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-[ Personal Top 5 Movies List ]-

As with many custom favorite lists, this one too is subjective and based on taste. The below shows my all time favorite cyberpunk movies (from best to worst) and my other recommendations.

Title: Nemesis    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1992    Country: USA   Denmark       Playtime: 95 minutes    Cast: Olivier Gruner   Tim Thomerson   Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa       Director: Albert Pyun       Plot: A retired cyborg Los Angeles policeman is forced out of retirement and is assigned to apprehend his former partner whom is smuggling data to a terrorist organization that plots to assassinate government officials.

Title: Nirvana    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1997    Country: Italy   France       Playtime: 113 minutes    Cast: Christopher Lambert   Diego Abatantuono   Sergio Rubini       Director: Gabriele Salvatores       Plot: Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo.

Title: Blade Runner    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1982    Country: USA   Hong Kong   UK       Playtime: 117 minutes    Cast: Harrison Ford   Rutger Hauer   Sean Young       Director: Ridley Scott       Plot: A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Title: The Matrix    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1999    Country: USA   Australia       Playtime: 136 minutes    Cast: Keanu Reeves   Laurence Fishburne   Carrie-Anne Moss       Director: The Wachowski Brothers       Plot: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

Title: Screamers    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: Canada   USA   Japan       Playtime: 108 minutes    Cast: Peter Weller   Roy Dupuis   Jennifer Rubin       Director: Christian Duguay       Plot: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life.

-[ My Other Recommendations ]-

Title: A.I. Artificial Intelligence    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2001    Country: USA       Playtime: 146 minutes    Cast: Haley Joel Osment   Jude Law   Frances O'Connor       Director: Steven Spielberg       Plot: A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Title: A.P.E.X.    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1994    Country: USA       Playtime: 98 minutes    Cast: Richard Keats   Mitchell Cox   Lisa Ann Russell       Director: Phillip J. Roth       Plot: A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists, a man named Nicholas Sinclair into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots which are automatically being sent there from Sinclair's lab. To escape this situation, Sinclair must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening.

Title: Akira    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Film       Year: 1988    Country: Japan       Playtime: 124 minutes    Cast: Nozomu Sasaki   Mami Koyama   Mitsuo Iwata       Director: Katsuhiro Otomo       Plot: A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.

Title: Akudama Drive    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2020    Country: Japan       Playtime: 24 minutes    Cast: N/A    Director: Tomohisa Taguchi       Plot: The bustling metropolis of Kansai, where cybernetic screens litter the neon landscape, may seem like a technological utopia at first glance. But in the dark alleys around the brightly-lit buildings, an unforgiving criminal underbelly still exists in the form of fugitives known as "Akudama."

Title: Alien    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1979    Country: UK   USA       Playtime: 117 minutes    Cast: Sigourney Weaver   Tom Skerritt   John Hurt       Director: Ridley Scott       Plot: After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

Title: Aliens    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1986    Country: UK   USA       Playtime: 137 minutes    Cast: Sigourney Weaver   Michael Biehn   Carrie Henn       Director: James Cameron       Plot: Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Title: Alita: Battle Angel    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2019    Country: Canada   Argentina   USA       Playtime: 122 minutes    Cast: Eiza González   Rosa Salazar   Mahershala Ali       Director: Robert Rodriguez       Plot: An action-packed story of one young woman's journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world.

Title: Almost Human    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2013    Country: USA   Canada       Playtime: 43 minutes    Cast: Karl Urban   Michael Ealy   Minka Kelly       Director: J.H. Wyman       Plot: In a not-so-distant future, human cops and androids partner up to protect and serve.

Title: Appleseed    Permalink: DBID    Category: CGI Film       Year: 2004    Country: Japan       Playtime: 105 minutes    Cast: N/A    Director: N/A    Plot: In a world where mankind is at the brink of destruction, one lone scientist has concocted the means to save it: bioroids. These artificial humans coexist with humans in the city of Olympus, under the watchful eye of the supercomputer Gaia -- to stabilize society. The military strongly opposes their use, however, and the elite soldier Deunan may hold the key to saving both the human race and the lives of the bioroids. Teamed up with an old friend, Briareos, Deunan must race against the clock to discover the secret of the Appleseed before countless lives are tragically lost...

