via the soundtrack of the recordings, himself.

When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.

A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.

Fatiya agrees to replace her cousin at a babysitting gig. When she meets the mother of the young boy she is supposed to look after, prejudice and racism cause the afternoon to take a turn.

In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz. A whooping wooden Indian chief self-animates as well, and goes on the warpath.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty melodies. A chance meeting with a bullfrog changes everything.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.

In the meeting room, members of the Special Investigation Unit and Ministry of Education desperately trying to find a replacement for the hiragana "Nu", a character being used as a symbol by the extremist terrorist organisation.

Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous actor for a loan; but, when he faints and collapses on stage, it's up to him to save the day, and his sibling's reputation. Is he up for the task?

Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. A Puppetoon animated short film.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram) goes to work for the C&O Railroad, which shortly thereafter buys an automatic steel-driving engine, The Inky-Poo. John Henry matches his strength against the engine, saying that any man can beat a machine because a man has a mind. Can he prevail? In 2015 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009.

Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s.

In this Puppetoon animated short film, Judy, an enticing blonde, lives across the way from Punchy and uses all her feminine wiles to try to snare him.

Centuries ago in the past, the witch, who doesn't like Beauty, puts her to sleep, then flies throughout the castle spreading sleep powder, placing all into slumber. Eventually we flash forward to present time: A young hepcat in a convertible tries awakening Sleeping Beauty, and everyone in the castle, with some Big Band music. Will it work? A Puppetoon animated short film.

In this Puppetoon animated short film, a variety of music styles are heard as, in various locations, characters dance or sing.

The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film.

Circa 1963 - 1975. This is possibly test footage or something for a beer commercial, or something for a variety show of some sort. Dennis Muren animated it with replacement animation. The same technique that was used with George Pal's Puppetoons and the animation of the title character with The Beast From Hollow Mountain (1956). In fact, this technique is used today from Tim Burton to Laika.

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film.

The imagined perpetrator in a famously unsolved true-crime case, “Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm”, is confronted about his past by an unearthly Bison in this Stop-Motion animated short film.