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1. The Matrix (1999)

R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 2,057,637 | Gross: $171.48M

2. Free Guy (2021)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When Guy, a bank teller, learns that he is a non-player character in a bloodthirsty, open-world video game, he goes on to become the hero of the story and takes the responsibility of saving the world.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery

Votes: 427,443 | Gross: $121.63M

3. WarGames (1983)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman

Votes: 110,981 | Gross: $79.57M

4. Network (1976)

R | 121 min | Drama

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall

Votes: 170,917

5. Halt and Catch Fire (2014–2017)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

Follows some players in the 80s technological revolution that lead to information society.

Stars: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Davis, Kerry Bishé

Votes: 35,325

6. Paycheck (2003)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall

Votes: 113,372 | Gross: $53.79M

7. RocketMan (1997)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Fred Z. Randall is a geeky spacecraft designer who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars.

Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn

Votes: 10,443 | Gross: $15.45M

8. They Called Him Mostly Harmless (2024)

89 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

A hiker found dead in Florida wilderness is identified by internet sleuths after 2 years. His identity triggers more questions as multiple hikers claim to have met him, but he never revealed his name.

Director: Patricia E. Gillespie | Stars: Kristin Adams, Marge Creech, Brandon Dowell, Kelly Fairbanks

Votes: 2,177

9. 100 Things (2018)

111 min | Comedy, Drama

Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, taking back one item per day. During this challenge, the two realize that the only thing they cannot be... See full summary »

Director: Florian David Fitz | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Matthias Schweighöfer, Miriam Stein, Hannelore Elsner

Votes: 6,952

10. Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (2018)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A computer programmer is transported to a fantasy world where life is an adventure that's fun and full of girls.

Stars: Shun Horie, Justin Briner, Hiyori Kono, Kaya Okuno

Votes: 2,499

11. Cute Programmer (2021)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After falling in love with genius programmer Jiang Yicheng, Lu Li enrolls into the school he once studied at, and also took up the same major - computer science. She slowly starts to follow his path despite all the hurdles.

Stars: Xudan Zhu, Zhaolin Xing, Yi Da Qian, Yitong Tian

Votes: 371

12. Spark Hunter (2022 Podcast Series)

Thriller

When the world's most advanced AI evolves past the limits of human intelligence, the US government fears she has gone rogue and is determined to take her out.

Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, Charles Dance, Mark Rylance, Vanessa Redgrave

Votes: 53

13. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.

Director: Brian Knappenberger | Stars: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman

Votes: 18,048 | Gross: $0.05M

14. Trillion Game (2023)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama

Two old friends go into business together - one's a master communicator, and the other's a great engineer. Their goal? To make a trillion dollars.

Stars: Jun Kunimura, Ren Meguro, Mio Imada, Hayato Sano

Votes: 385

15. Sci-Fighter (2004)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A computer virus has invaded a virtual reality fighting game leaving a rebellious teen trapped within. Now the boy's father must enter the tainted program and battle his way through a deadly maze of martial arts fighters to save his son.

Director: Art Camacho | Stars: Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Lorenzo Lamas, Aki Aleong

Votes: 698

16. Eva (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A shy genius is employed by his former university to design robot software.

Director: Kike Maíllo | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann, Claudia Vega

Votes: 10,436 | Gross: $0.01M

17. Blade Runner (1997 Video Game)

T | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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: 2,008

18. Turbulent Skies (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own is about to have its first flight. But a virus shuts down the plane mid-flight and the pilots are incapacitated so there's no one who can fly the plane.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Brad Dourif, Nicole Eggert, Patrick Muldoon

Votes: 759

19. Atari: Game Over (2014)

TV-14 | 66 min | Documentary

A crew search for all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.

