Best Animation movies of 1980s

Actors : Takeshi Watabe, Kazuhiko Inoue, Gregory Abbey, Keiko Toda,

In the year 1580, a man named Lord Nobunaga Oda sends hoards of unholy armies across Japan, slaying all who stand in their way. A young ninja escapes her villages' destruction with a short ...

Actors : Ivo Rogulja, Emil Glad, Nada Rocco, Dragan Milivojevic,
Directors : Milan Blazekovic,

Thistle the magician and his forest friends (from _The Elm Chanted Forest (1986)_) take on an ice emperor, Mrazomor, and his horde.

Actors : Jun'ichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tarô Shigaki,
Directors : Hideo Onchi,

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

Actors : Kaneta Kimotsuki, Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Hiroshi Fukutomi,

Through the adventure in summer, a boy experiences meeting and parting with a friend.

Actors : Joan Shepard, Earl Hammond, Ai Kanzaki, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A young girl meets the Spirits of the Twelve Months when she is sent out during a winter snowstorm to collect galanthus, a flower that blooms in April.

Actors : Antonín Procházka, Otakar Brousek, Helena Vondrácková, Nada Konvalinková,
Directors : Karel Zeman,

Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he becomes burdened with life's hardships. But then he meets a pretty water nymph, Mary.

Actors : Arthur Dignam, Ed Rosser, 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 : Aileen Quinn, Lorne Greene, Mari Okamoto, Kotobuki Hizuru,

Animated version of the classic story of a young farmgirl who is transported to the magic land of Oz.

Actors : Kikuo Kaneuchi, Reiko Nanao, Kazuo Kamiya, Keiko Suzuka,

This is the classic story of the young boy Aladdin who is tricked by and evil wizard to go inside the cave that holds a great treasure and there is an old lamp that he needs to bring to him...

Actors : Michael Bell, Lorne Greene, Margery Gray, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Directors : Robert Taylor,

Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt takes her to the city to live as a servant girl to a cold rich strict family and their nice but sad handicapped daughter.

Actors : Nelly Hering, Oscar Silva, Susana Klein, Cecilia Gispert,
Directors : Carlos D. Marquez,

Argentine's answer to Peanuts and Charlie Brown is Mafalda. This episodic movie is compiled of several TV shorts based on the comic of the same name about young Mafalda and her friends, who deal with the world in their own way.

Actors : Keiko Han, Keiko Toda, Ichirô Nagai, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Masayuki Akehi,

The planet LaMetal is on a collision (and conquering) course with the Earth, and the only one who can stop the forthcoming catastrophe is Queen Millennia, a former princess of La-Metal who has made Earth her home.

Actors : Naoko Kouda, Takeshi Aono, Masaru Ikeda, Satoru Inagaki,
Directors : Masashi Matsumoto,

It's the 21st century, and the police are now using robots with human handlers. Police officers Ken, Eleanor and Gora and their robot partners Blader, Scanny and Vigobus must stop a mercenary group who stole a powerful automated tank.

Actors : Isaura Gomes, Silvia Cordeiro Marinho, Maria Amélia Costa Manso, Ivete Jayme,
Directors : Maurício de Sousa,

4 stories. In the first, Mônica and her friends are introduced to the people. In the second, Mônica gets miniaturized and has an affair with a little mouse. In the third episode, Mônica ...

Actors : Keiko Han, Tôru Furuya, Masako Ikeda, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Rintaro,

A Transylvanian princess, a Japanese high school student and a 2000 year old warrior are selected to be part of a small force of powerful psionic warriors assembled to be the defenders of ...

Actors : Kei Tomiyama, Yôko Asagami, Isao Sasaki, Gorô Naya,

A watery world called Aquarius that is destined to destroy all of the planet Earth. Can the great Yamato stop this devastation?

Actors : Susana Klein, Pelusa Suero, María Marchi, Enrique Conlazo,
Directors : Manuel García Ferré,

Actors : Run Sasaki, Hiraku Takemura, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Noriko Ohara,

Amid a supposedly simple escort mission, Joe and his crew experience a failure during their warp travel. They wake up just to find out that the passengers are missing. To make things worse,...

Actors : Iemasa Kayumi, Mieko Nobusawa, Kazuyo Aoki, Noriko Ohara,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

In the future, some humans build a spaceship to abandon earth. The spaceship crashed in an island isolated from the rest of the world. The story takes place when there are only 2 survivors ...