Animation Movies

Animation is a filmmaking technique where images are manipulated to appear as moving images. Unlike live-action, animation allows for unlimited creative freedom, enabling filmmakers to bring to life fantastical worlds, characters, and stories that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with traditional filmmaking. From hand-drawn classics to modern CGI masterpieces, animation has evolved into a rich, diverse art form that appeals to audiences of all ages.

Toy Story
1995

Toy Story

1995 | John Lasseter

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

Animation Family Adventure
Spirited Away
2001

Spirited Away

2001 | Hayao Miyazaki

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, where humans are changed into beasts.

Animation Fantasy Adventure
Up
2009

Up

2009 | Pete Docter

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Animation Adventure Comedy
Coco
2017

Coco

2017 | Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.

Animation Family Fantasy
Finding Nemo
2003

Finding Nemo

2003 | Andrew Stanton

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Animation Adventure Comedy
Howl's Moving Castle
2004

Howl's Moving Castle

2004 | Hayao Miyazaki

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

Animation Fantasy Adventure
Inside Out
2015

Inside Out

2015 | Pete Docter

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

Animation Family Adventure
Akira
1988

Akira

1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.

Animation Sci-Fi Action
WALL-E
2008

WALL-E

2008 | Andrew Stanton

In a distant, but not so unrealistic, future where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess.

Animation Sci-Fi Adventure
The Lion King
1994

The Lion King

1994 | Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff

Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.

Animation Drama Adventure

Animation Genre Attributes

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