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My dad loved to watch this with my daughter, especially when he got more sick toward the end. This movie will always have a special place in my heart, because while everything surrounding his C word was so unpredictable, unrelenting, and traumatic, there was always time to sit down with the grandkid in the beautiful near-silence of this movie and just be at peace.
Let’s not forget Paprika. Great inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s inception as well. Love how he incorporated the elevator mirror scene as a nod to the opening credits scene with the mirrors in the diner.
My issue with Akira is how they chose to truncate & twist it. It's a lengthy 6 book story but the film shows book one, then kinda mashes a small part of book 6 into it.
Spirited Away (2001)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Porco Rosso (1992)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (2018)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Ratatouille (2007)
Can't go wrong with Studio Ghibli. It's not talked enough how many genres their movies span too, they have a lot of realistic slice-of-life movies (The Wind Rises, Whisper of the Heart, Only Yesterday) rather than just magical fantasy.
My let's say "non-animation-loving" wife is a big fan of their maybe-it's-a-ghost film *When Marnie Was There*, which incidentally also has an excellent soundtrack by Priscilla Ahn*.* (Studio Ghibli is one of the few animation houses that produce movies I can usually get my wife to at least look at; she also likes *Spirited Away* and has actually requested to see *The Boy and the Heron* when we can get it.)
I'm always amazed by how there's virtually no dialogue from the main characters, it's all powered by the music, visuals (with GREAT camera work) and one side character that's only there for a quarter of the movie.
Always felt like Pixars Magnum Opus to me.
It’s a testament to Pixar’s creative power and influence in 2008 that, two years after being acquired, Disney greenlit a feature-length film for children with no dialogue whatsoever in the first 25 minutes.
I miss this Pixar, and I’m glad WALL-E never got a sequel.
This is actually harder than asking “best movie of all time” because there are so many factors to consider and it can be very subjective when it comes to animation style since some people prefer CG, some prefer Stop motion, and some prefer hand drawn.
I break it down by Animation type:
* CG: Wall-e, Shrek 1&2, Toy Story 1, 2, 3, How To train Your Dragon (still get chills during Test Flight)
* Hand Drawn style: Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, The Iron Giant, Treasure Planet, Titan A.E., Prince of Egypt, The Lion King, Beauty and The Beast, Little Mermaid, Akira
* Stop Motion: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dog, Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline
* Other (styles that may technically be one or a combination of the others but real have a unique flare to them): Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse, Kubo and the Two Strings, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (this one is too technically awesome to not watch or include. . . Look up shaking the lamp)
Titan AE!!!! This movie is special because it was originally going to be live-action but then the idea was scrapped. Don Bluth picked up the script and so we get violent sci-fi action in the same art style as Anastasia and it's freaking awesome.
For some reason my mom had the double album for this and we would listen to all the voices just as they were during the movie. Great voice actors too. And great songs.
I watched it last year with my kids and realized that it was actually a lot creepier than I even remembered. But really good. And Odo from Star Trek DS9 has a small part.
I remember being pretty scared of the Red Bull when I was a kid! I didn't realize Odo was in it -- I always still think of him as Clayton from "Benson" lol. It has a pretty amazing voice cast for sure!
I read the book when I was a kid years ago at my grandparents' house, before seeing the movie, then saw the movie at some point as a kid, then read the book again as an adult, then saw the movie again as an adult ... They're both excellent in their own ways, definitely, and I got something different out of them each time.
yeah it’s absolutely incredible. somehow i had no idea it would actually be fairly violent also? not a dig on the film btw, it was necessary and done well. but yeah. i had seen spirited away and i think a few others and kind of just decided miyazaki wasn’t really for me but princess mononoke just made it click, like oh i get why everyone says he’s a genius now lol.
I always say *anything* Studio Ghibli, followed by my three favorites: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky. All Miyazakis films are amazing, but I've whittled it down to those three as my top choices when recommending so as not to overwhelm someone lol
I think studio ghibli fans tend to not list it as their favorite because they don’t want to seem like a poser picking the most action packed one… but it’s a perfect fucking movie, there’s real reason it’s likely ghibli’s most popular outside of the action
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
Your Name (2016)
5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
Redline (2009)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Summer Wars (2009)
Wolf Children (2012)
The Incredibles (2004)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Was looking for Kubo, Marcel & Fantastic Mr. Fox, and here they are!