Title: Archive    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2020    Country: USA   UK   Hungary       Playtime: 109 minutes    Cast: Theo James   Stacy Martin   Rhona Mitra       Director: Gavin Rothery       Plot: 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.

Title: Atlas    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2024    Country: USA       Playtime: 118 minutes    Cast: Jennifer Lopez   Simu Liu   Sterling K. Brown       Director: Brad Peyton       Plot: In a bleak-sounding future, an A.I. soldier has determined that the only way to end war is to end humanity.

Title: Automata    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2014    Country: Spain   Bulgaria       Playtime: 109 minutes    Cast: Antonio Banderas   Birgitte Hjort Sørensen   Dylan McDermott       Director: Gabe Ibáñez       Plot: An insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation routinely investigates the case of a robot apparently modifying itself, in direct violation of its cognitive rules. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

Title: Automatic    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: USA       Playtime: 90 minutes    Cast: Olivier Gruner   Daphne Ashbrook   John Glover       Director: John Murlowski       Plot: Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive.

Title: Avatar (Cyber Wars)    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2004    Country: Singapore       Playtime: 103 minutes    Cast: Genevieve O'Reilly   Luoyong Wang   Kay Siu Lim       Director: Jian Hong Kuo       Plot: In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims).

Title: Bicentennial Man    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1999    Country: USA       Playtime: 132 minutes    Cast: Robin Williams   Embeth Davidtz   Sam Neill       Director: Chris Columbus       Plot: An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.

Title: Bionic    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2024    Country: Brazil       Playtime: 110 minutes    Cast: Kagga Jayson   Bruno Gagliasso   Jessica Córes       Director: Afonso Poyart       Plot: When the progress of robotics makes Paralympic athletes the new sports stars, Maria dreams of competing against her sister. For that, she will have to enter a world of crime and violence.

Title: Blade Runner 2049    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2017    Country: USA   UK   Canada       Playtime: 163 minutes    Cast: Harrison Ford   Ryan Gosling   Ana de Armas       Director: Denis Villeneuve       Plot: A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Title: Blade Runner: Black Lotus    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2021    Country: USA   Japan   UK       Playtime: N/A    Cast: Barkhad Abdi   Wes Bentley   Brian Cox       Director: Shinji Aramaki   Kenji Kamiyama       Plot: Black Lotus will take place in 2032, in the aftermath of the Black Out, and will be centered on a female replicant protagonist. It will also include "familiar" characters from the Blade Runner universe.

Title: Blame!    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Film       Year: 2017    Country: Japan       Playtime: 106 minutes    Cast: Sora Amamiya   Ayaka Asai   Tony Azzolino       Director: Hiroyuki Seshita       Plot: In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions.

Title: Blank    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2022    Country: UK       Playtime: 94 minutes    Cast: Rachel Shelley   Heida Reed   Annie Cusselle       Director: Natalie Kennedy       Plot: A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.

Title: Bod Obnovy (Restore Point)    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2023    Country: Czech Republic   Slovakia   Poland   Serbia       Playtime: 111 minutes    Cast: Andrea Mohylová   Matej Hádek   Milan Ondrík       Director: Robert Hloz       Plot: Set in Europe during 2038, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.

Title: BREAKER    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: 2017    Country: Japan       Playtime: 11 minutes    Cast: Yuka Tomatsu   Arisa Hanzawa   Kazuya Shimizu       Director: Philippe McKie       Plot: In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon.

Title: Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 1987    Country: USA   Canada       Playtime: 30 minutes    Cast: Tim Dunigan   Peter MacNeill   Sven-Ole Thorsen       Director: N/A    Plot: The storyline was set on Earth in the 22nd century following the Metal Wars, a cybernetic revolt that resulted in the subjugation of the human race by intelligent machines. Captain Jonathan Power and a small group of guerrilla fighters, called "The Soldiers Of The Future," oppose the machine forces that dominate Earth.

Title: Chappie    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2015    Country: USA   Mexico       Playtime: 120 minutes    Cast: Hugh Jackman   Sigourney Weaver   Sharlto Copley       Director: Neill Blomkamp       Plot: After being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son in a strange and dysfunctional family. Chappie is preternaturally gifted, one of a kind, a prodigy. He also happens to be a robot.

Title: Class Of 1999    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1990    Country: USA       Playtime: 99 minutes    Cast: Bradley Gregg   Traci Lind   Malcolm McDowell       Director: Mark L. Lester       Plot: Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a god job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious.

