# The best cyberpunk movies

Neon future cities, cyberspace, cyborg bodies and virtual reality: the cyberpunk classics that Japanese film blogs keep naming, from Blade Runner to The Matrix.

- 34 votes · 11 items
- Oct 4, 2024 · cinema_slow
- https://even.best/en/l/4215/the-best-cyberpunk-movies

## Top 10

1. **Blade Runner (1982)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Ridley Scott: hunting replicants in an acid-rain Los Angeles.
2. **Ghost in the Shell (1995)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Mamoru Oshii: Major Kusanagi, Section 9 and a world of cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.
3. **The Matrix (1999)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The Wachowskis: Neo learns the truth about the simulated world.
4. **Akira (1988)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Katsuhiro Otomo: Kaneda, Tetsuo and the ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
5. **Strange Days (1995)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Kathryn Bigelow: the SQUID recordings that let you live someone else's memories.
6. **eXistenZ (1999)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — David Cronenberg: a game console you plug into your own body.
7. **Tron: Legacy (2010)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A son enters the Grid, the digital world his father built.
8. **The Thirteenth Floor (1999)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A simulated 1937 Los Angeles and the blurred line with reality.
9. **Johnny Mnemonic (1995)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Keanu Reeves as a data courier, from William Gibson's story.
10. **Blade Runner 2049 (2017)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Denis Villeneuve's sequel set thirty years later.
11. **Ghost in the Shell (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Hollywood live-action version with Scarlett Johansson.

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