The following is a list of the best anime movies to watch with family. The movies are ranked by the highest-grossing box office, ratings, and some other factors.  

Anime Movies to Watch with Family

This is the list of best anime movies to watch with family and with kids. All the movies are the most popular and high rated movies. 

All the movies on the list are best family anime movies, fantasy anime movies, romance anime movies, adventure anime movies, and all these movies are best anime movies to watch with family.

The anime movie which is at the top of the list and one of the highest-grossing anime film and most of the movies are of the famous director Hayao Miyazaki.


12. From Up on Poppy Hill

From Up on Poppy Hill

Genres: Family/Romance

Director: Gorō Miyazaki

Release Date: July 16, 2011 (Japan)


The 12th best family anime movie on this list is "From Up on Poppy Hill" which is 2011 one of the best romantic, and best anime movie to watch with family. 

In this movie, a sixteen-year-old high school student Umi Matsuzaki living in the boarding house Coquelicot Manor. Her mother Ryoko is a medical professor studying in the United States. 

Umi is very responsible, she takes care of the house and runs the house along with this they take care of her younger sibling and grandmother. 

Every morning she raises the set of signal flags in which prays that pray for the safe journey. One day in a school newspaper a poem flag is published raises.



 11. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Genres: Animation | Fantasy | Adventure

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release Date: 25 November 1987 (USA)


The 11th best family anime movie on this list is "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" which is 1987 one of the best fantasy, adventure, and 11th best anime movie to watch with family.

In this movie, Nausicaa the princess of the valley of wind trying to stop the war between two nations to maintain peace.

This movie starts from one thousand years ago, where there is a fire that lasts for seven days because of the war between two nations which destroy the civilization, and this fire causes the creation of a huge toxic jungle and this forest consist group of many mutant insects.  

The princess of the valley of the garden starts to explore the whole jungle after this crisis and she communicates with the creatures of the jungle. And later she understands the jungle and starts to find ways to send back all the humans.



10. When Marnie Was There

When Marnie Was There

Genres: Family| Romance | Animation

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Release Date: 7 August 2015 (USA)


The anime movie "When Marnie Was There" of 2015 acquires the 10th position in the list of best family movies. As it is one of the best romance and 10th best anime movie to watch with family. 

In this movie, there is a girl who is suffering from asthma, and to take clean air her parents decided to send her to a relative's home. And she makes a friendship with the mysterious boy Marnie.

In this movie, A girl Anna Sasaki living in the city of Sapporo with her parents. One day at Anna's school Anna suffers an Asthama attack and recommended to her parents that she need to stay in clean and fresh air for some days. 

Then her parents decided to go to her mother's relatives' town which is on the seaside. So while exploring the town she found that there is a big mansion across the salt marsh. She finds it is familiar to her but until she is trapped in the rising tide.



9.  Arrietty

Arrietty

Genres: Family/Animation 

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Release Date: 17 February 2012 (USA)


The anime movie on this list that acquires the 9th position is "The Secret World of Arrietty" of 2012 is the best family anime movie. The movie is the best fantasy and 9th best anime movie to watch with family.

In this movie, a 4-inch-tall family namely the clock family is living in another house. And they borrow the items of the house to make their home. And while borrowing the item Arriety a girl is found by a boy of the house.

The anime movies start from the town where a boy Sho was going to spend his summer in his mom's childhood home with her maternal great and with a housemaid. As they arrived at the house Sho saw the glimpse of Arrietty who is going through the vent.

On that night arriety father, Pot starts his first borrowing mission that is to get tissue paper and the sugar cube with her daughter. After getting the sugar cube from the kitchen they go to Sho's bedroom through a dollhouse to get the tissue paper from the table. But while taking it Sho saw them and because of startling sugar cube fall. Sho tries to help him but they ran away.



8. Whisper of the Heart

Whisper of the Heart

Genres: Family/Romance 

Director: Yoshifumi Kondo

Release Date: 13 December 1996 (USA)


Whisper of the Heart of 1996 which acquires the 8 the position on the list is the best family anime movie. And one of the best romance, and 8th best anime movies to watch with family. 

In this movie, there is a love story between a girl who loves reading books, and for that, she went to the library but all books that she chooses are checked out by the boy.

The story is about a 14-year-old girl named Shizuku Tsukishima studying in Junior high school and she is interested in creative writing and she also loves to read books. 

She is living in Tokyo with her parents and older sister. One evening she went to the library to take the books but all the books that she chooses are checkout by a boy.



7. Castle in the Sky

Castle in the Sky

Genres: Animation | Fantasy | Adventure

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: 19 July 1991 (USA) 


And the 7th anime movie on this list is "Castle in the Sky" of 1991 is best family anime movie. And one of the best fantasy, adventure, and 7th best anime movies to watch with family. 

In this movie, there is a legendary flying castle and there are a young boy and young girls finding this castle and there are also pirates and agents who are also finding the same.

