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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006)
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006)
Original name: 攻殻機動隊: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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 anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.
Style: anime, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, stylized, cyber, deep, inspirational, complex ...
Plot: androids and robots, hacker, cyberpunk, ghost in the shell, investigation, politics, terrorism, imaginary, cyberspace, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, undercover, danger, fighting crime, good versus evil, government agency, state affairs, uncover truth, technology gone awry, computers and web, secret agent, mature, giant, superhero, distopia ...
Time: future, 2030s, 21st century
Place: japan
Keyword: a.i.

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, stylized, serious and cyberpunk anime films with plots about cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, danger, imaginary, androids and robots, rivalry and chaos mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society: Ghost in the Shell (1995), Appleseed (2004), Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008), Armitage III: Dual Matrix (2001), Appleseed Ex Machina (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 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 Puppetmaster' begins ...
Style: anime, futuristic, mind bending, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, hacker, cyborgs, distopia, female protagonist, policewoman, chase, dystopian future, female spy, dystopia ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1995, near future, 2020s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. ...
Style: futuristic, anime, philosophical, cyber, surreal ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, distopia, androids, investigation, robot, hacker, ghost in the shell, technology, computers and web ...
Time: future, 2030s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Appleseed (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
Style: anime, computer animated, mecha, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, danger, dystopia, chaos, genetic engineering, post apocalyptic, vestiges of humanity, save the world, violent content ...
Time: future, year 2004
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
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Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 162 min.
Story: The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Plot: androids and robots, computer, terrorism, ghost in the shell, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, chaos, danger, battles, escapades, rivalry, imaginary ...
Time: future
Place: japan, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story: 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 suspects. New ...
Style: anime, exciting, futuristic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: cyberspace, cyberpunk, ghost in the shell, artificial intelligence, danger, investigation, terrorism, hacker, dystopian future, fighting crime, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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%
Armitage III: Dual Matrix (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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.
Style: anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: toddlers, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, mars, ghost, robot, dystopian future, good versus evil, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, chaos and mayhem, haunted by the past, imaginary, master villain ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an ...
Style: anime, serious, cyber, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, hacker, cyborgs, distopia, cyberspace, androids, mind game, investigation, ghost in the shell, man versus machine ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.
Style: anime, exciting, suspense, captivating, cyber ...
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, ghost in the shell, tough girl, violence, strong female lead, machine, twists and turns, computer, computer hacker, hacker, superhero ...
Time: 2030s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min.
Story: 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 Ishikawa and former air artillery ...
Style: anime, exciting, psychological, stylized, serious ...
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, ghost in the shell, terrorism, partner, special agent, artificial intelligence, danger, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, imaginary ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: east asia, kurdistan, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story: 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 the Mermaid's Leg ...
Style: anime, rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyberpunk, ghost in the shell, police investigation, fighting crime, terrorism, artificial intelligence, partner, special agent, murder, undercover, danger ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min.
Story: 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. This leads to a shooting ...
Style: anime, stylized, philosophical, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, cyberpunk, distopia, ghost in the shell, giant robot, fight scenes, supernatural, brutality, violent, technology, chase ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
Black Magic M-66 (1987)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story: A freelance reporter stumbles on a desperate military operation. An army chopper has crashed and its cargo has been activated. Now there are two killer androids running loose in the wilderness and have the daughter of their inventor as their target. ...
Style: anime, mecha, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: murder, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, chaos, supernatural, ghost, man versus machine, dystopian future, woman in danger, race against time, life is a bitch, rescue ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Appleseed Alpha (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the comic book by the creator of Ghost in the Shell, a young female soldier Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos survive through the post World War 3 apocalyptic New York in search of human's future hope, the legendary city of ...
Style: mecha, computer animated, exciting, anime, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, danger, save the world, heroic mission, female warrior, post apocalypse, heroes, post apocalyptic, good versus evil, demolished city, violent content ...
Time: future, year 2014
Place: japan, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Vexille (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, cyberpunk, female warrior, apocalypse, robot, man versus machine, dystopian future, danger, save the world, heroes, heroic mission ...
Time: future
Place: japan, seattle, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
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Appleseed XIII (2011)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Appleseed XIII is a 2011 Japanese CGI anime adaptation of Masamune Shirow's science fiction manga series Appleseed. Composed of 13 episodes, the series retold the exploits of ES.W.A.T. member Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos. The series ...
Style: anime, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: good versus evil, save the world, terrorism, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, danger, fighting crime, chaos, androids and robots, rivalry, partner, law enforcement ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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 that AI has towards ...
Style: anime, futuristic, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot: female warrior, cyborgs, fight, cyberpunk, battles, technology, save the day, humanity, hi-tech, warrior, artificial intelligence, ghost in the shell ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
Place: kyoto japan, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.8
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Sin: The Movie (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story: It is the near future, and the city of Freeport teeters on the verge of total collapse. The twin tides of rampant crime and ruinous graft face only one barrier: the elite strike force HARDCORPS. Led by Colonel John Blade, HARDCORPS is the last force ...
Style: anime, serious, rough, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fighting crime, artificial intelligence, investigation, undercover, leadership, heroes, rivalry, save the world, heroic mission, race against time, society, danger ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.9
 370
Kiddy Grade (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Two women carry out missions and fight crime across the galaxy.
Style: anime, futuristic, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, space travel, danger, undercover, imaginary, chaos, dystopian future, life is a bitch, man versus machine, partners against crime, ghost, state affairs ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, investigation, conspiracy, save the day, suicide, kickass, underground, buddy cop, buddy, police, dystopian future ...
Time: future, near future
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
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
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, giant, mental illness, brutality, escapades, imaginary, man versus machine, good versus evil, danger, dystopian future, transformation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Ghost In The Shell: The New Movie (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic Japan after the end of a brutal world war, science has advanced by leaps and bounds giving humanity the choice to prolong life and reduce suffering with the use of sophisticated cybernetics. With all of humanity linked into one ...
Style: anime, computer animated, melancholic, futuristic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, ghost in the shell, artificial intelligence, fantasy world, cyberspace, distopia, terrorism, internet, technology, terrorist group, bomb, villain ...
Time: future
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Armitage III: Polymatrix (1996)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 links to the victims. To stir ...
Style: anime, cyber, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hacker, computer hacker, computer, dark future, heroes, life is a bitch, society, escapades, imaginary, chases and races, danger, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Sky Blue (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban. As most natural resources have been exhausted, Ecoban is powered by pollution. The citizens of Ecoban need to continue creating this ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: apocalypse, resistance movement, cyberpunk, distopia, save the world, survival, environmental issue, heroic mission, resistance, society, dystopian future, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, 22nd century
Place: japan, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min.
Story: The 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 implicated in ...
Style: anime, sexy, atmospheric, talky, melancholic ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, fight scenes, ghost in the shell, character study, police investigation, moral ambiguity, investigation, ghost, imagination, storytelling, dialogue ...
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 23K
Metropolis (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Duke Red has overseen the construction of a massive Ziggurat to extend his power across the whole planet. Tima, a robot-girl built in the image of his deceased daughter, is at the core of these plans. However, after escaping the Duke's clutches ...
Style: anime, futuristic, atmospheric, bleak, cyber ...
Audience: kids
Plot: robot, steampunk, metropolis, artificial intelligence, androids, rebellion, cyberpunk, megalomaniac, heroic mission, save the day, self discovery, uncover truth ...
Time: future, year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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