Arthouse animation
Arthouse animation is a combination of art film and animated film.
Examples of arthouse animated films
20th century
- El Apóstol (1917; now considered a lost film)
- Fantasia (1940)
- Neighbours (1952)
- Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
- Invention for Destruction (1958)
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
- Game of Angels (1964)
- The Glass Harmonica (1968)
- Fritz the Cat (1972)
- Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
- Fantastic Planet (1973)
- Johnny Corncob (1973)
- Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
- Allegro Non Troppo (1976)
- Watership Down (1978)
- Asparagus (1979)
- Bubble Bath (1979)
- Tale of Tales (1979)
- Son of the White Mare (1981)
- Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
- The Plague Dogs (1982)
- Angel's Egg (1985)
- The Pied Piper (1986)
- The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
- Wicked City (1987)
- Akira (1988)
- Alice (1988)
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- Only Yesterday (1991)
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
- Faust (1994)
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
- The Prince of Egypt (1998)
21st century
- Millennium Actress (2001)
- Waking Life (2001)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
- Mind Game (2004)
- Paprika (2006)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
- Persepolis (2007)
- Waltz with Bashir (2008)
- Coraline (2009)
- Mary and Max (2009)
- The Secret of Kells (2009)
- A Town Called Panic (2009)
- Chico and Rita (2011)
- From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
- The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
- The King of Pigs (2011)
- Consuming Spirits (2012)
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
- Boy and the World (2013)
- The Congress (2013)
- Song of the Sea (2014)
- Anomalisa (2015)
- In This Corner of the World (2016)
- My Life as a Courgette (2016)
- The Red Turtle (2016)
- Seoul Station (2016)
- Tower (2016)
- The Breadwinner (2017)
- Have a Nice Day (2017)
- Loving Vincent (2017)
- Isle of Dogs (2018)
- The Wolf House (2018)
- I Lost My Body (2019)
- Bombay Rose (2019)
- Wolfwalkers (2020)
- Bestia (2021)
- Boxballet (2021)
- Cryptozoo (2021)
- Flee (2021)
- The Windshield Wiper (2021)
- Where Is Anne Frank (2021)
- Mad God (2022)
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
- Unicorn Wars (2022)
- The Boy and the Heron (2023)
- Distortion (2023)
- Letter to a Pig (2023)
- Ninety-Five Senses (2023)
- Our Uniform (2023)
- Pachyderme (2023)
- Robot Dreams (2023)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
- Flow (2024)
Notable arthouse animators
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Suzan Pitt
- Jiri Barta
- Bruno Bozzetto
- Sylvain Chomet
- Gene Deitch
- Michaël Dudok de Wit
- Adam Elliot
- Ari Folman
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Marcell Jankovics
- Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Satoshi Kon
- Yoji Kuri
- René Laloux
- Richard Linklater
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Tomm Moore
- Yuri Norstein
- Michel Ocelot
- Stephen and Timothy Quay
- Joanna Quinn
- Martin Rosen
- Dash Shaw
- Jan Švankmajer
- Osamu Tezuka
- Masaaki Yuasa
- Karel Zeman
See also
- Studio Ghibli
- Cartoon Saloon
- Independent animation
- Adult animation
- Cult film
- Experimental animation
- Rotoscoping
- Modernist film
- Minimalist film
- Indiewood