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Parasite Dolls (2003)
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
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anime, futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, mecha, adult animation ...
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androids and robots, cyberpunk, supernatural, parallel world, society, imaginary, chaos and mayhem, dystopian future, apocalypse, ghost, artificial intelligence, life is a bitch, escapades, rivalry, danger, man versus machine, technology gone awry, computers and web, police, distopia, body horror, heroes, space and aliens, chases and races, realism ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, suspenseful, serious and stylized films and TV series with plots about androids and robots, imaginary, danger, chaos, rivalry, dystopian future and heroes mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Parasite Dolls: Armitage III: Dual Matrix (2001), Dot hack sign (2002), Geneshaft (2001), Black Magic M-66 (1987), Ergo Proxy (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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