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Plot Summary:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 146000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: adult animation, surreal, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, atmospheric, computer animated, stylized, 3d animation
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Isle of Dogs (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crying, adult animation, artsy, funny, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, 3d animation, anime, sincere
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: computer animated, anime, visually appealing, exciting, stylized, tense, suspense, adult animation, manga, dark
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Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009)
Plot Summary:
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and nowhere are the flames of hatred more intense than in the eyes of Sio.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: stylized, anime, serious, suspenseful, exciting, surreal, suspense, bleak, tense, intense
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Angel's Egg (1985)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, gothic, avant garde, dark fantasy, surreal, adult animation, psychedelic, experimental, disturbing, fairy tale
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Gandahar (1987)
Plot Summary:
René Laloux, created Gandahar, his final animated feature film. Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar) This fascinating adult animation combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. “My quest began with a riddle. ‘In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, and and all its people massacred. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can’t be avoided will be.” -Sylvain. This film is set on the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown. The utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sent to investigate, Prince Sylvain (John Shea) crashes and is rescued by the Deformed, hideous genetic experiments gone wrong and left to fend for themselves. With their help, Sylvain discovers that the Metamorphosis, a gigantic brain also created in an experiment, is trying to destroy Gandahar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: adult animation, psychedelic, atmospheric, futuristic, stylized, cult classic, experimental, psychological, claymation, avant garde
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Appleseed Alpha (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the comic book by the creator of Ghost in the Shell, a young female soldier Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos survive through the post World War 3 apocalyptic New York in search of human's future hope, the legendary city of Olympus.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mecha, computer animated, exciting, anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, claymation
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Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)
Plot Summary:
It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives his own life to save Trunks's. Now Trunks must figure out a way to change this apocalyptic future.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, inspirational, shounen, exciting, offbeat, humorous, serious, stylized, semi serious
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Metropia (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, stylized, adult animation, exciting, atmospheric, serious, dark, anime, apocalyptic
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Blame! (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Killy the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic, exciting, tense, suspense, futuristic, mecha, smart, cyber
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Sin: The Movie (2000)
Plot Summary:
It is the near future, and the city of Freeport teeters on the verge of total collapse. The twin tides of rampant crime and ruinous graft face only one barrier: the elite strike force HARDCORPS. Led by Colonel John Blade, HARDCORPS is the last force for justice in the darkening city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, futuristic
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Titan A.E. (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Dredge are bent on mankind's destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, anime, computer animated, apocalyptic, stylized, futuristic, adult animation, entertaining, cult classic
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Paprika (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, psychedelic, anime, philosophical, enigmatic, atmospheric, mind bending, mindfuck, adult animation
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Beowulf (2007)
Plot Summary:
6th-century Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the manlike ogre Grendel, a descendant of Cain.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 173000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: computer animated, epic, fairy tale, adult animation, dark fantasy, motion capture, exciting, suspenseful, action packed, mythical
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Wizards (1977)
Plot Summary:
An ambiguous battle between good and evil wages in a post-apocalyptic earth populated by netherworld creatures who have re-emerged after the nuclear winter. Two wizard twin brothers - the evil Blackwolf and the good Avatar - battle for supremacy. The war turns in Blackwolf's favor when he discovers the methods of warfare used by the ill-fated humans of the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, adult animation, anime, surreal, stylized, grindhouse, cult classic, dark, apocalyptic, mind bending
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Plot Summary:
When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash and his family, the ripples of the event prove disastrous as a fractured, alternate reality now exists where a Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found. Teaming with a grittier, more violent Dark Knight and Cyborg, Flash races to restore the continuity of his original timeline while this new world is ravaged by a fierce war between Wonder Woman's Amazons and Aquaman’s Atlanteans.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: intense, anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, emotional, epic, adult animation, apocalyptic
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, stylized, cyber, deep, inspirational, complex
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Parasite Dolls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, cyber, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, mecha
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Wolf's Rain (2003)
Plot Summary:
In some distant future, it's common knowledge that all wolves have been extinct for 200 years. However, it seems this is false as wolves have not disappeared but rather have taken human form. Kiba, a lone wolf, wanders into a city, trying to sniff out the Lunar Flowers that are supposed to lead whoever follows the scent to paradise. The source of the smell is Cheza, a girl who sleeps in what appears to be suspended animation in a lab. She and the wolves are drawn to each other, and Kiba hopes to find paradise once he finds the source of the scent of Lunar Flowers. However, once Kiba finds Cheza, she is kidnapped by a mysterious person called Darcia, and his search begins anew. Before he leaves the city, he meets 3 other wolves, Tsume, Hige and Toboe. All four wolves have very different personalities and ideas, and their friendliness towards each other is a little rough around the edges. However, they soon band together to continue to search for paradise.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 701 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, atmospheric, manga, apocalyptic, enigmatic, futuristic, psychological, deep
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Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)
Plot Summary:
As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: computer animated, mecha, anime, stylized, suspenseful, adult animation, futuristic, manga, sincere, mind bending
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak, atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, mindfuck, adult animation
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Renaissance (2006)
Plot Summary:
To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, enigmatic, black and white, surreal, atmospheric, bleak, adult animation, stylized, suspenseful, noir
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Appleseed (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, computer animated, mecha, stylized, futuristic, adult animation, cyber, apocalyptic, manga, sincere
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Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the Year 2016, Resistance fighter Blair Williams embarks on a deadly mission to search for a threat that is weakening humanity's defense against the self-aware artificial intelligence called Skynet and it's lethal Terminators.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 14 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, adult animation, cyber, computer animated, anime
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Plot Summary:
The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding the series, while also opening up some new possibilities.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal, cult classic, adult animation, existential, mindfuck, atmospheric
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Metropolis (2001)
Plot Summary:
Duke Red has overseen the construction of a massive Ziggurat to extend his power across the whole planet. Tima, a robot-girl built in the image of his deceased daughter, is at the core of these plans. However, after escaping the Duke's clutches in a laboratory fire, she meets and befriends Kenichi, a boy who's traveled to Metropolis with his detective uncle in search of a scientist wanted for organ trafficking. Will her relationship with Kenichi, and the realization of the truth of her existence, change her destiny?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, atmospheric, bleak, cyber, exciting, suspenseful, manga, adult animation, stylized
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Ergo Proxy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy has been described as a dark sciencefiction mystery with philosophical underpinnings. It features a combination of 2D digital cel animation, 3D computer modeling, and digital special effects.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, psychological, futuristic, suspenseful, cliffhanger, cyber, atmospheric, serious, seinen
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Plot Summary:
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: computer animated, anime, adult animation, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, manga, apocalyptic, motion capture, 3d animation
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Coraline (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 257000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary, stylized, bleak, offbeat, disturbing, visually appealing
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Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)
Plot Summary:
U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: adult animation, computer animated, anime, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, 3d animation, adult anime
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WALL·E (2008)
Plot Summary:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, futuristic, emotional, light, sweet, computer animated, exciting, 3d animation, inspirational