If you still think Bambi or Cinderella when you hear "animated movie," you've got some catching up to do. Some of the best filmmakers working today have tried their hand at animation, and a lot of it is decidedly not for kids. It makes sense that some brilliant grown-up movies would be animated: It's a medium that allows for ultimate creativity, able to be heartbreaking or shocking or complicated or surreal in ways that live-action can't get close to—no matter how big the budget. Below, Marie Claire has picked 25 of the best animated films for adults—movies that will awaken the kid in you or remind you that it's okay to grow up. This Japanese animated film about a college-aged girl who wants to figure out how to be an adult through one mystic long night in Kyoto often borders on the surreal. The fantastical city it shows is gorgeously rendered, the jokes are laugh-out-loud funny, and its ultimate message—that we're all connected somehow—will stay with you long after the credits roll.
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Sign in. Not Rated 83 min Animation, Action, Crime. A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. R 86 min Animation, Adventure, Fantasy. 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.
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