Best movies like Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
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Plot Summary:
In the year 2048, the human race is forced to leave Earth after decades of losing against Godzilla and other giant monsters. They take a twenty-year journey to another planet called Tau Ceti-e, but upon arrival, they discover that the planet has become uninhabitable. As living conditions on their ship deteriorate, a young man named Haruo spearheads a movement to return to Earth and take it back from the monsters. The ship successfully makes the return voyage, but the crew realizes that twenty thousand years have passed, with Earth's ecosystem having evolved to become centered around Godzilla.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, 3d animation, psychotronic
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Plot Summary:
Psychedelic animation and a flying Godzilla highlight the 11th Godzilla film. Spawned from earth's pollution, Hedorah destroys Japan, spews poison gas and fights Godzilla.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Family, Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, gothic horror, cult classic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, experimental
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (2010)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2314 AD, two years have passed since the defeat of the Innovators and the exposure of the A-Laws' crimes against humanity. The A-Laws have been abolished and their infrastructure integrated into the Earth Sphere Federation Army. However, the world's exposure to GN Particles has resulted in many people awakening as True Innovators. Celestial Being has returned to the shadows to rebuild and quietly observe the infantile peace. However, an abandoned probe from an expedition to Jupiter 130 years ago approaches Earth bringing a new crisis with it, one that threatens all of mankind. While Celestial Being begins their final mission to save humanity from an unimaginable threat, Gundam Meister Setsuna F. Seiei is about to discover the true purpose of his evolution as an Innovator. Aeolia Schenberg's plan has moved into its final stage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Knights of Sidonia: The Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 3394. The solar system has been long destroyed by a strange alien race called Gauna. Now humans are barely maintaining population in their seed ships - the ones they also used to escape a thousand years ago. After several years of drifting though space, Sidonia, a seed ship with a population of over 500,000 people, is once again threatened by Gauna. Follow Tanikaze Nagate, a mysterious young man from the deep corners of the ship, and his friends as they try to strike back against these gigantic creatures and at the same time learn what they really are for the sake of humanity's survival. -MAL.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, cyberpunk anime
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Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film opens with a Saiyan Space pod flying through space and crash-landing on Earth out of which a wounded Saiyan crawls out: Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan. The wounded Broly shouts out in frustation and turns into normal form. The place soon freezes, trapping him in it and he falls into a coma.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Expelled from Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that hacker referred to themselves as "Frontier Setter." To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch system Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeleton powered suit Arhan.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, adult animation
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation (2017)
Plot Summary:
This film is the first on a 3-part theatrical film remake of the first 2 seasons of the parent anime.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, compilation film
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Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
Plot Summary:
With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, intense, adult animation, psychotronic
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Argevollen (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in a world where two countries, Arandas and Ingelmia, have been warring against each other for a very long time. Tokimune, a young man belonging to Independent Unit 8 of Arandas, saves a girl named Jamie when she is attacked by enemy forces. In order to survive, he pilots the new mech Argevollen and fights. The new mech Argevollen is defined by its U-Link system wherein the Argevollen molds to its pilot's mind and cannot be piloted by anyone else. This customization allows the pilot to envision what the mech will do in his mind to use it, rather than physically move and steer it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, super sentai
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Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a world where humans and fearsome monsters live in an uneasy balance, young hunter Aiden fights to save his village from destruction by a dragon.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, 3d animation, computer animated
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.hack//G.U. Trilogy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Join Haseo on his quest to track down Tri-Edge, the devious PK responsible for leaving one of his closest friends in a coma. Along the way he meets Atolli, a gentle girl who takes an interest in him despite his chilly demeanor. Together, Haseo and Atolli will attempt to survive long enough to decipher the riddle of the entities known as AIDAs—and save their fellow gamers from permanent sleep.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion II - Transgression (2018)
Plot Summary:
Second of three films compiling the "Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch" TV anime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, compilation film, mecha
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion III - Glorification (2018)
Plot Summary:
This is the third and final part of a 3-part theatrical film remake of the first 2 seasons of the parent anime.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, compilation film
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Cencoroll Connect (2019)
Plot Summary:
Student Yuki has never seen one of the giant monsters she always hears about on the news and that threaten her city. But when she meets the lethargic Tetsu one day, things change suddenly. Because Tetsu moves around the houses with a creature called Cencoroll, which he can control with mind control and which can transform into a wide variety of objects. But not only Yuki is fascinated by Cencoroll: the boy Shu tries to take Cencoroll from Tetsu with the help of his own telepathy monster, whereupon the four engage in a bitter fight, in which Yuki also intervenes and the entire city is converted into a battle arena.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Pacific Rim: The Black (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings - an idealistic teenage boy and his naïve younger sister - are forced to pilot an abandoned Jaeger across a hostile landscape in a desperate attempt to find their missing parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, anime, mecha, 3d animation, computer animated
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Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down (2015)
Plot Summary:
