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The Best Annimated Movies For Adults

“What are the best Adult Animation Movies?” We looked at 225 of the top Adult Animation films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 35 films, all appearing on 4 or more “Best Adult Animation” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 175+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

Happy Scrolling!



Top 35 Best Adult Animation Movies Ever Made



35 .) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007) directed by Matt Maiellaro

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB 2
  • Ranker
  • The Cinemaholic

An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.



34 .) Belladonna of Sadness (1973) directed by Eiichi Yamamoto

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB
  • Screen Rant

A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.



33 .) Beowulf (2007) directed by Robert Zemeckis

Beowulf (2007)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB
  • MSN
  • Screen Rant

6th-century Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the a man-like ogre, Grendel.



32 .) Berserk directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka

Berserk

Lists It Appears On:

  • Heavy
  • IMDB
  • List Challenges
  • Live About

A year has passed since Guts parted ways with the Band of the Hawks. Meanwhile, his former mercenary group is plotting a rescue mission to save an imprisoned Griffith.



31 .) Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) directed by Michael Coldewey

Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Live About
  • Ranker

Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar, a miner named Tyler becomes possessed with an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for immortality. On his way to the planet of youth, Tyler wipes out most of a space colony and kidnaps a beautiful young woman. His only mistake is that he doesn’t kill her sister, Julie, who then sets out on a mission of rescue and revenge.



30 .) It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) directed by Don Hertzfeldt

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • IMDB

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short film trilogy.



29 .) Loving Vincent (2017) directed by Dorota Kobiela

Loving Vincent (2017)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB
  • Marie Claire
  • Showbiz Bytes
  • The Cinemaholic

The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.



28 .) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) directed by Henry Selick

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • EW
  • Marie Claire
  • Rolling Stone

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack’s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.



27 .) Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Ranker
  • The Cinemaholic

D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D’s orders are strict – find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a family of Vampire Hunters, were hired for the same bounty. D Must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time.



26 .) When the Wind Blows (1986) directed by Jimmy T. Murakami

When the Wind Blows (1986)

Lists It Appears On:

  • EW
  • IMDB
  • MSN
  • Taste Of Cinema

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 romantic memories of World War II



25 .) Ghost in the Shell (1995) directed by Mamoru Oshii

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • IMDB
  • Live About

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as ‘The Puppetmaster’ begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.



24 .) Sausage Party (2016) directed by Greg Tiernan

Sausage Party (2016)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Marie Claire
  • Showbiz Bytes
  • The Cinemaholic

Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.



23 .) Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) directed by Steve Box, Nick Park

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • EW
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Variety

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park’s animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.



22 .) American Pop (1981) directed by Ralph Bakshi

American Pop (1981)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Ranker
  • Taste Of Cinema
  • The Cinemaholic

American Pop is an American animated film that tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music.



21 .) Chico and Rita (2010) directed by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba

Chico and Rita (2010)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Variety

Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment.



20 .) Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) directed by Shin’ichirô Watanabe

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Heavy
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • Ranker
  • The Cinemaholic

The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren’t the only ones hunting him.



19 .) Heavy Metal (1981) directed by Gerald Potterton

Heavy Metal (1981)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Ranker
  • Screen Rant
  • The Cinemaholic

A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.



18 .) Heavy Traffic (1973) directed by Ralph Bakshi

Heavy Traffic (1973)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • The Cinemaholic
  • Variety

An “underground” cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.



17 .) Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) directed by Alan Parker

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Ranker
  • The Cinemaholic

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.



16 .) Yellow Submarine (1968) directed by George Dunning

Yellow Submarine (1968)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • EW
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Variety

The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and goes to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.



15 .) The Triplets of Belleville (2003) directed by Sylvain Chomet

The Triplets of Belleville (2003)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • EW
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Showbiz Bytes
  • Taste Of Cinema

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters–an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire–to rescue him.



14 .) A Scanner Darkly (2006) directed by Richard Linklater

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB 2
  • Insider
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Ranker
  • Screen Rant
  • The Cinemaholic

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.



13 .) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) directed by Wes Anderson

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • Insider
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Variety

The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.



12 .) Paprika (2006) directed by Satoshi Kon

Paprika (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Live About
  • MSN
  • Ranker
  • The Cinemaholic

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient’s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.



11 .) Watership Down (1978) directed by Martin Rosen

Watership Down (1978)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • Live About
  • Screen Rant
  • Taste Of Cinema

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.



