List of films about computers

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This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films in which activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot.

Artificial intelligence plots

Motion picture

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    • HAL 9000
  • The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
  • Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
  • The Questor Tapes (1974)
  • Demon Seed (1977)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Tron (1982)
  • WarGames (1983)
  • Brainstorm (1983)
  • 2010 (1984)
    • HAL 9000
    • SAL 9000
  • Hide and Seek (1984, TV movie)
  • Electric Dreams (1984)
  • The Terminator (1984)
    • Terminator
    • Skynet
  • D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
  • Flight of the Navigator (1986)
  • Short Circuit (1986)
  • Not Quite Human (1987)
  • Short Circuit 2 (1988)
  • Not Quite Human II (1989)
  • Still Not Quite Human (1992)
  • Arcade (1993)
  • Star Trek Generations (1994)
  • Hackers (1995)
  • Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
  • The Net (1995)
  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
  • Enemy of the State (1998)
  • Lost in Space (1998)
  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
  • Bicentennial Man (1999)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
  • Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
  • Virus (1999)
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  • How to Make a Monster (2001)
  • Swordfish (2001)
  • S1M0NE (2002)
  • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
  • The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
  • The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
  • I Robot (2004)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
  • Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
  • Eagle Eye (2008)
  • Iron Man (2008)
  • Moon (2009)
    • GERTY 3000
  • Iron Man 2 (2010)
  • Person Of Interest (2011-2016)
  • Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
  • Computer Chess (2013)
  • Her (2013)
  • Iron Man 3 (2013)
  • The Machine (2013)
  • Automata (2014)
  • Transcendence (2014)
  • Interstellar (2014)
  • Vice (2015)
  • Ex Machina (2015)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
  • Morgan (2016)

Television series

  • Person Of Interest (2011-2016)
  • Next (2020)
  • Mrs. Davis (2023)

Computers as plot devices

Motion picture

  • Desk Set (1957)
  • The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
  • Alphaville (1965)
  • Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
  • The Andromeda Strain (1971)
  • Cloak & Dagger (1984)
  • Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
  • The Machine That Changed the World (1992, TV miniseries)
  • The Tower (1993, TV movie)
  • Code Rush (2000)
  • The Code (2001 film) (2001)
  • Revolution OS (2001)
  • The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
  • Micro Men (2009)
  • The Social Network (2010)
  • Jobs (2013)
  • The Imitation Game (2014)
  • Steve Jobs (2015)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Television series

  • Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002)
  • Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
  • Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998)
  • Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017)
  • Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019)
  • Valley of the Boom (2019)
  • The IT Crowd (2006-2013)

Documentaries

  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
  • Silicon Cowboys (2016)

Hacking as a plot narrative

Motion picture

  • The Italian Job (1969)
  • Tron (1982)
  • WarGames (1983)
  • Cloak & Dagger (1984)
  • Prime Risk (1985)
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  • Sneakers (1992)
  • Blank Check (1994)
  • Hackers (1995)
  • The Net (1995)
  • Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
  • Masterminds (1997)
  • 23 (1998)
  • Entrapment (1999)
  • The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
  • Track Down (2000)
  • Swordfish (2001)
  • The Score (2001)
  • What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
  • Code Hunter (2002)
  • Bedwin Hacker (2003)
  • The Italian Job (2003)
  • Foolproof (2003)
  • The Incredibles (2004)
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
  • Firewall (2006)
  • The Net 2.0 (2006)
  • Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
  • WALL-E (2008)
  • WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)
  • Untraceable (2008)
  • The Social Network (2010)
  • Robot & Frank (2012)
  • The Fifth Estate (2013)
  • Disconnect (2013)
  • Open Windows (2014)
  • Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014)
  • Blackhat (2015)
  • Chappie (2015)
  • The Throwaways (2015)
  • Snowden (2016)
  • Hacker (2016)
  • Anon (2018)
  • Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (2021)

Documentaries

  • Hacking Democracy (HBO, Emmy nominated for Outstanding Investigative Journalism)
  • Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984)
  • Hackers in Wonderland (2000)
  • Revolution OS (2001)
  • The Code Linux (2001)
  • Freedom Downtime (2001)
  • The Secret History of Hacking (2001)
  • In the Realm of the Hackers (2002)
  • The Documentary (2004)
  • The Code-Breakers (2006)
  • Steal This Film (2006)
  • Hackers Are People Too (2008)
  • Hackers Wanted (not officially released, but leaked in 2010)
  • The Virtual Revolution (2010)
  • We Are Legion (2012)
  • The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
  • Citizenfour (2014)
  • Zero Days (2016)
  • Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

Television series

  • Person of Interest (2011 - 2016)
  • CSI: Cyber (2015 - 2016)
  • Scorpion (2014 - 2018)
  • Mr. Robot (2015 - 2019)
  • Stalk (TV series) (fr) (2020 - )

Virtual reality

  • World on a Wire (1973)
  • Welcome to Blood City (1977)
  • Tron (1982)
  • Brainstorm (1983)
  • The Lawnmower Man (1992)
  • Disclosure (1994)
  • Brainscan (1994)
  • Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) (1995)
  • Strange Days (1995)
  • Virtuosity (1995)
  • VR.5 (1995)
  • Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
  • Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
  • Nirvana (1997)
  • eXistenZ (1999)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
  • Avalon (2001)
  • Storm Watch (aka Code Hunter) (2002)
  • Code Lyoko (2003)
  • The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
  • The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
  • Avatar (2004)
  • Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) (2004)
  • Cargo (2009)
  • Gamer (2009)
  • Tron: Legacy (2010)
  • Transcendence (2014)
  • Ready Player One (2018)

Viruses

  • Superman III (1983)
  • Office Space (1999)
  • Pulse (2006)

Programming

  • Disclosure (1994)
  • Code Rush (1998)
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
  • The Code Linux (2001)
  • Antitrust (2001)
  • How to Make a Monster (2001)
  • Revolution OS (2001)
  • Dopamine (2003)
  • One Point O (2004)
  • Control Alt Delete (2008)
  • The Social Network (2010)
  • Hidden Figures (2016)
    • IBM 7090

Websites

  • Home Page (1998)
  • e-Dreams (2001)
  • Startup.com (2001)
  • FeardotCom (2002)
  • On Line (2002)
  • Google: Behind the Screen (2006)
  • I-See-You.Com (2006)
  • Steal This Film (2006)
  • Steal This Film II (2006)
  • Google: The Thinking Factory (2007)
  • Download: The True Story of the Internet (2008)
  • The Truth According to Wikipedia (2008)
  • Untraceable (2008)
  • Catfish (2010)
  • The Social Network (2010)
  • The Internship (2013)
  • The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)

Communications

  • Electric Dreams (1984)
  • Blank Check (1994)
  • You've Got Mail (1998)
  • Chatroom (2010)

Supernatural

  • Evilspeak (1981)
  • Weird Science (1985)
  • Ghost in the Machine (1993)
  • Ghost Machine (2009)
  • Unfriended (2014) (alternative title: Cybernatural)

War

  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
  • Firefox (1982)
  • WarGames (1983)
  • Brainstorm (1983)
  • Stealth (2005)

Space

  • Apollo 13 (1995)
  • RocketMan (1997)
  • From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV miniseries)
    • Apollo Guidance Computer[1]

Anime

  • Ghost in the Shell (1995)
  • Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
  • Chobits (2002)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003)
  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
  • Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004)
  • Ergo Proxy (2006)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (2006)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Apollo Guidance Computer

External links



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