Bored in her new home, little Coraline discovers a secret door that contains a world similar to hers but cooler. Coraline is delighted with the discovery, but soon discovers that something is wrong when her alternate parents try to keep her in this world forever.
In a 19th Century European village, a young man winds up inadvertently betrothed to a corpse.
A myths and monsters investigator, Sir Lionel Frost, sets off on an adventure to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature — Mr. Link, an endangered Bigfoot, in hopes of reclaiming his reputation as a cryptozoologist. Accompanied by globe-trotting adventurer -- Adelina Fortnight, the pair set out to discover the remaining members of Mr. Link’s species lost in the fabled Shangri-La.
In feudal Japan, 12-year-old eyepatched Kubo tends to his ill mother Sariatu (who bears a scar over her left eye as the result of a sailing accident at the beginning of the film) in a mountain cave near a small village. He earns their living by magically manipulating origami with music from his shamisen for the townsfolk, telling the tale of his deceased father Hanzo, a samurai warrior. Kubo is never able to finish his story, as he does not know how Hanzo died and his mother herself cannot recall the ending due to her mental state deteriorating. Sariatu warns him not to stay out after dark as her Sisters, Karasu and Washi, and his estranged grandfather, the Moon King (who took Kubo's eye when he was a baby) will find him and take his remaining eye.
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.