Movies and TV shows like Cowboy Bebop
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Cowboy Bebop (1998)
166K
Original name: カウボーイビバップ
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 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 (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters (also referred to as "Cowboys") chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
Style:
anime, futuristic, serious, exciting, neo noir, atmospheric, manga, stylized, ambiguous ending, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
bounty hunter, friendship, jazz, fighting crime, unlikely partners, chases and races, space travel, spaceship, escapades, outer space, buddies, machismo, cyberpunk, hacker, space, cowboy, fight, betrayal, mysterious past, gangster, space opera, dystopian future, mature, dark past, profanity ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
space western
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Most similar movies to Cowboy Bebop
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, exciting, futuristic and serious films and TV series with plots about escapades, heroes, danger, rivalry, imaginary, mature and violence mostly in Animation, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Cowboy Bebop: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Samurai Champloo (2004), Darker Than Black (2007), Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), Psycho-Pass (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Style:
anime, adult anime, adult animation, witty, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, mars, bounty hunter, space opera, chase, terrorist, danger, revenge, vengeance, outer space, martial arts, gunfight ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, space western, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets ...
Style:
anime, thought provoking, exciting, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
samurai, pride and honor, martial arts, sword fight, master warrior, friendship, danger, katana, breakdance, on the road, journey, road trip ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, okinawa japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Trigun takes place in the distant future on a deserted planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. But the real Vash the ...
Style:
anime, stylized, humorous, manga, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
ethics, desert planet, heroes, insurance, lone wolves, save the day, spirit, unrequited love, bounty, rescue, good versus evil, cyberpunk ...
Time:
future, distant future
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Anime television series created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones.
Style:
anime, manga, rough, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids
Plot:
supernatural ability, dark past, paranormal phenomena, secret agent, investigation, danger, escapades, rivalry, fighting crime, transformation, fate of humanity, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen ...
Style:
anime, mecha, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
loneliness, existentialism, self doubt, father son relationship, psychological trauma, loss, depression, giant robot, young heroes, post apocalypse, suffering, piloted giant robot ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Black Lagoon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe. It has been published in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X since 2002, and nine collected volumes have been released so far. It was later adapted into an anime ...
Style:
anime, exciting, adult anime, suspenseful, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
gunfight, rivalry, criminal, pirate, mercenary, gang, danger, bounty hunter, arms dealer, femme fatale, mafia, outlaw ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colombia, japan, asia, southeast asia, thailand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Psycho-Pass is a Japanese anime television series that takes place in the future where it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes with a device installed ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, human nature, master criminal, police investigation, partners against crime, graphic violence, death, investigation, criminal, mastermind, psychology, chase ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
Style:
exciting, witty, captivating, futuristic, clever ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space adventure, danger, escapades, survival, captain, space and aliens, friendship, smuggling ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
space western
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Japan
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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, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
female warrior, outer space, bounty hunter, space adventure, space opera, skinny dipping, spaceship, post apocalyptic, clairvoyant, artificial intelligence, androids, cyberpunk ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
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, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
loneliness, depression, philosophy, insanity, misanthropy, suicide, alienation, hate, surrealism, infiltration, stream of consciousness, death ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Cobra, a famous charismatic space pirate with "psychogun" for a hand, decides to renounce his ways, and become an ordinary person with a new identity. His memories do come back and he becomes a space adventurer fighting villains.
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
machismo, fighting crime, bounty hunter, love interest, good versus evil, pirate, partner, space travel, friendship, escapades, pride and honor, chase ...
Time:
future, 24th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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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, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, hacker, cyborgs, cyberspace, distopia, mind game, investigation, androids, ghost in the shell, science runs amok ...
Time:
near future, future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Mankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called "Sides." However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel. A group of revolutionaries builds five robotic weapons ...
Style:
anime, mecha, adult anime, futuristic, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mobile suit gundam, robot, eternal love, space opera, conspiracy, androids and robots, piloted giant robot, space, alternate timeline, young adult, space colony, soldier ...
Time:
future
Place:
siberia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still live, lurking in the shadows and waiting for a chance to use their killing blades again. Only Kenshin ...
Style:
anime, exciting, shounen, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
manly, kids
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, master warrior, swordsman, bully, mature, samurai sword, serial killer, sword fight, battles, innocence, wandering ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 60s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
In the distant future, people build their homes and raise domestic animals in subterranean caverns. As a result, they live in fear of the occasional earthquake and cave-in, and have been for hundreds of years. Jeeha is one such village. One day, a ...
Style:
mecha, anime, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female warrior, battles, beast, bravery, resistance, danger, battle zone, heroic mission, dystopian future, confined, escapades, survival ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on ...
Style:
anime, humorous, adult animation, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, human in outer space, space travel, space opera, imaginary, escapades, heroes, encounter, outer space, darkness, chubby, lucifer ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 701 min.
