Most Popular "Tech Noir" Titles
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1. Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 1,268,899 | Gross: $171.38M
2. Łowca androidów (1982)
12 | 117 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 480,639 | Gross: $27.00M
3. Hardcore Henry (2015)
18 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.
Director: Ilya Naishuller | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett, Danila Kozlovsky
Votes: 55,434 | Gross: $9.24M
4. Terminator (1984)
15 | 107 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 624,937 | Gross: $38.40M
5. Raport mniejszosci (2002)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
Votes: 413,462 | Gross: $132.01M
6. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
83 min | Animation, Action, Mystery
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 85,829
7. Mroczne miasto (1998)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 160,931 | Gross: $14.34M
8. W strone slonca (2007)
R | 107 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 195,756 | Gross: $3.68M
9. Akira (1988)
R | 124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 110,904 | Gross: $0.44M
10. Bez twarzy (1997)
R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a face-transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a ruthless terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same criminal impersonates the cop.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 291,461 | Gross: $112.23M
11. Zaplata (2003)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 91,537 | Gross: $53.79M
12. Dziwne dni (1995)
R | 145 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 55,662 | Gross: $7.92M
13. Haker (2015)
16 | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang
Votes: 41,567 | Gross: $7.10M
14. Paranoja (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
Director: Robert Luketic | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Amber Heard
Votes: 29,724 | Gross: $7.38M
15. Surogaci (2009)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike
Votes: 153,893 | Gross: $38.54M
16. Antiviral (2012)
108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a blackly satirical near future, a thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Employee Syd March's attempts to exploit the system backfire when they involve him in a potentially deadly mystery.
Director: Brandon Cronenberg | Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Lisa Berry, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 9,710
17. Ladunek (2009)
112 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 2270, Earth is completely depleted and no one lives there anymore. Those that have money move to Rhea; but most of the population lives in orbit in space stations. Dr. Laura Portmann ... See full summary »
Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter | Stars: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzom Brauen
Votes: 16,225
18. Blade Runner (1997 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Crime
You play a blade runner investigating a series of violent replicant crimes, only to discover far more than you bargained for.
Director: Joseph D. Kucan | Stars: Martin Azarow, Mark Benninghoffen, Warren Burton, Gwen Castaldi
Votes: 1,348
19. Enter the Matrix (2003 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The game's story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Play either Niobe or Ghost as they bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the... See full summary »
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Mary Alice, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Don Battee
Votes: 2,565
20. Alien vs. Ninja (2010)
80 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.
Director: Seiji Chiba | Stars: Shûji Kashiwabara, Mika Hijii, Ben Hiura, Kôji Inagaki
Votes: 1,904
21. Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
71 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Losing his son Tom in a hit and run triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. When the driver who killed Tom reappears, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal - a human weapon fuelled by an uncontrollable rage.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin
Votes: 1,303
22. Tekunoraizu (2003– )
Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to ... See full summary »
Stars: Justin Gross, Satoshi Haga, Shizuka Itô, Carrie Savage
Votes: 1,597
23. Zemsta hrabiego Monte Christo (2004– )
24 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Trying to escape his uneventful life, Albert, the son of a renowned general from Paris, makes a journey with his friend Franz. During his travels, he meets an immensely wealthy nobleman ... See full summary »
Stars: Johnny Yong Bosch, Jôji Nakata, Erik Davies, Jun Fukuyama
Votes: 1,730
24. Ritânâ (2002)
R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Gorô Kishitani, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 10,438 | Gross: $0.07M
25. Global Frequency (2005 TV Movie)
45 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Detective Sean Flynn and scientist Kate Finch are the latest recruits of The Global Frequency, a secret rogue spy agency that handles threats to global security. They must find a man who's somehow been melting people with his mind.
Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Michelle Forbes, Aimee Garcia, Josh Hopkins, Jenni Baird
Votes: 241
26. GUNSHIP: Tech Noir (2015 Video)
5 min | Animation, Short, Action
In a dystopian future, contained within the videocassette, hero tries to save his love, using old VHS tapes and a little bit of magic...
Director: Lee Hardcastle | Stars: John Carpenter, Jordan Ramoth, Valerie Fox, Charlie Simpson
Votes: 15
27. Timesplitters 2 (2002 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
In 2401, humanity is at war with relentless aliens, TimeSplitters. Space marines Cortez and Hart travel through time to stop the aliens in various spots, including Wild West, zombie-infested Gothic church and Blade Runner-esque future.
Directors: David Doak, Stephen Ellis | Stars: Tom Clarke Hill, Anna Burford, Kevin Clarke, Imme Dahlberg
Votes: 539
28. Login (2012)
125 min | Drama, Thriller
This movie is about three characters who are connected to the Internet and end up disconnecting their actual life.
Director: Sanjeev Reddy | Stars: Himanshu Bhatt, Raadhika Singh, Akkash Basnet, Rashmi Gautam
Votes: 76
29. Sweet Thing (2017)
Short | Filming
Director: Steven Sabell | Stars: Matt Block, Greg Farinelli, Ben Johnson, Charlie Aligaen
30. John Carpenter: Utopian Facade (2016 Video)
4 min | Short, Action, Horror
A female android on a mission is chased in the woods by assorted creatures in this surreal sci-fi music video by John Carpenter.
Directors: Gavin Hignight, Benjamin Verhulst | Stars: John Carpenter, Hrisanta, Stuart Morales
31. The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One (2017)
130 min | Sci-Fi | Pre-production
A collection of rogues must gather information on a mysterious extra-dimensional threat to the galaxy in the 43rd century, and prepare a defense while fending off the first wave of attacks from horrific beings.
