Best movies like Lupin the Third: Is Lupin Still Burning?
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Plot Summary:
A memorial anime episode to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Monkey Punch's Lupin the Third manga series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Detective School Q (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story began in a classroom of a middle school. Our main character, Kyu, when called by the guidance counselor, declared that he wanted to be a detective. He took the entrance exam to Dan Detective School where talented people from the whole country gather. He passed the difficult entrance exam for the so-called "Q class" (Q = qualified), which is personally instructed by the founder and head master of the school, the legendary famous detective, Dan Morihiko. There he got to know Minami Megumi (Meg) with her photographic memory ability, Touyama Kintarou (Kinta) - the descendant of "Kin-san" from Touyama, Narusawa Kazuma (Kazuma) - a genius programmer, and Amakusa Ryu (Ryu) - the weird Todai (Tokyo University) student. The five of them work together, as well as competing each other, heading towards graduation.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, detective
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Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004)
Plot Summary:
Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple is an anime television series that adapted several Agatha Christie stories about Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. A new character named Mabel West, Miss Marple's great-niece, who becomes Poirot's junior assistant, is used to connect the two detectives. The series was broadcast from 4 July 2004 to 15 May 2005 on NHK, and continues to be shown in re-runs on NHK and other networks in Japan. The series was adapted as manga under the same title, which was released in 2004 and 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Black Butler: Book of Murder (2014)
Plot Summary:
At the Queen’s request, Ciel and the demon butler Sebastian host an extravagant dinner party for the who’s who of the London underground. But an evening that begins with the promise of unmatched elegance quickly spirals into mayhem when their most distinguished guest is found murdered in his room. Now, trapped in the Phantomhive Manor by a dark and stormy night, Ciel and Sebastian must work together with their high-class guests, including the legendary author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to find the murderer in their midst before the blame falls on the host and his somewhat suspicious staff.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals (2002)
Plot Summary:
As the Straw Hat Pirates sail through the Grand Line.A line of geysers erupted from under the Going Merry. And the whole crew find themselves flying over the island. Unfortunatly, Chopper fell off the ship and was separated from his friends. Luffy and the others landed on the other side of the island. Chopper meanwhile finds himself being worshiped as the island's new king by the animals. To make matters worse, a trio of human "horn" hunters are on the island. The leader, Count Butler is a violin playing/horn eating human who wants to eat the island's treasure to inherit immense power. Will Luffy & the rest be able to prevent the count from terrorizing the island? And will they be able to convince Momambi that not all pirates are bad?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History (2014)
Plot Summary:
After slipping in a bath house, Conan appears to have lost his memory. Worse yet, it looks like he will be used in a hit job.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small (2016)
Plot Summary:
The "Detective Conan" TV special is a retelling of the first and part of the second episode of the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, detective, shounen
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Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bombing case at Nichiuri TV in autumn. The Satsuki Cup, which crowns the winner of Japan's Hyakunin Isshu, is currently being filmed inside the facility. The incident results in a big commotion and, while the building is burning to ashes, the only people left inside are Hattori and Toyama Kazuha. They get rescued just in time by Conan , who rushes to the scene. Both the identity and purposes of the bomber are unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, captivating, humorous, serious, detective, shounen, twisted, 2d animation
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Detective Conan: The Sniper from Another Dimension (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vicious sniper has appeared in Tokyo, rendering the people too scared to go outside, once again it's up to Conan to figure out the meaning behind the killings and capture the mysterious sniper before more lives are lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, light, feel good, humorous, detective, 2d animation
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Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer (2018)
Plot Summary:
There is a sudden explosion at Tokyo Summit's giant Edge of Ocean facility. The shadow of Tōru Amuro, who works for the National Police Agency Security Bureau as Zero, appears at the site. In addition, the "triple-face" character is known as Rei Furuya as a detective and Kogorō Mōri's apprentice, and he is also known as Bourbon as a Black Organization member. Kogorō is arrested as a suspect in the case of the explosion. Conan conducts an investigation to prove Kogorō's innocence, but Amuro gets in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, neorealism, detective, twisted, 2d animation
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Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a dark night, the Japanese police is raided by a spy. Different countries' intelligence agencies - such as England's MI6, Germany's BDN, and America's CIA - as well as the FBI's secret files are going to be taken, but public safety officers lead by Tooru Amuro arrive just in time. The spy steals a car and escapes. The spy and Amuro are then locked in a dead heat on the highway, and just as it is about to cause an accident with multiple cars, the spy's car is hit by FBI agent Shuichi Akai's rifle bullet and falls of the roadway. The next day, Conan and his friends go to a newly-remodeled aquarium in Tokyo. Under the main attraction, a Ferris wheel, Conan finds an attractive woman alone and injured. Her left and right eyes are different colors.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, serious, rough, humorous, captivating, 2d animation
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Lupin the Third: Seven Days Rhapsody (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a successful heist at the race track, Lupin has his sights set on a valuable diamond set to be displayed in seven days. His plan is complicated when he saves a young girl named Michelle from a group of thugs. Michelle's father is very rich and connected to the diamond; her father also enlists an old mercenary friend of Jigen to persuade Jigen to work for him. Goemon has also been hired by Fujiko to assist her in her own plans for the diamond. With no one to turn to and double-crosses galore, can Lupin pull things together in a week?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic, fast, detective
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Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics (2005)
Plot Summary:
Stolen from the famous "secret" Air Force base, Area 51, Lupin's most recently stolen treasure holds a secret. Four "Bloody Angels," the toughest women Lupin has ever faced, want the treasure for their own terrorist purposes. Meanwhile Zenigata teams up with a female police officer to hunt Lupin and the terrorists down.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, semi serious, exciting, realistic, fast, detective
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Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy (1987)
Plot Summary:
