My favorite Anime Movies rank
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1. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 434,130 | Gross: $2.38M
2. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
G | 103 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi
Votes: 165,737
3. Weathering with You (2019)
PG-13 | 112 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu
Votes: 55,739 | Gross: $7.80M
4. Your Name. (2016)
PG | 106 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki
Votes: 320,892 | Gross: $5.02M
5. Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
TV-MA | 154 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Misato and her anti-NERV group WILLE arrive in Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower.
Directors: Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Joe Fria | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Akira Ishida
Votes: 14,220 | Gross: $0.83M
6. Whisper of the Heart (1995)
G | 111 min | Animation, Drama, Family
A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô | Stars: Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi
Votes: 72,722
7. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
PG | 119 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
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.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin, Akihiro Miwa
Votes: 449,963 | Gross: $4.71M
8. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 51,217
9. Ponyo (2008)
G | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Votes: 163,719 | Gross: $15.09M
10. Spirited Away (2001)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi
Votes: 850,339 | Gross: $10.06M
11. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
G | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Votes: 380,715 | Gross: $1.11M
12. The Cat Returns (2002)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.
Director: Hiroyuki Morita | Stars: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Takayuki Yamada
Votes: 64,588
13. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
TV-14 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.
Directors: Shin'ichirô Watanabe, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Tensai Okamura, Hiroyuki Okiura, Yoshiyuki Takei | Stars: Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn, Nicholas Guest, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 53,199 | Gross: $1.00M
14. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
TV-MA | 87 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995).
Directors: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi
Votes: 64,373
15. Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)
PG-13 | 105 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Edward Elric, an alchemist from an alternate world, races to prevent the Thule Society from harnessing alchemy to wage war on his home.
Director: Seiji Mizushima | Stars: Vic Mignogna, Aaron Dismuke, Jason Liebrecht, Kelly Manison
Votes: 12,105
16. Paprika (2006)
R | 90 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Furuya
Votes: 97,045 | Gross: $0.88M
17. Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 16,231 | Gross: $2.42M
18. Metropolis (2001)
PG-13 | 108 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.
Director: Rintarô | Stars: Toshio Furukawa, Scott Weinger, Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi
Votes: 22,623 | Gross: $0.64M
19. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Animation, Action, Drama
The fate of the world is threatened by seemingly monstrous entities known as Angels. NERV is an organization set up to counter this threat and it is up to young pilots to protect Earth but exactly what are the real motives behind NERV?
Directors: Hiroshi Haraguchi, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Votes: 27,671 | Gross: $0.11M
20. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
TV-14 | 112 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In the face of increasingly bizarre and powerful Angel attacks, Shinji Ikari and his partner Rei Ayanami are assisted by two new pilots: the fiery Asuka Langley Shikinami and the mysterious Mari Illustrious Makinami.
Directors: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Joe Fria | Stars: Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura
Votes: 24,914 | Gross: $0.13M
21. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
TV-14 | 96 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Fourteen years have passed since the near Third Impact. Most of the world has changed, except for Shinji Ikari, who awakens in a strange new environment without having aged.
Directors: Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Joe Fria, Kiyotaka Suzuki | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 18,511 | Gross: $0.17M
22. First Squad: The Moment of Truth (2009)
Not Rated | 73 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a ... See full summary »
Directors: Yoshiharu Ashino, Aljosha Klimov, Misha Shprits | Stars: Elena Chebaturkina, Mikhail Tikhonov, Damir Eldarov, Ludmila Shuvalova
Votes: 1,818
23. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives (2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The story takes place in Europe in the year a.t.b. 2017. A Knightmare unit made of boys and girls from Area Eleven are thrown into a military operation with a 5%chance of survival. They ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuki Akane | Stars: Jeannie Tirado, Micah Solusod, Aaron Dismuke, Bryn Apprill
Votes: 1,000
24. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2 - The Torn-Up Wyvern (2013 Video)
TV-14 | 59 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
With her previous triumphs under her belt, Leila Malcal has now been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and commanding officer of W-0. After having foiled an attempt to kidnap the General of ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuki Akane | Stars: Bryn Apprill, Anne Beyer, Johnny Yong Bosch, Aaron Dismuke
Votes: 769
25. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3 - The Brightness Falls (2015)
TV-14 | 60 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
After discovering the face of their true enemy, someone who is related to Akito and responsible for the Geass placed upon him, W-0 attempts to return to their base at Castle Weisswolf. ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuki Akane | Stars: Christopher Sabat, Yuri Lowenthal, Ian Sinclair, Johnny Yong Bosch
Votes: 717
26. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 4 - From the Memories of Hatred (2015)
TV-14 | 60 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
While W-0 is away, Leila and the remaining crew at base find themselves surrounded by Britannian Knightmares. Piloting the Vercingetorix, Shin Hyuuga leads the enemy charge, having usurped ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuki Akane | Stars: Christopher Sabat, Yuri Lowenthal, Ian Sinclair, Johnny Yong Bosch
Votes: 678
27. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled Final - To Beloved Ones (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
The Ark Fleet has been destroyed, and a significant number of the enemy's troops have been wiped out due to its crash landing. As the remaining forces of the Knights of St. Michael regroup ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuki Akane | Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Kate Higgins, Dawn M. Bennett, Anne Beyer
Votes: 651
28. Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (2016)
64 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Follows Araragi's encounter with the vampire Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade and his journey back into humanity from being a vampire.
