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1. Minority Report (2002)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
Votes: 584,416 | Gross: $132.07M
2. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
TV-MA | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Directors: Mizuho Nishikubo, Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 156,900 | Gross: $0.52M
3. Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.
Director: David Kerr | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson
Votes: 83,253 | Gross: $4.41M
4. Generation X (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The new teenage students at a school for mutants (normal-looking humans with fantastic powers) try to stop an evil scientist from controlling the world's dreams.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Matt Frewer, Finola Hughes, Jeremy Ratchford, Heather McComb
Votes: 2,031
5. Do Not Reply (2019)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
Chelsea, a teenager, is abducted through a social media app by Brad and is held captive with other girls who are to become victims in his virtual reality filmed murders.
Directors: Daniel Woltosz, Walter Woltosz | Stars: Amanda Arcuri, Jackson Rathbone, Kerri Medders, Elise Luthman
Votes: 1,590
6. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
TV-14 | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 15,248
7. Enter the Matrix (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The game's story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet, or just fight with lots of guns.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Mary Alice, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Don Battee
Votes: 4,115
8. Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017)
TV-14 | 119 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Kirito uncovers a conspiracy within Ordinal Scale, a popular AR game developed for a new system called The Augma.
Director: Tomohiko Itô | Stars: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Kanae Itô, Ayana Taketatsu
Votes: 8,985
9. Virtual Sexuality (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Laura Fraser, Rupert Penry-Jones, Luke de Lacey, Kieran O'Brien
Votes: 3,044 | Gross: $0.04M
10. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Spaceship crew members start dying because of an unknown defect in a virtual-reality device.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo
Votes: 4,220
11. Revelation (1999)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In this sequel to Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm (1998), Thorold Stone, a police officer in search for answers, joins a rebel group of Christians to thwart the Antichrist's plan to use virtual reality to solidify its power.
Director: André van Heerden | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Nick Mancuso, Tony Nappo, Carol Alt
Votes: 1,085 | Gross: $0.21M
12. Creative Control (2015)
R | 97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new Augmented Reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend's girlfriend...sort of.
Director: Benjamin Dickinson | Stars: Benjamin Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Dan Gill, Alexia Rasmussen
Votes: 2,283 | Gross: $0.06M
13. Let's Be Evil (2016)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A vision of augmented reality.
Director: Martin Owen | Stars: Sophie Willis, Jules Brown, Elizabeth Morris, Chase Bowman
Votes: 5,585
14. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (2017 Video Game)
M | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Monokuma's twisted killing game returns in a new school with a new cast of 16 ultimate students. However this time, the killing game will never end until only two or less remain alive.
Stars: Sayaka Kanda, Hikaru Midorikawa, Haruka Ishida, Hiro Shimono
Votes: 700
15. Chemical Wedding (2008)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A shy, stuttering professor brings Aleister Crowley back to life.
Director: Julian Doyle | Stars: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton
Votes: 1,685
16. Friends & Crocodiles (2005 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama
"Friends and Crocodiles" traces the changing relationship of maverick entrepreneur Paul Reynolds and his assistant Lizzie Thomas over a period of 20 years from the beginnings of the Thatcher era to the bursting of the dot.com bubble.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Damian Lewis, Jodhi May, Robert Lindsay, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 1,002
17. Ripper (1996 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Crime, Horror
Cyberpunk FMV adventure set in 2040. NYC reporter Jake Quinlan investigates a cyber serial killer inspired by Jack the Ripper. The game's three acts lead to an explosive climax in cyber space and four possible endings.
Director: Phil Parmet | Stars: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, David Patrick Kelly
Votes: 277
18. Cyber Vengeance (1995)
94 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A high-tech entrepreneur allows wealthy sportsmen to hunt inmates in a virtual-reality prison.
Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen | Stars: Robert Davi, Matthias Hues, J. Gregory Smith, Josh Mosby
Votes: 281
19. Superman (1999 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Family
The first 3D Superman game. Your friends Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Professor Emil Hamilton are trapped in the virtual reality machine by Lex Luthor. Superman must fly through hoops in the city, solve maze puzzles and fight villains.
Stars: Victor Brandt, Clancy Brown, Corey Burton, Tim Daly
Votes: 740
20. Expect to Die (1997)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
While the military tested a new Virtual Reality fighting simulator, testing is abruptly canceled when a soldier loses his life. Its creator goes underground to continue developing the device, until two detectives break try to stop them.
