Best Animation movies of 1981

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Kurt Russell, Mickey Rooney,

Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.

Actors : Richard Romanus, John Candy, Don Francks, Joe Flaherty,

A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Actors : Lisa Jane Persky, Ron Thompson, Jerry Holland, Mews Small,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.

Actors : Gyula Szabó, Teri Földi, József Gyabronka, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Attila Dargay,

Famous, great hunters, better stay away, here comes Vuk! (They say he is cunning as a fox!)

Actors : Stan Freberg, Ralph James, June Foray, Mel Blanc,
Directors : Friz Freleng,

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts.

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Olga Gromova,
Directors : Roman Kachanov,

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to ...

Actors : Gyula Szabó, Ferenc Szalma, György Cserhalmi, Vera Pap,
Directors : Marcell Jankovics,

A man is born the son of a horse with superpowers and uses them to do battle with legendary dragons.

Actors : Shôzô Îzuka, Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Toshio Furukawa,

A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Mats Åhlfeldt, Carl Billquist, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Ewa Fröling,

Pelle is a cat who was born without a proper tail. He is taken care of by a family living in Uppsala. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats, and especially ...

Actors : Katsue Miwa, Junko Hori, Ryouko Kitamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama,

A story about how joy and happiness can be the most powerful weapon ever. A young unicorn is ordered to be taken from his home by the gods. They are envious of little Unico's power to bring...

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Shûichi Ikeda,

After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits battle Zeon forces (Ramba Ral, Ma Kube, Tri-Stars, ...

Actors : Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Yasushi Yokoyama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Norio Nishikawa,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Chie Takemoto is a small dependable girl, who lives in Osaka with her dad. She has to goals - to get her troublesome father, who runs a tavern, some work and then get him to make up with her mother, who left him.

Actors : Keiko Han, Tôru Furuya, Mami Koyama, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Masami Hata,

A prince of the sea and a child of fire engage in a tragic forbidden romance.

Actors : Ion Popescu-Gopo, Gilda Manolescu, Ingrid Celia, Medeea Marinescu,
Directors : Ion Popescu-Gopo,

Two little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep ...

Actors : Ed Rosser, Arthur Dignam, Peter Ustinov, Keith Michell,
Directors : Alex Stitt,

This is an animated story covering the ancient legend of Beowulf, as narrated in a Monty Pythonesque way by Grendel himself, the "monster" in the legend.

Actors : Saffron Henderson, Masako Nozawa, Kathleen Barr, Masako Ikeda,
Directors : Rintaro,

It's been three years since the destruction of planet La Maetel, but the Machine Empire is as great of a threat as ever. Teen Tetsuro, now a rebel fighter, learns that Galaxy Express 999 is returning and that Maetel is on it.

Actors : Makio Inoue, Tôru Furuya, Keiko Han, Toshio Furukawa,

A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.

Actors : Ron Haddrick, Anne Haddy, Drew Forsythe, Barbara Frawley,
Directors : Yoram Gross,

In search of a kangaroo, a little girl receives help from Santa Claus.

Actors : Kaneta Kimotsuki, Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Hideo Nishimaki,

A boy gets a power and confronts the mighty enemies for his friends.