Movies: Chicken

When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything ...

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A girly, cotton-candy colored slumber party unravels when a shy teen becomes the center of a bizarre nighttime ritual....

A narcoleptic pet rooster never wakes up on time because he’s too busy dreaming of being the greatest boxer of all-time. But when he and his owner fall into tough times, he’ll finally get his chance to step into the ring....

Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of parts stolen from his neighbors. Rival egg companies want his invention, one of them stooping to sabo...

Jasper is hunting in the jungle with his friend the Scarecrow. Along the way, they run into Bugs Bunny, making a rare cameo in a non-Warner Bros. production....

Odd is terrified of his head, until one day he falls in love with Gunn who is both fearless and happy in life. Odd's life is turned upside down and he is freed from his worries in the most unexpected way....

An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life of Sharp-Ears, a fox who is captured by a forester as a cub and raised in his home prior to escaping...

A splendid 10-minute animated film by Sharon Smith. It is an adaptation of a tale by Frank Key. Narrated by Key himself, it has been screened at film festivals and competitions all over the world, including Annecy, Edinburgh, Brazil and last month’s ...

An ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence, displayed through the homegrown remedies Tom and Debbie Nicholson create for disabled animals....

To be born without freedom. Waiting your turn to be crushed into nuggets. It is a matter of choosing: To pray, or kill them first....

In three distinct eras, a man walking down the street has an unexpected encounter with a chicken....

Rodrigo, a teenager staying at his father's house during vacation, is bewildered after being forced to kill a chicken for dinner, questioning the meaning of power, good, evil, and the existence of god. Feeling guilty for his acts, he discusses with h...

A reclusive man has just moved to the suburbs when he begins to receive visits from strangers dressed in homemade chicken costumes. When he discovers the truth about his new house, he must confront both the chicken people and his own trauma....

An exploration of entering and leaving consciousness from the perspective of non-human bodies trapped in everlasting cycles of abuse....

A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian...

"Do what you want because everything will be legal"....

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Five random people accidentally get dosed with an experimental psych-drug that suppresses fear and risk-avoidance....

Two poor farmers spend all their money on a chicken, while waiting for her first egg they slowly start to get the feeling there’s something very wrong with the animal....