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Plot Summary:
A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, cyber, visually appealing, cyberpunk anime
Best tv shows and movies like Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D (2011):
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Darkside Blues (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, surreal
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Angel Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the late twentieth century, the Secret Security Force was formed to stop the actions of the communist terrorist group known as the Red May. Angel, a beautiful, yet cold woman, has recently joined the small anti-terrorist group. But her first mission will be a true test of skill, for members of the Red May are being found dead, murdered by gruesome methods. Who is causing these murders? And why? Written by Chuck "Dark-Side" Williamson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, manga, cyber, adult anime, bloody, controversial
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Silent Möbius (1991)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyber, cyberpunk anime
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Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (2012)
Plot Summary:
Third film of the Mardock Scramble series. Rune Balot goes to a casino connected to the October corporation to try to wrap up her case once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, bleak, humorous, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, sexy, enigmatic, atmospheric, melancholic, talky, stylized, tense, deep, cyber
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009 Re: Cyborg (2012)
Plot Summary:
009 Re:Cyborg follows a group of nine cyborgs, each of them created by a shadowy organization for use as weapons against humanity. The group turns on their creators to protect the population instead, using the powers given them to fight their creators.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Second film of the Mardock Scramble series. Balot and a severely injured Oeufcoque seem to be at the mercy of an obsessed Boiled. Dr. Easter comes to the rescue and the group escapes to "Paradise" where many secrets of Mardock lie and where Balot will need to come to a decision herself about what she will and can do.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: anime, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tech noir, cyber, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Pyrophoric Cult (2015)
Plot Summary:
Motoko and her squad are finally getting closer to Fire-Starter's broker, but things get tense when they're instructed to take a backseat role on a sting op. Part five of the OVA series, containing the materials developed for Alternative Architecture's final two episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, deep, inspirational, complex, cyberpunk anime
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8 Man After (1993)
Plot Summary:
A police officer that nearly meets a violent death is turned into a cyborg with superhuman strength, speed and reflexes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyber, adult anime
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My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
Plot Summary:
All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I Expo' convention that is currently being held on the island. During that time, suddenly, despite an iron wall of security surrounding the island, the system is breached by a villain, and the only ones able to stop him are the students of Class 1-A.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, exciting, suspense, humorous, manga, adult animation, shounen
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Silent Möbius 2 (1992)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother Katsumi wants nothing more to do with this horrible place known as Tokyo. Forced into staying an infuriated Katsumi returns to AMP HQ where chief Rally Cheyenne pleads with her to stay and join the team. However, her pleading falls on deaf ears as Katsumi exclaims that she wants nothing more to do with them, leaving to find another way home. Meanwhile the Demons taking over Tokyo begin their final move against humanity and the AMP. They realize that the key to opening their demon world lies within Katsumi. Her unwanted abilities mean everything to them and without her their plan would fail. The stage is set once again on the destroyed Tokyo Bay Bridge. Will Katsumi choose her destiny and defend her new found friend or will she fall to the weakness and despair within her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, the public is not aware of the threat that AI has towards the human race. A compilation film with newly added footage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Armitage III (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2046, a cop and his female android partner called Armitage, part of the latest android line known as "class III" models that look, act and feel human, investigate illegal manufacture of class III androids on colonized Mars.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, mecha, manga, cult classic, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost In The Shell: The New Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic Japan after the end of a brutal world war, science has advanced by leaps and bounds giving humanity the choice to prolong life and reduce suffering with the use of sophisticated cybernetics. With all of humanity linked into one system of minds and personalities known as ghosts, the biggest threat to civilization is the cyber terrorists capable of hijacking people's bodies and memories. When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source. As they delve deeper and deeper into their investigation, they uncover traces of government corruption and a shadowy broker that bears an all-too-familiar face. The film is a continuation to the plot of the Pyrophoric Cult episode of Arise, and ties up loose ends from that arc.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, futuristic, melancholic, computer animated, deep, adult anime, inspirational, complex, cyberpunk anime
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Appleseed (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, manga, cyber, adult anime, adult animation, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic, captivating, tense, psychological, cyber
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
Plot Summary:
The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection released by the terrorist "Fire Starter." An independent offensive unit led by Makoto Kusanagi entrusts the suppression of the situation to their ghosts and aims for their own justice. Below the surface of the incident, lies the "tin girl" Emma and the "scarecrow man" Burinda Junior. As Kusanagi deals with the incident, she draws near to what those two ghosts were seeking.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, philosophical, atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, deep, exciting, rough, serious
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "The Laughing Man" swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, and espionage leaving no known suspects. New information is revealed, as Section 9 enters the hunt for a suspect capable of unfathomable actions in this compilation of Stand Alone Complex content.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, stylized, deep, cyber, inspirational
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Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber, tense, captivating, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper (2013)
Plot Summary:
Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer Ishikawa and former air artillery expert Borma. Kusanagi also seeks to enlist ace sniper Saito and undercover cop Paz into the new Public Security Section 9.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful, deep, cyber, inspirational
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Armitage III: Polymatrix (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 counterpart. Among a numerous enhancements, for the film's 2.0 release, were a number of scenes were overhauled with 3D animation, visual improvements, and soundtrack rerecorded in 6.1 surround sound.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, stylized, philosophical, serious, futuristic, cyber
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Battle Angel Alita (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Hunter Warrior and cyborg healer named Ido formerly lived in the floating land of Zalem, the paradise that hovers above the refuse heap of Scrap Iron City in which he now resides with his former lover, Chiren. In his travels as a bounty hunter — killing spine thieves in a world in which human nerve tissue has become the most precious commodity — Ido one day discovers and repairs the remnants of a cyborg whom he names Gally. Though possessing the body of a young woman, Gally now embodies Ido's most sophisticated and lethal cybernetic skills. The preternaturally strong, amnesiac Gally begins to forge a life for herself in a world where every day is a struggle for survival. Based on the first two volumes of the manga.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, manga, cyber, rough, mind bending, mecha, seinen, bleak
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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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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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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Plot Summary:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. A quest for a killer that becomes a mind bending search for the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, anime, philosophical, cyber, atmospheric, enigmatic, surreal, psychological, bleak, serious
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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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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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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, cyber, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, stylized, philosophical, adult animation, psychological