Top 21 favourite anime films

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

A futuristic firefighting mecha service is created to protect the world.

A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.

Anna, a shy 12-year-old girl, is sent to spend time with her aunt and uncle who live in the countryside, where she meets Marnie. The two become best friends. But Anna gradually discovers that Marnie is not quite who she appears to be.

2199 AD. Yamato tries to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy after receiving a Cosmo Reverse System at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the Gatlantis, and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls himself Goran Dagam of Thunder. The commander demands that Yamato be handed over to him. Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the Flame Direct Attack Cannon that can transcend space. Yamato is able to retreat, but ends up getting lost and finds itself in a strangely colored irregular dimension. The crew decides to turn off the ship's engine and explore a mysterious planet. In order to collect information Kodai, Kiryuu, Sawamura, Niimi and Aihara land on the planet. What they see when they arrive is a ship that's not supposed to be there. Dagam chases after the traces of Yamato's warp, and also reaches the strangely colored space. The planet where the crew of Yamato landed is in fact what Dagam has been looking for all along.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles aim to stop a scheme that would turn their sky realm into an underworld, plunging into the planet's core and the ruined Robotropolis city to confront Dr. Robotnik, unsure if he's ally or foe.

Along with her black cat Jiji, Kiki settles in a seaside town and starts a high-flying delivery service. Here begins her magical encounter with independence and responsibility, making lifelong friends and finding her place in the world.

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.

Jiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes.

Japan is again in turmoil as a subordinate of Toyotomi, Ishida cuts a wrath of fury across the land while other warlords rally for an era of peace. Masamune and Sanada must fight Mitsunari in order to bring the country to peace.

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.

A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.

20 years after meddling into the bank heist of a notorious robber named Gasback, Vash the Stampede is heading towards Macca City. Rumors say that the legendary thief might appear there causing an enormous influx of bounty hunters in the area who want to collect the $300,000,000 prize for his head.

The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid cop struggle to free a princess from an evil count, and learn the secret of a treasure that she holds part of the key to.