Greatest Animated Feature Films
The greatest animated feature-films of all time.
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In chronological order & purely subjective.
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Amazon.com: Animation and Cartoons.
Amazon.com: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment: Animated Movies.
Amazon.com: Animation: Foreign.
In chronological order & purely subjective.
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1.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(1926)
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to far-away lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess. (81 mins.)
Director: Lotte Reiniger
2.
The Story of the Fox
(1930)
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him... (65 mins.)
Director: Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz
3.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen soon learns of this and prepares to feed her a poison apple. (83 mins.)
Director: William Cottrell, David Hand
4.
Pinocchio
(1940)
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. (88 mins.)
Director: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee
5.
Fantasia
(1940)
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. (125 mins.)
6.
Dumbo
(1941)
Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. (64 mins.)
Director: Sam Armstrong, Norman Ferguson
7.
Bambi
(1942)
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest. (70 mins.)
Director: James Algar, Sam Armstrong
8.
Song of the South
(1946)
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear. (94 mins.)
Director: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
9.
Cinderella
(1950)
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother. (74 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
10.
Alice in Wonderland
(1951)
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way. (75 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
11.
Peter Pan
(1953)
Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan. (77 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
12.
Animal Farm
(1954)
A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. (72 mins.)
Director: Joy Batchelor, John Halas
Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
13.
Lady and the Tramp
(1955)
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. (76 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
14.
Sleeping Beauty
(1959)
After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies. (75 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi
15.
101 Dalmatians
(1961)
When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. (79 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton S. Luske
16.
Heaven and Earth Magic
(1962)
New York beat cronies slumbering through Harry Smith, Burroughs and Ginsberg, University Columbia, Colombia... (66 mins.)
Director: Harry Smith
17.
The Sword in the Stone
(1963)
A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in England history. (79 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
18.
The Monkey King
(1963)
Da Nao Tian Gong is a Chinese animated feature film directed by Wan Laiming and produced by all four of the Wan brothers... (84 mins.)
Director: Wan Laiming
19.
The Jungle Book
(1967)
Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization. (78 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
20.
Yellow Submarine
(1968)
The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies. (90 mins.)
Director: George Dunning
21.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
(1969)
Charlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals. (86 mins.)
Director: Bill Melendez
22.
The AristoCats
(1970)
With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country. (78 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
23.
Fritz the Cat
(1972)
A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s. (78 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
24.
Heavy Traffic
(1973)
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork. (77 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
25.
Fantastic Planet
(1973)
This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. (72 mins.)
Director: René Laloux
26.
Robin Hood
(1973)
The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals. (83 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
27.
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
(1975)
Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car. (88 mins.)
Director: Ivo Caprino
28.
Coonskin
(1975)
Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police. (100 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
29.
Allegro non troppo
(1976)
An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music... (85 mins.)
Director: Bruno Bozzetto
30.
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
(1976)
The Gauls have the chance to become the new masters of the Roman empire if they can solve twelve tasks set by Julius Cesar. (82 mins.)
Director: René Goscinny, Henri Gruel
31.
Wizards
(1977)
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest. (80 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
32.
The Rescuers
(1977)
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters. (78 mins.)
Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
33.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
(1977)
A collection of animated shorts based on the stories and characters by A. A. Milne. (74 mins.)
Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
34.
Watership Down
(1978)
A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home. (91 mins.)
Director: Martin Rosen
35.
The Lord of the Rings
(1978)
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth. (132 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
36.
The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie
(1979)
Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits. (98 mins.)
Director: Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe
37.
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
(1979)
A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to. (100 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
38.
The King and the Mockingbird
(1980)
A chimney sweep and a shepherdess seek to escape from the clutches of a tyrannical king. (83 mins.)
Director: Paul Grimault
39.
American Pop
(1981)
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century. (96 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
40.
Heavy Metal
(1981)
A glowing green orb which embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. (86 mins.)
Director: Gerald Potterton, John Halas
41.
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
(1981)
Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts. (79 mins.)
Director: Friz Freleng
42.
The Fox and the Hound
(1981)
Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies. (83 mins.)
Director: Ted Berman, Richard Rich
43.
Pink Floyd: The Wall
(1982)
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. (95 mins.)
Director: Alan Parker
“ Live action & animation. ” - Dr-Faustus
44.
Time Masters
(1982)
Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets... (78 mins.)
Director: René Laloux
45.
The Plague Dogs
(1982)
Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague. (103 mins.)
Director: Martin Rosen
46.
The Secret of NIMH
(1982)
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected. (82 mins.)
Director: Don Bluth
47.
The Last Unicorn
(1982)
A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns. (92 mins.)
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
48.
Barefoot Gen
(1983)
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. (83 mins.)
Director: Mori Masaki
49.
Fire and Ice
(1983)
In this animated tale, a tiny village is destroyed by a surging glacier, which serves as the deadly domain for the evil Ice Lord... (81 mins.)
