Movies Like Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
If you liked Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010), a thriller and animation movie directed by Susumu Kudo, 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: 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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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
★ 7.4/10Also action and animationIn 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 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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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: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and actionThe 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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Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and actionNaomi 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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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaCyborg 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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009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also action and dramaIn 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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PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015)
★ 7/10Also animation and actionIn 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: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and actionThe 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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Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaOne day, Koyomi Araragi encounters the horrifying vampire, Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade A.K.A. the "King of Apparitions." He saves the fatally wounded Kiss-shot by offering his blood at the expense of his…
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The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and actionThe story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet…
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Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also action and animationAmanda Waller's top-secret "Task Force X" — consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Copperhead — is on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they're…
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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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The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also action and animationTomoe Enjou is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Shiki Ryougi. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days later, there are still no broadcasts about the…
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Upgrade (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also action and thrillerA 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…
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Genocidal Organ (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and animationThe war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave…
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Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and thrillerRoss 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…