List of films about computers explained

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 plots

Motion picture

See also: List of artificial intelligence films.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • HAL 9000
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
• (1970)
• The Questor Tapes (1974)
• Demon Seed (1977)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Tron (1982)
• WarGames (1983)
• Brainstorm (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)
• Short Circuit 2 (1988)
• Not Quite Human II (1989)
• Still Not Quite Human (1992)
• Arcade (1993)
• Star Trek Generations (1994)
• Hackers (1995)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The Net (1995)
• (1996)
• Enemy of the State (1998)
• Lost in Space (1998)
• (1998)
• Bicentennial Man (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• (1999)
• Virus (1999)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• How to Make a Monster (2001)
• Swordfish (2001)
• S1M0NE (2002)
• (2002)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• I Robot (2004)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Moon (2009)
  • GERTY 3000
• Iron Man 2 (2010)
• Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
• Computer Chess (2013)
• Her (2013)
• Iron Man 3 (2013)
• The Machine (2013)
• Automata (2014)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Vice (2015)
• Ex Machina (2015)
• (2015)
• Morgan (2016)

Television series

• Person Of Interest (2011-2016)
• Next (2020)
• Mrs. Davis (2023)

Computers as plot devices

Motion picture

• Desk Set (1957)
• The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
• Alphaville (1965)
• Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• Cloak & Dagger (1984)
• Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
• The Machine That Changed the World (1992, TV miniseries)
• The Tower (1993, TV movie)
• Code Rush (2000)
• The Code (2001 film) (2001)
• Revolution OS (2001)
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
• Micro Men (2009)
• The Social Network (2010)
• Jobs (2013)
• The Imitation Game (2014)
• Steve Jobs (2015)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Television series

• Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002)
• Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
• Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998)
• Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017)
  • Commodore 64
  • Macintosh 128K
  • NeXT Computer
• Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019)
• Valley of the Boom (2019)
• The IT Crowd (2006-2013)

Documentaries

• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
• Web Junkie (2013)
• Silicon Cowboys (2016)

Hacking as a plot narrative

Motion picture

• The Italian Job (1969)
• Tron (1982)
• WarGames (1983)
  • IMSAI 8080
• Cloak & Dagger (1984)
• Prime Risk (1985)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Sneakers (1992)
• Blank Check (1994)
• Hackers (1995)
• The Net (1995)
• (1995)
• Masterminds (1997)
• 23 (1998)
• Entrapment (1999)
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
  • Altair 8800
• Track Down (2000)
• Swordfish (2001)
• The Score (2001)
• What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
• Code Hunter (2002)
• Bedwin Hacker (2003)
• The Italian Job (2003)
• Foolproof (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)
• (2008)
• Untraceable (2008)
• The Social Network (2010)
• Robot & Frank (2012)
• The Fifth Estate (2013)
• Disconnect (2013)
• Open Windows (2014)
• Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014)
• Blackhat (2015)
• Chappie (2015)
• The Throwaways (2015)
• Snowden (2016)
• Hacker (2016)
• Anon (2018)
• (2021)

Documentaries

• Hacking Democracy (HBO, Emmy nominated for Outstanding Investigative Journalism)
• (1984)
• Hackers in Wonderland (2000)
• Revolution OS (2001)
• The Code Linux (2001)
• Freedom Downtime (2001)
• The Secret History of Hacking (2001)
• In the Realm of the Hackers (2002)
• (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)
• We Are Legion (2012)
• (2014)
• Citizenfour (2014)
• Zero Days (2016)
• Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
• (2023)

Television series

• Person of Interest (2011 - 2016)
• (2015 - 2016)
• Scorpion (2014 - 2018)
• Mr. Robot (2015 - 2019)
• (2020 -)

Virtual reality

• World on a Wire (1973)
• Welcome to Blood City (1977)
• Tron (1982)
• Brainstorm (1983)
• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• Disclosure (1994)
• Brainscan (1994)
• Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) (1995)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Virtuosity (1995)
• VR.5 (1995)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• (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 () (2004)
• Cargo (2009)
• Gamer (2009)
• (2010)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Ready Player One (2018)

Viruses

• Superman III (1983)
• Office Space (1999)
• Pulse (2006)

Programming

• Disclosure (1994)
• Code Rush (1998)
• Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
  • Altair 8800
• 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)
• The Social Network (2010)
• Hidden Figures (2016)
  • IBM 7090

Websites

Motion picture

• FeardotCom (2002)
• On Line (2002)
• I-See-You.Com (2006)
• Untraceable (2008)
• Catfish (2010)
• The Social Network (2010)
• The Internship (2013)

Documentaries

• Home Page (1998)
• e-Dreams (2001)
• Startup.com (2001)
• Google: Behind the Screen (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)
• The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)

Communications

• Electric Dreams (1984)
• Blank Check (1994)
• You've Got Mail (1998)
• Chatroom (2010)

Supernatural

• Evilspeak (1981)
• Weird Science (1985)
• Ghost in the Machine (1993)
• Ghost Machine (2009)
• Unfriended (2014) (alternative title: Cybernatural)

War

• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Doomsday device
• (1970)
• Firefox (1982)
• WarGames (1983)
• Brainstorm (1983)
• Stealth (2005)

Space

• Apollo 13 (1995)
  • Apollo Guidance Computer
• RocketMan (1997)
• From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV miniseries)
  • Apollo Guidance Computer^[1]

Anime

• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
• Chobits (2002)
• (2002-2003)
• (2004)
• (2004)
• Ergo Proxy (2006)
• (2006)

See also

• List of fictional computers
• List of fictional robots and androids
• List of cyberpunk films
• Computer screen film

Notes and References

1. https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-7-4.html Apollo Guidance Computer