Cartoons I'd Recommend Showing Or Watching With Your Kids:

Cartoons I'd recommend showing or watching with your kids:

1.) The Iron Giant

2.) Miyazaki movies (of course)

3.) The heartbreaking The Red Turtle

4.) Cartoon Saloon films

5.) Adventure Time (amazing)

6.) Gravity Falls (also amazing...)

7.) Avatar: The Last Airbender

8.) The Legend of Korra

9.) Batman: The Animated Series

10.) Gargoyles

11.) The Spectacular Spider-Man

12.) X-Men: Evolution

13.) Over the Garden Wall

Favorite non-DC/Marvel, comic book adaptations:

The Mask

The Crow

The Rocketeer (released internationally as The Adventures of the Rocketeer)

Ghost World

A History of Violence

The Lone Wolf and Cub films

Ichi the Killer (殺し屋１)

The Amazing Screw-On Head

The Rabbi's Cat (Le chat du rabbin)

Danger: Diabolik

Urusei Yatsura: Only You/Beautiful Dreamer

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Snowpiercer

Persepolis

Blue is the Warmest Color

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

The Death of Stalin

Wrinkles (Arrugas)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Akira (アキラ)

Gantz (2010)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Road to Perdition

American Splendor

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Oldboy (올드보이)

Time Bandits by Terry Gilliam.

This just might be one of the very best "children's story" films ever produced. Outstanding imagination and poignant humanism.

It's a Roald Dahl–esque landmark to all fantasy films.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam.

Based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire.

It is, to this day, a misunderstood film.

A titanic exercise in bravura filmmaking. A testament to the power of imagination. Moving and magical.

Gilliam is a master. ^^

Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) by Tod Browning.

Based on elements from the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins.

Step right up and be horrified! Or be sympathetic, that works too. This is a unique film. Believe me, there has never been and will never be a film like this again.

Get this: After the success of Universal's original "Dracula" in 1931, MGM approached its director Tod Browning to make "the scariest film ever made". So what did Browning do? He gathered real circus sideshow performers from all over the country and made the movie "Freaks". The movie's so shocking that MGM was sued by one audience member who claimed that seeing the movie gave her a miscarriage. This movie is so controversial that there are still cities in the United States where it's illegal to even show it!

Just a word of warning before you decide to go see this, some of the people in this movie do look very disturbing. If you'd rather not subject yourself to that kind of imagery, then it would probably be best to not see it. Regardless, this film is full of iconic moments of pure cinema, pulpy horror, carny noir, and perverse melodrama. Freaks is still unclassifiable after many decades. It's still sick, twisted, perverse and profoundly human. It contains Tod Browning's view of the world at its purest.

In my opinion, this show is one of the most well-realized and exciting/compelling cartoons around.