Best Italian animation movies

The SuperVips (1968)

A satire of modern society or perhaps just a funny tale for children, depending on your age, mood or liking. Recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.

Percorso # 0008-0209 (2009)

When all is wound by the fog and by the obscurity of the memory the game of the figures alternates in a world where signs and images are darkened by now. Only a little spark allows a child to undertake an unpredictable journey.

Spring Waltz (2024)

A man and a woman separated by a wall. But their love does not accept divisions, barriers, obstacles. They are a pair of street performers: freedom flows through their veins. The man cannot stand the 'death strip' that separates him from her. And day after day he tries to return to her arms.

Black Gold (2014)

Commissioned by Italian designer Delfina Delettrez, BLACK GOLD by PES features insects that appear in her latest line of jewelry.

Dreamland (2021)

A meaningful journey into the Italian cultural heritage throughout musical quotes from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, lithographies by Giovan Battista Piranesi and lines by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Dreamland will bring the audience to some of the most beautiful Italian UNESCO sites: Villa d’Este and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the historic centre of Rome with the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant’Angelo and much more. Passing through the depths of the Tiber, it will arrive also in the most peripheral areas of the city to find out still so much beauty and so many stories about the contemporaneity in a visual and musical journey so evocative as to reveal the Italian cultural identity.

Allegro non troppo (1976)

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

The Art of Happiness (2013)

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.

Lucky and Zorba (1998)

A seagull is caught by the black tide of a sinking petrol ship. She manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. Moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly.

Gladiators of Rome (2012)

A new hero is born in this hilarious, animated adventure of epic proportions! Timo, a student at the Gladiators? Academy in Rome, has no desire to become a legendary gladiator like his stepfather. That is, until the mesmerizing Lucilla walks into his life. With the help of an unlikely band of sidekicks, Timo is determined to be the gladiator of her dreams and embarks on an action-packed journey to become the Colosseum?s first victor!

Little Russia (2004)

The story he has been told by his grandfather was about people's dream to go out of their small town to Russia. For them, the greatest pleasure on the earth was taking a prostitute.

Blu (2019)

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

Lei è Speciale (2019)

Federico would like to do his best to clarify his relationship with a very dear girl. But this is not the classic falling in love, but an emotional sense towards a person that you just want to see smile. Thanks to the encouragement of two new and unexpected friends, he will travel to meet her again.

I Lampaclima e l'isola misteriosa (2006)

Monster Mash (2000)

When old-school monsters Frank, Drac and Wolf are deemed "fun" by a court of elders, they're ordered to scare a suburban family or risk a sentence of party entertainers for eternity.

La linea ep. 121 (1978)

Mr. Linea faces proverbial obstacles while walking and turns to his cartoonist to draw him a solution. This time he’s dealing with a guard dog and needs to dash away.

Winx Club - The Fate of Bloom (2011)

Bloom discovers she is a fairy. She gets the chance to attend Alfea College with her new BFFs: Stella (Fairy of the Shining Sun), Flora (Fairy of Nature), Tecna (Fairy of Technology), and Musa (Fairy of Music).

Liberato's Secret (2024)

Blending animated storytelling with intimate narration, this documentary paints a soulful portrait of the anonymous Neapolitan singer known as Liberato.

I Lunes e la sfera di Lasifer (2002)

Human? (2020)

A doll claiming his humanity represent all the human being and the idea that we are all the same, we are all equals, we are human beings.

Gli Animotosi nella terra di Nondove (2005)

Grasshoppers (1990)

An animated short by Bruno Bozzetto which condenses the whole of human civilization into 9 minutes, focusing primarily on the human race's predilection for warfare and the vanity of war. It was an Oscar Nominee for Best Animated Short in 1991. Each piece of history is presented as a simple vignette, usually depicting a few simply-drawn characters arguing and making war, over and over again. Generally, a single figure is meant to stand in for an entire group (i.e., a single Caesar-like caricature for the entire line of Roman Emperors). There is very little spoken dialogue; instead, most of the cartoon is accompanied by a bouncy piano-driven score, which frequently changes style to suit the particular historical era. However, the score is all based around a single simple theme, to which it frequently returns in between vignettes.

Winx Club: The Mystery of the Abyss (2014)

The archenemies of the Winx Club, the Trix witches, team up with the evil nymph Politea and find out that, to defeat the fairies once and for all and become invincible, it takes very little: a Pearl hidden in the Deep of the Infinite Ocean! As small as powerful, the Pearl of the Depth gives enormous powers to those who possess it! For the Winx there is not a minute to waste: how will they stop the plans of their enemies before it's too late? Get ready: the most dangerous mission of the Winx is about to begin!

I Roteò e la magia dello specchio (2004)

The Rose Of Baghdad (1949)

Princess Zeila, daughter of Caliph Oman III, is preparing to review the nobles who aspire to her hand. The sinister Prince Jafar plots in the shadows: the young musician Amin will see to it that love can triumph, with the help of the Genie of the Lamp.

Mercurio (2018)

Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp. Forced to quickly become a man, he will try, fighting unarmed, to win against the horror of Fascism and gain absolute freedom.

The Memories of Dogs (2006)

My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.

The Dream of Giada (2010)

Giada is an autistic child; the meeting with a little donkey will give her the smile, the colour

Concatenation 2 ‒ Olympic Games (2020)

A chain reaction as a new Olympic sport.

The Last Shoeshine (1948)

A story of a kid whose only friends are a dog and the stars. The kid without a name, together with his beloved dog Matteo, tries to sell cigarettes at a street corner; he doesn't succeed, pursued by a cop. His only consolation will be stars-watching at night.

The Meatseller (2023)

Follows Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman with aspirations of following in her mother's footsteps as a meat seller. She sets out on her journey to Italy in pursuit of her ambition, a journey fraught with horror and bestiality.