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A Summer at Grandpa's

November 1984 •Chinese

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Cancer, Capricorn and Pisces

March 2022 •Bulgarian

Going out for cigarettes at midnight, a woman sees a boy holding a big tortoise. Real or imaginary, this encounter changes her life for good.

烏歸

June 2013 •Chinese

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

December 2012 •English

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare

September 2008 •English

This story picks up a generation after the famous race between the Hare and the Tortoise. This time it's their kids' turn to compete, and they're about to escalate their family rivalry to ridiculous new levels.

Cannibal Holocaust

February 1980 •Italian

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Bye Bye Birdie

April 1963 •English

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

Girl Shy

April 1924 •English

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.

Goodbye Herman

May 2023 •English

A graduating high school student tells his best friend, a tortoise, that he is leaving the state for college.

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

January 2015 •English

Mr. Hoppy is a shy old man who lives alone in an apartment building. For many years, he has been secretly in love with Mrs. Silver, a woman who lives below him. Mr. Hoppy frequently leans over his balcony and exchanges polite conversation with Mrs. Silver, but he is too shy to disclose how he feels. Mr. Hoppy longs to express his feelings to Mrs. Silver, but he can never bring his lips to form the words. Mrs. Silver has a small pet tortoise, Alfie, whom she loves very much. One morning, Mrs. Silver mentions to Mr. Hoppy that even though she has had Alfie for many years, her pet has only grown a tiny bit and has gained only 3 ounces in weight. She confesses that she wishes she knew of some way to make her little Alfie grown into a larger, more dignified tortoise. Mr. Hoppy suddenly thinks of a way to give Mrs. Silver her wish and win her affection.

The Tortoise and the Hare

January 1935 •English

The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson. Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, The Tortoise and the Hare won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the influences for Bugs Bunny.

Toby Tortoise Returns

August 1936 •English

Toby Tortoise is back, and this time he and Max Hare box instead of racing.

Gacha Gacha

August 2018 •Japanese

A not-so-heartwarming tale about capsule toys, the nightmare of obsession, jealous rage, and a slimy, stop-frame animated tiny monster.

The Hare and the Tortoise

January 1924 •Japanese

A retelling of the classic Aesop Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.

Tortoise Beats Hare

March 1941 •English

Bugs Bunny challenges slick Cecil Turtle to a race.

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

February 1943 •English

Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.

Galapagos 3D: Nature's Wonderland

February 2014 •English

In the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, there is a paradise unlike any other: the Galapagos. Amongst these remote volcanic islands, life has played out over millions of years in relative isolation. The result is a wonderland of nature.

The Turtle Family

January 1988 •English

Whether on land, in fresh water, or in the sea, tortoises, terrapins, and turtles have an advantage. Nature has blessed them with a protective shell that locks out interference and danger.

A Journal of the Outdoors No. 11

March 1953 •English

Wildfowl and wallabies in the wild, exotic animals in the office.

Tortoise in Time

December 2022 •Swedish

A tortoise crawls across the floor. A man sits on the couch, dead. A year passes, the mail by the door piles up as the man slowly rots. The starving and lonely tortoise begins to panic.