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Movies that feel likeNeon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)

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.

If you loved Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, the closest films we have are Ghost in the Shell (1995), Logan's Run (1976) and Akira (1988). All three share Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018).

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Ghost in the Shell
1995 · dir. Mamoru Oshii
🍅 95%★ 7.9action · animation · science fiction

Both land ideas and momentum at once

The difference: Lighter on stillness

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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Logan's Run
1976 · dir. Michael Anderson
🍅 58%★ 6.8action · science fiction

Common ground: life after the end

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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Akira
1988 · dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
🍅 88%★ 8animation · science fiction · action

Bleak animation, and it commits to that

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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Dredd
2012 · dir. Pete Travis
🍅 80%★ 7.1action · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: futuristic

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

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eXistenZ
1999 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 77%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into thriller

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

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The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
2018 · dir. Park Hoon-jung
🍅 89%★ 7.2action · drama · science fictionPrime Video

Contemplative and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.

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Æon Flux
2005 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 9%★ 5.4science fiction · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

Both lean on dream logic more than on action

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Zardoz
1974 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 49%★ 5.8fantasy · action · thrillerPrime Video

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

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The 6th Day
2000 · dir. Roger Spottiswoode
🍅 40%★ 6action · science fiction · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: futuristic

A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

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District B13
2004 · dir. Pierre Morel
🍅 81%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fictionPrime Video

Drama built on momentum, twice over

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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Snowpiercer
2013 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 94%★ 7.1action · science fiction · drama

One thread runs through both: life after the end

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

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The Omega Man
1971 · dir. Boris Sagal
🍅 65%★ 6.4science fiction · action · drama

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

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