Movies like Space Battleship Yamato 1977

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Space Battleship Yamato (1977)
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Space Battleship Yamato (1977)
Original name: 宇宙戦艦ヤマト
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
Style: anime, exciting, sentimental, serious, emotional, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, adult animation, 2d animation
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, save the world, alien invasion, galaxy, spirit, battleship, outer space, spacecraft, space wars, hopes, heroes, space and aliens, space travel, battles, human spirit, life is a bitch, society, danger, evil alien, heroic mission, dystopian future, robot, mars, planet earth, space battle ...
Time: future, 70s, 22nd century
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to Space Battleship Yamato

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, stylized, serious and exciting films with plots about heroes, space and aliens, space wars, escapades, battles, outer space and rivalry mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Space Battleship Yamato: Titan A.E. (2000), Star Blazers 2199 (2012), Arcadia of My Youth (1982), Star Blazers (1979), Super Space Fortress Macross (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on course towards the solar system. As the people on Earth prepare to relocate ...
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic
Plot: space travel, battleship, black hole, space battle, space, spacecraft, military, space opera, tyranny, space shuttle, space wars, save the world ...
Time: 23rd century
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Titan A.E. (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Dredge are bent on mankind's destruction.
Style: exciting, serious, anime, computer animated, apocalyptic ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, preschool, adult
Plot: alien, heroic mission, space travel, spacecraft, space battle, galaxy, young heroes, save the world, life risking, space station, space, space opera ...
Time: future, year 2000, 20th century, y2k
Place: colorado
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100%
Space Battleship Yamato (1974)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from ...
Style: anime, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space battle, save the world, outer space, space wars, battles, siege, radiation, escapades, imaginary ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: japan
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Star Blazers 2199 (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Compilation of episodes 1-2 of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 TV anime.
Style: exciting, futuristic, anime, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spacecraft, evil alien, alien encounter, battles, heroic mission, space and aliens, imaginary, escapades, mars, save the world, danger, struggle for survival ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus Empire. Harlock, a captain in earth's fleet, crashes his ship to prevent the Illumidus from using it, and flat-out refuses to join them. With the help ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: pirate, space opera, world war two, space and aliens, alien invasion, space, space adventure, spacecraft, heroes, space pirate, master warrior, imaginary ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Space Cruiser Yamato 2 (1978)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious comet traveling to Earth's solar system is not what it seems. Without Captain Avatar, Derek Wildstar leads the Argo (Yamato) against a new enemy.
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: spacecraft, battles, escapades, against the rules, heroes, imaginary, evil alien, danger, save the world, space and aliens, heroic mission, evil empire ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Star Blazers (1979)
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, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space, alien invasion, space opera, spaceship, space adventure, superhero, spacecraft, outer space, space wars, battles, siege, radiation ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Super Space Fortress Macross (1984)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with ...
Style: anime, mecha, manga, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space wars, love triangle, evil alien, alien invasion, refugee, underground, fighter plane, robot, space opera, intergalactic, heroic mission, chaos ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
Style: anime, computer animated, futuristic, exciting, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, pirate, space opera, society, outer space, rebelliousness, spacecraft, space battle, rebellion, space wars, battles, idealism ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits must battle Zeon forces through Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean if they are to reach Earth ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mobile suit gundam, spacecraft, outer space, space wars, battles, space station, chaos, superhero, escapades, heroes, survival, rivalry ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, clever, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, spacecraft, battles, heroes, rebelliousness, military, uninhibited rivalry, state affairs, rise to the top, politics, ambition, rebellion ...
Time: future, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on a series of sci-fi novels, this series tells the story of a massive conflict between the Prussia-like Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance. It describes all levels of the war, from the tactical to the strategic, but focuses most on ...
Style: anime, epic, captivating, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: political intrigue, battles, military, space wars, ambition, space, heroes, politics, military life, space station, dishonesty, political corruption ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: U.C. 0123. After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation has begun to build new space colonies to house humanity's growing population. But a new force, the aristocratic Crossbone Vanguard, plans to seize the colonies of the newly ...
Style: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mobile suit gundam, androids and robots, space and aliens, evil alien, battles, dystopian future, escapades, superhero, imaginary, chaos, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In UC 0093 the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space Char Aznable re-appears out of self imposed hiding with a declaration that he ...
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Audience: teens
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Time: future
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon (1992)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: U.C. 0083 - Three years after the end of the catastrophic One Year War, peace on Earth and the colonies is shattered by the presence of the Delaz Fleet, a rogue Zeon military group loyal to the ideals of the late dictator Gihren Zabi. Delaz ...
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter (1983)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil ...
Style: anime
Plot: space opera, honor, flood, battleship, water, laser, world
Time: 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
They Were Eleven (1986)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, tense, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spacecraft, space, space opera, gender, lgbt, alien, impostor, telepathy, exam, cyborgs, academy, space and aliens ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Banner of the Stars (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Now that three years has passed since their first adventure, Lafiel is now captain on a new ship and Jinto has just finished his training. They go out to complete a mission of defending the Laptic Gate.
Style: anime, captivating, serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
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Audience: teens
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Time: future
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Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Duchy of Zeon's forces.
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: future
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28%
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation II: Lovers (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Universal Century 0087, as the civil war between the AEUG and the Titans continues, Kamille meets a mysterious girl named Four. But his encounter with Four, one of the Titans' "cyber-Newtypes," fills his heart with anguish. The ...
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Audience: boys' night, teens
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Universal Century 0087, Char Aznable has now become the leader of the AEUG. Scirocco, the man from Jupiter, schemes to seize control of the Titans. Haman, the Axis leader, is attempting to restore the Zabi family. Through politics and strategy, ...
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
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Be Forever Yamato (1980)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb ...
Style: anime
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Time: 23rd century
Place: east asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Mobile Suit Gundam is a televised anime series, produced by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the ...
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Audience: teens, family friendly
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Orbital (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The first segment called "Elliptical Orbit" is about a ship called the Flying Dutchman returning to Earth after an extended absence with a cargo of "protons" to be used for energy. A terrorist group with military combat suits ...
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26%
Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: U.C. 0097, one year after the opening of "Laplace's Box". Despite the revelation of the Universal Century Charter that acknowledges the existence and rights of Newtypes, the framework of the world has not been greatly altered. The ...
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26%
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Venus Wars (1989)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She falls in with a bunch of ...
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Ark (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: future
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25%
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An untold chapter in the Mass Effect saga, following the early career of Alliance Marine, James Vega, as he leads a squad of elite special forces into battle against a mysterious alien threat known as The Collectors. Stationed at a colony in a ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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