10 .) Fantastic Planet (1973) directed by René Laloux

Fantastic Planet (1973)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • Rolling Stone
  • Screen Rant
  • Showbiz Bytes
  • The Cinemaholic

The story of the “Oms”, human-like creatures kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags.” The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood. He manages to escape enslavement from a Draag learning device used to educate the savage Oms — and begins to organise an Om revolt.



9 .) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) directed by Isao Takahata

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • Insider
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Taste Of Cinema
  • Variety

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.



8 .) Anomalisa (2015) directed by Duke Johnson

Anomalisa (2015)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Screen Rant
  • Showbiz Bytes
  • The Cinemaholic
  • Variety

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.



7 .) Fritz the Cat (1972) directed by Ralph Bakshi

Fritz the Cat (1972)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • IMDB
  • Live About
  • Movie Gallery
  • Ranker
  • Rolling Stone
  • Screen Rant
  • Showbiz Bytes

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960’s.



6 .) Waking Life (2001) directed by Richard Linklater

Waking Life (2001)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB 2
  • Live About
  • MSN
  • Ranker
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Cinemaholic
  • Variety

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.



5 .) Perfect Blue (1997) directed by Satoshi Kon

Perfect Blue (1997)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Live About
  • Live About
  • Ranker
  • Screen Rant
  • The Cinemaholic

A retired pop singer turned actress’ sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.



4 .) Akira (1988) directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Akira (1988)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Live About
  • MSN
  • Ranker
  • Rolling Stone
  • Taste Of Cinema
  • The Cinemaholic

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.



3 .) Persepolis (2007) directed by Vincent Paronnaud

Persepolis (2007)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • Live About
  • Marie Claire
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Screen Rant
  • Taste Of Cinema
  • Variety

In 1970s Iran, Marjane ‘Marji’ Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah’s defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.



2 .) Waltz with Bashir (2008) directed by Ari Folman

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Insider
  • Live About
  • MSN
  • Rolling Stone
  • Screen Rant
  • The Cinemaholic

Director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on animation enabled Folman to illustrate their personal memories and dreams.



1 .) South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) directed by Trey Parker

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Cinema Forensic
  • Design Your Way
  • Esquire
  • EW
  • IMDB
  • IMDB 2
  • Insider
  • Live About
  • Movie Gallery
  • MSN
  • Ranker
  • Rolling Stone
  • Screen Rant
  • The Cinemaholic

When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced “corrupted”, and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada.




