The animation is more of a dynamic medium of representing ideas than it is a genre. From Disney to Manga, not only kids but adult of every age enjoy the occasional animated movies to refresh their minds. The subtle growth of animation in mainstream cinema is changing the landscape of the entertainment world and is also changing the way of expressing stories. The computer-animated movies are often represented to reach out to a huge number of audience with a message or moral in the most creative way possible.
In Cartoon movies, we see brightly coloured characters and imageries posses abilities beyond any human being are capable of, and those characters have the potential to speak to every age group of people. These movies show us that one's imaginations can do wonders in bringing certain characters alive on screen. Isn't it amazing to able to see the stories of an imaginative and creative world?
The Walt Disney Company had the vision to bring a different perspective to screen, to bring out how animals see the world differently. And their vision surely did the magic, that their most iconic character Mickey mouse is still alive in people's heart. Hollywood has produced some of the best animation movies in recent times while Japan, other Asian countries rule the international arena of Anime movies. 2017, 2018 animated movies like Coco, Peter Rabbit, Despicable Me 3, Incredibles 2 have won the hearts of the audience and minted huge amounts at the box office.
Speaking about Indian cinema, Bollywood has tried its luck in animated movies like Chhota Bheem Aur Krishna, Motu Patlu: King of Kings, Hanuman, Bal Ganesh. etc but they didn't receive a great response. South Indian film industries like Tollywood and Kollywood try their luck with animation movies now and then. Tamil film Kochadaiyaan starring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone was one such attempt which ended up as a big failure.
Here we have compiled a list of 75 best anime movies of all time. Be it is marvel or dc animated movies or Japanese Anime or manga movies you can find it all here.
| Movie | Cast | Director(s) | Language | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lion King | Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones | Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers | English | 15 July 1994 |
| Frozen | Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana |
Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck | English | 29 Nov 2013 |
| Despicable Me | Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker | Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud | English | 6 Aug 2010 |
| Finding Nemo | Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe |
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich | English | 30 May 2003 |
| Ice Age | Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary |
Chris Wedge | English | 3 May 2002 |
| Bal Ganesh | Ashar Shaikh | Pankaj Sharma | Hindi | 26 Oct 2007 |
| Hanuman | V.G. Samant, Milind Ukey | V.G. Samant, Milind Ukey | Hindi | 21 Oct 2005 |
| The Incredibles | Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter | Brad Bird | English | 17 Dec 2004 |
| Tangled | Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy | Byron Howard, Nathan Greno | English | 21 Jan 2011 |
| Toy Story | Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles | John Lasseter | English | 19 Nov 1995 |
| Wall - E | Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin | Andrew Stanton | English | 21 June 2008 |
| Up | Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai | Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | English | 11 Sep 2009 |
| Kung Fu Panda | Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Bryan Cranston, Jackie Chan |
Mark Osborne, John Stevenson | English | 11 July 2008 |
| Planet Hulk | Rick D. Wasserman, Lisa Ann Beley, Mark Hildreth, Liam O'Brien, Kevin Michael Richardson |
Sam Liu | English | 2 Feb 2010 |
| The Invincible Iron Man | Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Howard Stark, Mandarin, Wong-Chu, Boyer |
Patrick Archibald | English | 23 Jan 2007 |
| Spirited Away | Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Yumi Tamai, Takeshi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi |
Hayao Miyazaki | Japanese | 20 July 2001 |
| Batman: Under the Red Hood | Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, John DiMaggio, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Isaacs, Wade Williams |
Brandon Vietti | English | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Justice League: Doom | Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Susan Eisenberg, Nathan Fillion, Carl Lumbly, Michael Rosenbaum |
Lauren Montgomery | English | 28 Feb 2012 |
| Moana | Ron Clements, John Musker, Chris Williams, Don Hall, Pamela Ribon, Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell |
Ron Clements, John Musker | English | 23 Nov 2016 |
| Shrek | Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow |
Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson | English | 22 April 2001 |
| Akira | Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Taro Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki, Tetsusho Genda |
Katsuhiro Otomo | Japanese | 16 July 1998 |
| Grave of the fireflies | Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi |
Isao Takahata | Japanese | 16 April 1998 |
| Perfect blue | Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji | Satoshi Kon | Japanese | 28 Feb 1998 |
| Your Name | Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Masami Nagasawa, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryo Narita |
Makoto Shinkai | Japanese | 26 Aug 2016 |
| Howls Moving Castle | Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa | Hayao Miyazaki | Japanese | 20 Nov 2004 |
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Sachie Hara |
Mamoru Hosoda | Japanese | 15 July 2006 |
| Finding Dory | Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell |
Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane | English | 17 June 2016 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers |
