Best Animated Movies of All Time

A ranked introduction to what feature animation can do: hand-drawn worlds, tactile stop-motion, expressive computer imagery and adult documentary all belong here. I favour a visual approach that changes how the story works, rather than attractive design alone. Start with Toy Story for compact comic storytelling, My Neighbor Totoro for quiet observation, or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for restless invention. This is a list for adults choosing their own viewing as well as family films; the wartime dramas, psychological thrillers and documentaries clearly identify their demands. Recent work is judged beside the established classics rather than added simply for being new.