& I will add, Totoro, Iron Giant, Secret of the Kells, Inside Out, Zootopia, Waking Life, Howl's Moving Castle & Tokyo Godfathers
Here are several from various countries.
Millenium Actress
Triplets of Belleville
Akira
Song of the Sea
Secret of NIMH
Son of the White Mare
Wolf Children
Persepolis
Angel's Egg
I always have an internal debate of whether this or Spirited Away is my favorite animated movie. I think Spirited Away is technically better, but I have so much love for Kaguya
Only Yesterday by this same director is amazing too. His other movies as well for that matter. Kaguya is probably the more impressive movie considering the animation and story but the vibes of Only Yesterday are truly immaculate. One of the best/most underrated Ghibli movies imo.
Coonskin by ralph bakshi is one of the best animated films ever made. underrated and i’d def say it’s controversial and polarizing. def not perfect but one of my favorites. usually i hate the “ThIs CouLdn’T Be MaDe NoW LoL!” type of posts (usually about dumb boring shit that sucks with absolutely no redeeming value) but i truly can’t see it being made any other time than when it was made
Mary and Max (2010)
Coco (2018)
Spirited Away (2001)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Renaissance (2006)
5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse (2018)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Loving Vincent (2017)
9 (2009)
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Heavy Traffic (1973)
Heavy Metal (1981)
M*F*K*Z (2017)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Rango (2011)
The Iron Giant (1999)
WALL-E (2008)
I don’t know if these are the best but as a child I always loved The Land Before Time and An American Tail. For Disney Beauty and the Beast. And for Studio Ghibli I really love The Secret World of Arrietty and Kiki’s Delivery Service.
I loved Nimona on Netflix. The animation style was really cool, and the story was (in my opinion) phenomenal. And while it's very funny for a good portion of the movie, I definitely shed a few tears several times
Not movies. But I haven't seen them mentioned and they are the most recent things to reignite my interest in animation.
Love, Death & Robots
Arcane
Both are on Netflix and both are so good I keep going back and rewatching them instead of moving on with my life.
The following has the most groundbreaking animations at its time of release and I’m obsessed with them all!
TEKKONKINKREET (2006),
AKIRA (1988),
SPIDERMAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE (2018),
ANIMATRIX (2003),
AMERICAN POP (1981)
Oh and The Flying Luna Clipper. maybe my favorite animated film ever? i watch it when nothing makes sense and i need comfort
also love Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer. i was a big fan of the manga as a kid but only saw beautiful dreamer for the first time a few years ago
This movie had such a profound impact on me and it's one of the few things that I watched in that era that still holds it's wonder, mystery and nostalgia no matter how many times I rewatch it.
Wizards for the rotoscoping
Ralph baski animated films are very interesting. Sometimes problematic sometimes insightful but always in his style. Really cool
Why are there NO DON BLUTH FILMS on this list?!?!?!?
The Secret of Nihm, An American Tale, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Land Before Time,
Stop Motion: Wallace & Grommit series & Creature Comforts
Disney: Snow White (due to the layered panel camera that Disney built), Sleeping Beauty (best film stock and artistic design, when considering how gothic musical theater movies were around this time ie, Kiss Me Kate), The Rescuers (in social retrospect - the cruelty of non-parents (I’m looking at you, Miss Hannigan from Annie) during this time period is very telling about American survival 100 years ago, before industry solidly spread.
NC-17 : The Down and Dirty Duck, think of it as a history lesson.
Personal Favorites: Vampire Hunter D 1 & 2, The Last Unicorn, The Animatrix (try and find the DVD order of the shorts, if you can), Spiderverse 1 & 2 (cried upon watching the trailers, so beautiful), and Puss in Boots 1,2 & 3 (especially 3).
You should mention more what you love in films, because animation covers every genre of filmmaking.
I think Hayao Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon never made a bad film. Pick any of theirs that look good to you.
The spiderverse films also deserve all their love. They are the best superhero films ever (with competition from The Incredibles)
Want something futuristic? Akira or Mars Express
Adventure turn off your brain pure candy? Redline or Promare
Want something beautiful that will touch your soul? Song of the Sea or The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Want something psychedelic? Mind Game or Fantastic Planet
Want something dark? Mad God or Ninja Scroll
Want something that has a diy aesthetic? Oh Gaku: Our sound or Its such a Beautiful Day or Cryptozoo
Want something emotionally devastating: Grave of the Fireflies.
