Movies Like Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War
If you liked Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021), a animation and action movie directed by Shinji Aramaki and 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: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and animationThe 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: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fictionThe 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…
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EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fictionA 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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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 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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Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and science fictionRescued 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…
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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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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and actionRune 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…
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PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fictionIn 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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Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fictionAmuro 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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Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and science fictionOn 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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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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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fictionOriginally 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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Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fictionCobra, 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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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and animationThe 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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Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie (2020)
★ 7/10Also animation and actionThe assassin Deathstroke tries to save his family from the wrath of H.I.V.E. and the murderous Jackal.
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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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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also action and animationPosing 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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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fictionCyborg 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…