The 175+ Additional Best Adult Animation Films



# Movie Directors Lists
36 $9.99 (2008) Tatia Rosenthal IMDB 2
Insider
The Cinemaholic
37 Animal Farm (1954) Joy Batchelor EW
IMDB
Marie Claire
38 Appleseed (2004) Shinji Aramaki IMDB 2
Ranker
The Cinemaholic
39 Attack on Titan   Anime Planet
Heavy
List Challenges
40 Black Lagoon   Heavy
List Challenges
Live About
41 Deadman Wonderland   Anime Planet
Heavy
List Challenges
42 Death Note   Anime Planet
Heavy
List Challenges
43 Elfen Lied   Anime Planet
Heavy
List Challenges
44 Fantasia (1940)   Design Your Way
Marie Claire
Rolling Stone
45 Fire and Ice (1983) Ralph Bakshi Design Your Way
IMDB
Screen Rant
46 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) Hiroyuki Okiura IMDB 2
Live About
Ranker
47 Mary and Max (2009)   Insider
MSN
Ranker
48 Monster   Heavy
List Challenges
Live About
49 My Neighbor Totoro (1988)   Design Your Way
Marie Claire
Rolling Stone
50 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) Hideaki Anno Heavy
IMDB
List Challenges
51 Princess Mononoke (1997) Hayao Miyazaki Cinema Forensic
EW
IMDB
52 Team America: World Police (2004) Trey Parker Design Your Way
IMDB 2
Variety
53 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) Rob Zombie IMDB 2
Insider
Ranker
54 The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) Robert Taylor IMDB
IMDB 2
Ranker
55 The Simpsons Movie (2007) David Silverman IMDB
Movie Gallery
The Cinemaholic
56 Tokyo Ghoul   Anime Planet
Heavy
List Challenges
57 Baccano!   Heavy
List Challenges
58 Bad Cat (2016) Mehmet Kurtulus IMDB
The Cinemaholic
59 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) Mike Judge IMDB
Movie Gallery
60 Claymore   Heavy
List Challenges
61 Coonskin (1975) Ralph Bakshi IMDB
Ranker
62 Coraline (2009)   MSN
Rolling Stone
63 Gandahar (1988)   Screen Rant
Taste Of Cinema
64 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex   List Challenges
Live About
65 Hell and Back (2015) Tom Gianas IMDB
IMDB 2
66 Hellsing   Anime Planet
List Challenges
67 Hellsing Ultimate   Heavy
List Challenges
68 Highschool of the Dead   Anime Planet
List Challenges
69 Howls Moving Castle (2004)   Marie Claire
Rolling Stone
70 Millennium Actress (2001) Satoshi Kon IMDB
Live About
71 Mutant Aliens (2001) Bill Plympton IMDB 2
The Cinemaholic
72 Parasyte   Heavy
List Challenges
73 Psycho-Pass   Heavy
List Challenges
74 Renaissance (2006)   Design Your Way
The Cinemaholic
75 Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) Makoto Kamiya IMDB 2
Ranker
76 Samurai Champloo   Heavy
List Challenges
77 Sita Sings the Blues   Design Your Way
Esquire
78 Spirited Away (2001)   MSN
Rolling Stone
79 Tekkonkinkreet (2006) Michael Arias IMDB 2
The Cinemaholic
80 The Iron Giant (1999)   Rolling Stone
Taste Of Cinema
81 The Lego Batman Movie (2017)   Design Your Way
Marie Claire
82 The Secret of NIMH (1982)   Rolling Stone
Taste Of Cinema
83 Tower (2016)   Design Your Way
Esquire
84 Wizards (1977) Ralph Bakshi IMDB
Taste Of Cinema
85 X (1996) Rintaro IMDB 2
Ranker
86 Aeon Flux : The TV Series   List Challenges
87 Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero   Anime Planet
88 Afro Samurai   List Challenges
89 Akame ga Kill!   Anime Planet
90 Alice (1988)   EW
91 Alice in Wonderland   Movie Gallery
92 Angel’s Egg (1985) Mamoru Oshii IMDB
93 Another   List Challenges
94 Bambi (1942)   Rolling Stone
95 Barefoot Gen (1983)   Cinema Forensic
96 Basilisk   Live About
97 Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) Sam Liu IMDB 2
98 Bayonetta: Bloody Fate (2013) Fuminori Kizaki IMDB 2
99 Betty Boop   Movie Gallery
100 Black Butler   List Challenges
101 Blood +   List Challenges
102 Btooom!   Anime Planet
103 Castlevania   Heavy
104 Cat Soup   Live About
105 Charlotte   Anime Planet
106 Charlottes Web (1973)   Rolling Stone
107 Chicago 10 (2007) Brett Morgen IMDB 2
108 Chicken Run (2000)   Rolling Stone
109 Closing   Showbiz Bytes
110 Code Geass   List Challenges
111 Cool World (1992) Ralph Bakshi IMDB
112 Corpse Bride (2005)   MSN
113 Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons   Anime Planet
114 Danganronpa: The Animation   Anime Planet
115 Darker Than Black   List Challenges
116 DearS   Anime Planet
117 Demon King Daimao   Anime Planet
118 Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu   Anime Planet
119 Devil May Cry: The Animated Series   List Challenges
120 Duck Amuck (1953)   Rolling Stone
121 Eden of the East   Live About
122 Eight Crazy Nights (2002) Seth Kearsley IMDB
123 ERASED   Anime Planet
124 Ergo Proxy   List Challenges
125 Family Guy Owen Daniels IMDB 2
126
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
  Ranker
127 Fate/Zero   List Challenges
128 First Squad: The Moment of Truth   Live About
129 Fixed (IV) Genndy Tartakovsky IMDB 2
130 Flight of Dragons (1982)   Taste Of Cinema
131 Freezing   Anime Planet
132 Freezing Vibration   Anime Planet
133 Fullmetal Alchemist   List Challenges
134 Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood   List Challenges
135 Gantz   List Challenges
136 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (I) (2004) Mamoru Oshii IMDB
137 Guilty Crown   Anime Planet
138 Gurren Lagann   List Challenges
139 Heaven’s Lost Property   Anime Planet
140 Hell Girl   Anime Planet
141 High School DxD   Anime Planet
