Movies like Appleseed
If Appleseed's mix of future, metropolis and man vs machine stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Appleseed's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Appleseed: Ex Machina
2007 · Directed by Shinji Aramaki · 105 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Shinji Aramaki · With Ai Kobayashi · Shares: future, cyborg, mecha · Also a Japanese animated film · From the same decade (2000s)
As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos are deployed anywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting…
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Appleseed Alpha
2014 · Directed by Shinji Aramaki · 93 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Shinji Aramaki · Shares: post-apocalyptic future, mecha, cyberpunk · Also a Japanese animated film
The Third World War (2099–2126) devastated part of the Earth. Former nations are reforming while new powers emerge, and groups of humans struggle to survive in ruined cities.
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Akira
1988 · Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo · 124 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith Mami Koyama · Shares: cyberpunk, adult animation · Also a Japanese animated film
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
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The Animatrix
2003 · Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri · 102 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future, cyberpunk, adult animation · Also animation and science fiction · From the same decade (2000s)
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…
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Promare
2019 · Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: mecha, adult animation · Also a Japanese animated film
Galo and the Burning Rescue Fire Department face off against BURNISH, a group of mutants who are able to control and wield flames, and the fire disaster they have unleashed on Earth.
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9
2009 · Directed by Shane Acker · 79 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: man vs machine, post-apocalyptic future · Also action and animation · From the same decade (2000s)
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…
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The Matrix
1999 · Directed by Lana Wachowski · 136 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: man vs machine, cyberpunk · Also action and science fiction
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.
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Logan
2017 · Directed by James Mangold · 137 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: future, cyborg · Also action and science fiction
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark…
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Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher
2014 · Directed by Kenichi Shimizu · 83 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: adult animation · Also a Japanese animated film
When the Punisher takes out a black-market weapons dealer, he stumbles upon a far-reaching terrorist plot devised by a group known as Leviathan.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
2012 · Directed by Jay Oliva · 76 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: future · Also science fiction and action
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
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Alita: Battle Angel
2019 · Directed by Robert Rodriguez · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: cyberpunk · Also action and science fiction
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
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The Creator
2023 · Directed by Gareth Edwards · 134 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: cyberpunk · Also science fiction and action
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive…