Movies like Ghost in the Shell

If you like "Ghost in the Shell" you are looking for futuristic, philosophical and neo noir movies about / with cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, robot, female protagonist, technology and distopia themes of Action, Crime and Drama genre shot in USA or India.
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
 6.3
 227K
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, neo noir, suspense, stylized, cyber, visually stunning, cerebral, anime, visual ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, robot, female protagonist, technology, distopia, hacker, androids, tough girl, chase, terrorism, one woman army, investigation, dystopia, killer robot, female martial artist, idealism, memory, female warrior, female spy, one against many, female agent, disobeying orders, robot as menace ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, year 2011, near future
Place: tokyo, japan
Keyword: reboot, feminist film, chinese

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Most similar movies to Ghost in the Shell

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surprise ending, futuristic, apocalyptic and cyber films with plots about cyberpunk, distopia, pistol, dystopian future, murder, shot in the chest and shot to death mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ghost in the Shell: Alita: Battle Angel (2019), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Upgrade (2018), Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, female protagonist, cyborgs, distopia, strong female lead, post apocalypse, female warrior, danger, tough girl, woman fights a man, martial arts, adaptation ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, ...
Style: futuristic, neo noir, tech noir, thought provoking, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, robot, dark future, mission, police detective, flying car, violence, bounty hunter, memory ...
Time: future, 2040s, year 2017, near future, distant future ...
Place: california, san diego california, space western, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.5
 205K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A 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 able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, surgery, microchip, revenge, nanotechnology, cyborgs, technology, super computer, dystopia, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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 6.2
 265K
Total Recall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, memory loss, dystopic future, post apocalypse, technology, on the run, dystopian future, mars, false memory, secret agent ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.4
 132K
Aeon Flux (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Brazil, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, action packed, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: strong female character, female protagonist, woman with a gun, secret movement, strong female lead, cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, rebelliousness, rebellion, superheroine, superhero ...
Time: future, near future, 2000s
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.6
 469K
Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, dark future, ecological disaster, post apocalypse, utopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 8.7
 2.0M
The Matrix (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience: kids, date night, family friendly, manly, chick flick ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, philosophy, virtual reality, dystopia, distopia, martial arts, existentialism, cyberpunk, alternate reality, gunfight, fight, visceral ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, year 1999, 90s ...
Place: persia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.0
 59K
Automata (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, dystopia, androids and robots, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, robot human relationship, ecology, dystopian future, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, near future, year 2014, 2010s, 2040s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.4
 531K
Lucy (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Style: futuristic, surreal, philosophical, intellectual, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: supernatural, intelligence, tough girl, brain capacity, supernatural ability, experimental drug, telekinesis, telepathy, strong female lead, superhuman powers, human brain, mind control ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2010s, stone age, 1900s ...
Place: france, new york, berlin germany, rome italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.1
 572K
I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.3
 346K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 581K
Minority Report (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Style: futuristic, suspense, neo noir, cerebral, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: cyberpunk, murder, dystopian future, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, distopia, psychic, dystopia, frame up, law enforcer, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, distant future, year 2002 ...
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 352K
Total Recall (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, ambiguous ending, suspense ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, mars, memory loss, secret agent, dystopia, virtual reality, memory, alien, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 139K
Mortal Engines (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth’s cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: steampunk, post apocalypse, female warrior, machine, post apocalyptic, dystopia, resistance, good versus evil, tough girl, chase, capitalism, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: london, big ben london, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 84K
Ultraviolet (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence. As they are set apart from "normal" and ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, sexy, action packed, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, one woman army, female protagonist, heroic mission, rescue, heroine, cyberpunk, tough heroes, dystopia, chases and races, disease, superhero ...
Time: future, near future, year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 268K
Chappie (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and ...
Style: touching, stylized, entertaining, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, androids and robots, distopia, technology gone awry, technology, human versus robot, parents and children, consciousness, brutality ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, near future, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 15K
Kill Command (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, intense, cyber, minimal cast ...
Plot: robot, man versus machine, killer robot, military, computer program, cyborgs, female warrior, cyberpunk, distopia, violence, battles, rescue ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, dystopia, cyborgs, heroic mission, artificial intelligence, computers and web, danger, hacking, dystopian future, computer cracker ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place: arizona, japan, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
50%
 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.4
 100K
The Circle (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and ...
Style: futuristic, intense, suspense, grindhouse, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: technology, distopia, video surveillance, privacy, fighting the system, media manipulation, science, propaganda, world politics, life philosophy, twists and turns, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2017, distant future, 2010s
Place: bay area, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 17K
Momentum (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with ...
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, female protagonist, female assassin, heist, conspiracy, tough girl, hand to hand combat, female killer, one woman army, woman with a gun, bank, robbery ...
Place: cape town south africa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 238K
Transcendence (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral, exciting, philosophical ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, technology gone awry, resurrection, computers and web, chaos, hi-tech, utopia, robot, science ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: peru, usa, california, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 14K
Runaway (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
Style: futuristic, cult classic, exciting, retro, tech noir ...
Plot: robot, androids, chase, cyberpunk, police investigation, law enforcement, killer robot, machine, apocalypse, distopia, violence, car chase ...
Time: future, near future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, breathtaking, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, manly, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, time travel, terminator, robot, cyborgs, man versus machine, apocalypse, androids and robots, end of the world, violence, child in peril, time traveler ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1991, near future ...
Place: california, los angeles, america, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.2
 17K
Vice (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, humanoid robot, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robot, female robot, chase, justice, resort, humanity, profanity, escapades ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 78K
Strange Days (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a ...
Style: tech noir, futuristic, cyber, serious, psychological ...
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, murder, dystopia, police brutality, conspiracy, violence, corruption, haunted by the past, uncover truth, serial killer, computer ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1995, near future, year 1999 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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