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Best Animation Movies of All Time

Every animation film with 500 or more TMDB votes, ranked by user rating.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 741 titlesavg ★ 7.09 avg 84 min Animation Family Adventure Comedy

By decade:1940s 8 1950s 6 1960s 9 1970s 11 1980s 31 1990s 84 2000s 187 2010s 274 2020s 129

#1 Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026) · ★ 9.1 · 1,215 votes · 1h 39m · action, fantasy, adventure
Avatar Aang, the world's last Airbender, learns of an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With the help of his friends, he embarks on a global quest to find…
#2 Swapped (2026) · ★ 8.9 · 2,214 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime to switch back. Their journ…
#3 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) · ★ 8.8 · 2,230 votes · 2h 36m · action, fantasy, thriller
The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against…
#4 Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) · ★ 8.6 · 1,207 votes · 1h 40m · action, comedy, fantasy
In a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into Denji's world, and he faces his deadliest battle yet, fueled by love in a…
#5 Spirited Away (2001) · ★ 8.5 · 18,950 votes · 2h 5m · fantasy, animation, family
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she ha…
#6 Your Name. (2016) · ★ 8.5 · 13,048 votes · 1h 46m · romance, drama, animation
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This biza…
#7 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) · ★ 8.4 · 17,856 votes · 1h 57m · action, adventure, science-fiction
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable…
#8 Howl's Moving Castle (2004) · ★ 8.4 · 11,504 votes · 1h 59m · fantasy, adventure, animation
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to…
#9 Grave of the Fireflies (1988) · ★ 8.4 · 6,595 votes · 1h 29m · drama, animation, war
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with t…
#10 A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) · ★ 8.4 · 4,679 votes · 2h 9m · romance, drama, animation
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lac…
#11 The Legend of Hei (2019) · ★ 8.4 · 554 votes · 1h 42m · action, fantasy, animation
When cat spirit Luo Xiaohei's home is deforested by humans, he must find a new one. He runs into a group of other spirit creatures who take him under their wing with dreams of reco…
#12 The Lion King (1994) · ★ 8.3 · 20,171 votes · 1h 29m · drama, animation, family
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to…
#13 Princess Mononoke (1997) · ★ 8.3 · 9,321 votes · 2h 14m · fantasy, adventure, animation
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human…
#14 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) · ★ 8.3 · 8,863 votes · 2h 20m · action, adventure, science-fiction
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spide…
#15 The Wild Robot (2024) · ★ 8.3 · 6,663 votes · 1h 42m · action, adventure, science-fiction
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orph…
#16 Perfect Blue (1998) · ★ 8.3 · 3,376 votes · 1h 21m · thriller, animation
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up…
#17 Toy Story 5 (2026) · ★ 8.3 · 2,448 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, adventure, animation
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to h…
#18 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) · ★ 8.3 · 1,970 votes · 1h 27m · action, fantasy, drama
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of h…
#19 Hotarubi no Mori e (2011) · ★ 8.3 · 1,242 votes · 0h 45m · fantasy, romance, animation
One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of mak…
#20 Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020) · ★ 8.3 · 627 votes · 1h 38m · romance, drama, animation
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push ea…
#21 Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020) · ★ 8.3 · 547 votes · 2h 20m · fantasy, romance, drama
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.…
#22 Coco (2017) · ★ 8.2 · 21,436 votes · 1h 45m · adventure, animation, family
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Mig…
#23 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 8,970 votes · 1h 43m · action, comedy, fantasy
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an e…
#24 Klaus (2019) · ★ 8.2 · 4,847 votes · 1h 37m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.…
#25 Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) · ★ 8.2 · 4,698 votes · 1h 57m · action, fantasy, adventure
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards t…
#26 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) · ★ 8.2 · 3,668 votes · 1h 38m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and r…
#27 Wolf Children (2012) · ★ 8.2 · 2,549 votes · 1h 57m · fantasy, drama, animation
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's…
#28 I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018) · ★ 8.2 · 1,858 votes · 1h 48m · romance, drama, animation
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.…
#29 Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) · ★ 8.2 · 1,637 votes · 1h 30m · action, fantasy, adventure
Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the J…
#30 Wolfwalkers (2020) · ★ 8.2 · 1,462 votes · 1h 42m · fantasy, adventure, animation
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last…
#31 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) · ★ 8.2 · 1,004 votes · 2h 35m · action, drama, science-fiction
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined p…
#32 Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) · ★ 8.2 · 884 votes · 1h 23m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.…
#33 Ne Zha 2 (2025) · ★ 8.2 · 835 votes · 2h 24m · action, comedy, fantasy
After a catastrophic event leaves their bodies destroyed, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are granted a fragile second chance at life. As tensions rise between the dragon clans and celestial fo…
#34 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 777 votes · 0h 35m · fantasy, adventure, drama
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.…
#35 Look Back (2024) · ★ 8.2 · 662 votes · 0h 58m · drama, animation
Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant reclus…
#36 Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019) · ★ 8.2 · 612 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, fantasy, romance
In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his fi…
#37 WALL·E (2008) · ★ 8.1 · 20,936 votes · 1h 38m · science-fiction, animation, family
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EV…
#38 Soul (2020) · ★ 8.1 · 11,757 votes · 1h 41m · comedy, fantasy, drama
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from…
#39 My Neighbor Totoro (1988) · ★ 8.1 · 9,112 votes · 1h 26m · fantasy, animation, family
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits o…
#40 Flow (2024) · ★ 8.1 · 3,053 votes · 1h 25m · fantasy, adventure, animation
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.…