The season turns to autumn. The fight of the protagonist and his group S.E.E.S. with the strange monsters called ‘Shadows’ is getting closer to the end. Makoto and his allies engage in life-or-death battles with Shadows in order to end the Dark Hour. Through the battles, some must face the deaths of friends and family, some must notice what precious things must be protected, and some must find meaning in the battles that have occurred. In front of Makoto, the mysterious transfer student Ryouji Mochizuki appears. When the group greets a new morning, the gears of fate begin to turn. A fight revolving around each of the heroes' bonds begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, 2d animation
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Chrome Shelled Regios (2009)
Plot Summary:
The world of tomorrow is an arid wasteland. Humans must live in domed cities to escape the threat of mutant Contaminoid monsters. In this future, mysterious Layfon struggles to keep his violent past hidden from his fellow student soldiers at the military academy. Unfortunately, his former life might be impossible to keep secret – and the truth could tear his team apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, offbeat, serious, stylized
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time (2010)
Plot Summary:
After falling through a time-slip, Yusei Fudo (who has just had his powerful card stolen by a mysterious stranger) meets with Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto, who agree to help Yusei defeat the evil Paradox, who is planning to destroy Pegasus before he can invent Duel Monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, exciting, serious, sincere, captivating, melancholic, fast, parody, shounen
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Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
Plot Summary:
Humanity's desperate battle to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla continues. The key to defeating the King of the Monsters may be Mechagodzilla, a robotic weapon thought to have been lost nearly 20,000 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, mecha
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Human Lost (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2036 man kind has revolutionized the medical field. Scientist have conquered death via the use of internal nanomachines and the “Shell System,” however, only the richest can afford to partake. Yozo Oba has been troubled by strange dreams and one day joins his friend’s biker gang. They embark to the “The Inside,” where society’s elite live, however, this begins a terrifying journey of discovery that will change Yozo’s life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, bleak, unusual plot structure, futuristic, surreal, adult animation
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Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
Plot Summary:
Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: adult animation, anime, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, talky, 3d animation, exciting, intense
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God Eater (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the early 2050s, unknown life forms called “Oracle cells” begin their uncontrolled consumption of all life on Earth. Their ravenous appetite and remarkable adaptability earn them first dread, then awe, and finally the name “aragami”. In the face of an enemy completely immune to conventional weapons, urban civilization collapses, and each day humanity is driven further and further toward extinction. One single ray of hope remains for humanity. Following the development of “God Arcs”—living weapons which incorporate Oracle cells—their wielders are organized into an elite force.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, dark fantasy, stylized, suspense, manga, suspenseful
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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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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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Godzilla Singular Point (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brought together by a mysterious song, a grad student and an engineer lead the fight against an unimaginable force that may spell doom for the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, anime, mecha, adult animation, dark, contemplative
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, epic, shounen, 2d animation
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Tiger & Bunny: The Rising (2014)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of 'Tiger & Bunny' are back in an all-new feature-length film! Picking up after the events of the Maverick incident, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi, a.k.k Wild Tiger, and Barnaby Brooks Jr. resume their careers as heroes fighting crime in Hero TV's Second League. Their partnership comes to a sudden end when Apollon Media's new owner Mark Schneider fires Kotetsu and moves Barnaby back into the First League, pairing him up with Golden Ryan, a new hero with awesome powers and a huge ego to match. When the heroes are sent to investigate a string of strange incidents tied closely to the city's Goddess Legend, they discover three super powered NEXTs plotting to bring terror and destruction to Stern Bild. With the lives of millions hanging in the balance, Barnaby and Goden Ryan must overcome their differences to contain the approaching doom, while a jobless Kotetsu's resolve as a hero is put to the test as he struggles to help his fellow heroes from the sidelines.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
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Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set on an alternative Earth, Superheroes are celebrities and a high rating TV show rates their achievements, awarding them points until an annual King of Heroes is crowned. Old-school hero Wild Tiger is assigned a new partner with very different views on the heroes role in society but soon a vigilante criminal presents them with a serious problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, compilation film
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
Plot Summary:
The magical kingdom of Lucis is home to the world’s last remaining Crystal, and the menacing empire of Niflheim is determined to steal it. King Regis of Lucis commands an elite force of soldiers called the Kingsglaive. Wielding their king’s magic, they fight to protect Lucis. As the overwhelming military might of the empire bears down, King Regis is faced with an impossible ultimatum – to marry his son, Prince Noctis to Princess Lunafreya of Tenebrae, captive of Niflheim, and surrender his lands to Niflheim rule. Although the king concedes, it becomes clear that the empire will stop at nothing to achieve their devious goals, with only the Kingsglaive standing between them and world domination.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, 3d animation, adult animation, captivating, computer animated
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Gantz: O (2016)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal - few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name... Gantz.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, 3d animation, surreal, manga, grindhouse, perverse, adult animation, weird, post modern
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Max Steel Team Turbo: Fusion Tek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Max and Steel face their greatest challenge ever. When Max's greatest enemies unite to take down N-Tek and conquer Copper Canyon, Max and Steel realize that they can't save the day on their own. It's time to form a new team of heroes with Tempestra, La Fiera, and C.Y.T.R.O. - TEAM TURBO.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, anime