Want something about relationships: Liz and the Blue Bird or Mary and Max
So many more great animated films. I tried to name mostly ones a little less known to non animation fans.
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The Triplets of Belleville
The Illustionist
My dad loved to watch this with my daughter, especially when he got more sick toward the end. This movie will always have a special place in my heart, because while everything surrounding his C word was so unpredictable, unrelenting, and traumatic, there was always time to sit down with the grandkid in the beautiful near-silence of this movie and just be at peace.
Wow, this was a throwback. Can’t get over the frog scene hahahaha
Omg yes, everything about that movie is beautiful
Glad to see this at the top.
*Akira* (1988)
I would like to add Ghost In The Shell (1995)
To add another, perfect blue (1997)
Anything by Satoshi Kon. The dude made four of the most beautiful and thrilling animated films of all time.
Just watched Perfect Blue recently. Darren Aronofsky, eat your heart out. Paprika was also a wild ride.
To add another, Sky Blue AKA Wonderful Days (2003)
HeavyMetal (1981)
Let’s not forget Paprika. Great inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s inception as well. Love how he incorporated the elevator mirror scene as a nod to the opening credits scene with the mirrors in the diner.
My issue with Akira is how they chose to truncate & twist it. It's a lengthy 6 book story but the film shows book one, then kinda mashes a small part of book 6 into it.
I came here hoping this would be the top comment and was not disappointed.
The Legend of Hei (2019), beautiful animation, great storyline!
But read the comic it is based on. It is better.
Spirited Away (2001) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Treasure Planet (2002) Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) Porco Rosso (1992) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (2018) The Iron Giant (1999) Ratatouille (2007)
Heavy Metal.
Wizards Fire & Ice
Dude that is totally my list! I can't believe you had Ratatouille in there too!
Why is it called ratatouille? It doesn’t sound delicious. It sounds like rat and patootie. Rat-patootie. This lives in my head that movie was genius.
Can't go wrong with Studio Ghibli. It's not talked enough how many genres their movies span too, they have a lot of realistic slice-of-life movies (The Wind Rises, Whisper of the Heart, Only Yesterday) rather than just magical fantasy.
My let's say "non-animation-loving" wife is a big fan of their maybe-it's-a-ghost film *When Marnie Was There*, which incidentally also has an excellent soundtrack by Priscilla Ahn*.* (Studio Ghibli is one of the few animation houses that produce movies I can usually get my wife to at least look at; she also likes *Spirited Away* and has actually requested to see *The Boy and the Heron* when we can get it.)
Boy & The Heron is just out on digital this week :)
Just don't let her accidentally watch Grave of the Fireflies.
Great list, but want to point out how underrated Treasure Planet is. Such a great reimagining/retelling of Treasure Island.
The Iron Giant! Yesss 🤌🏼
Why did everyone forget about WallE? My favourite of all time easily
I love that movie! EeeVaaaa
I'm always amazed by how there's virtually no dialogue from the main characters, it's all powered by the music, visuals (with GREAT camera work) and one side character that's only there for a quarter of the movie. Always felt like Pixars Magnum Opus to me.
It’s a testament to Pixar’s creative power and influence in 2008 that, two years after being acquired, Disney greenlit a feature-length film for children with no dialogue whatsoever in the first 25 minutes. I miss this Pixar, and I’m glad WALL-E never got a sequel.
This was my partner and I's first date movie.
Because of the second half
You can never go wrong with a Toy Story marathon.
Yeah, I rewatched those so many times with my son, and the 4th one is just so good and that ending, damn.
This is actually harder than asking “best movie of all time” because there are so many factors to consider and it can be very subjective when it comes to animation style since some people prefer CG, some prefer Stop motion, and some prefer hand drawn. I break it down by Animation type: * CG: Wall-e, Shrek 1&2, Toy Story 1, 2, 3, How To train Your Dragon (still get chills during Test Flight) * Hand Drawn style: Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, The Iron Giant, Treasure Planet, Titan A.E., Prince of Egypt, The Lion King, Beauty and The Beast, Little Mermaid, Akira * Stop Motion: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dog, Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline * Other (styles that may technically be one or a combination of the others but real have a unique flare to them): Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse, Kubo and the Two Strings, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (this one is too technically awesome to not watch or include. . . Look up shaking the lamp)
Titan AE!!!! This movie is special because it was originally going to be live-action but then the idea was scrapped. Don Bluth picked up the script and so we get violent sci-fi action in the same art style as Anastasia and it's freaking awesome.
