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Plot Summary:
To rescue a famous criminal from imprisonment, Lupin and his team infiltrate the Kingdom of Dorrente. While the skillful thieves from around the world are gathering, Lupin tries to reveal the secret hidden in the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin the Third: The Mystery of the Hemingway Papers (1990)
Plot Summary:
A bloody civil war is the setting for Lupin's latest caper; the leader for one of the factions holds documents written by Earnest Hemingway and contain the location of a remarkable treasure. With Goemon and Jigen fighting on opposite sides of the war, Lupin must tackle this challenge alone. As the war rages on, can Lupin secure the treasure and keep Goemon and Jigen from killing each other?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, fast, detective
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Lupin the Third: Return of Pycal (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lupin steals an extraordinary gem from a Mediterranean party, only to be interrupted by Pycal, the trickster "magician" who had apparently died fighting Lupin early in his career. Pycal, now armed with real magical abilities, is determined to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi serious, humorous, realistic, anime, exciting, fast, detective
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Lupin the 3rd: The Elusiveness of the Fog (2007)
Plot Summary:
On the ocean floor, Lupin is once again seeking a treasure hoping to get on Fujiko's good side. As Zenigata chases them on sea and land, people around the gang begin to vanish mysteriously. The fog rolls in and Mamo Kyosuke appears in a burst of light; he claims to be from the future and seeks revenge on Lupin III for what Lupin XIII has done to him. Mamo hurls Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, and Zenigata 500 years into the past; as two warring factions fight over a legendary shrine dedicated to time travel, Lupin must find a way to survive the past to ensure his future.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, fast, detective
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Lupin the Third: Princess of the Breeze - Hidden City in the Sky (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in Shahalta, a tiny European city-state floating in the air with practically no contact with the outside world for years. The government is transitioning from a monarchy to a republic, and to celebrate the occasion, a national treasure exhibition is being held. Lupin infiltrates the exhibition for the secret royal treasures, but not before sky pirates snatch them first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, contemplative, detective, unusual plot structure
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Lupin the Third: Sweet Lost Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
Lupin scores a "magic lamp" and finds it does hold a genie. However, the stroke of 7PM strikes, and that is the last thing he remembers. Finding himself in Singapore, Lupin must battle his way past the forces of Colonel Garlic and discover the secret behind the lamp. But every time the clock strikes 7PM, his memory is wiped clean! How can Lupin piece together this puzzle, when he can't even remember what he is doing?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, semi serious, exciting, realistic, fast, detective
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Lupin III: The First (2019)
Plot Summary:
The iconic “gentleman thief” Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, witty, stylized, semi serious, 3d animation, detective, computer animated, manga
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Lupin the Third: Swallowtail Tattoo (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Bastille, France, the treasure of the Bourbon Dynasty was stacked in a truck and stolen. Thinking it was undoubtedly Lupin's doing, Zenigata and the French police pursue the truck. But, the criminal was actually an unheard-of woman. Then, the true Lupin appears. Lupin successfully steals the truckload of treasure from the woman but is then mysteriously kidnapped. Malchovich is the man who kidnapped Lupin. Fujiko is also caught and kept hostage while trying to steal the worldwide famous jewel "Bull's Eye". In order to rescue Fujiko, Lupin, along with reluctant Jigen and Goemon, tries to steal Bull's Eye from the Grand Bateau, the French museum renowned for having the greatest security in the world. Everything starts from here! Female thief Becky, scoundrel Malchovich, and Lupin... Ambition, human relations... Each secret becomes gradually clear during the scramble for the Bull's Eye. The series' highest spectacle romance unfolds, and France is the stage.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, fast, detective
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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: Goodbye Partner (2019)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Zenigata is arrested, and the press claims he was the true mastermind behind all of Lupin’s notorious heists! It doesn’t take long for Lupin’s pride to get the better of him, and wealthy magnate Roy Forest manipulates him into accepting a new challenge: stealing the "Time Crystal" within a week. The Time Crystal is a government secret gone public: a super-computer engine that can decrypt secure passwords faster than ever thought possible. But why is Jigen acting so strangely lately? What has be come of the young piano prodigy who was recently kidnapped? And what's the strange connection between them all?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, witty, stylized, semi serious, detective, manga
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Lupin the Third: Fujiko's Lie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fujiko Mine, the devastating femme fatale whose only loyalty is to her desire, befriends a young boy whose late father hid away a fortune. A killer is on the boy's trail and it's up to Fujiko to stop him: but where do her interests really lie? Fujiko faces her greatest enemy in this twist filled followup to "Jigen's Gravestone" and "Goemon's Blood Spray.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, detective, manga
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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 the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (2012)
Plot Summary:
She's a thief. A killer. A saint and a scandal. She's whatever you need her to be to get the job done. She's Fujiko Mine, the slinky, sultry thread that holds Lupin III's crew together -- and this is the heist that started it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, detective, ecchi
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Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three statues hold the key to finding the eight billion dollar treasure of Harimao. Having acquired one of the statues, Lupin finds himself an unlikely ally of retired British agent Lord Archer and his granddaughter Diana. Only Archer knows where to find the remaining figure, but the Neo-Himmel group seeks the treasure to fund their own plans. Who will claim the riches of Harimao?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin III: The Gold of Babylon (1985)
Plot Summary:
