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Best Animation Movies

of the 1980s

The 20 highest-rated animation movies released between 1980 and 1989, ranked by IMDb score.

1

Vincent(1982)

8.3 IMDb

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.

2

The Snowman(1982)

8.2 IMDb80% RT

A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

3

My Neighbor Totoro(1988)

8.1 IMDb94% RT87 Meta

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When t

4

Akira(1988)

8 IMDb91% RT68 Meta

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

5

Castle in the Sky(1986)

8 IMDb96% RT78 Meta

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

6

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(1984)

8 IMDb91% RT86 Meta

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the

7

Barefoot Gen(1983)

8 IMDb71% RT

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

8

Kiki's Delivery Service(1989)

7.8 IMDb85 Meta

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.

9

Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

7.7 IMDb96% RT83 Meta

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acm

10

When the Wind Blows(1986)

7.7 IMDb88% RT

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their ro

11

Angel's Egg(1985)

7.7 IMDb

In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.

12

The King and the Mockingbird(1980)

7.7 IMDb100% RT87 Meta

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.

13

Alice(1988)

7.4 IMDb95% RT

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animal

14

The Last Unicorn(1982)

7.3 IMDb75% RT70 Meta

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the tr

15

Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth(1988)

7.2 IMDb

The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in

16

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers(1987)

6.9 IMDb

After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby and Scrappy arrive at the late uncle's Southern plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by

17

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School(1988)

6.8 IMDb

Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they've been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that not only is it actually an al

18

Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods(1988)

6.6 IMDb

Hyoga is missing somewhere in Asgard... When Seiya and the others are looking for him, Athena is kidnapped and they have to rescue her from Dolvar and some mysterious warriors.

19

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf(1988)

6.6 IMDb

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.

20

Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle(1989)

6.5 IMDb

The plot involves the coming of Lucifer to the Sanctuary, where his underlings systematically dispose of the surviving Gold Saints. Athena goes to Lucifer to ask for peace, placing herself in peril. T

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