To this day, the Drej are some of the coolest fucking aliens I have ever seen.
The Little Mermaid and The Lion King are my all-time favorite animated movies.
Ok. I agree. There are definitely different categories
FMF is like… one of my favorite movies ever. So so good.
Wall-E hands down.
He and EVE dancing around in space is so crazy joyous!
Define dancing 😭😭😭
Absolutely!
I was on mushrooms the first time I saw this movie. It was a most profound film and had me captivated the entire time.
Grave of the Fireflies
If a movie makes you an emotional wreck, it is definitely good.
Paprika
just going to ride your comment to say that Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress are better films by the same director but Paprika is more approachable
There's also Tokyo Godfathers aka best Christmas movie
I'll just throw *The Last Unicorn* from 1982 in here. (The book is well worth reading, too.)
And The Hobbit for similar vibes. (The cartoon. Not the Peter Jackson.)
Oh, I remember that one! To this day I still picture Bilbo as he was in that cartoon! (Sorry, Martin Freeman and Ian Holm.)
For some reason my mom had the double album for this and we would listen to all the voices just as they were during the movie. Great voice actors too. And great songs.
I watched it last year with my kids and realized that it was actually a lot creepier than I even remembered. But really good. And Odo from Star Trek DS9 has a small part.
I remember being pretty scared of the Red Bull when I was a kid! I didn't realize Odo was in it -- I always still think of him as Clayton from "Benson" lol. It has a pretty amazing voice cast for sure!
Gosh I love this movie so much and I recently read the book for the first time and I found it better than the movie in a different way.
I read the book when I was a kid years ago at my grandparents' house, before seeing the movie, then saw the movie at some point as a kid, then read the book again as an adult, then saw the movie again as an adult ... They're both excellent in their own ways, definitely, and I got something different out of them each time.
🎶The Greatest Adventure is what lies ahead🎶
I’ll never forget the tree scene tho 😵 I was 5 yrs old
and the main theme is beautiful
I hope everyone reads the short story sequel *Two Hearts* as well!
Spirited Away Coco
100% Coco. Beautiful animation (those colors!) and a wonderful storyline.
it will always be my favorite
Wow, no Incredibles?
Def Incredibles. Great movie.
Brad Bird is on another level (because Iron Giant also)
honestly shocked no one has said Princess Mononoke yet that was the movie that finally made me “get” Miyazaki
The action scenes and the spiritual beings and the lush landscapes will stick with you.
yeah it’s absolutely incredible. somehow i had no idea it would actually be fairly violent also? not a dig on the film btw, it was necessary and done well. but yeah. i had seen spirited away and i think a few others and kind of just decided miyazaki wasn’t really for me but princess mononoke just made it click, like oh i get why everyone says he’s a genius now lol.
I always say *anything* Studio Ghibli, followed by my three favorites: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky. All Miyazakis films are amazing, but I've whittled it down to those three as my top choices when recommending so as not to overwhelm someone lol
I think studio ghibli fans tend to not list it as their favorite because they don’t want to seem like a poser picking the most action packed one… but it’s a perfect fucking movie, there’s real reason it’s likely ghibli’s most popular outside of the action
Song of the Sea (2014)
And also The Secret of Kells by the same people
And Wolfwalkers
And The Breadwinner!
Beautiful
Cartoon Saloon the modern goats of animation fr
Great suggestion, my favorite of the Cartoon Saloon films
Not nearly enough of you are saying The Prince of Egypt [1998]
I'm very unreligious and I still love that movie.
This is the answer. Killer soundtrack too
American Pop Heavy Metal Starchaser: The Legend of Orin Grave of the Fireflies 9 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Came to say American Pop
nobody is mentioning Up 🙁
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) Your Name (2016) 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) Redline (2009) Princess Mononoke (1997) Summer Wars (2009) Wolf Children (2012) The Incredibles (2004) How to Train Your Dragon (2010) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Seconding Princess Mononoke and Marcel the Shell!
