Animation is an exceptional art, but it is not necessarily dedicated to children’s or children’s stories. In this list, we want to show you the best-animated movies, regardless of genre or focus. Ready to see some classics and discover some rare gems? Let us begin! Note: we will generally place the movies chronologically, from the newest to the oldest.
Best Animated Movies of All Time
1.Suzume (2023)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
After meeting a stranger, young Suzume discovers a door that unleashes a possible catastrophe on her country.
2. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Puss in Boots sets out on a mission to defeat death after depleting all nine of his lives.
3. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Audience: Children and adults
A talented carpenter loses his son, and in his grief, creates a wooden doll in the shape of a boy. When the doll comes to life, his story takes an unexpected turn.
4. Belle (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
A young misfit discovers that, in the virtual world, she can finally be free from prejudice. But she soon realizes that even in the virtual world there are monsters that haunt the innocent.
5. The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Audience: Children and adults
A family takes a trip to start the university career of the eldest daughter. But what they did not expect is that halfway through, the machines would rebel against humanity.
6. Soul (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
A school teacher has always dreamed of being a musician. On the day that he is offered a golden opportunity, he has an accident and his soul is separated from his body. In the world of souls, convinced that he does not deserve to be dead, he will do everything in his power to return to his body, taking a stowaway with him that will bring him much more trouble than expected.
7. Wolfwalkers (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A huntress apprentice and her father travel to eradicate the last of the wolves. But the girl befriends a young woman who belongs to a clan of humans who turn into wolves at night…
8. Klaus (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A newly arrived postman in Smeerensburg strikes up a friendship with toymaker Klaus, inadvertently mending a long-lost relationship.
9. Promare (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Audience: Adolescents from 12 years old
In this futuristic film, a special unit is created to fight fires in a city threatened by mutants who destroy everything with fire.
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
Miles Morales becomes Spiderman within his own universe, while discovering that there are different Spiderman in other parallel worlds that will try to stop a threat that will put all possible realities in check.
11. Isle of Dogs (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
After all the dogs were exiled due to a mysterious illness, a boy finds himself on the Isle of Dogs, in search of his lost dog.
12. Coco (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Audience: Children and adults
Miguel, a young man who wants to be a musician, has to deal with the ban on music in his family. In order to find his roots and an explanation of him, he will enter the land of the dead to search for his great-great-grandfather, a legendary musician.
13. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
Kubo, tormented by a spirit from the past, must find a magical armor that belonged to his father in order to face him.
14. The Red Turtle (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
A castaway will find himself on a deserted island with a red turtle that will change his life.
15. Your Name. (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Audience: Children and adults
Taki, a Tokyo resident, and Mitsuha, a country girl who dreams of city life, mysteriously start body swapping one day.
16. Zootopia (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rabbit who has just started her career as a police officer teams up with a fox to destabilize a conspiracy network.
17. A Silent Voice (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Slice-of-Life, School
Audience: Teens 16 and up
After being a school bully during his elementary school days and little by little becoming the victim of the same abuse, the young protagonist will try to redeem himself with the young woman with hearing problems who suffered several months under his cruelty.
18. Moana (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Audience: Children and adults
When a curse involving the demigod Maui reaches Moana’s island, the young woman follows the call of the sea and decides to seek out the demigod to set things right.
19. Inside Out (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Known as Intensely in Latin America. After Riley, a teenager, moves from her quiet country life to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – will try to deal with this new city, new house and a new life. school.
20. Anomalisa (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Audience: Adult
A man, fed up with the monotony of his life, undergoes an extraordinary experience that will change his whole perspective forever.
21. The Little Prince (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
A girl, whose mother tries to prepare her for adult life, refuses to grow up so fast. In her neighborhood, she discovers a neighbor with a wonderful story to tell, the Aviator, who will tell her about the adventures of the Little Prince.
22. Song of the Sea (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Audience: Children and adults
Ben and Saoirse, a couple of Irish brothers, will embark on an adventure to free the fairies and save the world from spirits.
23. Big Hero Six (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
Hiro Hamada, a young prodigy, forms an inseparable bond with an inflatable robot named Baymax. Together with his friends, Baymax and Hiro will become superheroes to defend the city.
24. The LEGO Movie (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
An ordinary construction worker, believed to have been prophesied as “special”, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe to a standstill forever.
25. The Book of Life (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Manolo, a young man who doesn’t know whether to follow his family’s wishes or fulfill his dreams, will embark on an adventure that will take him through three fantastic worlds where he will face his greatest fears.
26. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Audience: Children and adults
A bamboo cutter and his wife find a bamboo stalk in the forest, which houses a baby girl inside. Convinced that it is a divine sign, they raise her to become a princess.
27. The Wind Rises (2013)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Audience: Adult
A look into the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
28. Frozen (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
Elsa, the newly crowned queen of the kingdom of Arendelle, accidentally uses her ice powers. Terrified, she flees into the mountains, and her younger sister Anna decides to search for her along with a mountaineer, her pet reindeer, and a snowman that comes to life.
29. Frankenweenie (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
When a boy suddenly and unexpectedly loses his dog, he tries to revive it using a powerful science experiment.
30. Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
It tells a story about a most peculiar friendship between a little mouse named Célestine and a bear named Ernest.
31. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon, only to discover that there may be more to the creatures than he bargained for.
32. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Adult
An urban fox is tempted to re-enter the farms to terrorize the animals, but due to his actions, he will have to help his community bear the punishment of the farmers.
33. Up (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Carl Fredricksen, a 78-year-old man, will undertake an extraordinary journey to the Falls of Paradise using his own house, which is now floated by helium balloons. But unknowingly, he has taken a passenger with him.
34. Coraline (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
An adventurous girl discovers a world parallel to her boring normal life, with very sinister and scary mysteries.
35. Burger Rain (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
A local scientist is the laughing stock of his small town, until he invents a machine that manages to make food fall from the sky.
36. Wall-E (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Audience: Children and adults
In the distant future, a small robot dedicated to collecting garbage makes a discovery that leads him on a wonderful journey that could decide the fate of humanity.
37. Ratatouille (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
A rat learning to cook makes an odd alliance with a human who works at a restaurant.
38. The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Adult
After Homer contaminates the city’s water supply, Springfield is locked in a dome by an environmental protection agency, and the Simpsons end up on the run from the authorities.
39. Paprika (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Audience: Adult
When a machine that allows therapists to access their patients’ dreams goes missing, things spiral out of control. Only a young therapist can solve the mystery.
40. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Wallace, along with his faithful canine companion Gromit, will try to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that attacks their town and jeopardizes the giant vegetable contest.
41. Corpse Bride (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
Victor, a young man who is close to getting married, is nervous and shy, so he decides to practice his vows in the forest. What he doesn’t know is that he has done it near the corpse of a young woman, who at the end of her speech will rise from the grave, claiming to be her girlfriend.
42. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family
Audience: Children and adults
A jealous witch casts a spell on a young woman into an old woman, and she can only break the spell by finding a cocky witch inside a howl’s castle.
43. The Incredibles (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
A family of superheroes lives a quiet life hiding their identities undercover, but that peace is threatened when they have to act to save the world.
44. Finding Nemo (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
After seeing his son caught during a routine fishing activity, a timid and fearful clownfish must set out on a journey to Sydney to rescue him.
45. The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Audience: Adult
Madame Souza, together with her dog Bruno, will try to recover her grandson, who was kidnapped during the Tour de France. For this, they will join the Belleville sisters, a singing and dancing group made up of old ladies.
47. Treasure Planet (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Audience: Children and adults
In this Disney adaptation of Treasure Island , we enter an interplanetary journey filled with alien worlds and wonders from other galaxies.
48. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Audience: Children and adults
A Hawaiian girl, desperate for a pet, adopts a peculiar being that she mistakes for an unattractive dog. However, this peculiar being is actually an alien on the run from an extraterrestrial agency.
49. Spirited Away (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family
Audience: Children and adults
Also known as Spirited Away. During a move, a 10-year-old girl will end up in a universe full of gods, witches and spirits, where humans are transformed into beasts.
50. Atlantis (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Audience: Children and adults
Milo Thatch, a young adventurer fascinated with the lost continent of Atlantis, will have to complete a mission together with an intrepid group of explorers to find the place that has always fascinated him.
51. Shrek (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
An ogre welcomes different creatures from fairy tales into his swamp, who were exiled by a tyrant. In order to get the land back from him, the ogre will have to complete a quest and save a princess.
52. Runaway Chicks (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
When a young rooster appears on a farm, the hens see it as a wonderful opportunity to flee the farm and escape their cruel owners.
53. El Dorado (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
When a pair of con artists steal some relics, they find among them a map to the mythical city of gold, El Dorado.
54. The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Mark Dindal
Cast: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt
Audience: Children and adults
Kuzko, a young emperor, falls victim to the envy of his former administrator, named Yzma, when he is transformed into a llama with a potion. Now, with the help of a shepherd, he will try to recover his body and his throne.
55. The Iron Giant (1999)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family
Audience: Children and adults
A young man befriends a giant robot, while a paranoid government agent wants to destroy it.
