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10 Best Movies Like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War

2021★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man for fans of Animation & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, ...

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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone

2014★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man for fans of Animation & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concernin...

#3
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

2007★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man for fans of Animation & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an...

#4
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man for fans of Animation & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of ...

#5
Battle Angel

Battle Angel

1993★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man for fans of Animation & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In his travels as a bounty hunter, Hunter–Warrior and cyborg healer Ido one day discovers and repairs the remnants of a cyborg whom he names Gally. Though possessing the body of a ...

#6
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man for fans of Animation & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-p...

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