Goemon's wedding to Murasaki Inabe, daughter of a samurai clan's leader, is interrupted when the Fuma ninjas attack, kidnapping the bride-to-be and demanding her family's ancient treasure as ransom. Lupin, Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko work together once again to try to save Murasaki and get to the treasure before the Fuma can steal it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, detective
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Lupin the Third: From Russia with Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lupin III along with his gang want to steal the lost treasure of the Romanov Royal family, this treasure is an immense quantity of gold hide underground in the United States behind the placement of a corrupt bank. But to have the gold, Lupin and his friends will have to fight for it with the mysterious and powerful monk Rasputin. Also Lupin again will have to elude the inspector Zenigata who will follow Lupin's trail and try to put him in jail.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, fast, detective
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Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (2021)
Plot Summary:
The peaceful days of the very popular work Bungou Stray Dogs are here. The characters of the Armed Detective Agency and the Mafia are in miniature form?! Due to Atsushi and co. becoming cute, this is a different experience to the original work—a pleasant gag manga!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! Operation Golden Spy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A girl named Lemon arrives with a message for Shinnosuke, and he starts training as an action spy. But can he foil double agents and secret plots?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ousai Academy was originally an all-girls high school. Due to the declining birth rates in recent years, it was converted into a co-ed school. The first year male students would find themselves surrounded by girls and unfortunately, Tsuda Takatoshi is one of them. What's worse, he gets scolded on his first day by the student council president Shino Amakusa, which did not give a good first impression of him. Tsuda also meets the other student council members while getting scolded, and in the end, he gets late for class. As an apology for ruining his morning, Shino lets him join the student council for various of "reasons" and he accepts it, or rather, he's forced to accept. Thus begins his days as Tsuda soon realizes that he's the only normal student in Ousai Academy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi
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Dicktown (2020)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Richardsville, NC (aka DICKTOWN to the locals), its famous boy detective, John Hunchman, and his hired muscle, David Purefoy. Except they're not boys any more and while they're still detectives, they still only solve crimes for teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, anime, buddy comedy, 2d animation
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ID: INVADED (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that invades a person’s identity. Little by little, a trail of blood forms, and it all leads back to his daughter’s murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, detective, psychological thriller
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DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon (2017)
Plot Summary:
Joker has come to Japan to steal the Eagle Talon Society's secret weapons in his continued scheme for pure chaos. However, the Justice League is on his trail, but there's something off with Batman. Now, it's up to Eagle Talon to go find out what's wrong with Batman, and that means going back in time to Bruce Wayne's most traumatic experience, the murder of his parents. If that wasn't enough to worry about, the Eagle Talon Society also have to keep their eyes on their production budget, especially with most of that money going towards the licensing fee for DC's popular characters. Will the Eagle Talon Society and the Justice League be able to stop the Joker before their budget dries up, and they're reduced to simple stick figures!?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: parody, anime, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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King Tweety (2022)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's favorite yellow canary unexpectedly becomes next in line for the crown when the queen of an island paradise disappears. His Little Highness’ entourage includes motorbike daredevil Granny and sly Sylvester, whose allegiance is tested when he uncovers a sinister plot to eliminate Tweety for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Shin-chan and his friends must overcome hunger and other obstacles when they're tasked with delivering a barrel of legendary sauce to a food festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021)
Plot Summary:
With Mystery, Inc. on the tail of a strange object in Nowhere, Kansas, the strange hometown of Eustice, Muriel, and Courage, the gang soon find themselves contending with a giant cicada monster and her winged warriors.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, 2d animation
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Crayon Shin-chan: My Moving Story! Cactus Large Attack! (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Noharas must survive a hoard of man-eating killer cacti after Shin-chan's father relocates the family to Mexico for work.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Lupin the 3rd: Napoleon's Dictionary (1991)
Plot Summary:
While Lupin does enjoy racing for the sport of it, the prize in an antique car grand prix across Europe is Lupin's only goal. The prize is a dictionary that once belonged to Napoleon. More importantly, the dictionary was also once owned by Lupin's family and contains the location of one of his family's most prized possessions. Lupin does not know what the possession is, but it is a matter of family pride. With the usual suspects on his trail, can Lupin outrace everyone to the treasure?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, fast, detective
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Lupin the Third: Record of Observations of the East - Another Page (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lupin has become a suspect in the murder of a professor named Theo Argent. The professor had just discovered the missing page of Marco Polo's Record of Observations of the East travel journal. As Lupin is being pursued by the police, he ends up getting unlikely help from the granddaughter of Theo Argent, Lisa.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure (2003)
Plot Summary:
After robbing a Moscow casino right under Zenigata's nose, Lupin sets his sights on stealing the Trick Diamond. He and Jigen head to the estate of the recently deceased Mark Williams, another master thief who's had the diamond, as well as other treasures, in his possession for years. However, instead of finding the diamond, Lupin & Jigen find Fujiko, who tells them about Mark's dying wish - Lupin must return all the treasures the old thief stole to their rightful place. If this is done in time, the location of the diamond will be revealed, and Lupin can use it to get the real treasure, hidden in Gaudí's Sagrada Familia. Returning the stolen goods isn't easy though, as Zenigata and the casino boss' ruthless gang are on Lupin and friends' tail.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, semi serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, fast, detective
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Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno (2015)
Plot Summary:
Conan tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly steals a replica of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, detective, 2d animation
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Kevin Smith: Smodimations (2011)
Plot Summary:
SmodCo Animations gathered in one big collection. (With excerpts from SModcast.com’s own Hollywood Babble-On and Jay & Silent Bob Get Old!).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical