Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "virtual-world"

1. Inception (2010)

PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe

Votes: 2,552,132 | Gross: $292.58M

2. The Matrix (1999)

R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 2,054,295 | Gross: $171.48M

3. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)

R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.

Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff

Votes: 279,707

4. Ready Player One (2018)

PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe

Votes: 486,532 | Gross: $137.69M

5. Total Recall (1990)

R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 354,724 | Gross: $119.39M

6. Upload (2020– )

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After his premature death, a man's consciousness is uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets comfortable with his surroundings, questions about his death arise.

Stars: Robbie Amell, Andy Allo, Allegra Edwards, Zainab Johnson

Votes: 80,320

7. Tron: Legacy (2010)

PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner

Votes: 356,001 | Gross: $172.06M

8. Overlord (2015–2022)

TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When a popular MMORPG is scheduled to be shut down permanently, veteran player Momonga refuses to log out. As NPCs begin to develop personalities and minds of their own he decides to put his skills to use as the game's new overlord.

Stars: Satoshi Hino, Chris Guerrero, Yumi Hara, Masayuki Katô

Votes: 13,720

9. Dark City (1998)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt

Votes: 212,365 | Gross: $14.38M

10. Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

PG | 115 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A rogue artificial intelligence kidnaps the son of famed basketball player LeBron James, who then has to work with Bugs Bunny to win a basketball game.

Director: Malcolm D. Lee | Stars: LeBron James, Don Cheadle, Cedric Joe, Khris Davis

Votes: 80,382 | Gross: $70.59M

11. Brainscan (1994)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith, Amy Hargreaves

Votes: 12,916 | Gross: $4.26M

12. Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)

PG | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Daryl Sabara, Alexa PenaVega, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino

Votes: 66,279 | Gross: $111.76M

13. Assassin's Creed (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 208,933 | Gross: $54.65M

14. Sword Art Online (2012– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the year 2022, thousands of people get trapped in a new virtual MMORPG and the lone wolf player, Kirito, works to escape.

Stars: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Bryce Papenbrook, Cherami Leigh

Votes: 52,720

15. The Amazing Digital Circus (2023– )

TV-PG | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A woman gets trapped in a crazy virtual world along with five other humans and are now subject to the whims of wacky AI and their own personal traumas.

Stars: Lizzie Freeman, Alex Rochon, Michael Kovach, Amanda Hufford

Votes: 3,374

16. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

R | 100 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.

Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 77,311 | Gross: $15.50M

17. Belle (2021)

PG | 121 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U", a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Kaho Nakamura, Ryo Narita, Shôta Sometani, Tina Tamashiro

Votes: 17,148

18. Shangri-La Frontier (2023–2024)

25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

High schooler Rakuro loves beating bad games. But can he discover all the secrets hidden in a best-selling VR game?

Stars: Yuma Uchida, Eric Vale, Azumi Waki, Rina Hidaka

Votes: 1,763

19. Caprica (2009–2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences.

Stars: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani

Votes: 26,190

20. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

Director: Robert Longo | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Dina Meyer, Ice-T

Votes: 76,218 | Gross: $19.08M

21. Brainstorm (1983)

PG | 106 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly.

Director: Douglas Trumbull | Stars: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson

Votes: 13,129 | Gross: $8.90M

22. The Final Cut (2004)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in a world with memory recording implants, Alan Hakman is a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.

Director: Omar Naim | Stars: Robin Williams, Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk

Votes: 34,510 | Gross: $0.55M

23. Log Horizon (2013–2021)

TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

30,000 Japanese players trapped in MMORPG, unable to log out. Veteran gamer Shiroe leads exploration of this new reality, negotiating with NPCs to bring order to the virtual city of Akihabara.

Stars: Jad Saxton, Mike Yager, Jôji Nakata, Andrew Love

Votes: 4,756

24. Code Lyoko (2003–2007)

TV-Y7 | 26 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When a group of four boarding school students discover a supercomputer housed inside an abandoned factory, they find a virtual world called Lyoko and awaken a sentient multi-agent system virus that tries to take over the real world.

Stars: Sharon Mann, Mirabelle Kirkland, Matthew Géczy, Barbara Scaff

Votes: 5,756

25. Summer Wars (2009)

PG | 114 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa

Votes: 31,789 | Gross: $0.08M

26. Uncle from Another World (2022–2023)

TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After being in a coma for 17 years, Takafumi's middle-aged uncle suddenly wakes up speaking an unrecognizable language and wielding magical powers.

Stars: Takehito Koyasu, Jun Fukuyama, Feodor Chin, Mikako Komatsu

Votes: 2,387

27. Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001 Video)

Unrated | 74 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Scooby and the gang get trapped in a video game created for them, they must fight against the 'Phantom Virus'. To escape the game they must go level by level and defeat the game once and for all.

Director: Jim Stenstrum | Stars: Scott Innes, Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Grey Griffin

Votes: 9,670

28. Fabricated City (2017)

Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After Kwon, an exceptional gamer, is wrongly framed for murder, he along with his allies decides to find the real culprit and prove his innocence.

Director: Kwang-Hyun Park | Stars: Ji Chang-wook, Shim Eun-kyung, Ahn Jae-hong, Min-Jung Bae

Votes: 6,690 | Gross: $0.10M

29. And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online? (2016)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance

Hideki Nishimura, who plays the Legendary Age game under the pseudonym Rusian, vowed to renounce online marriages after confessing to a girl that he claimed to be a boy in real life.

