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Plot Summary:
The Dezalg have returned with a new, horrible weapon and unleashed it on Megazone 23's defenses. Believing their salvation is also in new weapons, B.D. is again bent on breaking the EVE's final protection level.Full control of Megazone 23 would mean unfettered weapons development. Shogo, meanwhile, has tried to return to a 'normal' life; Hanging out with his biker gang, "Trash" and his girlfriend, Yui. But, his convictions about the Megazone's shadow government policies haven't changed and when EVE calls for his help, he discovers where the Garland bike has been hidden. It's showdown time for Shogo and B.D., Trash and the military, as well as the Dezalg and Megazone. However, EVE's final secret, A.D.A.M., may mean no one will survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Robotech: The Movie (1986)
Plot Summary:
Robotech: The Movie, also called Robotech: The Untold Story, was the first new Robotech adventure created by Harmony Gold USA after the 1985 premiere of the original television series. The 1986 theatrical film used footage from part one of Megazone 23 spliced with The Southern Cross and had only a tenuous link to the television series.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Animation, Action, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, crying, independent film, cyberpunk anime, cult film
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Megazone 23 (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyber, crying, cyberpunk anime, cult film
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Locke the Superman: Witch Era (1984)
Plot Summary:
The chronicle of the space age written through a certain immortal psionics's activity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, cult classic
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Plastic Little: The Adventures of Captain Tita (1994)
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Narrowly escaping the clutches of Lord Guizei and his band of professional killers, Elysse Mordish is on the run and in possession of a vital computer code needed by the military to reactivate a high-powered secret weapon. Enter Tita, intergalactic pet shop hunter and captain of the Cha Cha Maru. Through shear dumb luck she finds herself rescuing Elysse from military hunters thus putting the lives of both herself and her crew in mortal peril! It's a dangerous game of cat and mouse on a planet-wide scale with one crucial difference... mice don't shoot back, but Tita does!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Gall Force: Eternal Story (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.
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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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: The Empty Battlefield (2004)
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The economic gap widens between the affluent, technologically advanced, hybrid Coordinators and the simple Earth Alliance known as the Naturals; the rift, unsurprisingly, has driven them apart in the 70th year of the Cosmic times. In an effort to bridge the chasm between them and the Coordinators, the Naturals have built five Gundam warriors that they hope will serve as their potent weapons. But will their plan work?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, fable
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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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Plot Summary:
After Char's rebellion, Hathaway Noa leads an insurgency against Earth Federation, but meeting an enemy officer and a mysterious woman alters his fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Silent Möbius (1991)
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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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Vampire Wars (1990)
Plot Summary:
The rural American west is the setting for this OVA, in which a bizarre and brutal attack on a NASA base in Arizona attracts the attention of a French secret service agent, Monsieur Lassar, when a dead CIA agent is found floating on the Seine in Paris. Lassar is convinced that these two events are related, and sets out to prove it. His investigation leads him to film star Lamia Vindaw and a vampire cult that may be far more vicious and dangerous than its eccentric exterior makes it seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, adult animation
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Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the planet for years. He finds it in Ryu, a young wanderer who never stays in one place long enough for Bison to find him. He does, however, get a fix on Ken Masters, an American martial arts champion who studied with Ryu as a child under the same master. Meanwhile, Major Guile of the United States Army is forced to team up with Chun Li from China in hopes of apprehending Bison and putting a stop his international ring of crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, epic, manga, shounen, exciting, semi serious, tense, light, clever
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Lily C.A.T. (1987)
Plot Summary:
A captain and his crew travel across the universe in a ship that can travel for 20 years while the crew will age only 1 year. Soon the crew realizes that a criminal is onboard who is hoping to escape civilization. The crew must find who the criminal is, and find the source of a deadly virus that is destroying them one by one.
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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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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A Wind Named Amnesia (1990)
Plot Summary:
A wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later a young man who has been re-educated travels across America on a mysterious journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic, adult animation, manga, meditative, esoteric, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Battle Royal High School (1987)
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When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samurai, interplanetary law enforcement, and even his own traitorous demon minions. Well animated fight scenes ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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Megazone 23 III (1989)
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Years after the events of Megazone 23 II, the only city on Earth is the supposedly idyllic Eden. There lives Eiji Takanaka, a B Level hacker who has just been accepted into EX, the organization that controls Eden. However, before his first day on the job, he becomes embroiled in a network war, a legendary figure named EVE, and a plot to re-inhabit the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, cyberpunk anime
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Devilman Volume 3: Devilman Apocalyps (2000)
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Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing. Amidst the growing tensions, tragedy strikes Akira causing his mind to snap, retreating into his subconscious, allowing his Devilish alter-ego Amon to break free from Akira's cage of flesh and wreak havoc on both human and demons alike.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, ecchi
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M.D. Geist (1986)
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Geist (the main character) is MD-02, a Most Dangerous Soldier, genetically engineered to function as a killing machine, but every one of the MDS units went homicidally insane. As a result Geist was placed in suspended animation in a stasis pod orbiting the planet Jerra until it crashed several years later, awakening him and bringing him into another war on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, adult anime
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Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon (the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth) has sparked a war.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
Plot Summary:
Kyoya's father was a great warrior, killed at the hands of the diabolical psychic, Rebi Ra, who has now opened a portal to hell in the city of Shinjuku. It falls to Kyoya to finish what his father started and battle his way through demons, while protecting a young woman from harm. The only problem is that he's not exactly your classic hero type, and his powers are still latent.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult anime, adult animation, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, ecchi, weird, 2d animation
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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
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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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
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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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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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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Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Plot Summary:
The fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, manga, postmodern, entertaining
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Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report (1994)
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When the Spirit World is flooded due to an unusual rainfall which overflows the River Sanzu (aka the River Styx), Lord Koenma senses an extremely powerful enemy. He entrusts Death God Botan, to deliver to Spirit Detective Yusuke, a mysterious item which must be protected from the invading enemy. However, by the time Botan finds Yusuke, she's too weak to explain the situation. Yusuke and his friends are left in the dark about the new enemy, but not for long. Soon it is a battle for Earth between mere Spirit Detectives and the almighty king of the Netherworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, semi serious, juvenile, shounen
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Armitage III: Polymatrix (1996)
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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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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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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Plot Summary:
The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding the series, while also opening up some new possibilities.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal, cult classic, adult animation, existential, mindfuck, atmospheric