The 100 best animated movies: the best hand-drawn movies
World-famous animators pick the best animated movies ever, including Disney and Pixar movies, cult movies, kids movies, stop-motion, anime and more
Now we know which are the 100 best animation movies of all time. But which are the best Disney movies and which are the best Pixar or Studio Ghibli films? Which are best for kids and families and which are strictly arty, political or edgy?
We’ve applied 26 handy labels to the 100 great animations in our list. Here you’ll find all the best hand-drawn animated movies.
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Pinocchio (1940)
A wooden puppet yearns to be a real boy; he must prove himself worthy.
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Spirited Away (2001)
Moving is a drag for ten-year-old Chihiro, until she discovers she’s meant to work in a bathhouse for the spirit world.
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My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Miyazaki proves he has the heart of a child, the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet.
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Dumbo (1941)
It ain’t easy being gray in one of Disney’s most simple, cute and memorable tales.
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The Iron Giant (1999)
The Ted Hughes novel came to Hollywood in a studio movie that broke technical and storytelling boundaries – if not box-office records.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Not the first animated feature, but the start of the Disney empire.
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Yellow Submarine (1968)
The cartoon Beatles rampage through a psychedelic Pop Art dreamscape.
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Fantasia (1940)
In Disney’s extravaganza, eight fantastical vignettes are scored to music by Bach, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
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Akira (1988)
A biker teen unleashes a psychic with apocalyptic powers – oh, and it’s 2019.
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
This unflinching war story proves that, in animation, anything is possible.
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