Release Date: 2002-09-14

Overview: Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

Rating: 7.841 (917 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-01

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.812 (2606 votes)

Release Date: 2003-12-05

Overview: On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Rating: 7.92 (1363 votes)

Release Date: 1997-07-19

Overview: SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

Rating: 8.3 (1699 votes)

Release Date: 1985-12-22

Overview: In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.

Rating: 7.8 (446 votes)

Release Date: 2012-07-21

Overview: After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

Rating: 8.22 (2350 votes)

Release Date: 1997-07-12

Overview: Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Rating: 8.327 (8437 votes)

Release Date: 2020-09-18

Overview: As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.

Rating: 8.3 (454 votes)

Release Date: 1988-06-10

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.941 (4449 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-21

Overview: Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

Rating: 7.4 (383 votes)

Release Date: 2000-06-24

Overview: Gaea is a mythical realm ruled by sword and sorcery and immersed in blood and violence. Thrust into a conflict she doesn't quite understand, Hitomi Kanzaki helps aid the young Prince Van as they embark upon a journey to fight the Black Dragon Clan. The battle over a legendary suit of dragon armor, Escaflowne, has begun.

Rating: 6.731 (134 votes)

Release Date: 2023-04-02

Overview: Part parody, part tribute, this lesbian period drama set in modern-day Brighton tells the story of a lady whose life is turned upside down when she meets a charismatic artist with a dubious French accent.

Rating: 3 (1 votes)

Release Date: 1995-11-18

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.929 (3584 votes)

Release Date: 2001-09-05

Overview: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Rating: 7.3 (1161 votes)

Release Date: 1966-10-18

Overview: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Rating: 8.15 (2276 votes)

Release Date: 1958-01-29

Overview: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Rating: 7.617 (642 votes)

Release Date: 1997-03-15

Overview: 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 after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.

Rating: 7.4 (462 votes)

Release Date: 1957-08-28

Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Rating: 8.1 (1696 votes)

Release Date: 2004-03-06

Overview: Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."

Rating: 7.342 (907 votes)

Release Date: 1997-05-30

Overview: A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.

Rating: 7.567 (727 votes)