Movies like Akira
Akira (1988) is a animation movie directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
★ 7.9 · 4,099 votes · Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
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2. A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
★ 8.4 · 4,730 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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3. Castle in the Sky (1986)
★ 8.0 · 4,836 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
★ 8.3 · 9,374 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
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5. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
★ 8.5 · 6,878 votes · Animation, Drama, War
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
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6. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
★ 8.2 · 4,724 votes · Animation, Action, Fantasy
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!
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7. Warriors of the Wind (1984)
★ 7.9 · 4,239 votes · Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
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8. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
★ 7.9 · 3,095 votes · Animation, Sci-Fi, Action
The Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization that was once destroyed by Goku in the past, has been reformed by a group of people who have created new and mightier Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, and seek vengeance against Goku and his family.
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9. The Wind Rises (2013)
★ 7.8 · 3,514 votes · Animation, Drama, History
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
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10. Perfect Blue (1998)
★ 8.3 · 3,396 votes · Animation, Thriller
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
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11. Superman: Unbound (2013)
★ 6.6 · 479 votes · Animation, Action, Adventure
Superman and Supergirl take on the cybernetic being known as Brainiac, who boasts that he possesses "the knowledge and strength of 10,000 worlds."
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12. GANTZ:O (2016)
★ 7.4 · 884 votes · Animation, Sci-Fi, Action
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
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13. Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
★ 6.6 · 341 votes · Animation, Sci-Fi
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. Attack on Titan: Crimson Bow and Arrow (2014)
★ 8.1 · 553 votes · Animation, Action, Adventure
When man-eating Titans first appeared 100 years ago, humans found safety behind massive walls that stopped the giants in their tracks. But the safety they have had for so long is threatened when a colossal Titan smashes through the barriers, causing a flood of the giants into what had been the humans' safe zone.
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