Movies Like Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Special Edition I - The Empty Battlefield

If you liked Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Special Edition I - The Empty Battlefield (2023), a animation and science fiction movie directed by Mitsuo Fukuda, 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
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…
2
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…
3
Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
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…
4
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and science fiction
After surviving 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…
5
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…
6
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…
7
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and science fiction
Twelve years after Char's rebellion, Hathaway Noa leads an insurgency against Earth Federation, but meeting an enemy officer and a mysterious woman alters his fate.
8
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…
9
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and science fiction
The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan. He gave up his life to save the world and protect the ones he loved. The day Lelouch vi Brittannia fell was the day this war-torn world found…
10
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…
11
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.
12
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…
13
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and science fiction
After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion…
14
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…
15
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…
16
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and science fiction
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life…
17
Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom (2015)
★ 8.2/10Also animation
As the Trost District is reclaimed from the Titans, Eren is taken under the wing of Captain Levi and his squad, who decide to try and teach him to master his mysterious abilities.
18
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their…
19
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…
20
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie (2020)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
The assassin Deathstroke tries to save his family from the wrath of H.I.V.E. and the murderous Jackal.