Movies and TV shows like Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
 8.5
 84K
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
Original name: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
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 years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.
Style: mecha, anime, psychological, serious, exciting, twist ending, ambiguous ending, thought provoking, bleak, manga ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: self doubt, existentialism, father son relationship, loneliness, depression, loss, psychological trauma, young heroes, suffering, piloted giant robot, absent mother, post apocalypse, insanity, secret organization, symbolism, alien encounter, alien invasion, philosophy, giant robot, chaos, mature, cyberpunk, father son estrangement, fear, violence ...
Time: year 2015, 2000s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: japan
Keyword: attack, reluctant, music video

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Most similar movies to Neon Genesis Evangelion

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, serious, mecha and manga films and TV series with plots about danger, heroes, female nudity, mature, rivalry, escapades and imaginary mostly in Animation, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Neon Genesis Evangelion: Serial Experiments Lain (1998), FLCL (2000), Ergo Proxy (2006), Elfen Lied (2004), Cowboy Bebop (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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%
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 ⇓
100%
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the ...
Style: anime, psychological, stylized, cult classic, mecha ...
Audience: teens
Plot: androids and robots, distopia, evil alien, apocalypse, hospital, loneliness, surrealism, giant robot, mature, superhero, transcendence, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 316 min.
TV show
Story: Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of "The Wired".
Style: psychological, anime, surreal, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: suicide, computer, cyberspace, society, fictional reality, parallel world, cyberpunk, computers and web, mature, hacker, distopia, internet ...
Time: future
Place: asia, tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 154 min.
Story: The fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series.
Style: mecha, anime, captivating, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot: technology, fight, violence, battles, hi-tech, space station, spacecraft, showdown, outer space, fantasy world, dream world, college ...
Place: paris france, south pole, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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FLCL (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada, UK, France
Duration: 151 min.
TV show
Story: In this 6-part mini-series, a 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening.
Style: anime, atmospheric, psychedelic, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, absurdism, robot, alien, imaginary, surrealism, space and aliens, stranger, youth, monster, friendship, androids and robots ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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 16K
Ergo Proxy (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: 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, psychological, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, murder, society, investigation, mysterious character, introspection, artificial intelligence, utopia, dark humor, danger, fate of humanity ...
Time: future
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 37K
Elfen Lied (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Audience: kids
Plot: memory loss, childhood trauma, split personality, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, supernatural, decapitation, sadism, experiment gone awry, social misfits, trauma, danger ...
Time: near future, future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.9
 137K
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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91%
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 2K
X (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kamui Shirou and Fuuma Monou have been best friends ever since they were kids. Fate, however, separates them when Fuuma's mother died under a mysterious circumstances. Fast forward, 6 years later, a 16 year old Kamui has now returned to Tokyo ...
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: heroes, supernatural, battles, heroic mission, rivalry, save the world, prophecy, escapades, danger, tragic hero, childhood friend, angel ...
Time: future
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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The Animatrix (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and ...
Style: anime, philosophical, atmospheric, cyber, stylized ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, hacker, save the world, technology gone awry, alternate reality, man versus machine, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, female warrior, robot ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 22nd century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 2K
RahXephon (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In a world where time passes at a crawl and the blood of your neighbor runs blue, 17 year old high school student Ayato Kamina goes about his daily life within Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been educated with the fact that ...
Style: anime, stylized, atmospheric, serious, mecha ...
Plot: survival, save the world, heroic mission, teenage life, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, society, life is a bitch, rivalry, youth, man versus machine, escapades ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Parasyte: The Maxim (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Shinichi Izumi is a normal high school boy whose right hand has become infected with an alien parasite that names itself "Migi" ("right"). Migi is the first parasite to develop a symbiotic relationship with its host, as he and ...
Style: anime, exciting, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: body horror, danger, alien, rivalry, supernatural power, supernatural ability, fight scenes, murder, violence, survival, parasite, tragedy ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain ...
Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, captivating, mecha
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic mission, rivalry, imaginary, space travel, technology gone awry, apocalypse, escapades, danger, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, robot, androids and robots ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.3
 21K
Gurren Lagann (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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: beast, good versus evil, battles, giant robot, dystopian future, danger, heroic mission, battle zone, female warrior, survival, confined, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Japan has been invaded and conquered by the Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area 11 and its citizens known as Elevens. The Britannian Empire takes away Japan's autonomous power and imposes its rule through the use of Knightmares. The ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, rough, stylized, manga ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: mind control, rebelliousness, youth, peril, rebellion, military, young heroes, battles, civil rights, resistance, leader, emperor ...
