Such a nice topic! I would love to list my favorites too...
I watched all the Pixar and Ghibli movies and these are my favorites:
Pixar favorites: Wall-e, Up, Monster Inc., Ratatouille
Ghibli favorites: The Secret World of Arrietty, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Spirited Away, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, The Wind Rises, Pompoko, My Neighbors the Yamadas(great style)
Apart from those masters,
Fimfárum
Mary and Max
Coraline
Kubo and the Two Strings (best movie of 2010s!)
Paranorman
Box Trolls
Corpse Bride
Iron Giant
Persepolis
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Triplets of Belleville
Secret of Kells
Song of the Sea
Ernest & Celestine
Valhalla
Comet in Moominland
Švankmajer movies, though combined with action: Conspirators of Pleasure, Šílení, Surviving Life, Otesánek
I'm sure i'm missing some, but here it goes...
BanjoGirl wrote:
some of them are full of pop references, sometimes they seem a series of "American pop culture" gags. A lot of those gags will be old or even forgotten in fifteen years (Shrek movies are an example).
I very much agree with this.