Movies Like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

If you liked Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005), a science fiction and animation movie directed by Kenji Kamiyama, 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 action
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
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…
3
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…
4
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
★ 7.4/10Also action and animation
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: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013)
★ 7/10Also action and animation
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…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also action and animation
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…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
★ 7/10Also action and animation
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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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and animation
The world is at war. Lelouch Lamperouge, an exiled prince, encounters a strange girl known as C.C., who gifts him with a great power. With this ability, Lelouch can get anyone to do as he wills. But the power of Geass…
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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 fiction
Following 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…
10
PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
In 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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Battle Angel (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action
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…
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Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and science fiction
In the winter of 2117, a runaway vehicle crashes into the Public Safety Bureau Building. The driver is identified as Izumi Yasaka, a psychological counselor at the Sanctuary, a Latent Criminal Isolation Facility in…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also action and animation
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…
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Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
2112; the summer before Akane Tsunemori was assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department. Teppei Sugo, an accomplished pilot of the Defense Army's 15th Integrated Task Force…
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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…
16
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fiction
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 Principality of…
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EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
A highly experimental film presenting a story out of chronological order taking place 15 years after a near-apocalyptic catastrophe, about four traumatized 14 year olds who are tasked with piloting massive humanoid…
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Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Bowie, but then finds himself drawn into a complex struggle over the fate of a mysterious…
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Ghost in the Shell (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also action and animation
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…
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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…