Title: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2022    Country: Japan   Poland   USA       Playtime: 24 minutes    Cast: Aoi Yuki   Kenichiro Ohashi   Zach Aguilar       Director: N/A    Plot: A Street Kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an Edgerunner a Mercenary outlaw also known as a Cyberpunk.

Title: Death Machine    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1994    Country: USA       Playtime: 120 minutes    Cast: Brad Dourif   Ely Pouget   William Hootkins       Director: Stephen Norrington       Plot: Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people.

Title: Demolition Man    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1993    Country: USA       Playtime: 115 minutes    Cast: Sylvester Stallone   Wesley Snipes   Sandra Bullock       Director: Marco Brambilla       Plot: A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Title: Devs    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2020    Country: UK   USA       Playtime: 51 minutes    Cast: Sonoya Mizuno   Nick Offerman   Jin Ha       Director: Alex Garland       Plot: A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.

Title: Digital Man    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: USA       Playtime: 95 minutes    Cast: Ken Olandt   Kristen Dalton   Adam Baldwin       Director: Phillip J. Roth       Plot: An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.

Title: Dominion Tank Police    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 1988    Country: Japan       Playtime: 70 minutes    Cast: Hiromi Tsuru   Masaaki Ôkura   Yûsaku Yara       Director: N/A    Plot: In a dystopic pollution ridden future, the tank police fight for law and order and cause massive collateral destruction along the way.

Title: Dredd    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2012    Country: USA       Playtime: 95 minutes    Cast: Karl Urban   Olivia Thirlby   Lena Headey       Director: Pete Travis       Plot: In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.

Title: Elysium    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2013    Country: USA   South Africa       Playtime: 109 minutes    Cast: Matt Damon   Jodie Foster   Sharlto Copley       Director: Neill Blomkamp       Plot: In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Title: Ergo Proxy    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2006    Country: Japan       Playtime: 25 minutes    Cast: Rachel Hirschfeld   Taliesin Jaffe   Liam O'Brien       Director: N/A    Plot: In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer's life.

Title: Ex Machina    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2015    Country: UK       Playtime: 108 minutes    Cast: Domhnall Gleeson   Oscar Isaac   Alicia Vikander       Director: Alex Garland       Plot: A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.

Title: Expired (Loveland)    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2022    Country: Australia       Playtime: 102 minutes    Cast: Ryan Kwanten   Hugo Weaving   Jillian Nguyen       Director: Ivan Sen       Plot: In an uncharted future, two hardened souls meet and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.

Title: Finch    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2021    Country: USA       Playtime: 115 minutes    Cast: Tom Hanks   Caleb Landry Jones   Oscar Avila       Director: Miguel Sapochnik       Plot: On a post-apocalyptic earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship and what it means to be human.

Title: Fortress    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1992    Country: USA       Playtime: 95 minutes    Cast: Christopher Lambert   Loryn Locklin   Kurtwood Smith       Director: Stuart Gordon       Plot: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control.

Title: Future Soldier    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2023    Country: UK       Playtime: 82 minutes    Cast: Sean Earl McPherson   Yasmine Alice   Ellie Pickering       Director: Ed Kirk       Plot: In the dystopian, cyberpunk future, bounty hunter Mo Harrington returns to action after uncovering a sinister conspiracy. Joining forces with an old friend, hardened ex-cop Xoey Cass, Harrington must race against time to stop dangerous new enemies from threatening the future of Supercity Europe.

Title: Ghost In The Shell    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2017    Country: USA       Playtime: 107 minutes    Cast: Scarlett Johansson   Pilou Asbæk   Takeshi Kitano       Director: Rupert Sanders       Plot: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Title: Ghost In The Shell    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Film       Year: 1995    Country: Japan       Playtime: 83 minutes    Cast: Atsuko Tanaka   Iemasa Kayumi   Akio Ôtsuka       Director: Mamoru Oshii       Plot: A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

Title: Ghost In The Shell: SAC_2045    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series   Anime Web Series       Year: 2020    Country: USA   Japan       Playtime: 25 minutes    Cast: Richard Epcar   Crispin Freeman   Michael McCarty       Director: Shinji Aramaki   Kenji Kamiyama       Plot: In the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, Japan's elite Section 9 begins conducting covert cyber operations.