This anime movie starts where a young orphan girl Sheeta is kidnapped by a government agent in flying aircraft because they want to reach that legendary flying castle. And suddenly an airship with pirates attacked the aircraft of a government agent.

The pirates attacked them just to take the crystal pendant from Sheeta, where the crystal is helpful to find the flying castle. While this attack Sheeta safely falls on a mining town where a young boy Pazu takes her to his home to recover. 



6. Ponyo

Ponyo

Genres: Animation/Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: 14 August 2009 (USA)


And on the number 6th position is "Ponyo" of 2009 is one of the best family anime movie to watch with family. This anime film is fantasy and the 6th best family anime movie. 

In this anime movie, a five-year-old boy makes friends with Ponyo, Ponyo is a goldfish princess who falls in love with him makes her become human for a long time.

In this movie, there is a human wizard/scientist Fujimoto lives underwater along with his daughter (Ponyo) and sisters, While they are on a trip with his four-flippered submarine. One fateful day,  gorgeous goldfish (Ponyo) trapped in a bottle on the beach. But she is not any ordinary goldfish. 

The son of a sailor, 5-year-old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff together with his mother Lisa. He finds the Ponyo and rescued her.



 5. Howl’s Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

Genres: Animation | Adventure | Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: 17 June 2005 (USA)


The 5th anime movie "Howl’s Moving Castle" of 2005 is one of the best fantasy, adventure, and the best family anime movie.  This anime film is the 5th best anime movie to watch with family.

 In this anime movie, there is a young woman who is cursed with the black magic of a bad witch in which she transforms into the lid lady. And she has a chance to break this spell with the help of a young man and his moving castle.

In this movie, Sophie a young milliner meets a Wizard name howl while going to her sister's home lettie. While returning home a witch of the waste, transforms her into an old-90-years woman. 

After this incident, she left the town and move towards the countryside. she meets a living scarecrow who leads her to the howls moving castle and she entered the house without an invitation.



4. Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke

Genres: Animation | Adventure | Fantasy | War

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Initial release: 19 December 1997 (USA)


The anime movie that acquires position number 4th is"Princess Mononoke" of 1997 is the best family anime movie. And the best adventure, fantasy, and best anime movies to watch with family.

 In this anime movie, a young boy Ashitaka from a small village in japan is cursed by a mysterious animal and he makes a journey to cure the cursed. While traveling he finds that there is a war between the forest gods and Tatara's.

In this anime movie, While protecting his village from the rampaging demon, a confident young warrior, Ashitaka, is suffering from a deadly curse. to save his life, he must journey to the forests of the west.

Once there, he's embroiled during a fierce campaign that humans were waging on the forest. The ambitious Lady Eboshi and her loyal clan use their guns against the gods of the forest and a brave girl, Princess Mononoke, who was raised by a wolf-god. 



3. Kiki's Delivery Service

Kiki's Deliver Service

Genres: Animation | Adventure | Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: 20 December 1990 (USA)


The 3rd anime movie is "Kiki’s Delivery Service" of 1990 is the best family anime movie of all time.  This movie is the best fantasy, adventure, and the best anime movie to watch with family. 

In this anime movie, a young witch at the mandatory year of her independent life she travels to a new town. And in this town, she thinks to start the air courier. 

In this anime movie, a young witch named Kiki is 13 years old with a black cat "Jiji" with whom she talks. Later she starts her new courier service while working in the bakery. 



2. My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro

Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: 13 July 1990 (USA)


The 2nd anime movie on the list of creative thinking is "My Neighbor Totoro" of 1990 is recommended as the best family anime movie to watch with family. And this movie is a super fantasy, and 2nd best anime movie to watch with family. 

In this anime movie, there are two girls who are shifted to their new home nearer to their mother who is hospitalized, and they make a wondrous adventure with the forest spirit named Totoro.

In the movie a University professor Tatsuo Kusakabe along with her two young daughter 10-year-old, Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei is moved to another house which is closer to the hospital where the girl's mother is treating with long term illness.

Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros. They soon befriend these Totoros and have several magical adventures.



1. Spirited Away

Spirited Away

Genres: Animation | Adventure | Family | fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: 28 March 2003 (USA)


The anime movie that acquires the first position on the list is Spirited Away. The anime movie "Spirited Away" of 2003 is not only one of the best anime movies to watch with family but one of the best family anime movies of all time. 

This movie the highest-grossing anime movie on Netflix as well as in the world. This movie is super fantastic, family, and adventurous. 

In this movie, a girl with her parents reaches an unknown village of gods, spirits, and witches by mistake where her parents transform into pigs and there is a story that how came out of the village with her parents.

In this movie, a 10-year-old girl named Chihiro and her parents is moving to their new home to a little Japanese town within the countryside. 

While going to their him her father tries to take a shortcut which leads to the wrong way and this wrong way ends up to the front of the tunnel. As they stop and start to explore the tunnel and they found a town.




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