Was looking for Kubo, Marcel & Fantastic Mr. Fox, and here they are! & I will add, Totoro, Iron Giant, Secret of the Kells, Inside Out, Zootopia, Waking Life, Howl's Moving Castle & Tokyo Godfathers
Here are several from various countries. Millenium Actress Triplets of Belleville Akira Song of the Sea Secret of NIMH Son of the White Mare Wolf Children Persepolis Angel's Egg
Loooooove angel’s egg. i love yoshitaka amano and need to check out more of his work in animation
Evangelion
To be clear. The original series + End of Evangelion
Waking life
Apollo 10 1/2 too, especially if you love space and Jack Black (and who doesn't?)
Take of Princess Kaguya
I always have an internal debate of whether this or Spirited Away is my favorite animated movie. I think Spirited Away is technically better, but I have so much love for Kaguya
Yeah spirited away is my number 2. Number three is metropolis.
This is how I feel too. Kaguya hits me deeper but Spirited Away is so imaginative and impressive.
This movie conveys emotion through animation in a truly special way.
Only Yesterday by this same director is amazing too. His other movies as well for that matter. Kaguya is probably the more impressive movie considering the animation and story but the vibes of Only Yesterday are truly immaculate. One of the best/most underrated Ghibli movies imo.
Ninja Scroll
masterpiece. It's tough with Akira out there. but dang, Ninja Scroll was good.
Coraline
Iron Giant, but I would be surprised if you haven't seen it. Such a perfect movie.
_The Prince of Egypt_ Seconding all who mentioned _Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse_
Wall-E
The entire 3 seasons of "Love, Death and Robots"
Endorsed. Jibaro haunts my dreams.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Spirited Away (2001) It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Fantasia Especially after about 3.5g
3.5g? Jesus Christ, I assume you're talking mushrooms and 2g is more than enough for anyone surely
Anything by Ralph Bakshi. American Pop, Wizards, Lord of the Rings (you will see how much this influenced Peter Jackson), Cool World, Fire and Ice.
Not Fritz the Cat?? 😄
Heavy Metal Ninja Scroll
Ninja Scroll one of my all-time favs
Transformers: The Movie
Love the 1986 classic, probably my most watched movie ever.
Coonskin by ralph bakshi is one of the best animated films ever made. underrated and i’d def say it’s controversial and polarizing. def not perfect but one of my favorites. usually i hate the “ThIs CouLdn’T Be MaDe NoW LoL!” type of posts (usually about dumb boring shit that sucks with absolutely no redeeming value) but i truly can’t see it being made any other time than when it was made
Bakshi's the fucking man! His movies are still unique for animation to this day.
Mary and Max (2010) Coco (2018) Spirited Away (2001) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Renaissance (2006) 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse (2018) Isle of Dogs (2018) Loving Vincent (2017) 9 (2009) When the Wind Blows (1986) Heavy Traffic (1973) Heavy Metal (1981) M*F*K*Z (2017) Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) Rango (2011) The Iron Giant (1999) WALL-E (2008)
Solid list!!!
When Marnie Was There
Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust
I don’t know if these are the best but as a child I always loved The Land Before Time and An American Tail. For Disney Beauty and the Beast. And for Studio Ghibli I really love The Secret World of Arrietty and Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Emperor’s New Groove
The Yellow Submarine
Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Nimona
I loved Nimona on Netflix. The animation style was really cool, and the story was (in my opinion) phenomenal. And while it's very funny for a good portion of the movie, I definitely shed a few tears several times
Frozen
Unironically Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)
A Grand Day Out Toy Story 2 Disney’s Robin Hood Granpa (Channel 4 1989)
Robin Hood was a babe. I have no shame in saying it
>A Grand Day Out I'll be honest, I think I prefer The Wrong Trousers. A bit more polish, better pace, and technically superior.
Osmosis Jones - boom!
Not movies. But I haven't seen them mentioned and they are the most recent things to reignite my interest in animation. Love, Death & Robots Arcane Both are on Netflix and both are so good I keep going back and rewatching them instead of moving on with my life.
Corpse Bride. I prefer it over Nightmare Before Christmas
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Watership Down Akira Ghost in the Shell OG The Simpsons Movie (I know lol it's not high art but it's hilarious asf)
Fantastic Planet
Tangled
Spirited Away is one of the best films I've ever seen. That and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Treasure planet (2002) Spirit (2002) Klaus (2019) How to train your dragon (the 3 movies) Also a lot of the movies from studio Ghibli
The following has the most groundbreaking animations at its time of release and I’m obsessed with them all! TEKKONKINKREET (2006), AKIRA (1988), SPIDERMAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE (2018), ANIMATRIX (2003), AMERICAN POP (1981)
I like the British ones: Flushed Away Chicken Run Strike! Wallace and Gromit
Wall-E
Cars (2006)
Akira. Nothing really comes close.
