Best animated biographical films

1. Persepolis (2007)

France / USA, Animation / Drama

Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve

84.6%

10,251 Ratings rating

2. Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Israel / France, Animation / Documentary

Directed by: Ari Folman

Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון

84.0%

6,705 Ratings rating

3. Loving Vincent (2017)

UK / Poland, Animation / Biography

Directed by: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

Cast: Douglas Booth, Holly Earl

83.7%

5,089 Ratings rating

4. Vincent (1987)

Australia / Belgium, Animation / Drama

Directed by: Paul Cox

Cast: John Hurt, Marika Rivera

83.8%

267 Ratings rating

5. The Wind Rises (2013)

Japan, Animation / War

Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki

Cast: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto

79.1%

2,228 Ratings rating

6. Dear Basketball (2017)

USA, Short / Animation

Directed by: Glen Keane

Cast: Kobe Bryant

78.3%

425 Ratings rating

7. American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)

UK, Documentary / Animation

Directed by: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas

Cast: Bill Hicks

85.5%

66 Ratings rating

8. Jeszcze dzień życia (2018)

Poland / Spain, Animation / Biography

Directed by: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

Cast: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Tomasz Ziętek

77.3%

208 Ratings rating

9. El vendedor de humo (2012)

Spain, Short / Animation

Directed by: Jaime Maestro

80.5%

82 Ratings rating

10. Approved for Adoption (2012)

Belgium / France, Animation / Biography

Directed by: Laurent Boileau, Jung

Cast: Jung, Jean-Luc Couchard

76.5%

40 Ratings rating

11. Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018)

Spain / France, Animation / Biography

Directed by: Salvador Simó

Cast: Pepa Gracia, Fernando Ramos

75.4%

39 Ratings rating

12. The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest (2014)

Canada / USA, Documentary / Animation

Directed by: Gabriel London

Cast: Shea Whigham

74.1%

27 Ratings rating

13. The Miracle Maker (2000)

Russia / UK, Animation / Puppet

Directed by: Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov, Derek W. Hayes

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julie Christie

68.5%

213 Ratings rating

14. Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai (2015)

Japan, Animation / Drama

Directed by: Keiichi Hara

Cast: Anne Watanabe, Yutaka Matsushige

66.8%

94 Ratings rating

15. Where Is Anne Frank (2021)

Belgium / France, Animation / Historical

Directed by: Ari Folman

Cast: Emily Carey, Skye Bennett

63.1%

149 Ratings rating

16. O kolečko víc (1979)

Czechoslovakia, Animation / Short

Directed by: Josef Kábrt

61.1%

55 Ratings rating

17. Karol (2011)

Italy, Animation / Biography

Directed by: Orlando Corradi

Cast: Luca Ward, Pope John Paul II

57.6%

25 Ratings rating

18. Kiki of Montparnasse (2013)

France, Short / Animation

Directed by: Amélie Harrault

Cast: Marie-Christine Orry, Serge Elissalde

55.9%

34 Ratings rating

19. Karol's Message (2016)

Slovakia, Family / Biography

Directed by: Martin Kandra

Cast: Lukáš Hudcovský, František Kovár

52.5%

24 Ratings rating

20. Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu (2001)

China / Slovakia, Animation / Adventure

Directed by: Ron Merk

Cast: Paul Ainsley, Alan Altshuld

57.1%

102 Ratings rating

21. Shock Head Soul (2011)

Netherlands / UK, Documentary / Animation

Directed by: Simon Pummell

Cast: Hugo Koolschijn, Jochum ten Haaf

54.7%

60 Ratings rating

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