Movies like Black Magic M-66 (1987)
The best movies like Black Magic M-66 (1987) are Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996), Robot Carnival (1987) and Baoh: The Visitor (1989). If Black Magic M-66 hooked you with its action and animation, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGhost in the Shell (1995)7.9/10 from 4,138 votes
- NewestBatman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (2025)Released 2025
- In JapaneseArmitage III: Poly Matrix (1996)Also in Japanese
Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996)
Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRobot Carnival (1987)
An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBaoh: The Visitor (1989)
Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old Ikuro, escapes with a psychic young girl named Sumire, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. The only problem for them is that BAOH has the ability to alter its host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving Ikuro acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH, alongside its host, must fight an army of commandos and psionics to get her back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGenocyber (1994)
As the nations of the world begin to merge, world peace is threatened by the private armies of individual corporations. The Kuryu Group has just discovered a weapon that will tip world power in their favor. The Genocyber: a nightmarish combination of cybernetics and psychic potential. Many desire to control this monstrosity, but can its hatred be contained... Battle erupts, and the cyberpunk world of the future is about to explode with violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Gall Force: Eternal Story (1986)
Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Venus Wars (1989)
The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She falls in with a bunch of teen-agers who live for a sort of motorcycle version of Roller Derby. Daredevil rider Hiro and his friends reluctantly join the struggle to free Aphrodia from the invaders. Not surprisingly, Hiro proves an ace at piloting the mono-cycles that are the Aphrodians' secret weapon in the key battle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAppleseed (1988)
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatlabor: The Movie (1989)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilent Möbius (1991)
In a futuristic Tokyo, a secret war is being waged against horrific demonic invaders dubbed the "Lucifer Hawk" by a small band of policewomen with unusual powers, the AMP. During a routine battle against one of these creatures, Katsumi Liqueur, finds herself under attack and flashes back to several years earlier when she first joined the AMP. Soon she will have to make some difficult choices concerning her destiny and her role in the AMP.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Guyver: Out of Control (1986)
One night, high school student Sho Fukamachi discovers a mysterious metal object. Then in a blinding flash of light, Sho finds that he has accidentally fused with the Guyver, a mecha of mysterious alien design. Now, to save his girlfriend, Mizuki Segawa, along with the entire world, Sho must become the Guyver to fight the Chronos Corporation and their biocreatures, called Zoanoids, who are hell-bent on world domination.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Metropolis (2001)
In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBe Forever Yamato (1980)
The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Lily C.A.T. (1987)
The crew of an interplanetary starship fights for survival after an alien force takes control of their craft.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
SnoozefestMovies like thisM.D. Geist (1986)
Geist (the main character) is MD-02, a Most Dangerous Soldier, genetically engineered to function as a killing machine, but every one of the MDS units went homicidally insane. As a result Geist was placed in suspended animation in a stasis pod orbiting the planet Jerra until it crashed several years later, awakening him and bringing him into another war on the planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Lensman (1984)
In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Goku II: Midnight Eye (1989)
Goku, the lone wolf private detective is back, contracted by Yoshiko, a mysterious, beautiful and very afraid woman, to find and save her brother, Ryu. Will Goku be able to protect Yoshiko from her step father's soldiers long enough to find her brother? Meanwhile Ryu, the unfortunate subject of a military experiment gone bad, leaves a trail of bodies behind him and has no intention of being found or saved by anyone. Will Goku have to kill the man he is supposed to save? Will even his omniscient cybernetic eye and sceptre be enough to help him defeat this indestructible killing machine?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & animation
Neo Tokyo (1989)
A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 action & animation
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGundress (1999)
In 2100, the newly built Bayside City serves as Japan's premier international port. The Angel Arms Company is established by a former policewoman named Takako, to help wage war on terrorism with armed security suits. When the mayor is assassinated, the women of Angel Arms end up protecting the evil crime-lord Hassan, in hopes that his information will help bring down a global terror ring. Takako's back is to the wall as a band of criminals plot to kill Hassan, and the organization's leader is revealed to be the former lover of Angel Arms' own Alisa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)
In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal apprehended, and for each successful mission done, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. Lead by Hasegawa, the new recruits: Sengoku, Gogul, and Benton will bring some hard justice to Oedo and possibly taste freedom again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAppleseed XIII: Tartaros (2011)
Following World War V, a global-scale conflict fought with non-nuclear weapons that almost halved the earth's population, the city-nation of Olympus stands as a beacon of hope in a world of chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Appleseed (2004)
In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoyal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise (1987)
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015)
In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. When the state of SEAUn brings the Sibyl System in to test its effectiveness, it becomes a haven of peace and safety—for a time. Eventually, terrorists from SEAUn begin appearing in Japan, somehow slipping through the System's security and attacking from within. Desperate for answers, Inspector Akane Tsunemori is sent overseas to bring the terrorists to justice. But when her investigation forces her into a standoff with an old ally, will she be able to pull the trigger?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGANTZ:O (2016)
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The Monarch is literally out for Dr Venture's blood. An imposing evil from the past reemerges to wreak havoc on the Ventures, The Guild, and even the Monarch marriage—it will take friends and foes alike to restore the Ventures' world to order… or end it once and for all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSuicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Amanda Waller's top-secret "Task Force X" — consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Copperhead — is on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they're willing to risk their lives to steal it. However, the Suicide Squad isn't the only group of villains seeking to possess the object. It's a race for the golden prize, and second place isn't an option if they want to stay alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBatman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (2025)
The Batman family has returned to the present to discover that Japan has disappeared, and a giant island - Hinomoto - is now in the sky over Gotham City. At the top sit the Yakuza, a group of superpowered individuals who reign without honor or humanity and look suspiciously like the Justice League. Now, it’s up to Batman and his allies to save Gotham!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInjustice (2021)
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Black Magic M-66?
The closest matches to Black Magic M-66 are Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996), Robot Carnival (1987) and Baoh: The Visitor (1989). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Black Magic M-66?
People who watched Black Magic M-66 most often go on to Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996), Robot Carnival (1987) and Baoh: The Visitor (1989).
What is the highest-rated movie like Black Magic M-66?
Ghost in the Shell (1995), rated 7.9/10 by 4,138 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Black Magic M-66?
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Black Magic M-66?
Yes: Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996), Robot Carnival (1987) and Baoh: The Visitor (1989).
How are movies similar to Black Magic M-66 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Black Magic M-66, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.