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | English | 22 Nov 1991 |
| Happy Feet | Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman |
George Miller | English | 17 Nov 2006 |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi | Hayao Miyazaki | Japanese | 16 April 1988 |
| 31 | The Little Mermaid | Ron Clements, John Musker | English | 17 Nov 1989 |
| Aladdin | Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried, Douglas Seale |
Ron Clements, John Musker | English | 25 Nov 1992 |
| Ratatouille | Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Janeane Garofalo |
Brad Bird | English | 28 June 2007 |
| Monster Inc | John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly |
Pete Docter | English | 2 Nov 2001 |
| Coco | Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt |
Lee Unkrich | English | 22 Nov 2017 |
| Wreck-It Ralph | John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch |
Rich Moore | English | 29 Oct 2012 |
| How To Train Your Dragon | Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera |
Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders | English | 26 Mar 2010 |
| The Croods | Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke |
Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco | English | 19 April 2013 |
| Brave | Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters |
Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman | English | 22 June 2012 |
| The Smurfs | Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria | Raja Gosnell | English | 24 July 2011 |
| The Prince of Egypt | Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock |
Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells |
English | 18 Dec 1998 |
| Zootopia | Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate |
Byron Howard, Rich Moore | English | 10 Feb 2016 |
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith |
Steve Box, Nick Park | English | 4 Sep 2005 |
| Rango | Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina |
Gore Verbinski | English | 4 Mar 2011 |
| Big Hero 6 | Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung |
Don Hall, Chris Williams | English | 7 Nov 2014 |
| Inside Out | Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Lewis Black, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling |
Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen | English | 17 June 2015 |
| Leafie, A Hen into the Wild | Moon So-ri, Yoo Seung-ho, Choi Min-sik | Oh Sung-yoon | Korean | 28 July 2011 |
| Corpse Bride | Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter | Mike Johnson, Tim Burton | English | 7 Sep 2005 |
| Persepolis | Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud | French | 27 June 2007 |
| The Triplets of Belleville | Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreault, Michel Robin | Sylvain Chomet | French | 11 June 2003 |
| The Secret of Kells | Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Christen Mooney, | Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey | French | 11 Feb 2009 |
| The Princess and the Frog | Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jim Cummings |
John Musker, Ron Clements | English | 11 Dec 2009 |
| The Illusionist | Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin | Sylvain Chomet | French | 16 June 2010 |
| When Marnie Was There | Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Japanese | 19 July 2014 |
| Shaun the Sheep Movie | Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili | Mark Burton, Richard Starzak | English | 6 Feb 2015 |
| Boy and the World | Vinicius Garcia, Felipe Zilse, Alê Abreu, Lu Horta, Marco Aurélio Campos, Cassius Romero |
Alê Abreu | Portuguese | 17 Jan 2014 |
| The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii, Nobuko Miyamoto | Isao Takahata | Japanese | 23 Nov 2013 |
| Monkey King: Hero Is Back | Lei Zhang, Zijie Lin, Wenlun Wu | Tian Xiaopeng | Chinese | 19 July 2015 |
| A Bug's Life | Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus | John Lasseter | English | 25 Nov 1998 |
| Princess Mononoke | Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, | Hayao Miyazaki | Japanese | 12 July 1997 |
| Puss in Boots | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris |
Chris Miller | English | 28 Oct 2011 |
| 5 Centimeters per Second | Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura | Makoto Shinkai | Japanese | 3 Mar 2007 |
| Wolf Children | Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa | Mamoru Hosoda | Japanese | 21 July 2012 |
| The Boss Baby | Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Miles Bakshi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow |
Tom McGrath | English | 31 Mar 2017 |
| Rio | Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez | Carlos Saldanha | English | 22 Mar 2011 |
| Whisper of the Heart | Yōko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Keiju Kobayashi |
Yoshifumi Kondō | Japanese | 15 July 1995 |
| Bolt | John Travolta, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Miley Cyrus | Chris Williams, Byron Howard | English | 21 Nov 2008 |
| The Wind Rises | Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura |
Hayao Miyazaki | Japanese | 20 July 2013 |
| Lilo & Stitch | Chris Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers |
Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois | English | 21 June 2002 |
| Shark Tale | Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie | Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, Rob Letterman |
English | 1 Oct 2004 |
| A Silent Voice | Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yūki, Kenshō Ono | Naoko Yamada | Japanese | 17 Sep 2016 |
| Summer Wars | Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji |
Mamoru Hosoda | Japanese | 1 Aug 2009 |
| The Garden of Words | Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano | Makoto Shinkai | Japanese | 31 May 2013 |
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer | Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | English | 7 Nov 2008 |
| Paprika | Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tōru Furuya |
Satoshi Kon | Japanese | 25 Nov 2006 |