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Best Animation Movies When You Can’t Sleep From The 2010S That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

The Moviepiq team picked these animation films specifically for when sleep won't come. No filler. Every film on this list earns its place for exactly this occasion.

The best animation movies when you cant sleep from the 2010s that will restore your faith in humanity. Includes Batman: Under the Red Hood, How to Train Your...

When sleep won't come, the worst thing to watch is something forgettable. You need a film absorbing enough to quiet a busy mind - but not so disturbing it keeps you awake for different reasons.

The 2010s were defined by a wave of filmmakers who understood that the best genre films work on multiple levels simultaneously.

Animation removes the barrier of physical reality, which means it can go places nothing else can.

Batman: Under the Red Hood movie poster
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2010 · ★★★½☆ 7.8/10

One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.8/10

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless' discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup's reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

Ernest & Celestine movie poster
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2012 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 movie poster
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2012 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

Big Hero 6 movie poster
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2014 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

These films use the freedom of animation to go places live-action won't. They earn every tear.

Day & Night movie poster
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2010 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

White Snake movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

One day a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake catcher from a nearby village. As they set off an a journey to discover her real identity, the pair develop feelings for each other.

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie poster
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2014 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless dragon conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.

Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie movie poster
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2018 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

A decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas Chandler and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure his daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma.

There are films that remind you, without sentimentality, that people are capable of extraordinary things. These are some of them.

The best animated films stay with you the way a dream does. Vivid, emotional, and hard to fully explain.

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