Movies Like Ghost in the Shell 2.0
If you liked Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008), a action and animation movie directed by Mamoru Oshii, 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.
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Ghost in the Shell (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also action and animationIn the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also action and animationThe 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…
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fictionCyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013)
★ 7/10Also action and animationFreed 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…
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Battle Angel (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and actionIn his travels as a bounty hunter, Hunter–Warrior and cyborg healer 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…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also action and animationPosing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
★ 7/10Also action and animationThe 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…
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PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fictionIn a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. When the state of SEAUn brings the Sibyl System in to test its effectiveness, it becomes a haven of peace and safety—for a time. Eventually…
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and actionIn 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…
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009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fictionIn a universe where the Cold War never ended and growing conflicts result in the rapid advancement of technological warfare, the cyborg spy Mylene Hoffman of the 00 Organization battles the agents of the Eastern block…
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and animationThe 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…
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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and actionRune 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…
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Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and science fictionRescued by Doctor Easter from a deadly assault on their headquarters by Dimsdale Boiled, Rune Balot finds temporary shelter in "Paradise," a high-tech laboratory where the Scramble 09 protocol originated. While the…
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fictionThe year is 2030, and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the "Individual Eleven." With a sadistic intent of mass destruction, will they triumph in…
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Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also action and animationNaomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.
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Psycho-Pass: Providence (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and crimeWhile attending a meeting as a Chief Inspector of the Public Security Bureau, Akane Tsunemori received a report that an incident had occurred on a foreign vessel , and this was the beginning of a big and unexpected case.
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Chappie (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and actionEvery child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he…
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Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and science fictionOn the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.
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Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fictionFollowing the incident in the Southeast Asia Union in 2116, Shinya Kogami resumes his vagrant journey. In a small South Asian nation, Kogami rescues a bus of refugees under attack by armed guerrilla forces. Among the…
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Upgrade (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also action and science fictionA brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now…