In New York City, several stone tablets have been unearthed that tell a tale about the Gold of Babylon. Two Mafia families are after it as well as Lupin the 3rd himself. An old drunken woman named Rosetta appears to know much about this treasure than meets the eye. While Zenigata has made a group of female partners that will lure Lupin the 3rd into handcuffs, the race is on for the gold of Babel.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, detective
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Lupin the III: Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~ (2011)
Plot Summary:
A pair of jewels hold the secret to an even greater treasure, but there are so many obstacles in Lupin's way. The smallest one is Maki, a precocious fourteen year old girl who wants Lupin to teach her to be a thief. But what is her tie to the treasure and the mysterious girl Misa, a girl who cannot die? The secrets behind the treasure reach back even into Lupin's past; will the Blood Seal be opened?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspense, captivating, contemplative, detective, unusual plot structure
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Lupin the Third: The Legend of Twilight Gemini (1996)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it that the Twilight diamond is the key to a Moroccan treasure of immeasurable value. So when the international thief Lupin is given the Twilight in an act of faith, it's off to Morocco! But what started out as a simple in and out job turns into chaos the moment Lupin steps off the train! Fighting factions, masked assassins, secret underground sects, a whip-yielding psychopath, corrupt cops, and the always determined Inspector Zenigata... they're all after Lupin. And they won't stop until he's caught or killed. Join Lupin, Jigen, Fujiko, and Goemon in another rousing adventure where nothing is what it seems to be... and the treasure is always just around the corner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar (2000)
Plot Summary:
In New York City, an auction is being held, where numerous valuables are being bidded. One of the items was an ordinary ring which is more valuable than it looks. Lupin tries to bid on it, but was out bid by a dollar. So he steals it instead and makes a getaway. but only to find himself greeted by a group of mercenaries who are working for the person who out bid Lupin. Lupin gave them the ring as he was told, and got away from their firing guns. Lupin decides to gather up his friends to check out who outbid him at the auction. The one who outbid Lupin, is Cynthia, head of "Bank of the World" one of the largest and recently new banks. She has plans of her own on the ring, as it has the secrets of the location of a broach, that's said to give those who hold it, world domination.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, stylized, exciting, realistic, semi serious, 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 III: Voyage to Danger (1993)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Zenigata has been removed from the Lupin case which leaves him despondent, and he ends up drinking with Lupin & Jigen. Lupin decides that he and his gang should work with Zenigata to solve his new case, investigating a group of arms dealers known as Shot Shell. Lupin gathers his partners together (Jigen, Goemon, & Fujiko), and with Zenegata they steal a Russian submarine. They kidnap a scientist named Karen Korinsky to help them operate the sub, and also to protect her from Shot Shell. Meanwhile the ICPO assigns a man named Keith Hayden to the Lupin case, and unlike Zenigata he wants Lupin and his group dead. Where ever Lupin and friends go, Keith follows, as the officer attempts to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, epic, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin III: Part V (2018)
Plot Summary:
The master thief Arsene Lupin III arrives in his ancestral homeland of France, where he has new adventures and contends with new enemies.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, light, humorous, captivating, tense, stylized, detective
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Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (1978)
Plot Summary:
In Transylvania, Lupin III, the notorious international thief, is hung and no one is more suprised to learn of that than Lupin III himself, who was alive and well and nowhere near that area at that time. The answer to that mystery, begins to surface when Lupin gets a seemingly ordinary pebble from an Egyptian pyramid for his would-be girlfriend, Fujiko, the mercenary thief, who is in the employ of a mysterious figure known only as Mamo. Intrigued by this bizarre request, Lupin decides to get involved and finds himself in an international chase that has a greater scope and danger than he has ever faced.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, exciting, humorous, witty, semi serious, adult animation, 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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Lupin the Third Bye Bye, Lady Liberty (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this adventure, Lupin III tries to erase the files about him in the world police network. He finds out about the Ultravirus, a computer virus that controls all others and its location is only known by a little kid. Meanwhile, he steals the Statue of Liberty to look for a diamond the size of a football that is said to be hidden somewhere in it. Apparently, the diamond and the ultravirus are somehow related.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin the Third: The Last Job (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lupin begins his heist of stealing a newly-discovered Japanese cultural treasure being transported in Germany. During his attempt to steal the treasure, however, he witness the always-ambitous Zenigata's supposed "death," a plan hatched by a ninja clan who are also after the treasure. Can Lupin and his friends prevent the ninja clan from obtaining what they seek?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, fast, detective
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Lupin the Third (1971)
Plot Summary:
Arsene Lupin III is the grandson of the master thief Arsene Lupin. With his cohorts Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, manga, exciting, humorous, witty, stylized, semi serious, detective, vintage
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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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Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Conan Edogawa sets out to apprehend Lupin the Third, the suspect of stealing a jewel called Cherry Sapphire. A sequel to the TV special “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan” (2009).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, hilarious, detective, manga, 2d animation
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Lupin III, Part III (1984)
Plot Summary:
This animated series follows the adventures of the legendary thief, Lupin III, grandson of the famed literary character, Arsenne Lupin. Lupin travels the world with his partners Daisuke and Goemon, seeking out greater challenges to overcome and greater prizes to steal. Along the way, they are pursued by the relentless but somewhat bumbling Inspector Zenigata, who always finds himself just a little too late to catch the thieves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective