Movies Like Ghost in the Shell: Virtual Reality Diver

If you liked Ghost in the Shell: Virtual Reality Diver (2017), a action and adventure movie directed by Hiroaki Higashi, 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 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'.
2
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…
3
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and 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…
4
Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and action
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.
5
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…
6
Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and science fiction
Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have…
7
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…
8
Appleseed (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and animation
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
9
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…
10
Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and action
As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos are deployed anywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting…
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.
12
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…
13
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…
14
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…
15
The Signal (2014)
★ 6/10Also thriller and science fiction
On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness – only to find himself in a waking nightmare.
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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…
17
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…
18
Mad God (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the…
19
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 (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.