Director: Satie Gossett | Stars: Wassim Hawat, Becktoria, Shane Daniel Wood, Ilja Rosendahl
32. Beyond the Dreamcatcher (2016)
85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When an online shock jock's latest episode takes him on a journey into the notorious deep web, his own darkness threatens to drag him into the depths of the binary abyss.
Director: Daniel F. Lovetere | Stars: J.D. Achille, Buck Biestek, James Bocock, Kateri DeMartino
33. Xscape (2000)
135 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In 2069, doctors have developed the technology to create human clones. After governmental legislation, banning human cloning, the doctors at D.B.I. find another way to continue their ... See full summary »
Director: Aaron Michael Lacey | Stars: Emile Piscitelli, Ana Yudiskas, Markus Alexander, Tom Mangione
Votes: 79
34. Echo Dr. (2013)
81 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
When their home security system malfunctions, a family struggles to survive an attack against a state of the art patrol guard that believes they are intruders.
Director: Patrick Ryan Sims | Stars: Dane Bowman, Claire Gordon-Harper, Johnathan Hurley, Chris Maple
Votes: 103
35. Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy (1995 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a cyberpunk future, tough cop Jake Hard is after genetically engineered terrorist Angel Devoid. After his hovercraft crashes, Jake's face is surgically altered to look like Devoid's. He must get to the bottom of this conspiracy.
Directors: Mark Alamares, Paul Wu | Stars: Joshua Alvarenga, Armilyn Ancheta, Eric Anderson, Deem Bristow
Votes: 6
36. Izgoy Odin. Mezhzvyozdnyie voyny. Istorii (2016)
29 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Jehi send an android killer to capture protagonist of Mezhzvyozdnyie voyny. Sila probuzhdayetsya (2015), Volodya (now named Vadim Skvortsov), but android has a system failure and starts to pursue a wrong man.
Directors: Sergey A., Evgeniy Mishukhin, Nikolay Yeriomin | Stars: Evgeniy Mishukhin, Nikolay Yeriomin, Semyon Romanov, Sergey A.
Votes: 8
37. Robokop (2004– )
2 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Robokop receives his weapon and tests it.
Votes: 10
38. Shadowrun (2007 Video Game)
Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An online first-person shooter with RPG elements, based on the classic tabletop game, in which tech-savvy mercenaries compete for lucrative hacking, infiltration and termination jobs.
Votes: 56
39. Shadowrun Returns (2013 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Action adventure cyberpunk rpg with turn-based combat. A runner hires the player, a former teammate, to solve his murder. This takes the player to corrupt Seattle where a strange serial killer roams and dark spirits hide.
Director: Jordan Weisman
Votes: 70
40. Numb (2003)
77 min | Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic world where society is controlled by a debilitating narcotic, one woman sets out to find her father, and to heal the wounds of her past.
Director: Michael Ferris Gibson | Stars: Jennifer West Savitch, Dominik Overstreet, Anne Goldmann, Peter Abraham
Votes: 62
41. Hardline (1996 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Romance
In 1998 futuristic Detroit, a deadly terrorist techno cult known as The Sect is targeting civilians. The government is fighting them but their numbers are growing. A pilot with a mysterious past is key to ending their reign of terror.
Directors: Greg Glachant, Dominic Mathieu | Stars: David Gasman, David Gregg, Patrick Julien, Jim Adhi Limas
42. Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' (2001 Video)
60 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Many cast and crew interviews cue us in on the making of the film Terminator, The (1984). From James Cameron's first concept to casting to practical effects, all this and much more is ... See full summary »
Director: Van Ling | Stars: James Cameron, William Wisher Jr., Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr.
Votes: 104
43. Mode (1996 Video Game)
Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
You have crashed the who's who party of eccentric artist Vito Brevis. Find a guest pin that only those who were invited have to get to stay and discover the secret of mysterious Brevis and his latest work of art, the Mode Machine.
Director: Jeff Green | Stars: Chip Chuipka, Natalie Gray, Daniel Richer, Quinn
44. Thief
Mystery | Announced
A young woman, to find her past, must navigate a world without memory and discovers the chance for a future.
Director: Emily Young
45. Shadowrun (1994 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Shadowrun is an action RPG of epic proportions. You take on the role of Joshua, a Shadowrunner out to discover who murdered his brother. Along the way you get into street brawls, deadly ... See full summary »
Star: Karyn Mason
Votes: 62
46. VNC: Virtual Nightclub (1997 Video Game)
Adventure, Music, Sci-Fi
Enter the VCN and experience the surreal futuristic alternative youth cyber culture first hand. The game features surreal gameplay and live performances from many notably musicians including UK DJs, US rappers and Herbie Hancock.
Director: Olaf Wendt | Stars: Matt Black, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, James Lavelle
47. The Derelict (2015 Video)
Short, Sci-Fi
A young smuggler flees a deal gone bad in the corrupt Imperial realms. The rest of his crew gone, he flees to the Hercules cluster-Space Station.
Director: Dante D'Anthony | Star: Joel Suraci
48. Aftermath (VI) (2013)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A young police officer uncovers a terrible secret.
Director: Paul Cotrulia | Stars: Lucinda Farrelle, Joseph Law, Timothy Scott, Joerg Stadler
49. Maxwell's Demon (1999)
78 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: David Clark | Stars: Andy Curtis, Darcy Dunlop, Mark David Stewart, Jennifer Wynne Webber
Votes: 35
50. Beddosaidosaibâpanku; (2016)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A moody film about how Narrator discovered that he lives in a state of cyberpunk.
Director: Nikolay Yeriomin | Stars: Cardboard Wall Victor, Ilya Sinelnikov, Nikolay Yeriomin
Votes: 9