# The best animated movies for adults

Animation that isn't for kids: war, memory, loneliness, cyberpunk and very rude humour. Picked from 65 y más, WatchMojo and Cine.com.

- 46 votes · 15 items
- Nov 17, 2025 · setlist_leon
- https://even.best/en/l/4083/the-best-animated-movies-for-adults

## Top 10

1. **Grave of the Fireflies (1988)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Two orphaned siblings in bombed-out Japan, by Isao Takahata.
2. **Persepolis (2007)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Marjane Satrapi grows up in revolutionary Iran.
3. **Waltz with Bashir (2008)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — An animated documentary on the memory of the Lebanon War.
4. **Perfect Blue (1997)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A pop idol who loses the line between reality and fiction, by Satoshi Kon.
5. **Anomalisa (2015)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A man who hears everyone with the same voice, by Charlie Kaufman.
6. **The Triplets of Belleville (2003)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A grandmother rescues her cyclist grandson, almost without dialogue.
7. **South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cartman and co.'s rudest musical.
8. **Fritz the Cat (1972)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Ralph Bakshi's pioneering X-rated cartoon.
9. **Akira (1988)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Neo-Tokyo, motorbikes and a power nobody can control.
10. **Wrinkles (2011)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A care home and Alzheimer's, by Ignacio Ferreras.
11. **Ghost in the Shell (1995)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Major Kusanagi and the soul inside the machine.
12. **Mary and Max (2009)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — A pen-pal friendship between an Australian girl and a lonely New Yorker.
13. **Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — The making of Land Without Bread.
14. **Paprika (2006)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A device for entering other people's dreams, by Satoshi Kon.
15. **Chico & Rita (2010)** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — A pianist and a singer in Havana, by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal.

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