20 Best Animation Movies on Max 2026
Explore the top animated movies on Max, from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Your Name. to Totoro, Perfect Blue, and more.
If you’re trying to find the best animation movies on Max, this list makes it easy to jump straight to standout picks across style, tone, and age range. You’ll find modern crowd-pleasers like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, plus emotional favorites such as Your Name. and My Neighbor Totoro. For viewers who want something darker or more offbeat, Perfect Blue and Fantastic Planet bring a very different kind of animated storytelling. There’s also broad family appeal with Despicable Me, action energy in Rampage, and plenty of adventure and fantasy throughout the full lineup.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
animation · action · adventure · family · fantasy · sci-fi
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. ThompsonCast Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake JohnsonDisney PlusMax -
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Your Name.
animation · drama · fantasy · romance
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Directed by Makoto ShinkaiCast Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryō Narita, Aoi Yûki, Nobunaga ShimazakiMax -
03
Despicable Me
animation · adventure · comedy · crime · family · sci-fi
Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.
Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris RenaudCast Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will ArnettMax -
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Perfect Blue
animation · crime · drama · mystery · thriller
Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Directed by Satoshi KonCast Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura, Yôsuke AkimotoMax -
05
Ice Age: Continental Drift
animation · adventure · comedy · family
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Directed by Steve Martino, Michael ThurmeierCast Aziz Ansari, Joy Behar, Christopher Campbell, Alain Chabat, Ester DeanDisney PlusMax -
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
animation · adventure · comedy · family · sci-fi
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are Earth's only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion.
Directed by Peter BrowngardtCast Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Fred Tatasciore, Laraine NewmanMax -
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Rampage
animation · action · adventure · sci-fi
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Directed by Brad PeytonCast Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake LacyMax -
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Fantastic Planet
animation · sci-fi
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
Directed by René LalouxCast Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont, Sylvie LenoirMax -
09
My Neighbor Totoro
animation · adventure · comedy · family · fantasy
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 the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Directed by Hayao MiyazakiCast Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Tanie KitabayashiMax -
10
Spirited Away
animation · adventure · family · fantasy
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Directed by Hayao MiyazakiCast Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko SawaguchiMax -
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah
animation · drama · family · sci-fi · thriller
An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.
Directed by Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirō HondaCast Akira Yamanouchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase, Toshio Shiba, Keiko MariMax -
12
DC League of Super-Pets
animation · action · adventure · comedy · crime · family · fantasy · sci-fi
When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle and Chip the squirrel - to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.
Directed by Jared Stern, Samuel J. LevineCast Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa BayerMax -
13
Isle of Dogs
animation · adventure · comedy · drama · fantasy · sci-fi
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Directed by Wes AndersonCast Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Jeff GoldblumMax -
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Puss in Boots
animation · action · adventure · comedy · family · fantasy
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.
Directed by Chris MillerCast Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy SedarisMax -
15
Belle
animation · adventure · drama · family · fantasy · music · musical · sci-fi
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
Directed by Mamoru HosodaCast Kaho Nakamura, Ryō Narita, Shôta Sometani, Tina Tamashiro, Lilas IkutaMax -
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
animation · action · adventure · drama · fantasy
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.
Directed by Kenji KamiyamaCast Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Miranda Otto, Luca Pasqualino, Lorraine AshbourneMax -
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The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
animation · adventure · comedy · family · fantasy · romance
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Directed by Masaaki YuasaCast Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ryûji Akiyama, Kazuya NakaiMax -
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The Land of Sometimes
animation · family · fantasy
Twins Alfie and Elise find a magical Wish Watch on Christmas Eve and are swept by the Wish Collector into the musical Land of Sometimes, where they learn that wishes have consequences.
Directed by Leon JoosenCast Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Asa Butterfield, Alisha Weir, Andrei ShenMax -
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The Boy and the Beast
animation · action · adventure · drama · fantasy
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
Directed by Mamoru HosodaCast Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose, Kazuhiro YamajiMax -
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Hop
animation · adventure · comedy · family · fantasy
E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In L.A., he's taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car.
Directed by Tim HillCast James Marsden, Russell Brand, Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria, Gary ColeMax
Wrapping Up
Whether you want something heartfelt, funny, thrilling, or visually bold, this roundup gives you a solid starting point for animated streaming on Max. It balances classics, newer releases, and genre-spanning picks so you can match the movie to your mood. Bookmark this page and come back whenever you need a quick recommendation before movie night. The list is updated regularly, so it stays useful as the catalog changes.
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Last updated: September 7, 2026