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Best Animation Movies of the 1920s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
51 animation films from the 1920s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), at 7.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.3.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed '1926 | Animation / Fantasy / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Lotte Reiniger |
| 2 | The Skeleton Dance '1929 | Animation / Musical / Comedy / Horror | 7.6 | - | - | 7.4 | Walt Disney |
| 3 | Steamboat Willie '1928 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Walt Disney |
| 4 | KoKo's Earth Control '1928 | Comedy / Animation | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 5 | Ghosts Before Breakfast '1928 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Hans Richter |
| 6 | There It Is '1928 | Horror / Comedy / Animation / Mystery | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Charles R. Bowers |
| 7 | Invisible Ink '1921 | Comedy / Animation | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 8 | Plane Crazy '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.4 | Walt Disney |
| 9 | Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet '1921 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Winsor McCay |
| 10 | The Haunted House '1929 | Animation / Comedy / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Walt Disney |
| 11 | Egged On '1926 | Fantasy / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Animation | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Charles R. Bowers |
| 12 | Alice's Wild West Show '1924 | Animation / Western | 5.8 | - | - | 5.4 | Walt Disney |
| 13 | Soviet Toys '1924 | Animation / Comedy | 5.7 | - | - | 5.4 | Dziga Vertov |
| 14 | The Gallopin' Gaucho '1928 | Western / Comedy / Animation | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | Ub Iwerks |
| 15 | Alice's Day at Sea '1924 | Animation | 5.4 | - | - | 5.0 | Walt Disney |
| 16 | The Frogs Who Wanted a King '1922 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.1 | Władysław Starewicz |
| 17 | Hell's Bells '1929 | Animation / Horror / Musical | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Ub Iwerks |
| 18 | Felix in Hollywood '1923 | Animation | 6.5 | - | - | 6.3 | Otto Messmer |
| 19 | Alice's Wonderland '1923 | Animation | 6.4 | - | - | 6.2 | Walt Disney |
| 20 | Cinderella '1922 | Animation / Fantasy / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Lotte Reiniger |
| 21 | The Ocean Hop '1927 | Comedy / Animation | 6.0 | - | - | 6.2 | Walt Disney |
| 22 | Film Study '1926 | Animation | 6.4 | - | - | 5.8 | Hans Richter |
| 23 | The Lump '1929 | Animation / Fantasy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.3 | Yasuji Murata |
| 24 | The Mechanical Cow '1927 | Comedy / Animation | 6.1 | - | - | 5.5 | Walt Disney |
| 25 | Trolley Troubles '1927 | Animation / Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.4 | Walt Disney |
| 26 | Great Guns '1927 | Animation / Comedy / War | 6.0 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 27 | Rhythm 23 '1923 | Animation | 5.7 | - | - | 5.7 | Hans Richter |
| 28 | Oh, Teacher! '1927 | Animation | 5.9 | - | - | 5.2 | Walt Disney |
| 29 | Light-Play Opus I '1921 | Animation | 6.2 | - | - | 6.2 | Walter Ruttmann |
| 30 | Tusalava '1929 | Animation | 6.5 | - | - | 5.9 | Len Lye |
| 31 | All Wet '1927 | Animation / Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.1 | Walt Disney |
| 32 | Diagonal Symphony '1924 | Animation | 6.0 | - | - | 5.7 | Viking Eggeling |
| 33 | Springtime '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.7 | Ub Iwerks |
| 34 | The Karnival Kid '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 6.3 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 35 | The Barnyard Battle '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Ub Iwerks |
| 36 | The Opry House '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 37 | Mickey's Choo-Choo '1929 | Animation | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 38 | The Barn Dance '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 39 | Cinderella '1922 | Animation | 5.5 | - | - | 5.3 | Walt Disney |
| 40 | Jungle Rhythm '1929 | Animation | 5.8 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 41 | The Four Musicians of Bremen '1922 | Animation | 5.0 | - | - | 4.9 | Walt Disney |
| 42 | The Plowboy '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 5.7 | - | - | 5.5 | Walt Disney |
| 43 | When the Cat's Away '1929 | Animation | 5.9 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 44 | Little Red Riding Hood '1922 | Comedy / Animation | 5.1 | - | - | 4.9 | Walt Disney |
| 45 | Wild Waves '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 5.7 | - | - | 5.6 | Burt Gillett |
| 46 | The Jazz Fool '1929 | Animation | 5.6 | - | - | 5.3 | Walt Disney |
| 47 | El Terrible Toreador '1929 | Animation | 5.5 | - | - | 4.8 | Walt Disney |
| 48 | Rhythm 21 '1921 | Animation | 5.6 | - | - | 5.6 | Hans Richter |
| 49 | Mickey's Follies '1929 | Animation | 5.6 | - | - | 5.2 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 50 | Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 5.6 | - | - | 5.6 | Hugh Harman |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
Walt Disney Dave Fleischer Hans Richter Winsor McCay Dziga Vertov Ub Iwerks Władysław Starewicz Len Lye Burt Gillett Wilfred Jackson