Movies like Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Original name: カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. Villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One, releasing a deadly virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger, even more devastating biochemical attack, an astronomical reward is offered for the arrest and capture of the person behind the destruction. On the space ship "Bebop," Spike Spiegel and his crew of bounty hunters (Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed and Ein) are bored and short of cash. But with the news of the reward, everything changes....
Style: anime, adult anime, atmospheric, witty, adult animation, exciting, surreal, manga, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mars, terrorism, space opera, chase, outer space, bounty hunter, revenge, martial arts, danger, terrorist, gang, partner, heroic mission, escapades, rivalry, reward, fight, police, gunfight, city, jazz, dialogue, violence, mature, terror ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, space western, asia, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, stylized, serious and suspenseful films with plots about danger, heroes, violence, fight, rivalry, escapades and superhero mostly in Animation, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Cowboy Bebop: The Movie: Cowboy Bebop (1998), Akira (1988), Perfect Blue (1997), Gantz: O (2016), Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cowboy Bebop (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada, Poland
Duration: 650 min.
TV show
Story: In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police ...
Style: anime, futuristic, exciting, neo noir, serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: bounty hunter, friendship, jazz, outer space, buddies, unlikely partners, space travel, chases and races, spaceship, fighting crime, dark past, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: space western
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100%
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: depression, loneliness, violence, insanity, philosophy, infiltration, existentialism, death, end of the world, post apocalypse, angel, high school ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style: anime, surreal, futuristic, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, experiment, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, distopia, psychic power, protest, post apocalyptic, military, post thermonuclear war, hallucination, motorcycle ...
Time: future, 2010s, distant future, year 1988, year 2019 ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Perfect Blue (1997)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style: surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, serial killer, mentally unstable, stalking, obsession, actor's life, actress, twists and turns, psychopath, rape, losing-it hero, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Gantz: O (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill ...
Style: anime, 3d animation, surreal, manga, perverse ...
Plot: good versus evil, monster, human versus monster, game, alien encounter, violence, giant monster, heroes, evil alien, katana, resurrection, teleportation ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, osaka japan
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100%
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Style: stylized, bleak, atmospheric, talky, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens, toddlers
Plot: batman, superhero, vigilantism, comic book, revenge, good versus evil, gang, heroic mission, mortal combat, comeback, middle aged, undercover ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and ...
Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: samurai, vengeance, sword fight, martial arts, master warrior, supernatural, mortal combat, justice, ninja, dark hero, brutality, violence ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a quicksand surrounded town called Makka, rumors spread of a legendary robber named Gasback is after the town. To protect it, Mayor Kepler has hired bounty hunters. These hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of getting ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: thief, bounty hunter, danger, heroes, criminal heroes, notoriety, gossip and rumors, reward, robbery, fear, father daughter relationship, gunfight ...
Place: japan, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a ...
Style: gothic, anime, atmospheric, serious, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, gory, danger, master warrior, bounty hunter, blood, violent content, obsessive quest, true love, half breed, missing person ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
B: The Beginning (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In a world powered by advanced technology, crime and action unfold in the archipelagic nation of Cremona. Genius investigator Keith Flick rejoins the royal police force just as serial killer "B" emerges. Mysterious youth Koku may be an ...
Style: anime, suspense, exciting, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: brainwashing, police, investigation, revenge, supernatural, danger, violence, society, secret organization, anti hero, shape shifting, buddhist temple ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ninja Scroll (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold... or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a hideous plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways and ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, sexy, adult anime ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, ninja, transformation, good versus evil, demon, ninja warrior, supernatural, graphic violence, master warrior, duel, sword fight ...
Time: middle ages, 1800s, ancient times
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 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'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 ...
