The 50 Best Animated Films of All Time
The greatest animations of all time, from hand-drawn anime to tactile stop-motion.
Ne Zha 2 (2025)
More than simply rendering Chinese folklore as large-scale spectacle, Ne Zha 2 fully internalises the philosophical traditions underpinning that ancient, metaphysical mythology, observing transcendence emerge through self-realisation rather than moral division.
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025)
Childhood may seem like an endless kingdom of wonder in Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, fantastically shifting with the vivid imagination of its young protagonist, yet so too does the inevitable discovery of its own transience awaken a soft, bittersweet sorrow.
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
It takes more than brute strength to defeat a creature as viciously powerful as a Predator, and as Dan Trachtenberg studies history’s greatest warriors through Viking battles, samurai duels, and modern warfare, Killer of Killers honours the resilient heart of a people born to survive.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed would still be a great feat of filmmaking even if it were the hundredth or thousandth feature-length animation, but the fact that Lotte Reiniger’s imaginative Middle Eastern fable of magic, adventure, and shadow puppetry is the first of its kind is simply remarkable.