Movies Like The Ghost in the Shell

If you liked The Ghost in the Shell (2026), a animation and science fiction movie directed by Mokochan and Toru Hasutani, 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: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
In 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…
2
Battle Angel (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
In 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…
3
Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and science fiction
Rescued 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…
4
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
The 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…
5
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fiction
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fiction
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…
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fiction
The 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…
8
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and science fiction
In 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…
9
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fiction
Cyborg 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 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
Posing 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…
11
Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and science fiction
On 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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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also animation
Rune 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…
13
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
Freed 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…
14
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and animation
The 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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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
The 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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009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
In 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…
17
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and science fiction
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide…
18
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.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fiction
Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production…
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Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and science fiction
Naomi 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.