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Story:
In some distant future, it's common knowledge that all wolves have been extinct for 200 years. However, it seems this is false as wolves have not disappeared but rather have taken human form. Kiba, a lone wolf, wanders into a city, trying to ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, exciting, apocalyptic, manga ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, adult
Plot:
danger, wolf, young heroes, supernatural, fate of humanity, parallel world, legends and myths, good versus evil, apocalypse, dystopian future, escapades, dangerous animal ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
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Story:
In the final days of the One Year War, a Zeon special forces group infiltrates a colony to gather information on a new Gundam unit. Alfred Izuruha, a 10-year-old student, befriends Zeon rookie pilot Bernie Wiseman during a brief mobile suit combat. ...
Style:
anime, mecha, serious, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space, mobile suit gundam, child, space opera, battles, terrorism, wartime, space colony, soldier, military, star crossed lovers, space station ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Gungrave is a Japanese animated television series based on the video game of the same name, created by Yasuhiro Nightow. The series is directed by Toshiyuki Tsuru, from a screenplay by Yousuke Kuroda, and produced by Madhouse Studios.
The series ...
Style:
anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, friendship, murder, leadership, heroic mission, superhuman powers, rise and fall, tragic hero, supernatural, obsessive quest, escapades, presumed dead ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Story:
Fleeing from his own race, Orgun—an alien being with superhuman abilities and unearthly weapons—travels to Earth to find an answer to his origin. There, he bonds with a young man named Tomoru to defend Earth against the Evoluders, who seek ...
Style:
anime, mecha, serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
evil alien, misogynist, loner, white supremacy, alien invasion, artificial intelligence, chaos, chases and races, heroes, space and aliens, supernatural ability, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Edward and Alphonse Elric's reckless disregard for alchemy's fundamental laws ripped half of Ed's limbs from his body and left Al's soul clinging to a cold suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers scour a war-torn ...
Style:
anime, exciting, serious, manga, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot:
technology, supernatural, alchemy, siblings relations, curses spells and rituals, alchemist, imaginary, heroes, genocide, evil, brother brother relationship, escapades ...
Time:
1910s, 2020s
Similarity:
13%
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 ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
androids and robots, hacker, cyberpunk, politics, ghost in the shell, dystopian future, terrorism, investigation, imaginary, cyberspace, artificial intelligence, secret agent ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime series, Space Battleship Yamato I, II, and III. Star Blazers was first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular ...
Style:
anime, serious, exciting, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien invasion, space battle, space opera, space adventure, spaceship, superhero, spacecraft, space wars, outer space, siege, radiation, battles ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, 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, adult animation, anime, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
androids and robots, cyborgs, terrorism, cyberpunk, imaginary, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, battles, fight, military ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
In the year 199X, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. In an age where the strong rule over the weak, the survivors of the fallout struggle over the remaining supply food and water left. Kenshiro, successor to an ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, adult animation ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
desert, good versus evil, superhuman powers, nuclear holocaust, chaos, vengeance, danger, dystopian future, uninhibited rivalry, heroic mission, kung fu, tragic hero ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Legend tells of the Rheingold, an all-powerful metal used by the gods of Valhalla during the forging of the universe. Legend says that he who wields the Rheingold wields ultimate power over all things; yea, even over the gods themselves. The ...
Style:
anime
Plot:
planet, alien, pirate, spaceship, space, fight, space travel, resistance, crew, heroes, space wars, one against many ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
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Blue Gender is a 26-episode anime created by Ryōsuke Takahashi broadcast in Japan from 1999-2000. Blue Gender was created by the Japanese animation studio, AIC and is distributed in the United States by Funimation Entertainment. In 2003, Blue ...
Style:
anime, manga, exciting, serious, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
public sex, post apocalypse, space, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, sleeping, worldwide chaos, resistance, chaos, space station, chaos and mayhem, deadly virus ...
Time:
future, 2030s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min.
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Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy ...
Style:
anime, cliffhanger, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, murder, mysterious character, artificial intelligence, society, dark humor, investigation, utopia, apocalypse, danger, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe
Similarity:
13%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
When the Golden Race invited other races to join them in the stars, three sentient races answered their call. The Goldens called them the Bronze, Silver and Heroic Tribes. Just before the Gold Tribe left to travel to another Universe, a fourth race ...
Style:
anime, mecha, futuristic, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
outer space, save the world, heroes, space travel, heroic mission, rivalry, redemption, obsessive quest, escapades, imaginary, space opera, tribe ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
25%
980
Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Vandread is a Japanese anime series directed by Takeshi Mori and created by Gonzo and Media Factory animation studios.
The series is composed of two seasons, each composed of thirteen episodes of twenty-five minutes. The first series is summarized ...
Style:
anime, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
space travel, heroic mission, battle of the sexes, dystopian future, battles, imaginary, danger, escapades, rivalry, space and aliens, androids and robots, space opera ...
Similarity:
25%
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