Director: Jalal Merhi | Stars: Jalal Merhi, David Bradley, Evan Lurie, Laurina Hanson
Votes: 211
21. Ghost Machine (2009)
R | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two technicians battle a vengeful spirit that has infected their stolen military software.
Director: Chris Hartwill | Stars: Sean Faris, Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford, Richard Dormer
Votes: 1,933
22. Making 'The Matrix' (1999 TV Short)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Sci-Fi
A promotional making-of documentary for the film Matrix, The (1999) that devotes its time to explaining the digital and practical effects contained in the film. This is very interesting, ... See full summary »
Director: Josh Oreck | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, Barrie M. Osborne, Joel Silver
Votes: 13,903
23. Darkdrive (1997)
R | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Set in the near future, one man must restore order when a mainframe system crashes in a virtual reality prison where computers control the inmates' thoughts.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Claire Stansfield, Nick Eldredge, Ken Olandt
Votes: 553
24. The Lawnmower Man (1993 Video Game)
GA | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In this direct sequel to The Lawnmower Man (1992), Jobe takes over cyberspace, kidnaps the characters from the movie and imprisons them in his world. Dr. Angelo in his avatar form must overcome Jobe's traps and puzzles to save them.
Director: Fergus McNeill | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Rosalee Mayeux, Dean Norris, Austin O'Brien
Votes: 119
25. Observer (2017 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A burnt-out cop investigates what caused a rundown apartment building to go under automatic lockdown, which brings him face-to-face with the ghosts from his past.
Director: Mariusz Szaflik | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Brandon Fague, Kristin Lennox
Votes: 619
26. Danganronpa 4K: Hopeless Rising (2021 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young amnesiac boy named Minato Souta, awakens inside Ultimate Academy the 2nd within a developed new killing game series (within Team Danganronpa II alongside Torna between another ... See full summary »
Director: Kazutaka Kodaka | Stars: Zach Aguilar, Mai Fuchigami, Todd Haberkorn, Yumiri Hanamori
27. Game Therapy (2015)
97 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A man tries to cure his friend of his video-game obsession by using a virtual reality machine. When the device traps his friend in a virtual world, he goes in to help him fight for his life.
Director: Ryan Travis | Stars: Lorenzo Ostuni, Federico Clapis, Leonardo Decarli, Elisa Piazza
Votes: 837
28. Initials SG (2019)
TV-MA | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An aging, Argentine, Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles to deal with a career he can't seem to get on track, an affair he doesn't want and a crime he didn't mean to commit.
Directors: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia | Stars: Diego Peretti, Julianne Nicholson, Daniel Fanego, Francisco Lumerman
Votes: 396
29. Club Dead (1994 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A series of suspicious, bizarre suicides is plaguing Metacorp's elite cyberpunk hotel resort. Unhinged security chief Scudder has only one suspect in mind - ex con Sam Frost. To prove his innocence, Sam must crack this mystery himself.
Director: Gregory Harrison | Stars: Andrew Micheli, Wendy James, Nick Offerman, Jeffrey Frace
Votes: 21
30. Cyber Wars (2004)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future Singapore, CyberLink is used for communication (sometimes virtual reality), monetary transaction and records of all citizens. Headhunter Dash is commissioned to find Edward Chan. Why are so many interested in him?
Director: Jian Hong Kuo | Stars: Genevieve O'Reilly, Luoyong Wang, Lim Kay Siu, David Warner
Votes: 673
31. Mission Zero (2007)
8 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
Pirelli's promotional short movie. After leaving her house on a quiet morning Uma Thurman is being pursued by two strange figures who shoot at her.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Uma Thurman, Jason Maltas, Mathew Vigil, Kevin Kazakoff
Votes: 527
32. Robin and the Dreamweavers (2000)
75 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Robin, the first girl born in Cyberspace, becomes a virtual DJ for Brenda Plump's new virtual reality nightclub. However, she soon gains the attention of the leather-clad dominatrix XXX (... See full summary »
Director: Kamoon Song | Stars: Kathleen Barr, Paul Dobson, Janyse Jaud, Scott McNeil
Votes: 32
33. Reboot (1998 Video Game)
E | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story on the earlier days of Bob in Mainframe.
Stars: Kathleen Barr, Michael Benyaer, Garry Chalk, Ian James Corlett
Votes: 41
34. Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (1994 Video Game)
Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Dystopian FMV-lite point and click adventure game. By 2095, America has become a fascist theocracy. Two government enforcers are forced to join the underground resistance movement after someone orders the secret police to kill them.
