01 A girl trapped in a spirit world must work in a bathhouse to save her transformed parents.
50 Best Animated Movies of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · May 18, 2026
Family feel goodfor the whole family
Animation stopped being just a kids’ medium decades ago, and this list makes the case with everything from a wartime tragedy to an adult war documentary sitting right alongside the Pixar and Ghibli classics.
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02 A superhero family forced back into action, still Pixar's sharpest action film.
03 A clownfish crosses the entire ocean to find the son swept away from him.
04 A biker gang member's psychic powers spiral into apocalyptic destruction in a dystopian Neo-Tokyo.
05 A brother and sister struggle to survive on their own in the final months of World War II.
06 An exiled young lion prince must reclaim his kingdom from the uncle who murdered his father.
07 A new Spider-Man teams up with counterparts from other dimensions to save them all.
08 A prince caught between an industrial settlement and the forest spirits it threatens seeks a way to end the war.
09 A lonely trash-compacting robot falls for a sleek scout sent to check on a dead Earth.
10 Two teenagers who periodically swap bodies race to prevent a disaster only one of them remembers.
11 A boy crosses into the Land of the Dead to uncover his family's buried musical history.
12 A cursed young woman finds refuge in a wizard's walking, mechanical castle.
13 The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town stumbles onto Christmas and decides to take it over.
14 A girl discovers an alternate version of her family that turns out to want to keep her forever.
15 A widower ties thousands of balloons to his house to finally take the trip he promised his late wife.
16 The toys face life in daycare after their kid outgrows them and heads off to college.
17 Two sisters befriend a gentle forest spirit while their mother recovers from illness.
18 A young Viking befriends the dragon he was raised to kill.
19 A girl's five core emotions battle for control after a difficult family move.
20 Two monster coworkers hide a human toddler who accidentally wanders into their world.
21 A cowboy doll's jealousy of a new spaceman toy launches the first fully computer-animated feature.
22 A dysfunctional family's road trip becomes humanity's last stand against a robot uprising.
23 A rat with a chef's palate secretly cooks his way into a Parisian kitchen.
24 A rookie rabbit cop and a con-artist fox uncover a conspiracy threatening their whole city.
25 A girl's coming-of-age during and after the Iranian Revolution, told in stark black and white.
26 A boy befriends a crash-landed alien robot the government wants destroyed.
27 A bookish young woman is held captive by a cursed prince slowly learning to love again.
28 A street thief and a genie's wish-granting friendship upend a princess's arranged engagement.
29 A lazy postman accidentally kickstarts the entire Santa Claus legend in a feuding Arctic town.
30 A grumpy ogre's swamp is invaded by fairy-tale refugees, forcing him into an unlikely rescue mission.
31 A boy searches a trash-island exile colony for his banished dog.
32 A cyborg security officer hunts a hacker while questioning what's left of her own humanity.
33 A boy and his silent sister discover she is the last of a race of mythical selkies.
34 A reformed chicken thief's one last heist puts his whole animal community at risk.
35 A boy genius and his inflatable robot nurse become an unlikely superhero team.
36 Classical music sequences are set to sweeping, abstract, and sometimes terrifying animated imagery.
37 A video game villain sets out to prove he can be a hero in a game of his own.
38 An ordinary Lego minifigure is mistaken for the prophesied hero meant to save all of Lego-kind.
39 The first full-length animated feature, still the template for the modern fairy-tale musical.
40 An animated documentary reconstructs a veteran's suppressed memories of the Lebanon War.
41 A wayfinder crosses the ocean to save her island and restore a goddess's stolen heart.
42 An overweight, unlikely panda is chosen as the prophesied hero of martial arts legend.
43 A nervous groom accidentally marries a deceased bride in the land of the dead.
44 A wooden puppet's wish to become a real boy is tested by every temptation the world offers him.
45 A princess's uncontrollable ice powers freeze her kingdom, and only her sister can undo it.
46 A motivational speaker's crushing sameness in everyone around him breaks for one woman alone.
47 An ogre's new in-laws are less than thrilled about their daughter's choice of husband.
48 A panda kung fu master confronts a villain connected to his own forgotten past.
49 An inventor's pest-control business is threatened by a giant, vegetable-devouring rabbit-monster.
50 A resourceful hen organizes an elaborate escape before the farm turns every bird into a pie.
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