23 Best Anime Like Perfect Blue ...

23 Best Anime Like Perfect Blue ...

If you liked this film , you will probably love these too! In this selection we highlight some of the best films that share a very similar mood to '', and are worth checking out.

1. Paprika (2006)

1h 30m Animation Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller

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: Paprika.

2. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

1h 40m Animation Drama Science Fiction

Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. A quest for a killer that becomes a mind bending search for the meaning of life.

3. Millennium Actress (2001)

4. Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom (2000)

5. Seoul Station (2016)

1h 32m Drama Animation Horror

Suk-gyu is desperately looking for his runaway daughter. He spares neither money nor effort and after a while his search leads to results. One of his contacts claims to have found the girl. But joy is replaced by shock when he finds out that she works as a prostitute in the center of Seoul. Suk-gyu decides to pose as a client to get close to his daughter. But just before the long awaited and dreaded reunion, panic breaks out at nearby Seoul Station. The place is very popular with the homeless of the Korean capital. And one of them, who had died during the day, comes alive again and start attacking and eating another misfortunate. The undead cannibal epidemic spreads like wildfire. The authorities hermetically close off the city center and decide to wait out the end of the outbreak, until there’s no one left…

6. A Scanner Darkly (2006)

1h 40m Animation Science Fiction Thriller

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

7. Golgo 13: Queen Bee (1998)

57m Action Animation

Based on Takao Saito's graphic novel, Golgo 13 is Japan's most celebrated and notorious assassin, and a man as adept with a rifle as he is with the ladies. He meets his match here in Queen Bee, the leader of a South American liberation army, whom he must kill before she can assassinate a popular presidential candidate. However, once Golgo 13 penetrates the Queen's hive, he realizes that the machinations behind the planned assassination are more complex than he could have imagined.

8. Blink (1993)

9. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

1h 55m Action Animation Science Fiction

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. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him.

10. Patlabor: The Movie (1989)

1h 40m Action Animation Science Fiction

A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.

11. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)

1h 16m Animation Family Action Science Fiction

The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham's newest Dark Knight, Terry McGinnis, needs answers as he stands alone to face Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.

12. Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners - Overlooking View (2007)

13. Boogie (2009)

1h 34m Comedy Drama

A comedy of manners, its cast of characters devouring each other in a small world awash with big money. Set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene, it casts an eye over the appetites and morality of some of its major players. Dealers, collectors, artists, wannabees vie with each other in a world in which success and downfall rest on a thin edge.

14. Kiss the Girls (1997)

1h 55m Drama Mystery Thriller Crime

Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

15. Psycho-Pass (2012)

28m Sci-Fi & Fantasy Animation Action & Adventure

Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.

16. Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)

1h 15m Thriller Animation Action Crime

Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.

17. Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

1h 15m Animation Action Adventure

A collection of key events mark Bruce Wayne's life as he journeys from beginner to Dark Knight.

18. Batman: Year One (2011)

1h 4m Action Adventure Animation Crime

When Bruce Wayne and James Gordon move to Gotham City, the idealistic Wayne declares war on the city’s criminals, swiftly becoming Batman in the process.

19. Tightrope (1984)

1h 55m Mystery Thriller Crime

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

20. Jennifer 8 (1992)

2h 4m Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.

21. Ghost in the Shell (1995)

1h 23m Action Animation Science Fiction

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.

22. Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009)

1h 41m Animation Action

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and nowhere are the flames of hatred more intense than in the eyes of Sio.

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