Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

49 Movies Like Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) You Need to Watch Next

2021·Kazuya TsurumakiiRank87
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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,

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The 2021 finale of the Rebuild of Evangelion films brings Hideaki Anno's saga to a startling, cathartic close, following a shattered Shinji through the wreckage of a near-ended world toward something like peace. Spectacular and deeply personal, it caps one of anime's defining works. If its apocalyptic scale and raw psychology gripped you, seek out ambitious mecha and existential anime that wrestle with trauma as much as with giant battles.

If you loved Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) by Kazuya Tsurumaki, here are 49 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, Akira. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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