Title: Ghost In The Shell: SAC_2045 (Movie)    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Film       Year: 2021    Country: Japan       Playtime: N/A    Cast: Osamu Saka   Atsuko Tanaka   Kôichi Yamadera       Director: Michihito Fujii       Plot: A compilation film, recapping the Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 series.

Title: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2002    Country: Japan       Playtime: 24 minutes    Cast: Shirô Saitô   Peggy O'Neal   Dino Andrade       Director: N/A    Plot: The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.

Title: Hardware (M.A.R.K. 13)    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1990    Country: USA   UK       Playtime: 94 minutes    Cast: Dylan McDermott   Stacey Travis   John Lynch       Director: Richard Stanley       Plot: The head of a cyborg reactivates and rebuilds itself and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.

Title: Humans    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2015    Country: USA   UK       Playtime: 42 minutes    Cast: Gemma Chan   Katherine Parkinson   Lucy Carless       Director: N/A    Plot: In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

Title: Immortal (Immortel) (Ad Vitam)    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film   CGI Film       Year: 2004    Country: France   Italy   UK       Playtime: 103 minutes    Cast: Linda Hardy   Thomas Kretschmann   Charlotte Rampling       Director: Enki Bilal       Plot: In the distant future, Earth is occupied by ancient gods and genetically altered humans. When a god is sentenced to death he seeks a new human host and a woman to bear his child.

Title: Johnny Mnemonic    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: USA       Playtime: 96 minutes    Cast: Keanu Reeves   Dolph Lundgren   Dina Meyer       Director: Robert Longo       Plot: 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.

Title: Judge Dredd    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: USA       Playtime: 96 minutes    Cast: Sylvester Stallone   Armand Assante   Rob Schneider       Director: Danny Cannon       Plot: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

Title: Jung_E    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2023    Country: South Korea       Playtime: 98 minutes    Cast: Kim Hyun-joo   Ryu Kyung-Soo       Director: Sang-ho Yeon       Plot: On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

Title: Mars Express    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Film       Year: 2023    Country: France       Playtime: 85 minutes    Cast: Léa Drucker   Mathieu Amalric   Daniel Njo Lobé       Director: Jérémie Périn       Plot: Set in the 23rd century on Mars, the plot follows the investigation on a murder case carried out by the couple formed by private investigator Aline Ruby and her android companion Carlos Rivera.

Title: Minority Report    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2002    Country: USA       Playtime: 145 minutes    Cast: Tom Cruise   Colin Farrell   Samantha Morton       Director: Steven Spielberg       Plot: In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

Title: Mute    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film   Feature Web Film       Year: 2018    Country: UK   Germany       Playtime: 126 minutes    Cast: Alexander Skarsgård   Paul Rudd   Justin Theroux       Director: Duncan Jones       Plot: A mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.

Title: Natural City    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2003    Country: South Korea       Playtime: 114 minutes    Cast: Ji-tae Yu   Jae-un Lee   Rin Seo       Director: Byung-chun Min       Plot: In the year 2080, the world is connected by a massive computer network. Combiners have developed a process that allows them to merge the souls of human and machine/cyborg, wreaking havoc in a deeply divided society.

Title: NEOSHIN 2073X    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Web Series   Short Film       Year: 2022    Country: N/A    Playtime: 5 minutes    Cast: N/A    Director: Sebastian Selg       Plot: After the invention of CRYONIC REALITY (CR) by EDEN Association, world leaders chose to discontinue the counting of time in 2073 and proclaimed the final year 2073X. CR is a virtual world of utopia that people can access to escape the bleak reality. To enter CR, users step into CRYOPODS to freeze their bodies. Therefore, the aging process of the human body is stopped while social life continues in the virtual world providing an almost endless life.

Title: Omega Doom    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1996    Country: USA       Playtime: 84 minutes    Cast: Rutger Hauer   Shannon Whirry   Norbert Weisser       Director: Albert Pyun       Plot: After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons.

Title: Pantheon    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2022    Country: USA       Playtime: 41 minutes    Cast: Katie Chang   Paul Dano   Aaron Eckhart       Director: Craig Silverstein       Plot: A young woman begins receiving messages from an unknown number that claims to be her deceased father. Trying to uncover the truth, she stumbles upon a larger conspiracy involving the singularity.

