Movies like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)
The best movies like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009) are 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009), 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008) and Another Gantz (2011). If 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption hooked you with its adventure and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedInception (2010)8.4/10 from 40,715 votes
- NewestChiwawa-chan (2019)Released 2019
- In Japanese20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)Also in Japanese
- Same series20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)20th Century Boys
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as detailed in the New Book of Prophecy.
Why it matches: Same series: 20th Century Boys · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like this20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
Why it matches: Same series: 20th Century Boys · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnother Gantz (2011)
Before finding out the Perfect Answer, discover Another Gantz. Aired on Nippon Television network before the theatrical release of Gantz: The Perfect Answer, this film is an alternate perspective version of the first Gantz film from the same writing-directing team of the two-part theatrical film. In addition to condensed scenes from the Gantz film, Another Gantz features a new subplot that follows an investigative journalist not included in the theatrical film. Delving deep into the mystery, Another Gantz offers another piece towards solving the complex puzzle that is the world of Gantz.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSummer Vacation 1999 (1988)
With no families to return to for summer vacation, three teenage boys spend their summer at their boarding school, alone and unsupervised. Darkness hangs over them after another boy shows up, who looks exactly like one of their classmates who had committed suicide months earlier. His arrival exposes the romances, jealousies, and tensions of growing up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDetective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black (2007)
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Initial D: Third Stage (2001)
With high school graduation right around the corner, Takumi Fujiwara has a lot on his mind and a lot to prepare for. Everything becomes even more complicated when Takumi is offered a spot on Ryosuke Takahashi's elite Kengai Racing Team, which seeks to assemble the greatest racers in the Gunma area for a tour of Japan's mountain passes. Before he can accept however, Takumi feels the need to settle the score with the Lancer Evo driving Emperor team, defend his downhill-racer crown against the son of his father's greatest rival, and finally settle things with his unfaithful girlfriend Natsuki.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTomie: Another Face (1999)
Tomie is a mysterious, beautiful girl you just can't get rid of. She will come to your life from nowhere, and whatever you do, kill her or love her, she will come back to you in the end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
1-Ichi (2003)
In this prequel we witness the teenage roots of Ichi's manic-depressive beginnings and the origins of his monster-sized kicks and his anger, his psychological, as well as physical, beatings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisErased (2016)
Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Chiwawa-chan (2019)
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeath Note (2006)
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)
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 elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost in the Shell (1995)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLiar Game: Reborn (2012)
To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Cutie Honey (2004)
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaplace's Witch (2018)
An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at both sites, a scientific mystery begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlatinum Data (2013)
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of DNA analysis. He works at the DNA analysis institution run by the National Police Agency. When the inventor of the DNA analysis system is murdered, Ryuhei Kagura's own DNA is found at the murder scene. Ryuhei Kagura becomes the prime suspect and then he becomes a fugitive. Veteran detective Reiji Asama goes in pursuit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & science fiction
Suspect X (2008)
A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSPEC: Heaven (2012)
Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Inception (2010)
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisChaos (2000)
A kidnapping for ransom seemingly goes off without a hitch, but as one thread left unsolved suddenly reveals many more mysteries, the whole operation threatens to descend into chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
August in the Water (1995)
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAllegiant (2016)
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBatman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDivergent (2014)
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat Happened to Monday (2017)
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like this
Like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption and something else?
Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption?
The closest matches to 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption are 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009), 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008) and Another Gantz (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption?
People who watched 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption most often go on to Another Gantz (2011), Summer Vacation 1999 (1988) and Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption?
Inception (2010), rated 8.4/10 by 40,715 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption?
Chiwawa-chan (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Is 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to 20th Century Boys, which includes 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009) and 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008).
Are there Japanese movies like 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption?
Yes: 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009), 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008) and Another Gantz (2011).
How are movies similar to 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.