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A grieving widower floats his house to South America with a young scout on board. Its opening montage is famous for good reason.
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50 Best Animated Movies of All Time
50 essential animated movies from Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, Aardman, Laika, Cartoon Saloon and world animation, from Snow White to Spider-Verse and Flow.
Animation is a medium, not a genre, and its best films work for every age. This ranked collection spans Disney classics, the Pixar era, stop-motion from Aardman and Laika, Irish hand-drawn folklore, European and adult animation and recent landmarks like the Spider-Verse films and Flow. Japanese anime has its own guide. Use the filters to choose by decade, runtime, style and streaming availability; every recommendation is spoiler-safe.
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The emotions inside a girl's head struggle as her family moves city. Inventive, funny and wise about why sadness matters.
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A rat with refined taste secretly cooks in a Paris restaurant. A joyful story about talent coming from anywhere.
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A boy befriends a giant robot from space in 1950s America. Brad Bird's Cold War fable was overlooked at first and is now a beloved classic.
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A boy who loves music enters the vibrant Land of the Dead. A moving celebration of family and memory.
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A young lion prince must face his past to claim his place. Epic, musical and one of Disney's defining films.
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A bookish young woman is held in a cursed castle by a beast. The first animated film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
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An anxious clownfish crosses the ocean to find his son. Gorgeous, funny and full of heart.
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A family of retired superheroes is pulled back into action. Brad Bird delivers a great spy adventure and a great family comedy at once.
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Andy's toys face an uncertain future as he heads to college. A thrilling adventure with an emotional final act.
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Miles is swept into a sprawling multiverse of Spider-People. Even more visually ambitious than the first film, it is the first part of a two-part story.
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The first full-length cel-animated feature from Disney. Its fairy-tale artistry started the studio's golden age.
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Classical music pieces are brought to life in bold animated segments. An ambitious, dazzling experiment.
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A monster who scares children for a living meets a fearless little girl. Funny, inventive and warm.
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A charming fox cannot resist one last raid on three nasty farmers. Wes Anderson's stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation.
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005 · 1h 25m
★ 7.1 TMDB · 3,181 votes
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Wallace and Gromit protect a town's vegetables from a mysterious beast. Aardman's clay comedy at its most charming.
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A bored girl finds a door to a seemingly better version of her home. Laika's beautiful, creepy fairy tale.
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A street thief meets a genie who can grant three wishes. Robin Williams' Genie made it a comic tour de force.
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A grumpy ogre sets out to rescue a princess. A fairy-tale parody that became a pop-culture phenomenon.
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A Viking teenager befriends the dragon he was supposed to kill. Thrilling flying sequences and a great friendship.
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Halloween Town's pumpkin king discovers Christmas. A stop-motion musical that works for both holidays.
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A spoiled postman is sent to a frozen town and meets a reclusive toymaker. A lovely origin story for Santa Claus.
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A cat survives a great flood on a boat with other animals. A wordless, Oscar-winning Latvian adventure.
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A young hunter befriends a girl from a mysterious tribe that can become wolves. Cartoon Saloon's gorgeous Irish folklore tale.
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A boy learns his little sister is a selkie from Irish legend. A tender, beautifully designed film.
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Marjane Satrapi's black-and-white memoir of growing up in Iran during the revolution. Funny, political and personal.
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A filmmaker tries to recover his memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. A haunting animated documentary.
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A grandmother and her dog search for a kidnapped cyclist. A nearly wordless, wonderfully odd French film.
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A boy with a magical instrument goes on a quest in ancient Japan. Laika's most ambitious stop-motion epic.
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Chickens plot an escape from their farm. Aardman's clay take on The Great Escape.
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A rabbit cop and a con-artist fox uncover a conspiracy in a city of animals. A clever buddy comedy with a message.
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A chaotic family road trip collides with a robot uprising. Loud, funny and visually inventive.
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Puss in Boots is down to his last life. A surprisingly deep, painterly adventure.
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A wooden boy comes to life in Fascist-era Italy. Guillermo del Toro's dark, moving stop-motion retelling.
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A robot stranded on a wild island adopts an orphaned gosling. Painterly, emotional and adventurous.
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A lonely dog in 1980s New York builds a robot friend. A wordless, bittersweet story about friendship.
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A lonely Australian girl and a New York man become pen pals. Funny, sad and very human claymation.
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A severed hand escapes a lab to find its body. A strange, poetic French film.
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A jazz musician's soul ends up in a mysterious realm before life. A thoughtful Pixar film about what makes life worth living.
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A boy searches for his exiled dog on an island of trash. Wes Anderson's stylised stop-motion adventure.
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An ordinary construction-worker minifigure is mistaken for a hero. Fast, funny and cleverer than expected.
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A noodle-loving panda is chosen as a kung fu master. Great action and comedy.
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A mermaid princess longs to live on land. The film that launched Disney's musical renaissance.
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A lonely Hawaiian girl adopts a chaotic alien as a dog. Warm, funny and all about family.
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Rapunzel leaves her tower with a charming thief. A lively, funny fairy-tale adventure.
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A chief's daughter sails across the ocean with a demigod. Beautiful and full of great songs.
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Two royal sisters face a kingdom trapped in eternal winter. A pop-culture musical phenomenon.
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Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man as heroes from other dimensions crash into his world. Its comic-book visual style changed what studio animation could look like.
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A cowboy doll feels threatened by a flashy new space-ranger toy. The first fully computer-animated feature is still funny, sharp and heartfelt.
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A lonely trash-compacting robot follows a sleek probe into space. The nearly wordless first act is some of the purest visual storytelling in film.
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Behind the picks
How we chose this collection
The ranking balances artistry, storytelling, influence and how well each film plays today for its intended audience. It includes studio classics, stop-motion, hand-drawn independents and animation for adults, and leaves Japanese anime to its dedicated guide. Rankings are Cinearium editorial choices, not a live ratings chart.
Movie facts and community ratings come from TMDB. Streaming information is provided by JustWatch through TMDB and varies by country. Missing availability means no option was returned by the provider; it does not prove a film is unavailable everywhere. Dates above refer to editorial updates.