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Plot Summary:
Enter the tale of the Crusher Council, a group of rugged individuals known for assignments ranging from transportation to terraforming and everything in between. In the early days of space exploration the Crushers took on the job of destroying asteroids and defining space lanes. Because of their work, they were nicknamed "Crushers" which eventually became their business moniker. Despite the rough and ready nature of the Crushers' work, they subscribe to a few steadfast rules. Unethical and illegal assignments are taboo, and any Crusher accepting one is barred from the Union. Of course, this presents problems for shady clients who try to trick the Crushers into accepting misleading assignments. They know that once the Union accepts a case the Crushers are honor-bound to follow it through. Among the various worlds, the Crusher Council has a stunning reputation, and among the Crushers, the most elite team is the one led by Crusher Dan and his successor, Crusher Joe.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: anime, vintage
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New Cosmic Century 038, humanity is suddenly attacked by an unknown alien civilization known as the Orbital Ring System. Soon, the entire Earth Civilization Sphere has been cut off from the space colonies, and is under the control of the ORS.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: anime, experimental, claymation, adult animation, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime
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A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anime, manga
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: Imperial Admiral Reinhard von Lohengramm and the FPA's Yang Wen-Li. As they deal with superiors and subordinates, maneuver through complicated political arrangements, plot strategies, and win battles, each will be tested, and ultimately, changed, by the reality of war.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, epic, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, contemplative, stylized, vintage
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Universal Century 0074. Since leaving Texas Colony, Édouard Mass has camouflaged his identity and enrolled in the Autonomous Republic of Zeon's Space Defense Military Academy under the name of Char Aznable. He develops a friendship with his classmate Garma, a scion of the Zabi family. Gradually the two become admired by the other students. Then, in Universal Century 0077, the young at last rise up in arms and begin the fight for independence against the Earth Federation's security forces. This rebellion, however, also marks the beginning of Char’s spectacular scenario of revenge… Now, the gears of history are turning!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, clever, serious, stylized, contemplative, futuristic, epic, captivating
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Stones of power are given to some chosen fighters, who are being trained by a master to defeat the master's darker tendencies of destroying humanity. The fighters do not necessarily get along even as the world heads toward peril.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Having gone to ground for two years, Cobra comes out of hiding after an encounter with the bounty hunter Jane Flower and is drawn into direct confrontation with the Galactic Guild, a vast criminal organization lead by Lord Necron, a macabre representation of re-animated death. On Jane's asking the duo travel to a prison planet called Seedo and Cobra breaks into the floating prison where Jane's sister Catherine is held, but the latter doesn't want to be saved... Jane and her identical sisters Catherine and Dominique are the embodiment of the future ruler of a freely wandering planet called Myras. Should they fall in love with the same man they will meld into a single body, forming the planet's queen. Said planet has recovered from a genocide bomb that wiped out its inhabitants, and they are ready to reclaim it. Necron, though, wants to take advantage of Myras' wandering nature to crash it into the seventh galaxy's principle supernova and obliterate all life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult animation, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, vintage, cult film
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cult film
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Lensman (1984)
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Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companinon, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 722
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 200 min
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A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
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Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (2009)
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In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on course towards the solar system. As the people on Earth prepare to relocate to planet Amare, whose ruler offers refuge, the tyrants known as the "S.U.S. Empire" attack the first Earth evacuation fleet. After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he intends to not only help humanity once again, but also find Yuki in the hope of helping his relationship with his daughter Miyuki, who puts the blame on him for her mother's disappearance. But in order to fullfil the mission, the Yamato must go through battles against the SUS Empire, who intend to spoil humanity's hopes of finding a new place to live in and turn Earth into energy for their own selfish needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic
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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
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Crest of the Stars (1999)
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Jinto Lin's life changes forever when the Humankind Empire Abh takes over his home planet of Martine without firing a single shot. He is soon sent off to study the Abh language and culture and to prepare himself for his future as a nobleman - a future he never dreamed of. Or wanted. Now, Jinto is entering the next phase of his training, and he is about to meet his first Abh, the lovely Lafiel. But Jinto is about to learn that she is more than she appears to be. And together they will have to fight for their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock is a manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, serialized Akita Shoten's Play Comic from 1977 to 1979. The series was adapted into an animated television series in 1978 directed by Rintaro and produced by Toei Animation. A computer-animated film adaptation of the same name premiered in 2013. The series follows the titular Captain, an outcast turned space pirate after he rebelled against Earth's Government and humanity's general apathy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
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2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a "Cosmo Reverse System" at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly, it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the "Gatlantis," and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls himself "Goran Dagaamu of Thunder." The commander demands that Yamato be handed over to him. Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the "Flame Direct Attack Cannon" that can transcend space.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The first segment called "Elliptical Orbit" is about a ship called the Flying Dutchman returning to Earth after an extended absence with a cargo of "protons" to be used for energy. A terrorist group with military combat suits boards the station they dock with intending to use the proton cargo as a massive bomb. The second segment, "Symbiotic Planet", is a story of two secret lovers from opposing sides of a conflict trying to build a life together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, tense, manga
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Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
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Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Duchy of Zeon's forces.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
Plot Summary:
In UC 0093 the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space Char Aznable re-appears out of self imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commands his own Neo-Zeon movementand intends to force the emigration of Earth's inhabitants to space by bringing about an apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, futuristic, epic, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981)
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After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits must battle Zeon forces through Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean if they are to reach Earth Federation's headquarters alive. During that process many of its crewmembers must overcome their fears, losses, immaturities, and insecurities in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
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Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime, computer animated, futuristic, exciting, epic, atmospheric, enigmatic, visually appealing, tense, 3d animation
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Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
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A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Alesia and goes missing in the nebula. Now, the battle-hardened troopers are charged with a rescue mission that may lead to a much more sinister consequence than they ever could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anime, computer animated, adult animation, sexy, futuristic, stylized, satirical, harsh, rough, serious