Stars: Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Rina Hidaka, Inori Minase, Mao Ichimichi

Votes: 1,582

30. Gantz (2004)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Drama

After their deaths, two teens are transported to an apartment with an ominous black sphere and must participate in a gory alien-hunting "game."

Stars: Hiroshi Kamiya, Daisuke Namikawa, John Swasey, Chris Ayres

Votes: 8,638

31. The Jurassic Games (2018)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.

Director: Ryan Bellgardt | Stars: Ryan Merriman, Perrey Reeves, Adam Hampton, Katie Burgess

Votes: 3,076

32. Café (II) (2011)

TV-14 | 95 min | Drama

When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe's regulars come to realize how intertwined their lives truly are.

Director: Marc Erlbaum | Stars: Daniel Eric Gold, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Hubbel Palmer, Richard Short

Votes: 2,664

33. Demon Lord, Retry! (2019–2024)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

On the night of his favorite game's shutdown, Akira Oono awakens in the body of his online character: Demon Lord Hakuto Kunai.

Stars: Kenjirô Tsuda, Jessie James Grelle, Natalie Hoover, Kristen McGuire

Votes: 1,088

34. Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (2022– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

A young man is transported into a video game world dominated by females.

Stars: Takeo Otsuka, Kana Ichinose, Fairouz Ai, Jordan Dash Cruz

Votes: 1,669

35. Kiss Me First (2018)

TV-MA | 46 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A lonely video game addict new to the online world of Azana meets a confident party girl with a dark secret.

Stars: Tallulah Haddon, Simona Brown, Matthew Beard, Freddie Stewart

Votes: 4,221

36. Black Heaven (2010)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.

Director: Gilles Marchand | Stars: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne

Votes: 2,155

37. Accel World (2012–2023)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Romance

Haruyuki is an overweight kid and at bottom of food chain at his middle school. Within sci-fi setting of real world he often seeks refuge in a virtual one.

Stars: Stephanie Sheh, Erik Scott Kimerer, Kira Buckland, Lucien Dodge

Votes: 2,373

38. Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared.

Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach

Votes: 3,672

39. In the Land of Leadale (2022)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The previously bedridden Keina Kagami finds herself in the world of her favorite VRMMORPG-titled Leadale-after the life support keeping her alive fails. Reincarnated in the body of her ... See full summary »

Stars: Xanthe Huynh, Eri Yukimura, Yui Otagiri, Takayuki Miyamoto

Votes: 725

40. Code Lyoko Evolution (2013)

24 min | Animation, Action

A part live-action sequel to the original 2003 series. The famous band of secret heroes are back with new Lyoko Warrior William Dunbar to fight the reawakened evil computer virus XANA.

Stars: Léonie Berthonnaud, Marin Lafitte, Gulliver Bevernaege-Benhadj, Quentin Merabet

Votes: 512

41. Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense (2020–2023)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Maple doesn't want to experience pain in the VRMMO game she started playing, so she puts all her skill points into defense until she can't even move. Somehow it works better than anyone expected. Now she's got followers??

Stars: Kaede Hondo, Ruriko Noguchi, Saori Hayami, Noriaki Sugiyama

Votes: 2,433

42. Shelter (2016 Video)

6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A lonely teenager whose entire existence is a series of futuristic simulations learns the heartbreaking truth behind her life in isolation.

Director: Toshifumi Akai | Star: Sachika Misawa

Votes: 834

43. She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (2022)

TV-14 | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Kagami Sakimori wakes up inside of his fave MMO only to find that his test looks saved. Now, he's his old character's pupil...and a girl.

Stars: Nichika Ohmori, Felecia Angelle, Ayumu Murase, Junichi Saitou

Votes: 353

44. Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life! (2021– )

TV-14 | Animation, Action, Comedy

Yuuki Hiroshi has just picked up Kiwame Quest, the realest VRMMO ever made. But this RPG is TOO lifelike; he can smell, taste, feel, and when he's hurt in it, his physical body is hurt too.... See full summary »

Stars: Daiki Yamashita, Fairouz Ai, Ayana Taketatsu, Haruki Ishiya

Votes: 604

45. 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

46. Suicide Room (2011)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Thriller

After suffering extreme humiliation at school, Dominik holes himself up in his room and begins spending all his time in a virtual reality chat room.

Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Agata Kulesza, Christoph Pieczynski

Votes: 11,566

47. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (2020– )

TV-14 | Animation, Action, Adventure

Yuna was transported into a VRMMO game after getting a special bear suit. Now, she's reaching new heights and is ready for more adventures.

Stars: Lindsay Seidel, Marissa Lenti, Xanthe Huynh, Yung-I Chang

Votes: 591

48. Play (2019 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama

Seventeen-year-old Jennifer recently moved to a new city with her parents, but finds no connection with her new classmates. The dreamy and in social interaction with others insecure and shy... See full summary »

Director: Philip Koch | Stars: Emma Bading, Oliver Masucci, Victoria Mayer, Jonas Hämmerle

Votes: 239

49. 2047: Virtual Revolution (2016)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

In a future mega city, where most people spend most time hooked up to a virtual world, an agent, employed by a corporation supplying virtual reality, is busy tracking down killers/terrorists, both in the virtual and real world.

Director: Guy-Roger Duvert | Stars: Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, Jochen Hägele, Maximilien Poullein

Votes: 2,007

50. The Melee Mage (2023– )

15 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

He is a great fighter in real life, but he is mistakenly assigned a "Mage" job class in a virtual reality game. He is someone who uses power to conquer power, so he makes the most out of ... See full summary »

Votes: 8