Style: anime, exciting, rough, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, anti heroine, female spy, hacker, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, female warrior, ghost in the shell, terrorism, woman fights a man, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
Style: suspense, epic, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, batman, comic book, villain, distopia, fighting crime, heroes, imaginary, good versus evil, rivalry, master villain, protector ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, drug abuse, trippy, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, addiction, dystopia, dystopian future, society, fighting crime, consciousness, drug ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place: california, texas, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Appleseed (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
Style: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyber, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, utopia, androids and robots, computer, terrorism, post apocalypse, superhero, distopia, transcendence, hacker, badass female lead, computer hacker ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Superman: Doomsday (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When LexCorps accidentally unleash a murderous creature, Doomsday, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s
Style: intense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, anime ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: superhero, double life, good versus evil, danger, superman, mad scientist, secret identity, cloning, superpower, comic book, crime wave, heroic mission ...
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20%
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji's objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the ...
Style: mecha, anime, atmospheric, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, chaos, angel, battles, save the world, supernatural, female warrior, parent child relationship, imaginary, man versus machine, heroes, danger ...
Time: near future
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Professional: Golgo 13 (1983)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to women, the professional assassin codenamed Golgo 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. If you're on his hit list, you're already dead. Always hired on his reputation alone, Golgo never ...
Style: anime, manga, bloody, cult classic, mecha ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, female nudity, fbi, twins, professional killer, smoking, assassin, sadomasochism, gangster, obsession, undercover ...
Time: post world war two, 80s
Place: new york, sicily, usa, europe, pentagon ...
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19%
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Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Style: anime, mecha, manga, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future, near future
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An old flame of Bruce Wayne's strolls into town, re-heating up the romance between the two. At the same time, a mass murderer with an axe for one hand begins systematically eliminating Gotham's crime bosses. Due to the person's dark ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, intense, talky, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, batman, organized crime, murder, good versus evil, vengeance, vigilante, brutality, betrayal, justice, fighting crime, old love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Outlaw Star (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Japan
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Story: Outlaw Star follows the outlaw Gene Starwind and his eleven year-old business associate, Jim Hawking. Together they run a small jack-of-all-trades business on the backwater planet Sentinel III. After the two take a job as bodyguards for a mysterious ...
Style: anime, seinen, fast, semi serious, exciting ...
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Time: future, 21st century
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19%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka ...
Style: mecha, anime, atmospheric, intense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
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Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Memories (1995)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this anime trilogy, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in Magnetic Rose; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in Stink Bomb; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in Cannon Fodder. ...
Style: surreal, anime, anthology, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space, steampunk, memories, war, violent, danger, imaginary, escapades, satire, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his ‘partner in crime’, Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a ...
Style: stylized, anime, atmospheric, talky, exciting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, batman, good versus evil, justice, false accusation, frame up, superman, violence, transformation, comic book, heroes, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2016
Place: washington d.c., new york, tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the year 2000 (between the events of Patlabor and Patlabor 2), when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of ...
Style: anime, serious, stylized, suspenseful, manga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, artificial intelligence, investigation, danger, save the world, fighting crime, giant robot, cyberpunk, androids and robots, robot, genetic engineering, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2000, 2000s
Place: asia, tokyo, japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
Style: anime, stylized, intense, harsh, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: superhero, batman, vigilantism, murder, psychopath, cruelty, torture, violent, comic book, obsession, organized crime, justice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 14 years after third impact, Ikari Shinji awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged. Much of Earth is laid in ruins, Nerv has been dismantled, and people who he once protected have turned against him. Befriending the enigmatic ...
Style: anime, mecha, futuristic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: androids and robots, homosexual subtext, loneliness, father son relationship, character study, imaginary, save the world, dystopian future, worldwide chaos, danger, young heroes, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Star Blazers 2199 (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Compilation of episodes 1-2 of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 TV anime.
Style: exciting, futuristic, anime, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spacecraft, evil alien, alien encounter, battles, heroic mission, space and aliens, imaginary, escapades, mars, save the world, danger, struggle for survival ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Explore Bruce Wayne's transition from his beginning as a tormented vigilantee to The Dark Knight of a crumbling metropolis with six distinct chapters but intended to be viewed as a whole.
Style: anthology, anime, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, batman, comic book, fighting crime, good versus evil, rivalry, danger, crime fighter, organized crime, multiverse, villain, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of ...
Style: computer animated, mecha, anime, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: androids and robots, terrorism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, imaginary, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, battles, fight, military ...
Time: future
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