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder
Votes: 48
35. The Nomad Soul (1999 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Omikron is a massive city-state in which the people are ruled blindly by an ancient supercomputer and a communist dictator with an iron fist who carries out the computer's orders. Little do... See full summary »
Director: David Cage | Stars: David Bowie, David Gasman, Paul Bandey, Karen Strassman
Votes: 274
36. Bubsy (1993 TV Movie)
30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Bubsy Tries to save the world while also babysitting for his nephew and niece.
Director: Tom Burton | Stars: Jim Cummings, Pat Fraley, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen
Votes: 248
37. Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie (1995 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a cyberpunk future mnemonics are couriers hired to carry sensitive data uploaded in their cybernaticaly enhanced brains. Johnny's latest job is going to get him killed fast unless he extracts the data asap. But he needs a code to do it.
Director: Douglas Gayeton | Stars: Chris Gartin, Clare Carey, Yvonne de la Vega, Bruce Glover
Votes: 43
38. .hack//G.U. Last Recode (2017 Video Game)
T | Animation, Action, Drama
Director: Hiroshi Matsuyama | Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Bridget Hoffman, Jamieson Price, Johnny Yong Bosch
Votes: 49
39. Music and Apocalypse (2019)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
The shape of planet Earth is not perfectly spherical. It rather looks like a potato. Climate scientist Phoebe Phaidon starts with a teaching contract at the Institute for Cybernetics at ... See full summary »
Director: Max Linz | Stars: Sarah Ralfs, Sophie Rois, Philipp Hauß, Bernd Moss
Votes: 187
40. Caught Looking (1992)
35 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A man sits at his computer and logs onto the interactive game "Caught Looking." He watches as he guides his virtual self through passages, in black and white. He considers but passes on ... See full summary »
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Louis Selwyn, Bette Bourne, Derek Van Weenen, Ken Geary
Votes: 115
41. Minority Report (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the future, where crimes can be predicted and thus non existent, police chief John Anderton must go on the run when he's predicted to murder a man.
Stars: Clancy Brown, Quinton Flynn, Daran Norris, Jay Gordon
Votes: 163
42. VR Free (2019)
10 min | Short
An immersive exploration of the incarceration spaces, inside the Turin prison. The film also captures the reactions of few inmates, while they watch scenes from life outside of prison, through VR headsets.
Director: Milad Tangshir
43. Perspective (VII) (2011)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A tribute to the Cyberpunk genre.
Director: Mehmet Can Kocak | Stars: Mehmet Can Kocak, Ilhan Sen, Nazim Cinar
Votes: 45
44. Virtually (2019)
25 min | Short, Romance, Sci-Fi
A woman struggling to survive alone in a post-apocalyptic wasteland discovers a virtual-reality machine and escapes from her loneliness into a scenic virtual world. When she falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Hogan | Stars: Katie Savoy, Wolé Parks
Votes: 66
45. Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace (2004 Video)
120 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
From Odessa Filmworks, the award winning team that brought the world Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy and rewrote the gospel of Canadian filmmaking with Jesus Christ, ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Demarbre | Stars: Phil Caracas, Nancy Riehle, Emma Maloney, Jeff Moffet
Votes: 105
46. FlySpy (2016)
20 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A young genius deviant uses a radio controlled drone fly with a camera in its head to spy on his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Daniel M. Smith | Stars: Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Hoare, Lewis Rainer, Carolin Ott
Votes: 85
47. Shadowrun (1994 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sega Genesis RPG about Joshua, a Shadowrunner out to discover who murdered his brother.
Star: Karyn Mason
Votes: 105
48. Shadowrun Returns (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Action adventure cyberpunk rpg with turn-based combat. A runner hires the player, a former teammate, to solve his murder. This takes the player to corrupt Seattle where a strange serial killer roams and dark spirits hide.
Director: Jordan Weisman
Votes: 222
49. MegaRace (1994 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
In the future, the number one show on television is a virtual reality car combat and racing simulator called MegaRace. The viewers use their VR sets to participate in the races and deathmatches. Enigmatic Lance Boyle hosts the show.
Director: Remi Herbulot | Star: Christian Erickson
Votes: 66
50. Some Where in Time (2015– )
Fantasy
Using VR in as many different ways as possible.
Stars: Joyce Chow, Joell Posey