If You Liked Ghost in the Shell, Watch These Next
Finished Ghost in the Shell (1995) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Ghost in the Shell, most of them are action, animation, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Ghost in the Shell 2.0(2008)
7.4ActionAnimationCrimeAlso action and animation
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
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2.Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie(2015)
6.6Science FictionAnimationAlso science fiction and animation
When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source.
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3.Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone(2014)
6.9ActionAnimationScience FictionAlso action and animation
The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection…
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4.Battle Angel(1993)
6.8AnimationActionScience FictionAlso animation and action
In his travels as a bounty hunter, Hunter–Warrior and cyborg healer Ido one day discovers and repairs the remnants of a cyborg whom he names Gally. Though possessing the body of a young woman, Gally now embodies Ido's most sophisticated and lethal cybernetic skills. The preternaturally strong, amnesiac Gally begins…
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5.Mardock Scramble: The First Compression(2010)
6.9ThrillerAnimationActionAlso animation and action
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be…
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6.Chappie(2015)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one…
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7.009-1: The End of the Beginning(2013)
5.9ActionScience FictionCrimeAlso action and science fiction
In a universe where the Cold War never ended and growing conflicts result in the rapid advancement of technological warfare, the cyborg spy Mylene Hoffman of the 00 Organization battles the agents of the Eastern block in a game of high tech espionage.
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8.Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence(2004)
7.4AnimationDramaScience FictionAlso animation and science fiction
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized,…
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9.PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie(2015)
7.0AnimationScience FictionActionAlso animation and science fiction
In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. When the state of SEAUn brings the Sibyl System in to test its effectiveness, it becomes a haven of peace and safety—for a time. Eventually, terrorists from SEAUn begin appearing in Japan, somehow slipping through the System's security and…
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10.Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time(2021)
8.2AnimationActionScience FictionAlso animation and action
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from…
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11.Upgrade(2018)
7.5ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek…
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12.Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War(2021)
6.8AnimationActionScience FictionAlso animation and action
In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, the public is not aware of the threat that AI has towards the human race. A compilation film with newly added footage.
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13.Altered Carbon: Resleeved(2020)
6.6AnimationScience FictionAlso animation and science fiction
On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.
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14.Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society(2007)
7.5AnimationActionThrillerAlso animation and action
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 cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with…
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15.Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion(1997)
8.3AnimationScience FictionDramaAlso animation and science fiction
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
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16.Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears(2014)
6.8ActionAnimationScience FictionAlso action and animation
Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.
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17.Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)
8.2ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
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18.Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven(2006)
7.5AnimationScience FictionAlso animation and science fiction
The year is 2030, and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the "Individual Eleven." With a sadistic intent of mass destruction, will they triumph in victory or discover the gloomy pitfalls of defeat?
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19.Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers(2013)
7.0ActionAnimationScience FictionAlso action and animation
Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer Ishikawa and former air artillery expert Borma. Kusanagi also seeks to enlist ace sniper Saito and…
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20.The Matrix Resurrections(2021)
6.3Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and action
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
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