
27 Movies Like The Animatrix (2003) You Need to Watch Next
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
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If you loved The Animatrix (2003) by Koji Morimoto, here are 27 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 Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. 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.
27 Movies Similar to The Animatrix

Akira
1988 · Katsuhiro Otomo
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.
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Ghost in the Shell
1995 · Mamoru Oshii
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 k
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
1999 · Hiroyuki Okiura
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he b
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

The Matrix
1999 · Lana Wachowski
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.
In common: Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn
1995 · Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Not paying attention to his job, a young demon allows the evil cleansing machine to overflow and explode, turning the young demon into the infamous monster Janemba. Goku and Vegeta make solo attempts
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
2015 · Tadayoshi Yamamuro
One peaceful day on Earth, two remnants of Frieza's army named Sorbet and Tagoma arrive searching for the Dragon Balls with the aim of reviving Frieza. They succeed, and Frieza subsequently seeks reve
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
2013 · Masahiro Hosoda
After the defeat of Majin Buu, a powerful God of Destruction known as Beerus searches for the Saiyan warrior who defeated Frieza. Realizing the threat Beerus poses to Earth, the Z-fighters must stop h
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
1995 · Mitsuo Hashimoto
The Z Warriors discover an unopenable music box and are told to open it with the Dragon Balls. The contents turn out to be a warrior named Tapion who had sealed himself inside along with a monster cal
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Summer Wars
2009 · Mamoru Hosoda
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Lilly Wachowski
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machi

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
2007 · Kazuya Tsurumaki
After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterio
In common: Animation

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2021 · Kazuya Tsurumaki
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,
In common: Animation

Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound
1993 · Yoshihiro Ueda
Mr. Money is holding another World Martial Arts Tournament and Mr. Satan invites everyone in the world to join in. Little does he know that Bojack, an ancient villain who has escaped his prison, is co
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler
1992 · Daisuke Nishio
Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
2022 · Tetsuro Kodama
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
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
1993 · Shigeyasu Yamauchi
While the Saiyan Paragus persuades Vegeta to rule a new planet, King Kai alerts Goku of the South Galaxy's destruction by an unknown Super Saiyan.
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Demolition Man
1993 · Marco Brambilla
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 ye
In common: Science Fiction

Æon Flux
2005 · Karyn Kusama
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 unde
In common: Science Fiction

Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Denis Villeneuve
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery lea
In common: Science Fiction

WALL·E
2008 · Andrew Stanton
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize t
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Alita: Battle Angel
2019 · Robert Rodriguez
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 t
In common: Science Fiction

Escape from New York
1981 · John Carpenter
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken
In common: Science Fiction

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
1997 · Hideaki Anno
Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
2001 · Shinichiro Watanabe
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

Paprika
2006 · Satoshi Kon
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
In common: Animation · Science Fiction

The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Lilly Wachowski
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

Dark City
1998 · Alex Proyas
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
In common: Science Fiction