List of films about computers
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This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films where activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot.
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Artificial intelligence
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
- The Aries Computer (1972)
- Demon Seed (1977)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- 2010 (1984)
- Electric Dreams (1984)
- Hide and Seek (1984, TV movie)
- The Terminator (1984)
- D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
- Flight of the Navigator (1986)
- Short Circuit (1986)
- Not Quite Human (film) (1987)
- Not Quite Human II (1989)
- Still Not Quite Human (1992)
- Star Trek Generations (1994)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- Lost in Space (1998)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
- Bicentennial Man (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- Virus (1999)
- Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- How to Make a Monster (2001)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- I Robot (2004)
- Eagle Eye (2008)
- Iron Man (2008)
- Moon (2009)
- GERTY 3000
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Computer Chess (2013)
- Her (2013)
- The Machine (2013)
- Automata (2014)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Vice (2015)
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Computers
- Desk Set (1957)
- Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- MEDCOM (medical-data analyzer)
- L'ordinateur des pompes funèbres AKA The Probability Factor (1974)
- HP 65
- The Machine That Changed the World (TV series) (1992)
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
- Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998)
- The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
- Micro Men (2009)
- The Imitation Game (2014)
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Hacking
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Sneakers (1992)
- Hackers (1995)
- The Net (1995)
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
- Takedown (2000)
- The Score (2001)
- Swordfish (2001)
- The Italian Job (2003)
- Foolproof (2003)
- Firewall (2006)
- Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
- Untraceable (2008)
- The Social Network (2010)
- We Are Legion (2012)
- The Fifth Estate (2013)
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
- Open Windows (2014)
- Algorithm: The Hacker Movie (2014)
- Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014)
- Blackhat (2015)
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Motion Picture
- Tron (1982)
- WarGames (1983)
- Prime Risk (1985)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
- Defense Play (1989)
- Sneakers (1992)
- The Net (1995)
- Hackers (1995)
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
- Masterminds (1997)
- 23 (1998)
- Entrapment (1999)
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- Takedown (2000)
- Swordfish (2001)
- What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
- Code Hunter (2002)
- Bedwin Hacker (2003)
- The Italian Job (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)
- Robot & Frank (2012)
- Disconnect (2013)
- Algorithm - the hacker movie (2014)
- Chappie (2015)
- Ex Machina (2015)
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Documentaries
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
- We Are Legion (2012)
- Hackers Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984)
- Hackers Outlaws and Angels
- Codes makers and breakers
- Hippies from Hell
- Cyber War
- Hackers in Wonderland (2000)
- New York City Hackers (2000)
- Revolution OS (2001)
- The Code Linux (2001)
- The Secret History of Hacking (2001)
- Freedom Downtime (2001)
- In the Realm of the Hackers (2002)
- BBS: 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)
- Code - Breakers, Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes (2011)
- DEFCON: The Documentary (2013)
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Docudrama
- The KGB, The Computer and Me (1990)
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Virtual reality
- Welt am Draht (1973)
- Welcome to Blood City (1977)
- Tron (1982)
- The Lawnmower Man (1992)
- Disclosure (1994)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) (1995)
- Virtuosity (1995)
- VR.5 (1995)
- Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1996)
- Nirvana (1997)
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Avalon (2001)
- Storm Watch (aka Code Hunter) (2002)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Code Lyoko (2003)
- Avatar (2004)
- Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell: Innocence) (2004)
- Cargo (2009)
- Gamer (2009)
- Tron: Legacy (2010)
- Transcendence (2014)
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Viruses
- Superman III (1983)
- Office Space (1999)
- Pulse (2006)
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Programming
- Disclosure (1994)
- Code Rush (1998)
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
- How to Make a Monster (2001)
- The Code Linux (2001)
- Revolution os (2001)
- Antitrust (2001)
- Dopamine (2003)
- One Point O (2004)
- Control Alt Delete (2008)
- Jobs (2013)
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Websites
- Home Page (1998)
- Startup.com (2001)
- e-Dreams (2001)
- FeardotCom (2002)
- On Line (2002)
- I-See-You.Com (2006)
- Steal This Film (2006)
- Steal This Film II (2006)
- Google: Behind the Screen (2006)
- Google: The Thinking Factory (2007)
- Download: The True Story of the Internet (2008)
- Untraceable (2008)
- The Truth According to Wikipedia (2008)
- The Social Network (2010)
- Catfish (2010)
- The Pirate bay Away From Keyboard (2013)
- The Internship (2013)
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Communications
- Electric Dreams (1984)
- You've Got Mail (1998)
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Supernatural
- Demon Seed (1977)
- Weird Science (1985)
- The Lawnmower Man (1992)
- Ghost in the Machine (1993)
- The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
- Ghost Machine (2009)
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War
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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Space
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- RocketMan (1997)
- From the Earth to the Moon (TV miniseries) (1998)
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Anime
- See also: List of cyberpunk anime works
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
- 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)
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See also
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