Haven’t started one of these in a while. This is for feature films – we can do shorts and series later.
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Fantasia (1940)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Despicable Me (2010)
La Planète sauvage (1973)
Rock & Rule (1983)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
Despicable Me (2010)
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Chicken Run (2000)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Mulan (1998)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Disney’s Aladdin
Isle of Dogs
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Inside Out
Finding Nemo
The Sword in the Stone
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Transformers: The Movie
And there’s probably a bunch I’ll regret not putting in there.
Not necessarily my absolute favorites, as that shifts around, but certainly ten worthwhile films. Some are here primarily for stylistic reasons, others for the story.
Akira (1988) Macross PLUS (the 1995 movie cut) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) The Secret of NIMH (1982) Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) Redline (2011) Gunnm (1993) Ninja Scroll (1993)
The entirety of the Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted festival films
Honorable mention to season one of Love Death + Robots which I don’t think qualifies for the list since it’s a bingewatch series rather than a film but one could just as easily decide to watch it all in one go.
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Monsters Inc.
The Lion King
Spirited Away
Castle in the Sky
Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse
Perfect Blue
In no particular order, and limited to one per director
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (Rothman, Ramsey & Persichetti)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker)
Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Old Czech Legends (Jiří Trnka)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger)
I tend to be moved by the classics. No particular order…
David Hand’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske’s Pinocchio (1940)
Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940)
Ben Sharpsteen’s Dumbo (1941)
David Hand’s Bambi (1942)
Wilford Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi’s Cinderella (1950)
Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Little Mermaid (1989)
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff’s The Lion King (1994)
John Lasseter’s Toy Story (1995)
In no particular order - and including those with partial animation:
TRON
Big Hero 6
Lilo & Stitch
The Last Unicorn
The Secret of NIMH
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Shrek
Kubo & the Two Strings
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Lupin III: Castle of Caligostro
Iron Giant
Atlantis
Treasure Planet
Castle in the Sky
The Incredibles
Howl’s Moving Castle
Heavy Metal
Rock and Rule
Metropolis
Okay, so, this could change any given day, and this will be in no particular order:
The Illusionist
Spirited Away
ParaNorman
Up
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Black Cauldron
The Secret of Kells
The Fox and the Hound
When Marnie Was There
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Those are all feature-length theatrically released movies.
If we’re taking ALL of animation into account, regardless of length or venue, I’d have to throw some nods to A Charlie Brown Christmas and 1982’s The Snowman.
Sleeping Beauty
Robin Hood
Secret of NIMH
The Land before Time
Aladdin
The Emperor’s New Groove
The Little Mermaid (the first movie I remember seeing in the movie theater)
Fantasia (the original)
Tangled
Can I choose Looney Tunes? Or is that a short? But I can sing “Kill the Wabbit” and “Rabbit of Seville” from beginning to end.