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Best Animation Movies With Your Boyfriend From The 2020S You Have Probably Never Heard Of

The best animation movies with your boyfriend from the 2020s you have probably never heard of. Includes The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light, Demon Slayer:...

Watching a film with someone you care about changes the film. Pick something worth experiencing together — not just background noise.

Despite everything, the 2020s have produced some genuinely remarkable cinema. Films made under pressure that somehow carry none of it.

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

The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

With the help of the "Dragon Sin of Wrath" Meliodas and the worst rebels in history, the Seven Deadly Sins, the "Holy War", in which four races, including Humans, Goddesses, Fairies and Giants fought against the Demons, is finally over. At the cost of the "Lion Sin of Pride" Escanor's life, the Demon King was defeated and the world regained peace. After that, each of the Sins take their own path.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle movie poster
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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji begins.

If Anything Happens I Love You movie poster
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2020 · ★★★½☆ 7.7/10

In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.

The Bad Guys 2 movie poster
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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. When a documentarian discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, his resulting short film brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family.

The animated films that last are the ones that never condescend. They trust their audience — child or adult — to handle complexity, loss, and wonder in equal measure.

Onward movie poster
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2020 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.

Belle movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.

Back to the Outback movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.

Zootopia 2 movie poster
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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

After a guardian of magical jewels turns an awkward girl and a popular boy into superheroes, they can never reveal their identities — even to each other.

These films exist. They're excellent. The only reason you haven't seen them is that nobody told you to. Now someone has.

These films prove that animation is not a lesser form of cinema. It's a different one — capable of its own kind of greatness.