Animated films about children

1951 American animated musical fantasy film

2012 animated film directed by Rich Moore

2017 American animated film

2002 animated film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

1946 American animated film

2009 animation film directed by Henry Selick

2001 American animated film

2017 film by David Soren

2014 animated film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

2021 film directed by Enrico Casarosa

The Polar Express is a 2004 American animated Christmas adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles Jr., based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film stars Tom Hanks in multiple roles, along with Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen. The film depicts human characters using live action and motion capture computer animation, with production sequences for the latter taking place from June 2003 to May 2004. Set on Christmas Eve, it tells the story of a young boy who travels to the North Pole aboard a magical train guided by its conductor.

2015 film directed by Steve Martino

2006 Animated film directed by Gil Kenan

2012 animated film directed by Peter Ramsey

2011 film by Simon Wells

2015 film directed by Mark Osborne

2000 animated film directed by Jim Kammerud

2025 animated film directed by Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi

2016 animated film directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland

2019 animated film directed by Mike Mitchell

ParaNorman is a 2012 American stop motion animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, and written by Butler. Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces. In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old w

1995 film directed by Simon Wells

2006 animated film

2021 film directed by Cal Brunker

1907 fragment of animated film speculated to be the oldest work of animation in Japan

2002 animated film by Craig McCracken

2019 animated film by Dylan Brow

2005 film directed by Michael LaBash and Tony Leondis

2006 animated TV film concluding Lilo & Stitch: The Series

2024 animated film directed by Sean Charmatz

1996 animated film directed by Henry Selick

2003 direct-to-video pilot film

2023 Canadian film by Cal Brunker

2017 anime film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi

2011 animated television film directed by Dan Povenmire and Robert F. Hughes

2022 anime film directed by Susumu Yamaguchi

2001 animated film directed by Chuck Sheetz

2017 film by Ben Stassen and Jeremy Degruson

2020 film by Ben Stassen and Jérémie Degruson

2020 American animated adventure comedy film

2025 film directed by Ryan Crego

2005 animated film directed by Mark Andrews

2002 animated film by Tuck Tucker

2023 film by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim

2020 anime film directed by Kazuaki Imai

upcoming film directed by Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni

2017 film by Atsushi Takahashi

1989 Japanese/American animated adventure fantasy film

2019 anime film

1997 animated musical film directed by Clive A. Smith

1988 film directed by Jan Švankmajer

2017 animated film

2022 animated film directed by Peter Baynton

Japanese anime television series

film by Simon Otto

2017 American animated children's television film

2023 anime film directed by Takumi Doyama

2012 television film directed by Victor Cook

2025 anime film directed by Yukiyo Teramoto

1969 film by Bill Melendez