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Series like Altered Carbon (2018) Finished Altered Carbon and want that feeling again? These are ranked by what it is actually about — its themes, its pacing, the kind of person at the centre of it — rather than the genre it was filed under. Every match says what it shares with Altered Carbon, and what it does not.
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Corporate power Personal identity Cyberpunk Sci-fi mystery Neo noir Power dynamics Manipulator Identity Your best matches Ranked against what Altered Carbon is actually about, not its genre labels.
2022 · Series · Animation · Crime
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Why it matches Built around the same corporate power and moral ambiguity Also cyberpunk at heart Also about identity More matches Each with the traits it shares with your pick.
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Centres on the same antihero figure What's different Not about class or power dynamics Not really neo noir or sci-fi mystery More violent Where it streams Netflix Netflix Standard with Ads Why this ranked above the others
The best-reviewed of the set when ranked against Altered Carbon.
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1987 · Film · Action · Thriller
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Why it matches Also cyberpunk at heart Centres on the same antihero figure Shares its cathartic and bleak register Builds as slowly What's different Not built around moral ambiguity or personal identity Not about class or power dynamics More violent Why this ranked above the others
The closest tonal match of the set when ranked against Altered Carbon.
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2005 · Film · Thriller · Crime
Worth a look
Why it matches Also neo noir at heart Told the same way, nonlinear Built around the same moral ambiguity Centres on the same antihero figure What's different Not really cyberpunk or sci-fi mystery Not about class or power dynamics More violent Why this ranked above the others
The closest tonal match of the set when ranked against Altered Carbon.
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Told the same way, nonlinear Built around the same moral ambiguity Black Mirror 2011
Told the same way, mockumentary Built around the same moral ambiguity Locked Up 2015
Centres on the same antihero figure Shares its bleak register Skins 2007
Also about identity Built around the same moral ambiguity Black Lagoon 2006
Built around the same moral ambiguity Centres on the same antihero figure Pantheon 2022
Also about identity Told the same way, mockumentary
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