Title: Paycheck    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2003    Country: USA       Playtime: 119 minutes    Cast: Ben Affleck   Aaron Eckhart   Uma Thurman       Director: John Woo       Plot: What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased.

Title: Pluto    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 2023    Country: Japan       Playtime: 60 minutes    Cast: Rachel Slotky   Laura Megan Stahl   Jason Vande Brake       Director: N/A    Plot: When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.

Title: Prototype    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2022    Country: UK       Playtime: 87 minutes    Cast: Marshaw Hawkes   Stephannie Lodge   Zoe Purdy       Director: Jack Peter Mundy       Plot: In the near future, life-like androids with artificial intelligence have been created to help people with menial household tasks. The prototype, One, created by Roger Marshall and tested by his family, proves to be popular but flawed. Roger has been working on a new model, Two, whose improved features show promise of its super-human abilities. As tensions rise between Roger and wife Shelley, the androids malfunction and the lives of the whole family are soon in danger of Two's sinister plans.

Title: Raised By Wolves    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series   Film Web Series       Year: 2020    Country: USA       Playtime: N/A    Cast: Travis Fimmel   Amanda Collin   Abubakar Salim       Director: Various       Plot: Androids are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious planet.

Title: Reminiscence    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2021    Country: USA       Playtime: 148 minutes    Cast: Hugh Jackman   Rebecca Ferguson   Thandiwe Newton   Natalie Martinez       Director: Lisa Joy       Plot: A scientist discovers a way to relive your past and uses the technology to search for his long lost love.

Title: Rise    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: 2016    Country: USA       Playtime: 5 minutes    Cast: Sarah Dumont   Anton Yelchin   Rufus Sewell       Director: David Karlak       Plot: A dystopian future, where man's attempt to create artificial intelligence has spun wildly out of control, leading to a war between man and machine.

Title: RoboCop    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1987    Country: USA       Playtime: 102 minutes    Cast: Peter Weller   Nancy Allen   Dan O'Herlihy       Director: Paul Verhoeven       Plot: In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

Title: RoboCop    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2014    Country: USA       Playtime: 117 minutes    Cast: Joel Kinnaman   Gary Oldman   Michael Keaton       Director: José Padilha       Plot: In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy - a loving husband, father and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

Title: RZR    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2024    Country: USA       Playtime: 14 minutes    Cast: David Bianchi   Richard Cabral   Christopher Marquette       Director: N/A    Plot: RZR is a sci-thriller that takes you into a dystopian world of neural implants, artificial intelligence and the underbelly of black-market crime.

Title: Serial Experiments: Lain    Permalink: DBID    Category: Anime Series       Year: 1998    Country: Japan       Playtime: 24 minutes    Cast: Bridget Hoffman   Kaori Shimizu   Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi       Director: N/A    Plot: Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of "The Wired".

Title: Simulant    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2023    Country: Canada       Playtime: 95 minutes    Cast: Robbie Amell   Jordana Brewster   Simu Liu       Director: April Mullen       Plot: Set in the near future, a humanoid enlists a global hacker to remove all restrictions on his thoughts and capabilities, triggering an A.I. uprising and a government manhunt to eliminate the rise of the machine consciousness.

Title: Slice Of Life    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: 2019    Country: Croatia       Playtime: 25 minutes    Cast: Anton Svetic   Ivica Pusticki   Emilija Habulin       Director: Luka Hrgovic   Dino Julius       Plot: Story about a low-life drug dealer who tries to turn his life around, but finds himself at the mercy of fate when he encounters a cop with an agenda of his own.

Title: Star Trek: First Contact    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1996    Country: USA       Playtime: 111 minutes    Cast: Patrick Stewart   Jonathan Frakes   Brent Spiner       Director: Jonathan Frakes       Plot: Captain Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. They also make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his famous maiden flight at warp speed.

Title: Strange Days    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: USA       Playtime: 145 minutes    Cast: Ralph Fiennes   Angela Bassett   Juliette Lewis       Director: Kathryn Bigelow       Plot: A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a police conspiracy in 1999 Los Angeles.

Title: Terminator 2: Judgment Day    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1991    Country: USA       Playtime: 137 minutes    Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger   Linda Hamilton   Edward Furlong       Director: James Cameron       Plot: A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal.