56. Mulan (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Audience: Children and adults
Based on a folk tale, Mulan is a young woman who will pose as a man to prevent her ailing father from serving in the army during the war.
57. Littlefoot (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Audience: Children and adults
It tells the story of a brontosaurus who, after being orphaned, must ask for help from his fellow dinosaurs to reunite with his relatives.
58. Hercules (1997)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
When Hercules loses his powers of immortality, he must become a hero to get them back, and return to Olympus with his family.
59. Princess Mononoke (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family
Audience: Adult
Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between forest spirits and a mining colony while trying to find a cure for a curse. In this process she will meet San, Princess Mononoke.
60. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Audience: Children and adults
A deformed young man will try to rescue his friend, a gypsy dancer, from the clutches of a cruel minister.
61. Lady and the Tramp (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
It tells the story of a spoiled cocker spaniel who falls in love with a mongrel dog from the street.
62. Toy Story (1, 2, 3, 4) (1995-1999-2010-2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
A group of toys that come to life when people are not looking will embark on different adventures that will put them in danger.
63. The Lion King (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Audience: Children and adults
Simba, the heir to the throne of the animal kingdom, and his father, King Mufasa, fall into a trap set by the king’s brother to keep the throne.
64. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
Jack Skellington, the king of the land of Halloween, discovers the land of Christmas, but his attempt to bring Christmas to his land creates chaos and confusion.
65. Porco Rosso (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Adult
In 1930 Italy, a World War I veteran pilot falls victim to a curse that makes him look like an anthropomorphic pig.
66. Aladdin (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
A street thief and an ambitious vizier have something in common: both are in search of a magic lamp that can make all their dreams come true.
67. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A prince tormented by a curse that makes him look like a terrifying beast, will try to recover vestiges of his humanity by winning the heart of a woman.
68. The Little Mermaid (1989)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A mermaid princess signs a contract with a sea witch to win the heart of a human prince, trading her fins for legs and losing her voice in the process.
69. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Audience: Children and adults
A young witch is forced to live independently for a year, but she finds it difficult to integrate into society with her work, which is home deliveries by air.
70. Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
Audience: Adult
A military project puts the city of Neo Tokyo in jeopardy when it transforms a biker into a monster with psychic abilities and that can only be stopped by a group with the same abilities.
71. Who framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Adult
An animated rabbit will search for a detective who hates cartoons as the only person who can get him out of a false murder charge.
72. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Audience: Adult
After losing his family during the war, a young man and his little sister must fend for themselves to survive in Japan during World War II.
73. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Audience: Children accompanied by adults
Nausicaä, a pacifist warrior, will try to prevent two nations from destroying each other and, in the process, their planet, which is suffering.
74. Bernardo and Bianca (saga) (1977-1990)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
A couple of mice members of a rescue society will try to save a girl kidnapped by some bounty hunters.
75. Los aristogatos (1970)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Set to inherit a fortune from their owner, a family of Parisian cats tries to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the countryside.
76. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Audience: Children and adults
Cruella de Vil, a cruel woman with a daring fashion sense, becomes obsessed with Dalmatian fur for a new coat, kidnapping a pack of puppies.
77. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A cruel fairy decides to pay the humiliation of not receiving an invitation to a royal event with the newborn baby, whom she curses into a deep sleep until she finds true love.
78. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
Alice, bored with her monotonous life and free from adventures, enters Wonderland. However, when her fear of the unknown begins to attack her, she will realize that she cannot return home, much less if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
79. Cinderella (1950)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
When Cinderella’s stepmother forbids her from attending an official royal ball, the young woman gets unexpected help from a pair of mice and her fairy godmother.
80. The Three Caballeros (1944)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Audience: Children and adults
Donald is celebrating his birthday, and receives information and gifts from Brazil and Mexico as a gift.
81. Bambi (1942)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Audience: Children and adults
This Disney animated feature tells the story of a little deer, who learns to grow up in the forest after losing his mother.
82. Dumbo (1941)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Audience: Children and adults
Ridiculed for his oversized ears, a young circus elephant is helped by a mouse to reach his full potential. Overcoming different obstacles, Dumbo will have to fight for something more than his dream.
83. Fantasia (1940)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A collection of animated interpretations of works of classical music that Disney masterfully displays with visual effects that will amaze all who see it.
84. Pinocchio (1940)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Audience: Children and adults
A living puppet follows the advice of his conscience, a little cricket, to manage to measure up and become a real child.
85. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Audience: Children and adults
A princess exiled in the forest due to the envy of her stepmother befriends seven mining dwarves who make her their family.