Time: future
Place: japan, kyoto japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 5.7
 504
Last Hope (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After causing the near extinction of mankind seven years ago, genius scientist Leon Lau must now fight the ecological disaster he unwittingly created.
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: piloted giant robot, save the planet, team, ecology, heroes, heroic mission, self doubt, danger, secret organization, dystopian future, chaos, existentialism ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Terror in Resonance (2014)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to ...
Style: anime, psychological, tragic ending, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorist bombing, conspiracy, terrorism, orphan, puzzle, tragic hero, hacker, police, tragedy, human experiment, childhood friend, death of protagonist ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 3K
Eureka Seven (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Eureka Seven, known in Japan as Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN, is a Japanese mecha anime TV series by Bones. Eureka Seven tells the story of Renton Thurston and the outlaw group Gekkostate, his relationship with the enigmatic mecha pilot Eureka, ...
Style: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: giant, heroic mission, save the world, heroes, good versus evil, teenage life, corruption, rivalry, escapades, rescue, leadership, danger ...
Time: future
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 1K
Genocyber (1994)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: As the nations of the world begin to merge, world peace is threatened by the private armies of individual corporations. The Kuryu Group has just discovered a weapon that will tip world power in their favor. The Genocyber: a nightmarish combination ...
Style: anime, adult anime, mecha, adult animation, cyber ...
Plot: cyberpunk, blood, violence, cyborgs, extreme, superpower, mature, tragedy, shapeshifting, angst, biopunk, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Battle Angel Alita (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: A Hunter Warrior and cyborg healer named Ido formerly lived in the floating land of Zalem, the paradise that hovers above the refuse heap of Scrap Iron City in which he now resides with his former lover, Chiren. In his travels as a bounty hunter — ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, cyber, manga ...
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, bounty hunter, robot, dystopia, nudity, killer robot, technology, computer, biopunk, post apocalyptic, computer hacker ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
 7.7
 2K
Gunbuster (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In the very near future, a race of huge, insectoid aliens are discovered traveling the galaxy. These aliens, which are known as the Uchuu Kaijuu, or Space Monsters, seem dedicated to the eradication of the human species as the latter takes its first ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time dilation, androids and robots, underground, space opera, space, military, battles, chaos, heroes, hotshot hero, rivalry, imaginary ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
13%
DARLING in the FRANXX (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The story is set in the distant future. The land is ruined, and humanity establishes the mobile fort city Plantation. Pilots produced inside Plantation live in Mistilteinn, also know as the "birdcage." Children live there knowing nothing ...
Style: anime, mecha, emotional, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: first love, super weapon, teenager, true love, friendship, plot twist, twists and turns, love, distopia, fight, battles, save the world ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
Armored Trooper VOTOMS (1983)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The story of stoic Armored Trooper pilot Chirico Cuvie and his quest for answers after a sudden betrayal leaves him on the run from his own military.
Style: anime, mecha, cyber, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: cyberpunk, robot fighting, heroes, military, conspiracy, danger, space wars, political corruption, space travel, chess, genetic engineering, on the run ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.6
 1K
Macross Zero (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Taking place one year before the events of the original Macross series, Macross Zero chronicles the final days of the war between the U.N. Spacy and anti-U.N. factions. After being shot down by the anti-U.N.'s newest fighter plane, ace pilot ...
Style: anime, mecha, suspenseful, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: military, space wars, airplane, spacecraft, war, artificial intelligence, battles, danger, escapades, heroes, evil, white supremacy ...
Time: year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 5K
Inuyashiki (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Inuyashiki Ichirou is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he’s constantly ignored and disrespected by his family despite all that he’s done ...
Style: anime, suspense, tense, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gunfight, murder, robot vs. robot, elderly man, body horror, heroes, twists and turns, hopes, adaptation, alien contact, superpower, bad guy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genesis Climber Mospeada (1983)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 625 min.
TV show
Story: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan. MOSPEADA stands for Military Operation Soldier Protection ...
Style: anime, mecha, cult classic, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: giant robot, alien invasion, alien encounter, mars, space travel, heroic mission, space wars, technology gone awry, righting the wronged, chaos, battles, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 1K
Kuromukuro (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: During the construction of the Kurobe Dam, an ancient artifact was discovered, and so the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute was established. Intellectuals from all over the world gathered to study the object, and the children of those ...
Style: mecha, anime, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: piloted giant robot, fight, samurai, suspended animation, giant robot, doppelganger, combat, robot vs. robot, robot as menace, warrior, battles, robot ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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