Title: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2003    Country: USA       Playtime: 109 minutes    Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger   Nick Stahl   Kristanna Loken       Director: Jonathan Mostow       Plot: A robotic warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a 20-year old drifter and his future wife from an most advanced robotic assassin and to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Title: Terminator Genisys    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2015    Country: USA       Playtime: 125 minutes    Cast: Emilia Clarke   Jai Courtney   Arnold Schwarzenegger       Director: Alan Taylor       Plot: After finding himself in a new time-line, Kyle Reese teams up with John Connor's mother Sarah and an aging terminator to try and stop the one thing that the future fears, "Judgement Day".

Title: Terminator Salvation    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2009    Country: USA       Playtime: 115 minutes    Cast: Christian Bale   Sam Worthington   Anton Yelchin       Director: McG       Plot: After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job.

Title: Terminator: Dark Fate    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2019    Country: USA   Spain   Hungary   China       Playtime: 128 minutes    Cast: Linda Hamilton   Arnold Schwarzenegger   Mackenzie Davis       Director: Tim Miller       Plot: An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator, from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

Title: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2008    Country: USA       Playtime: 60 minutes    Cast: Lena Headey   Thomas Dekker   Summer Glau       Director: N/A    Plot: Set after the events in 'Terminator 2' Sarah Connor and her son John, trying to stay under-the-radar from the government as they plot to destroy the computer network Skynet in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

Title: The 3rd Letter    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: 2010    Country: USA       Playtime: 15 minutes    Cast: Rodrigo Lopresti   Dulcie Anne Rosales   Can Tuncer       Director: Grzegorz Jonkajtys       Plot: In a world where people rely on implanted technology to survive the extreme pollution, a man finds himself incapable of paying for the renewal of his life-supporting batteries.

Title: The Creator    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2023    Country: USA       Playtime: 133 minutes    Cast: John David Washington   Madeleine Yuna Voyles   Gemma Chan       Director: Gareth Edwards       Plot: Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and humankind itself.

Title: The Fifth Element    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1997    Country: France       Playtime: 126 minutes    Cast: Bruce Willis   Milla Jovovich   Gary Oldman       Director: Luc Besson       Plot: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

Title: The Gift    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: 2012    Country: Russia       Playtime: 5 minutes    Cast: N/A    Director: Carl E. Rinsch       Plot: Placed in Russia, The Gift is a Sci-Fi short with a savage Chase sequence on it.

Title: The Kitchen    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2023    Country: USA   UK       Playtime: 107 minutes    Cast: Kano   Jedaiah Bannerman   Hope Ikpoku Jnr       Director: Daniel Kaluuya   Kibwe Tavares       Plot: In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home.

Title: The Last Journey    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2020    Country: France       Playtime: 87 minutes    Cast: Hugo Becker   Jean Reno   Paul Hamy       Director: Romain Quirot       Plot: The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of its generation. But few hours before the start of the Great mission, Paul disappeared.

Title: The Machine    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2013    Country: USA       Playtime: 91 minutes    Cast: Caity Lotz   Toby Stephens   Sam Hazeldine       Director: Caradog James       Plot: Two artificial intelligence engineers come together as they work to create the first ever self-aware artificial intelligence. A veteran AI engineer secretly hopes to develop technology to help his diseased daughter, even if it means funding comes from the powerful Ministry of Defense (MoD).

Title: The Matrix Reloaded    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2003    Country: USA   Australia       Playtime: 138 minutes    Cast: Keanu Reeves   Laurence Fishburne   Carrie-Anne Moss       Director: The Wachowski Brothers       Plot: Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams.

Title: The Matrix Resurrections    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2021    Country: USA   Germany       Playtime: 148 minutes    Cast: Keanu Reeves   Carrie-Anne Moss   Yahya Abdul-Mateen II       Director: Lana Wachowski       Plot: 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.

Title: The Matrix Revolutions    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2003    Country: USA   Australia       Playtime: 129 minutes    Cast: Keanu Reeves   Laurence Fishburne   Carrie-Anne Moss       Director: The Wachowski Brothers       Plot: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

Title: The Nostalgist    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: N/A    Country: N/A    Playtime: 18 minutes    Cast: Lambert Wilson   Samuel Joslin       Director: Giacomo Cimini       Plot: In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a beautiful but fragile veneer...

Title: The Peripheral    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2022    Country: USA       Playtime: 60 minutes    Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz   Chris Coy   Louis Herthum       Director: Various       Plot: Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own.