Director: Ralph Bakshi, Tom Tataranowicz
50.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
(1984)
Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. (117 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
51.
Angel's Egg
(1985)
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg. (71 mins.)
Director: Mamoru Oshii
52.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
(1985)
Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn join Mark Twain on his airship to meet Halley's Comet. (86 mins.)
Director: Will Vinton
53.
Cat City
(1986)
In the year 80 AMM (After Mickey Mouse) on planet X the crime-syndicated Cats try to erase the Mouse-population once and for all... (96 mins.)
Director: Béla Ternovszky
54.
When the Wind Blows
(1986)
A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war. (80 mins.)
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
55.
The Great Mouse Detective
(1986)
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan. (74 mins.)
Director: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
56.
The Pied Piper
(1986)
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist. (53 mins.)
Director: Jirí Barta
57.
Castle in the Sky
(1986)
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle. (125 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
58.
Alice
(1987)
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland. (86 mins.)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
59.
Vincent
(1987)
This documentary on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh is told through his letters to his brother Theo from 1872 until his tragic death. We gain first hand insight into the man, his motivations and his humanity. (105 mins.)
Director: Paul Cox
60.
Gandahar
(1988)
An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature. (78 mins.)
Director: René Laloux
61.
Grave of the Fireflies
(1988)
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. (89 mins.)
Director: Isao Takahata
62.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(1988)
A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. (104 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
63.
Akira
(1988)
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop. (124 mins.)
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
64.
My Neighbor Totoro
(1988)
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. (86 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
65.
Kiki's Delivery Service
(1989)
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. (103 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
66.
The Little Mermaid
(1989)
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land. (83 mins.)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
67.
Only Yesterday
(1991)
A 27-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tôkyô. (118 mins.)
Director: Isao Takahata
68.
Beauty and the Beast
(1991)
A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell. (84 mins.)
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
69.
The Tune
(1992)
Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest... (69 mins.)
Director: Bill Plympton
70.
Aladdin
(1992)
When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. (90 mins.)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
71.
Porco Rosso
(1992)
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig. (94 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
72.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
(1993)
Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually done by a new vigilante assassin. (76 mins.)
Director: Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm
73.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
(1993)
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home cause confusion. (76 mins.)
Director: Henry Selick
74.
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
(1993)
A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father... (60 mins.)
Director: Dave Borthwick
75.
Pom Poko
(1994)
A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development. (119 mins.)
Director: Isao Takahata
76.
Lesson Faust
(1994)
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments... (97 mins.)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
77.
The Lion King
(1994)
Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble. (88 mins.)
Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
78.
Memories
(1995)
"Memories" is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, "Magnetic Rose," four... (113 mins.)
Director: Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura
79.
Ghost in the Shell
(1995)
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. (83 mins.)
Director: Mamoru Oshii
80.
Whisper of the Heart
(1995)
A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and the boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses. (111 mins.)
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô
81.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
(1995)
A young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself? (104 mins.)
Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
82.
Toy Story
(1995)
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. (81 mins.)
Director: John Lasseter
83.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
(1997)
Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series "Shin Seiki Evangelion" (1995). (90 mins.)
Director: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
84.
Princess Mononoke
(1997)
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime. (134 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
85.
I Married a Strange Person!
(1997)
A newlywed develops a strange lump on his neck that gives him the ability to transform people or objects at will... (75 mins.)
Director: Bill Plympton
86.
Mulan
(1998)
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. (88 mins.)
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
87.
A Bug's Life
(1998)
A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. (95 mins.)
Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
88.
Kirikou and the Sorceress
(1998)
In a troubled African village, an unusual baby is born. (74 mins.)
Director: Michel Ocelot, Raymond Burlet
89.
Antz
(1998)
A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. (83 mins.)
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
90.
Toy Story 2
(1999)
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting. (92 mins.)
Director: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon
91.
The Iron Giant
(1999)
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy. (86 mins.)
Director: Brad Bird
92.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
(1999)
When Cartman and his friends go see an R rated movie, they start swearing and their parent's think that Canada is to blame. (81 mins.)
Director: Trey Parker
93.
Greedy Guts
(2000)
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than a normal child. (132 mins.)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
94.
The Emperor's New Groove
(2000)
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder. (78 mins.)
Director: Mark Dindal
95.
Chicken Run
(2000)
When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners. (84 mins.)
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
96.
Princes and Princesses
(2000)
Six old-style funny silhouetted fairy tales for not so-old-style people. (70 mins.)
Director: Michel Ocelot
97.
Metropolis
(2001)
Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima. (108 mins.)
Director: Rintaro
98.
Spirited Away
(2001)
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. (125 mins.)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
99.
Monsters, Inc.
(2001)
In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think. (92 mins.)
Director: Pete Docter, David Silverman
100.
Millennium Actress
(2001)
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career. (87 mins.)
Director: Satoshi Kon
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