Hidden Gems
Underrated Animation Movies
Animation films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Animation Films
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Grave of the Fireflies
Isao Takahata·1988·AnimationTML 93★ 8.5$517K box officeTsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi +2
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Isao Takahata·2013·AnimationTML 88★ 8.0$975K box officeChloë Grace Moretz, James Caan +2
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Tonari no Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki·1988·AnimationTML 88★ 8.2$1.1M box officeHitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka +2
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Kaguyahime no monogatari
Isao Takahata·2013·AnimationTML 88★ 8$1.5M box officeChloë Grace Moretz, James Caan +2
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Kaze no tani no Naushika
Hayao Miyazaki·1984·AnimationTML 87★ 8.1$496K box officeSumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura +2
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My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki·1988·AnimationTML 87★ 8.1$2.3M box officeHitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka +2
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Omohide poro poro
Isao Takahata·1991·AnimationTML 86★ 7.6$453K box officeMiki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba +2
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Hayao Miyazaki·1984·AnimationTML 86★ 8.0$496K box officeSumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura +2
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki·2021·AnimationTML 86★ 8.0$811K box officeKatsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki +2
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Ernest & Celestine
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner·2012·AnimationTML 85★ 7.8$262K box officeVincent Patar, Benjamin Renner +2
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Jun'ichi Fujise, Tomoyuki Itamura, Masaharu Tomoda·2018·AnimationTML 85★ 8.1$277K box officeMahiro Takasugi, Lynn +2
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My Life as a Zucchini
Claude Barras·2016·AnimationTML 85★ 7.8$310K box officeGaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat +2
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Kiki's Delivery Service
Hayao Miyazaki·1989·AnimationTML 85★ 7.8$1.0M box officeKirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama +2
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki·1997·AnimationTML 85★ 8.1$1.3M box officeKazuya Tsurumaki, Megumi Ogata +2
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Naoko Yamada·2016·AnimationTML 84★ 8.1$1.1M box officeMiyu Irino, Saori Hayami +2
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Waking Life
Richard Linklater·2001·AnimationTML 84★ 7.8$2.9M box officeEthan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks +2
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Porco Rosso
Hayao Miyazaki·1992·AnimationTML 83★ 7.7$443K box officeShûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô +2
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Castle in the Sky
Hayao Miyazaki·1986·AnimationTML 83★ 8.0$524K box officeMayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa +2
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The Red Turtle
Michael Dudok de Wit·2016·AnimationTML 83★ 7.5$922K box officeEmmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson +2
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Anomalisa
Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman·2015·AnimationTML 82★ 7.2$3.8M box officeCharlie Kaufman, David Thewlis +2
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When the Wind Blows
Jimmy T. Murakami·1986·AnimationTML 81★ 7.7$5K box officePeggy Ashcroft, John Mills +2