10 Great Animated Movies That Aren’t Disney Or Studio Ghibli

With animation studios like Disney and Studio Ghibli often dominating best animated movie lists, there are many great movies that come from elsewhere.

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Given the extreme popularity and success of both Disney and Studio Ghibli’s animated movies, it can be hard to find something new to watch that doesn’t come from one of their studios. Despite how fantastic both company’s films are, branching out provides audiences with stories and styles of animation that they’d otherwise miss.

Whether these movies are adaptations of beloved characters from books and comics or original stories from the minds of the film’s creators, there are a plethora of great narratives that benefit from being told through the medium of animation.

10 The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (2021)

Produced by Sony Pictures Animation and using many of the same animation techniques they’d earlier employed in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines tells the story of the Mitchell family, who get caught up in a robot apocalypse whilst driving across the country and end up as humanity’s only hope.

Packed with fantastic jokes, complex family dynamics and LGBTQ+ representation, all rendered in an incredibly detailed animation style, The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ many relatable moments are just one reason it’s a story worth re-watching, with new details standing out upon each viewing.

9 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

Envisioned as a loose sequel to the 1967 novel of the same name by Yasuktaka Tsutsui, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time follows Makoto Konno, a high schooler who gains the ability to leap through time, and how the new power and the responsibility of it, affects her life and relationships.

The story is full of heart, with moments of both comedy and drama, and watching the evolution of Makoto’s choices over the course of the movie is truly thought-provoking. The visuals of the movie also contributed towards it winning the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year in 2007.

8 The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Released in some countries under the title Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie, 2015’s The Peanuts Movie adapts the characters of the Peanuts comic strip into a film that manages to be both nostalgic and fresh.

Following Charlie Brown’s adventures after the Little Red-Haired Girl moves to town, the movie is a funny and faithful adaptation. With a memorable soundtrack and new introductions to the main characters, it’s an animated movie that can be enjoyed by anyone, even if the viewer has no prior familiarity with the world.

7 Your Name (2016)

Ranked as director Makoto Shinkai’s best movie, according to IMDb, fantasy romance Your Name became one of the highest-grossing traditionally animated films of all time, and a worldwide success. It tells the story of two high-schoolers, a boy living in Tokyo and a girl in rural Japan, who, without reason, suddenly swap bodies.

Their consequential wishes to understand what’s happening and developing affections for each other carry the movie’s narrative, which has proved so popular that a live-action remake is currently in development from Bad Robot Productions.

6 How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

DreamWorks Animations How to Train Your Dragon follows Viking teenager Hiccup, who wishes to become a dragon slayer in the tradition of his tribe. Instead, his later capturing of a dragon leads him to form a bond with the creature, who he names Toothless. The movie follows the pair’s friendship and its complications.

The success of the movie has spawned two sequels, both of which have been praised for their wittiness and emotional depth, alongside distinctive characters and memorable depiction of dragons. The movie was also nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards.

5 Wolf Children (2012)

The first release from Studio Chizu, co-founded by The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’s director Mamoru Hosoda, Wolf Children (also co-written and directed by Hosoda) tells the story of a young woman, Hana, and her relationship with a werewolf. Following his death, she must raise their two half-human, half-werewolf children on her own.

A movie that centers on the love between a mother and her children, the narrative also explores notions of identity, with Hana having to navigate how to raise children who are part of a culture she doesn’t share, and the children going through the journey of finding their place of belonging.

4 Anastasia (1997)

A movie that looks into an alternate version of Russian history, following the idea that Grand Duchess Anastasia could have escaped the execution of her family, Anastasia sees its titular character experiencing amnesia and trying to find out about her family.

A movie with some great quotes, Anastasia also tells the story of the heroine’s romance with former palace worker, Dimitri, as well as featuring memorable songs that include, “Journey to the Past” and “Once Upon a December.”

3 Klaus (2019)

A Netflix original Christmas movie, Klaus follows a postman named Jesper, who is sent by his father to be stationed in the far-north town of Smeerensberg, where he finds two family clans at war with one another. Searching for other people’s letters to post, Jesper stumbles upon the reclusive woodsman and toymaker Klaus.

With a distinctive hand-drawn animation style and a new take on the origins of Santa Claus, Klaus is a heartwarming movie that – though Christmas plays a role in it – stands on its own merits outside of being a holiday film, avoiding many of the overused traditions that such movies often succumb to.

2 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009)

A science-fiction comedy, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs tells the story of Flint Lockwood, a young man who wishes to be an inventor. Though his experiments often fail, Flint manages to create a machine that can turn water into food. It subsequently overloads, and the movie follows Flint’s journey to rectify the mistake.

Joined by his faithful pet monkey Steve and weather intern Sam, Flint’s misadventures make for a creative and funny movie, with fantastic voice acting from its cast. Its success also led to a movie sequel, as well as an animated TV series from Cartoon Network.

1 The Little Prince (2015)

A 2015 adaptation of the classic 1943 French novella of the same name, The Little Prince is a movie that uses both stop motion and computer animation to great effect. It follows a young girl who moves to a new town and meetings with her neighbor, an elderly retired aviator who tells her the story of The Little Prince himself, and the young girl’s subsequent journey to find him.

A movie that references its source material in a really gratifying way, The Little Prince takes a sensitive look at the big themes of its story and delivers them in an easy-to-digest, moving way.

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