Movies Like Appleseed: Ex Machina

If you liked Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007), a animation and action movie directed by Shinji Aramaki, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action
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…
2
009 Re:Cyborg (2012)
★ 7/10Also action and animation
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…
3
Appleseed Alpha (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
The Third World War (2099–2126) devastated part of the Earth. Former nations are reforming while new powers emerge, and groups of humans struggle to survive in ruined cities. The story follows Deunan Knute and her…
4
Appleseed (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action
In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, 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…
5
Appleseed (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and science fiction
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
6
Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (1992)
★ 6.5/10Also action and animation
Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.
7
Megazone 23 (1985)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and action
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
8
Akira (1988)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and science fiction
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
9
Metropia (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and science fiction
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the…
10
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and science fiction
When the Punisher takes out a black-market weapons dealer, he stumbles upon a far-reaching terrorist plot devised by a group known as Leviathan.
11
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and action
In a society devastated by the effects of an all-out war between heroes and villains, a mysterious giant fortress suddenly appears, engulfing towns and people one after another. Then, a man reminiscent of All Might…
12
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and action
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
13
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and action
Six delinquents are tasked with cleaning a train as part of a community service program. But when the train suddenly takes off, chaos ensues.
14
The Animatrix (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and science fiction
Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of…
15
BLAME! (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also action and science fiction
In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure…
16
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2: The Wyvern Divided (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also action and animation
The war between Euro Britannia and the European Union continues. New orders are given to the W-0 Unit. To land in the middle of the enemy territory as a diversion. The pilots of the W-0 Unit consist only of the…
17
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3: The Brightness Falls (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also action and animation
After discovering the face of their true enemy, someone who is related to Akito and responsible for the Geass placed upon him, W-0 attempts to return to their base at Castle Weisswolf. However, stranded in Warsaw due…
18
Gintama: The Movie (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also action and science fiction
Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term "Odd Jobs" means REALLY ODD jobs. But…
19
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and science fiction
Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari…
20
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and animation
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…