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I'd like to nominate two animated French anthologies.
Based on the TV series, which involves a blue cat, Oggy, trying (and failing) to stop three cockroaches (Joey, Marky, Dee Dee) from eating the food in his fridge. Much like its spiritual predecessor, Tom and Jerry, it's devoid of dialogue. Only this time, it takes place across four time periods: the Stone Age, Medieval Europe, Victorian London (a spoof of Sherlock Holmes) and the very distant future (a spoof of Star Wars). It's got a pretty interesting ending as well (I won't spoil it). If you enjoy silent cartoony humour then I can see you liking this as well, otherwise I wouldn't really bother. (Sidenote: the opening scene is eerily similar to that of the Minions movie, which came out just two years later.)
Unlike Oggy, this one has dialogue. I personally watched the UK English dub, which was superb IMO! It's a compilation of three 30-minute specials involving farm animals going on adventures. The first and third ones involve Pig, Rabbit, and Duck trying to fill in for some fantastical deliverer: in the first, they find a stork with a broken wing and try to deliver a baby for him, and in the other, they try to distribute presents because they believe Santa has passed away. The second involves a Fox going to a Wolf and learning to steal chicken eggs and wait for the chicks to grow up, instead of terrorising the adult chickens already in the farm. However, this falls apart when the hatched chicks start calling him "Mummy". Not all of the segments are of equal hilarity (my ranking: 1 and 2 are both great, yet 3 is mid -- maybe I'm just a Grinch), yet it does consistently manage to deliver in terms of its simple yet fun art style, and just the overall charm.
These films aren't exactly the most compelling IMO, but they're good watches when you're lazing and just want to have some cartoony fun.