If You Loved Metropia, Try These 10 Films

Description: This French-Czech animated film presents a surreal alien world where humans are kept as pets by giant blue humanoids, exploring themes of oppression, evolution, and the cycle of violence.

Fact: The film won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 197Its unique visual style was created using cut-out animation and painted backgrounds.

Description: An anthology of animated sci-fi/fantasy stories connected by a mystical orb, featuring adult themes, surreal visuals, and a dystopian view of technology and human nature.

Fact: The film was based on the adult-oriented comic magazine of the same name. Its soundtrack features classic rock artists like Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, and Devo.

Description: A seminal cyberpunk anime that delves deep into questions of identity, consciousness, and the merging of human and machine in a high-tech future. Its visual style combines detailed cityscapes with philosophical narrative.

Fact: The film's iconic opening sequence features a cyborg body being constructed, which took six months to animate. It heavily influenced 'The Matrix' and other sci-fi films.

Description: This philosophical animated film uses rotoscoping to create a visually distinctive, dreamlike world where characters discuss existential questions about reality, consciousness, and the nature of existence.

Fact: Director Richard Linklater later used the same rotoscoping technique in 'A Scanner Darkly'. The film features cameos from many philosophers and academics playing themselves.

Description: Set in a futuristic Paris, this noir-style animated film features a striking black-and-white visual style and explores themes of corporate control, memory manipulation, and technological dystopia.

Fact: The film's motion capture technology required actors to wear special suits with markers, and the entire production took over six years to complete.

Description: This film shares a dystopian, cyberpunk aesthetic and explores themes of surveillance, identity, and altered states of consciousness. Its rotoscoped animation style creates a surreal, dreamlike quality that mirrors the protagonist's fractured reality.

Fact: The film features an all-star cast including Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Winona Ryder. It was based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, known for his explorations of reality and perception.

Description: A coming-of-age story told through striking black-and-white animation, exploring themes of identity, political upheaval, and cultural displacement with a deeply personal perspective.

Fact: The film is based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel. It was the first animated film to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes since 'Dumbo' in

Description: This visually stunning anime blurs the lines between dreams and reality, featuring surreal imagery and a narrative that explores the subconscious mind and the dangers of technology that can access it.

Fact: The film was director Satoshi Kon's final completed work before his death. Its dream sequences inspired Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'.

Description: An animated documentary that uses a unique visual style to explore memory, trauma, and the unreliability of recollection in the context of war and personal experience.

Fact: This was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. The animation was created using Adobe Flash and traditional animation techniques.

Description: A mix of live-action and animation that examines themes of identity, celebrity, and the digitization of human consciousness in a future where people can choose to live in animated fantasy worlds.

Fact: The film is loosely based on Stanislaw Lem's 1971 novel 'The Futurological Congress'. It features Robin Wright playing a fictionalized version of herself.