Directors: Tatsuya Oishi, Akiyuki Shinbô | Stars: Hiroshi Kamiya, Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto, Yui Horie
Votes: 3,723
29. Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (2016)
68 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In the spring of his second year of high school, Koyomi Araragi met the beautiful vampire Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade. Koyomi saved Kiss-shot, who was on the verge of death ... See full summary »
Directors: Yukihiro Miyamoto, Tatsuya Oishi, Akiyuki Shinbô | Stars: Hiroshi Kamiya, Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto, Yui Horie
Votes: 3,272
30. Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu (2017)
83 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Part 3 of Kizumonogatari (Wound Tale) trilogy, based on a light novel by Nisio Isin.
Directors: Yukihiro Miyamoto, Tatsuya Oishi, Akiyuki Shinbô | Stars: Hiroshi Kamiya, Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto, Yui Horie
Votes: 3,308
31. Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)
TV-14 | 90 min | Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
Directors: Kanji Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Hamasaki, Takuya Satô | Stars: Mamoru Miyano, Asami Imai, Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Seki
Votes: 9,616
32. Patema Inverted (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura | Stars: Yukiyo Fujii, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shintarô Ôhata, Shin'ya Fukumatsu
Votes: 10,223
33. Appleseed Alpha (2014)
PG-13 | 93 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A tough, cute woman and a cyborg arrive at a depopulated, post WW3 Times Sq. They leave the ruins of NYC with 2 on a secret mission.
Directors: Shinji Aramaki, Steven Foster | Stars: Yuka Komatsu, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Aoi Yûki, Hiroki Takahashi
Votes: 8,980
34. Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] I. presage flower (2017)
TV-MA | 120 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Movie adaptation of the third route of Fate/Stay Night.
Director: Tomonori Sudô | Stars: Bryce Papenbrook, Noriaki Sugiyama, Noriko Shitaya, Cristina Valenzuela
Votes: 3,615
35. Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly (2019)
117 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The story focuses on the Holy Grail War and explores the relationship between Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou, two teenagers participating in this conflict. The story continues immediately ... See full summary »
Director: Tomonori Sudô | Stars: Yu Asakawa, Michael Donovan, Melissa Fahn, Crispin Freeman
Votes: 3,131
36. Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song (2020)
TV-MA | 120 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The final chapter in the Heaven's Feel trilogy. Angra Mainyu has successfully possessed his vessel Sakura Matou. It's up to Rin, Shirou, and Rider to cleanse the grail or it will be the end of the world and magecraft as we all know it.
Director: Tomonori Sudô | Stars: Yu Asakawa, Michael Donovan, Melissa Fahn, Crispin Freeman
Votes: 2,631
37. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation (2017)
135 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A remake of first 17 episodes of code geass R1.
Directors: Noriaki Akitaya, Gorô Taniguchi | Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Yukana, Ami Koshimizu
Votes: 666
38. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion II - Transgression (2018)
TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A remake of the last 8 episodes of Code Geass R1 and the first 16 episodes of Code Geass R2.
Directors: Noriaki Akitaya, Gorô Taniguchi | Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Omi Minami, Yukana
Votes: 539
39. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - Emperor (2018)
120 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A remake of the last 9 episodes in Code Geass R2, which is a prequel to Lelouch of the Resurrection.
Directors: Noriaki Akitaya, Gorô Taniguchi | Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Yukana, Ami Koshimizu
Votes: 576
40. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection (2019)
Not Rated | 112 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan.
Director: Gorô Taniguchi | Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Yukana, Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumu Murase
Votes: 3,470 | Gross: $0.52M
41. Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018)
TV-14 | 92 min | Animation, Action, Mystery
The Armed Detective Agency investigates a bizarre series of suicides involving an eerie mist.
Director: Takuya Igarashi | Stars: Brian Beacock, Ray Chase, Lucien Dodge, Carrie Keranen
Votes: 2,183
42. Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
TV-MA | 110 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
After departing from Ozen's camp, Riko and Reg continue their journey, encountering more dangers as they descend further into the Abyss.
Director: Masayuki Kojima | Stars: Miyu Tomita, Mariya Ise, Shiori Izawa, Eri Kitamura
Votes: 1,068
43. Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)
TV-MA | 113 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Riko, Reg, and their new friend, Nanachi, continue their journey down the Abyss and arrive at the 5th layer. But in order for them to continue to the 6th layer, they must encounter the haunting figure of Nanachi's past: Bondrewd the Novel.
Director: Masayuki Kojima | Stars: Miyu Tomita, Mariya Ise, Shiori Izawa, Inori Minase
Votes: 5,538
44. Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (2019)
119 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A girl named, Riko and her robot friend, Reg, journey down into a deadly, otherworldly chasm, known as the Abyss, in search of her lost mother.
Director: Masayuki Kojima | Stars: Miyu Tomita, Mariya Ise, Sayaka Ôhara, Aki Toyosaki
Votes: 890
45. Blackfox (2019)
90 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A masked ninja stalks the streets. Who is this mysterious figure?
Directors: Keisuke Shinohara, Kazuya Nomura | Stars: Ayaka Nanase, Haruka Tomatsu, You Taichi, Hiroshi Tsuchida
Votes: 422
46. Re: Zero, Starting Life in Another World (2016– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
After being suddenly transported to another world, Subaru Natsuki and his new female partner are brutally murdered. However, Subaru awakens to a familiar scene, meeting the same girl again. The day begins to mysteriously repeat itself.
Stars: Yûsuke Kobayashi, Sean Chiplock, Kayli Mills, Rie Takahashi
Votes: 24,067
47. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
PG | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya
Votes: 182,681 | Gross: $0.50M
48. Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn (2023 TV Movie)
56 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
Fate/strange fake is a light novel from the Fate franchise that takes place in an alternate universe, where various factions fight for the Holy Grail in a fictional US town called Snowfield... See full synopsis »
Directors: Shun Enokido, Takahito Sakazume | Stars: Ben Balmaceda, David W. Collins, Junya Enoki, Yoko Fujita
Votes: 317
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