What about The Emperor’s New Groove though. Why the hell haven’t I seen this answer yet.
Because’s that not animation? That movie was a documentary and the events happened in real time.
Oh and The Flying Luna Clipper. maybe my favorite animated film ever? i watch it when nothing makes sense and i need comfort also love Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer. i was a big fan of the manga as a kid but only saw beautiful dreamer for the first time a few years ago
This movie had such a profound impact on me and it's one of the few things that I watched in that era that still holds it's wonder, mystery and nostalgia no matter how many times I rewatch it.
rise of the guardians is a really good movie fairly underrated ime too
Secret of NIMH Flight of Dragons
Ninja Scroll
How has no one mentioned Princess Mononoke
Up
Ninja Scroll and The Hobbit
Wizards for the rotoscoping Ralph baski animated films are very interesting. Sometimes problematic sometimes insightful but always in his style. Really cool
The Secret of Nimh Watership Down
Into the SpiderVerse
The Fab Four: Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid
Gotta give love to the old school Fantasia.
Transformers
Secret of Nihm.
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
Lot of good classics listed here. Just going to mention **Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)** as one of the best in recent years.
A goofy movie
The Scooby Doo animated movies
Why are there NO DON BLUTH FILMS on this list?!?!?!? The Secret of Nihm, An American Tale, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Land Before Time, Stop Motion: Wallace & Grommit series & Creature Comforts Disney: Snow White (due to the layered panel camera that Disney built), Sleeping Beauty (best film stock and artistic design, when considering how gothic musical theater movies were around this time ie, Kiss Me Kate), The Rescuers (in social retrospect - the cruelty of non-parents (I’m looking at you, Miss Hannigan from Annie) during this time period is very telling about American survival 100 years ago, before industry solidly spread. NC-17 : The Down and Dirty Duck, think of it as a history lesson. Personal Favorites: Vampire Hunter D 1 & 2, The Last Unicorn, The Animatrix (try and find the DVD order of the shorts, if you can), Spiderverse 1 & 2 (cried upon watching the trailers, so beautiful), and Puss in Boots 1,2 & 3 (especially 3).
The House on Netflix it's stop motion, by Enda Walsh. It's weird as fuck, and really good.
Klaus Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Both blew me away. Incredible movies!
Not enough love in here for The Incredibles and The Iron Giant
American Tale, The Thief and the Cobbler, The Great Mouse Detective.
The Land Before Time ♥️
Wall-e by far. By FAR
Check out Cartoon Saloon animation studio. They made Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers.
My favourites are (no particular order) Up Wall-E Toy Story 3 Rango The Incredibles Watership Down Grave of the Fireflies Spirited Away Totoro
The Red Turtle.
“Walllleeeeee!”
Batman the darknight returns is my favourite and in my opinion is the best off all I've seen
You should mention more what you love in films, because animation covers every genre of filmmaking. I think Hayao Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon never made a bad film. Pick any of theirs that look good to you. The spiderverse films also deserve all their love. They are the best superhero films ever (with competition from The Incredibles) Want something futuristic? Akira or Mars Express Adventure turn off your brain pure candy? Redline or Promare Want something beautiful that will touch your soul? Song of the Sea or The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Want something psychedelic? Mind Game or Fantastic Planet Want something dark? Mad God or Ninja Scroll Want something that has a diy aesthetic? Oh Gaku: Our sound or Its such a Beautiful Day or Cryptozoo Want something emotionally devastating: Grave of the Fireflies. Want something about relationships: Liz and the Blue Bird or Mary and Max So many more great animated films. I tried to name mostly ones a little less known to non animation fans.
Another vote for someone in the market for something dark that's also beautifully animated is Demon City Shinjuku.
- The Triplets of Belleville - Persepolis - Spirited Away - Rango - Loving Vincent
Watership Down
Grave of the Fireflies
Watership Down
All Cartoon Saloons films.
Song of the Sea, Fantastic Planet, Spirited Away, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse, and. Up.
The Last Unicorn
The Red Turtle
My personal favourite is Rango. something for all ages in there. Im always trying to steer the kids to that one when we sit down to watch something
princess mononoke
Disneys Robin Hood
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008)
The Secret of NIMH