Watership Down

Watership Down

1978 · 92 min · EN · PG · 7.2 (706 votes)
Dir. Martin Rosen · Starring John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell · Music Angela Morley

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you... but first they must catch you.

AdventureAnimationDrama

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

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A beautiful yet profoundly unsettling animated epic. It feels like a myth unfolding, a journey fraught with peril and stark beauty, where the struggle for survival is rendered with unflinching brutality and melancholic grace. It's a haunting, allegorical experience that lingers long after the credits.

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