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Best Animation Movies of the 1990s

Animation films released 1990–1999, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 84 titlesavg ★ 7.08 avg 77 min Animation Family Adventure Fantasy

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#1 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…
#2 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…
#3 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…
#4 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…
#5 Toy Story (1995) · ★ 8.0 · 20,575 votes · 1h 21m · comedy, adventure, animation
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz.…
#6 The Iron Giant (1999) · ★ 8.0 · 6,397 votes · 1h 26m · adventure, drama, science-fiction
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their…
#7 Mulan (1998) · ★ 7.9 · 10,701 votes · 1h 28m · adventure, animation, family
When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing…
#8 Ghost in the Shell (1995) · ★ 7.9 · 3,930 votes · 1h 23m · action, science-fiction, animation
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a hi…
#9 Whisper of the Heart (1995) · ★ 7.9 · 2,365 votes · 1h 51m · drama, animation, family
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same pers…
#10 The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) · ★ 7.8 · 10,639 votes · 1h 16m · fantasy, animation, family
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken he…
#11 Porco Rosso (1992) · ★ 7.8 · 3,826 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco…
#12 The Wrong Trousers (1993) · ★ 7.8 · 1,197 votes · 0h 30m · comedy, animation, family
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wante…
#13 Ninja Scroll (1993) · ★ 7.8 · 784 votes · 1h 34m · action, fantasy, adventure
Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overth…
#14 Aladdin (1992) · ★ 7.7 · 12,267 votes · 1h 31m · fantasy, adventure, romance
In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar v…
#15 Beauty and the Beast (1991) · ★ 7.7 · 10,859 votes · 1h 24m · fantasy, romance, animation
Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted…
#16 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) · ★ 7.7 · 861 votes · 1h 17m · horror, animation, family
After going their separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to investigate the ghost of Moonscar the pirate on a haunted bayou island, but it turns out the…
#17 Toy Story 2 (1999) · ★ 7.6 · 15,393 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, animation, family
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps…
#18 Anastasia (1997) · ★ 7.6 · 5,703 votes · 1h 34m · fantasy, adventure, animation
Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is…
#19 Geri's Game (1997) · ★ 7.6 · 1,259 votes · 0h 4m · comedy, animation, family
An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just when the game's nearly over, Geri…
#20 A Close Shave (1996) · ★ 7.6 · 977 votes · 0h 30m · comedy, animation, family
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.…
#21 Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (1995) · ★ 7.6 · 955 votes · 0h 55m · action, fantasy, science-fiction
Not paying attention to his job, a young demon allows the evil cleansing machine to overflow and explode, turning the young demon into the infamous monster Janemba. Goku and Vegeta…
#22 Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku (1990) · ★ 7.6 · 778 votes · 0h 48m · action, fantasy, drama
Bardock, Son Goku's father, is a low-ranking Saiyan soldier who was given the power to see into the future by the last remaining alien on a planet he just destroyed. He witnesses t…
#23 Lucky and Zorba (1998) · ★ 7.6 · 648 votes · 1h 16m · animation, family
A seagull is caught by the black tide of a sinking petrol ship. She manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. Moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises:…
#24 Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993) · ★ 7.6 · 629 votes · 0h 48m · action, science-fiction, animation
It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives hi…
#25 Hercules (1997) · ★ 7.5 · 8,135 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a f…
#26 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) · ★ 7.5 · 1,306 votes · 1h 16m · action, adventure, drama
Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wro…
#27 A Grand Day Out (1990) · ★ 7.5 · 1,043 votes · 0h 24m · comedy, adventure, science-fiction
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.…
#28 Memories (1995) · ★ 7.5 · 608 votes · 1h 53m · fantasy, science-fiction, animation
Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.…
#29 Tarzan (1999) · ★ 7.4 · 7,515 votes · 1h 28m · adventure, drama, animation
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He…
#30 Only Yesterday (1991) · ★ 7.4 · 1,296 votes · 1h 59m · romance, drama, animation
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.…
#31 Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) · ★ 7.4 · 1,192 votes · 1h 11m · fantasy, adventure, animation
Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.…
#32 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) · ★ 7.4 · 596 votes · 1h 42m · thriller, romance, drama
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbe…
#33 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997) · ★ 7.4 · 520 votes · 1h 41m · drama, science-fiction, animation
Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re…
#34 Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999) · ★ 7.4 · 509 votes · 1h 10m · comedy, fantasy, animation
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.…
#35 The Prince of Egypt (1998) · ★ 7.3 · 4,445 votes · 1h 39m · adventure, drama, animation
The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.…
#36 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) · ★ 7.3 · 3,052 votes · 1h 21m · comedy, animation
In this feature film based on the hit animated series, the third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phi…
#37 Balto (1995) · ★ 7.3 · 2,260 votes · 1h 18m · adventure, drama, animation
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.…
#38 Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993) · ★ 7.3 · 1,034 votes · 1h 10m · action, science-fiction, animation
While the Saiyan Paragus persuades Vegeta to rule a new planet, King Kai alerts Goku of the South Galaxy's destruction by an unknown Super Saiyan.…
#39 Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995) · ★ 7.3 · 810 votes · 0h 51m · action, science-fiction, animation
The Z Warriors discover an unopenable music box and are told to open it with the Dragon Balls. The contents turn out to be a warrior named Tapion who had sealed himself inside alon…
#40 Pom Poko (1994) · ★ 7.2 · 1,237 votes · 1h 59m · fantasy, adventure, animation
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide t…

Questions

What is the best animation movie of the 1990s?

The Lion King (1994) tops the decade with 8.3/10 on TMDB, ahead of Princess Mononoke (1997).