142 Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007 Video) Yoshiaki Kawajiri IMDB 2
143 House of Five Leaves   Live About
144 Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia   Anime Planet
145 I Married a Strange Person!   Ranker
146 Inside Out (2015)   Rolling Stone
147 Inuyasha   List Challenges
148 Justice League Dark (2017 Video) Jay Oliva IMDB 2
149 K: Return of Kings   Anime Planet
150 Kill La Kill   List Challenges
151 Knights of Sidonia   Heavy
152 Lil’ Pimp (2005 Video) Mark Brooks IMDB 2
153 Lotte no Omocha!   Anime Planet
154 MFKZ (2017) Shôjirô Nishimi IMDB
155 Mirai Nikki   List Challenges
156 Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit   Live About
157 My Life as a Zucchini (2016) Claude Barras IMDB
158 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Hayao Miyazaki IMDB
159 Ninja Scroll (1993) Yoshiaki Kawajiri IMDB
160 Pandora Hearts   Anime Planet
161 Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn   Anime Planet
162 Paranoia Agent   Live About
163 Pinocchio (1940)   Rolling Stone
164 Prison School   Heavy
165 Puella Magi Madoka Magica   Anime Planet
166 Rango (2011)   Rolling Stone
167 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-   Anime Planet
168 Redline   Live About
169 Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) Takanori Tsujimoto IMDB 2
170 Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise   Live About
171 Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) Milorad Krstic IMDB
172 Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen   Live About
173 Samurai X   List Challenges
174 Seitokai Yakuindomo   Anime Planet
175 Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya   Anime Planet
176 Shigurui: Death Frenzy   Live About
177
SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist
  Anime Planet
178 Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita.   Anime Planet
179 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)   Rolling Stone
180 So, I Can’t Play H!   Anime Planet
181 Spawn   List Challenges
182 Speed Grapher   Live About
183 Spiritpact   Anime Planet
184 Spriggan (1998) Hirotsugu Kawasaki IMDB 2
185 Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) Shinji Aramaki IMDB 2
186 Steamboat Willie (1928)   Rolling Stone
187 Steins;Gate   List Challenges
188 Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005 Video) Pete Michels IMDB 2
189 Street of Crocodiles (1986)   Rolling Stone
190 Strike the Blood   Anime Planet
191 Sumomomo Momomo   Anime Planet
192 SURVIVING LIFE   Screen Rant
193 Sword Art Online   Anime Planet
194 Sword Art Online II   Anime Planet
195 Terkel in Trouble (2004) Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen IMDB
196 The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)   Rolling Stone
197 The Animatrix (2003)   EW
198 The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!   Ranker
199 The Familiar of Zero   Anime Planet
200 The Fruit of Grisaia   Anime Planet
201 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Gary Trousdale IMDB
202 The Incredibles (2004)   Rolling Stone
203 The Last Unicorn (1982)   Taste Of Cinema
204 The Lego Movie (2014)   Rolling Stone
205 The Little Mermaid (1989)   Rolling Stone
206 The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl   Marie Claire
207 The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) Makoto Shinkai IMDB
208 The Plague Dogs (1982) Martin Rosen IMDB
209 The Testament of Sister New Devil   Anime Planet
210 The Wall   Showbiz Bytes
211 The Wind Rises (2013) Hayao Miyazaki IMDB
212 The Wrong Trousers (1993)   Rolling Stone
213 Titan A.E   Taste Of Cinema
214 To Love Ru   Anime Planet
215 Tokyo Godfathers   Live About
216 Toy Story (1995)   Rolling Stone
217 Up (2009)   Rolling Stone
218 Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid   Anime Planet
219 WALL-E (2008)   Rolling Stone
220 Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)   Taste Of Cinema
221 Whats Opera, Doc? (1957)   Rolling Stone
222 Wicked City (1987)   Cinema Forensic
223 Wolf’s Rain   List Challenges
224 World of Tomorrow (2015)   Rolling Stone
225 WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002) Takuji Endo IMDB 2


21 Best Adult Animation Film Sources/Lists



Source Article
Anime Planet Most Adult Oriented Rated R or above Anime
Cinema Forensic Best Adult Animation films ever made
Design Your Way The Best Animated Movies For Adults: The ones to put on your list
Esquire Best Animated Movies for Adults
EW 20 Great Animated Movies For Grown-ups
Heavy Top 10 Best Adult Anime You Need to Watch
IMDB Feature Film, Animation, adult-animation (Sorted by Popularity
IMDB 2 R Rated Animated Films
Insider Best animated movies for adults
List Challenges The Best Adult Anime of All Time
Live About The Best Animated Films for Adults
Marie Claire 16 Best Animated Movies for Adults
Movie Gallery A Not-So-Brief History of Adult Animation
MSN 20 great animated movies for adults
Ranker Best R-Rated Animation Movies
Rolling Stone 40 Greatest Animated Movies Ever
Screen Rant 15 Grown-Up Animated Movies To Watch Before Sausage Party
Showbiz Bytes Animated Movies for Adults
Taste Of Cinema 15 Great Animated Movies Every Adult Should See
The Cinemaholic Best Adult Animation Movies
Variety 10 Greatest Animated Films for Adults