List of films about computers

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

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • HAL 9000
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
• Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
• The Aries Computer (1972)
• Demon Seed (1977)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Tron (1982)
• WarGames (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)
• Not Quite Human II (1989)
• Still Not Quite Human (1992)
• 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)
• Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• I Robot (2004)
• Die Hard 4.0 (2007)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Moon (2009)
  • GERTY 3000
• Iron Man 2 (2010)
• Computer Chess (2013)
• Her (2013)
• Iron Man 3 (2013)
• The Machine (2013)
• Automata (2014)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Vice (2015)
• Ex Machina (2015)

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 (1992, TV miniseries)
• 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)

Hacking

• The Italian Job (1969)
• Sneakers (1992)
• Hackers (1995)
• The Net (1995)
• Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
• Takedown (2000)
• The Score (2001)
• Swordfish (2001)
• Foolproof (2003)
• The Italian Job (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)
• Algorithm: The Hacker Movie (2014)
• The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
• Open Windows (2014)
• Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014)
• Mr. Robot (2015)
• Blackhat (2015)

Motion picture

• Tron (1982)
• WarGames (1983)
  • IMSAI 8080
• Prime Risk (1985)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Defense Play (1989)
  • IBM Personal Computer XT
• Sneakers (1992)
• Hackers (1995)
• The Net (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)

Documentaries

• Codes - Makers and Breakers
• Cyber War
• Hackers Outlaws and Angels
• Hippies From Hell
• Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984)
• Hackers in Wonderland (2000)
• New York City Hackers (2000)
• Revolution OS (2001)
• The Code Linux (2001)
• Freedom Downtime (2001)
• The Secret History of Hacking (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)
  • Colossus computer
• We Are Legion (2012)
• DEFCON: The Documentary (2013)
• The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

Docudrama

• The KGB, The Computer and Me (2003)

Virtual reality

• Welt am Draht (1973)
• Welcome to Blood City (1977)
• Tron (1982)
• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• Disclosure (1994)
• Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) (1995)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Virtuosity (1995)
• VR.5 (1995)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1996)
• 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: Innocence) (2004)
• Cargo (2009)
• Gamer (2009)
• Tron: Legacy (2010)
• Transcendence (2014)

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)

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)
• You've Got Mail (1998)

Supernatural

• Demon Seed (1977)
• Weird Science (1985)
  • Memotech MTX512 with an FDX add-on
• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• Ghost in the Machine (1993)
• The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
• Ghost Machine (2009)

War

• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Doomsday device
• Firefox (1982)
• WarGames (1983)
• Stealth (2005)

Space

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

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)

See also

• List of fictional computers
• List of fictional robots and androids
• List of cyberpunk films

External links

• Annoyances.org - The use of computers in movies
• HellBound Bloggers (HBB) - Movies Based on Hacking and Computers
• MoviesDrop - 40+ Movies Based On Hacking & Computer Technology

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