The best cyberpunk movies
The top 3 according to 34 votes from people: Blade Runner (1982) · Ghost in the Shell (1995) · The Matrix (1999). (Updated Oct 4, 2024.)
Neon future cities, cyberspace, cyborg bodies and virtual reality: the cyberpunk classics that Japanese film blogs keep naming, from Blade Runner to The Matrix.
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 10
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1
Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott: hunting replicants in an acid-rain Los Angeles.
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2
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Mamoru Oshii: Major Kusanagi, Section 9 and a world of cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.
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3
The Matrix (1999)
The Wachowskis: Neo learns the truth about the simulated world.
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4
Akira (1988)
Katsuhiro Otomo: Kaneda, Tetsuo and the ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
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5
Strange Days (1995)
Kathryn Bigelow: the SQUID recordings that let you live someone else's memories.
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6
eXistenZ (1999)
David Cronenberg: a game console you plug into your own body.
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7
Tron: Legacy (2010)
A son enters the Grid, the digital world his father built.
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8
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
A simulated 1937 Los Angeles and the blurred line with reality.
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9
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Keanu Reeves as a data courier, from William Gibson's story.
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10
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Denis Villeneuve's sequel set thirty years later.
Candidates
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
The Hollywood live-action version with Scarlett Johansson.
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