5 psychological cartoons for the whole family: what to watch this weekend

Realization of dreams, incredible travels, exciting and dangerous adventures, all this and much more for cartoon lovers. UNN offers a selection of cartoons about real life values.

The Wild Robot 2024 - Robot Intelligence from Unit 7134 - abbreviated as "Roz" - is stranded on a desert island after a terrible shipwreck. However, after exploring the area, Roz realizes that life is thriving here, even if there are no humans to guide it. Now the robot will have to explore the world of wildlife and get closer to the living creatures that inhabit the island. One day, fate brings him across an orphaned gosling, and Roz is forced to become not just a protector, but a real father to him, discovering feelings that were not included in his program.

Genre: Animation, Adventure

country: USA

Director: Chris Sanders

Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Nighy, Wing Reims

Wish Dragon 2021 - Dean is happy with his life and does not need much wealth and success. Only one circumstance upsets the young man – he lost touch with his childhood friend. Once they made each other a promise that they would always maintain friendship, but fate separated them, because Lee belongs to another world where Dean has no place. Somehow in his hands turns out to be an old teapot, inside which a magic dragon was locked. Long had been imprisoned for a thousand years in agony and solitude, and now he had a chance to gain freedom. As soon as the young man makes three wishes, the dragon, having fulfilled them, can become a free being. But Dean is in no hurry to choose his desires, because he doesn't need power and wealth. The young man dreams of meeting Lee NOI again and regaining their former friendship. Dragon Long is ready to help his liberator, but he does not yet know about the cruel people who want to gain power over him and get an ancient teapot in any way.

Genre: Comedy

Country: China, USA

Director: Chris Appelgans

Cast: John Cho, Jimmy Wong, Natasha Lew Bordizzo, Constance Wu, Will Yoon Lee, Bobby Lee

Inside Out 2015 - the events of the cartoon take place in the brain of a carefree 11-year-old girl named Riley. She and her father have to leave their native Midwest, namely Minnesota, and move to the city of San Francisco, as he has a new job waiting for him. Riley, like every young lady, is guided by various emotions in her life, such as fear and anger, sadness and joy, disappointment and hatred. All these feelings are located together in the control center, in their common headquarters, located in the girl's brain. Every day they send instructions to their mistress from there. But San Francisco, which appeared in this girl's life, caused a mess in the control center. And if the joyful emotion, with which Riley is in best contact, as usual, tends to see everything in rainbow colors, then other feelings hold a different point of view on what is happening to her in this city.

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Adventure

Country: USA

Director: Pete Docter

Cast: Ronaldo Del Carmen, Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black

Soul 2020 - Joe Gardner is a school music teacher who dreams of performing on stage more than anything else in his life. One day he gets a chance to play in front of famous jazz musicians in a popular New York jazz club, but due to some ridiculous accident, after falling into a sewer manhole, the musician finds himself in the world of souls, where he meets a young soul named 22, who cannot decide what he wants to become.

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Country: USA

Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Pavers

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Elis Braga, Richard Ayoade

The Wind Rises 2013 - Jiro is a dreamer, he wants to become a pilot, but due to circumstances, he is not destined to realize his idea. But the boy's dream of the sky does not leave him and he creates the most perfect airplane and becomes the best aircraft designer. The main character is easily recognizable as the director himself and his family. Jiro survives an earthquake, bloody wars, and finds the love of his life.

Genre: Biography, Drama

Country: Japan

Directors: Hayao Miyazaki

Cast: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takemoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Mansai Nomura, Jun Kunimura, Mirai Shida, Shinobu Otake, Morio Kazama