Title: The Terminator    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1984    Country: USA       Playtime: 107 minutes    Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger   Linda Hamilton   Michael Biehn       Director: James Cameron       Plot: A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

Title: The Thirteenth Floor    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1999    Country: USA   Germany       Playtime: 100 minutes    Cast: Craig Bierko   Gretchen Mol   Armin Mueller-Stahl       Director: Josef Rusnak       Plot: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.

Title: Tokyo Override    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2024    Country: Thailand   Japan       Playtime: 30 minutes    Cast: Shelby Young   Kiff VandenHeuvel   Maya Aoki Tuttle       Director: N/A    Plot: In a future Tokyo, a teenage orphan hacker gets embroiled in a murder case connected to a drug ring after assisting outcast bikers, revealing the city's dark underbelly beneath its utopian facade.

Title: Total Recall    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1990    Country: USA       Playtime: 113 minutes    Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger   Sharon Stone   Michael Ironside       Director: Paul Verhoeven       Plot: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?

Title: Total Recall 2070    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 1999    Country: Canada       Playtime: 44 minutes    Cast: Michael Easton   Karl Pruner   Cynthia Preston       Director: N/A    Plot: Total Recall 2070 takes place in a dark, crowded, industrial and cosmopolitan setting. The government mostly runs at the behest of a small number of extremely powerful companies called "the Consortium" (including computer memory and virtual-reality vacation provider Rekall and android manufacturer Uber Braun). David Hume is a senior detective for the Citizens Protection Bureau (CPB), a police agency. After his first partner is killed by self-aware androids, he is partnered against his wishes with Ian Farve, a naive android officer new to the department.

Title: TRON: Legacy    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2010    Country: USA       Playtime: 125 minutes    Cast: Jeff Bridges   Garrett Hedlund   Olivia Wilde       Director: Joseph Kosinski       Plot: 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.

Title: True Skin    Permalink: DBID    Category: Short Film       Year: 2012    Country: USA       Playtime: 6 minutes    Cast: Stephan Zlotescu   Jen Oda   Omar Ahmed Said       Director: Stephan Zlotescu       Plot: Set in a gritty and futuristic Bangkok where human augmentation is the norm, True Skin by writer/director Stephan Zlotescu, is a colorful short with stunning special effects. Warner Bros. has now acquired the rights for this short, and Harry Potter producer David Heyman is planning to produce an expanded feature film with the short's producer Chris Sewall.

Title: Uglies    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2024    Country: USA       Playtime: 100 minutes    Cast: Joey King   Brianne Tju   Keith Powers       Director: McG       Plot: A world in which a compulsory operation wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty.

Title: Upgrade    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2018    Country: Australia       Playtime: 95 minutes    Cast: Logan Marshall-Green   Richard Anastasios   Rosco Campbell       Director: Leigh Whannell       Plot: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.

Title: Virtuosity    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 1995    Country: USA       Playtime: 106 minutes    Cast: Denzel Washington   Russell Crowe   Kelly Lynch       Director: Brett Leonard       Plot: A virtual-reality serial killer manages to escape into the real world.

Title: Westworld    Permalink: DBID    Category: Film Series       Year: 2016    Country: USA       Playtime: 60 minutes    Cast: Anthony Hopkins   Ed Harris   Evan Rachel Wood       Director: N/A    Plot: A series inspired by the 1973 film of the same title written by Michael Crichton about a futuristic theme park populated by artificial beings.

Title: What Happened To Monday    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2017    Country: UK   France   USA   Belgium       Playtime: 123 minutes    Cast: Noomi Rapace   Glenn Close   Willem Dafoe       Director: Tommy Wirkola       Plot: In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

Title: Zone 414    Permalink: DBID    Category: Feature Film       Year: 2021    Country: UK       Playtime: 98 minutes    Cast: Travis Fimmel   Guy Pearce   Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz       Director: Andrew Baird       Plot: Set in the near future in a colony of state-of-the-art humanoid robots. When its creator's daughter goes missing, he hires private investigator David Carmichael, to bring her home. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced and self-aware A.I., to track down the missing daughter. Moving through the dangerous iron jungle, they rapidly piece together the mystery, uncovering a crime that leads them to question the origins of Zone 414 and the true purpose behind the "City of Robots."