Director: Zak Penn | Stars: Zak Penn, Joe Lewandowski, Robert Rentschler, Paul Sanchez

Votes: 6,096

20. Hotet (2004)

103 min | Action, Thriller

A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His only chance of rescue seems to be the ... See full summary »

Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Shanti Roney, Maria Bonnevie, Stefan Sauk, Dejan Cukic

Votes: 1,530

21. Barbie Video Game Hero (2017 Video)

Not Rated | 72 min | Animation, Family, Sci-Fi

Join Barbie as she enters three different video games! Will she be able to save the lands?

Directors: Conrad Helten, Ezekiel Norton, Michael Goguen | Stars: Erica Lindbeck, Sienna Bohn, Shannon Chan-Kent, Michael Dobson

Votes: 699

22. Intimate Enemy (2018)

108 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Andrej, a programmer, is developing his project of an intelligent home. To make his program perfect he moved with his wife Zuzana to the test house. He is striving to implement a bonus into... See full summary »

Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Gabriela Marcinková, Vojtech Dyk, Zuzana Porubjaková, Ondrej Malý

Votes: 269

23. Son Saka (2020)

92 min | Action, Comedy

Serdar is a radio programmer and famous for his jokes. One day he made a joke to his girlfriend to aim for his proposal. But the things don't work as he wants. To reunite them, one of their common friend organizes an holiday for them.

Director: Muhammet Erkam Bülbül | Stars: Serdar Gökalp, Ege Kökenli, Gökay Müftüoglu, Perihan Ünlücan

Votes: 170

24. Sausalito (2000)

98 min | Romance

Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spends time with her 8-year old son, Scott.... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Lau | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Scott Leung, Saisie M. Jang

Votes: 328

25. Buli (2004)

116 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Describing the life of a man named Nordin who had a problem with low self-esteem or 'inferiority complex' due to his physical form.

Director: Afdlin Shauki | Stars: Afdlin Shauki, Nasha Aziz, Hans Isaac, Hattan

Votes: 105

26. Gamer (2001)

92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.

Director: Patrick Levy | Stars: Saïd Taghmaoui, Camille De Pazzis, Alexis Loret, Bruno Salomone

Votes: 338

27. What Pisses Me Off About the YouTube Child Sex Scandal (2017 Video)

9 min | Short, News

YouTube seems to have plenty of time to censor non-leftist political views, says Stefan Molyneux; but not enough time to block pedophilic material from their website.

Star: Stefan Molyneux

28. Opt-in (2019)

63 min | Drama, Thriller

An idealistic engineer lands his dream job at the biggest social media company in the world. But when he discovers the dark side of the business, he must decide whether to stay silent or risk everything to expose the truth.

Director: Gabriel Gambetta | Stars: Aaron Royce Jones, Gabriel Gambetta, Stuart Selesnick, Kiel Hooker

Votes: 8

29. AI is coming (2018)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The "AI is coming" sets the time and space in the next 2020. APP has become an extension of human needs and desires. It is a strange technology, artificial intelligence, goddess Xiao Xiao, ... See full summary »

Director: Ziming Wang | Stars: Lan Qin, Lawrence Wong, Yufei Shi, Shulin Yang

30. The Secret Seven (1940)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Scientists, assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation, try to solve a series of murders.

Director: James Moore | Stars: Florence Rice, Barton MacLane, Bruce Bennett, Joseph Crehan

Votes: 21

31. Cloud Above the River Ganges (2002)

143 min | Drama

The heroin addicted András got a last chance from his love Juli, to save his life.

Director: Gábor Dettre | Stars: Zoltán Ternyák, Ildikó Tóth, Anikó Sáfár, Miklós Székely B.

Votes: 219

32. Sleep Mode (2020)

5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Hypno, the sandman, tries to fulfill his nightly duties of putting people to sleep. This is interrupted by a particularly determined coder who is staying up to meet a deadline. Hypno tries ... See full summary »

Directors: Wesley Matthews, D'Morney Smith, Roche Staats, Jesse Sumares, Giulia Vanzini

Votes: 10

33. The Programmer (2013)

3 min | Short, Comedy

The programmer is a genius, but also a maniac computer nerd and an insane psychopath, who wants to change the world by programming a dangerous computer virus but when he executes the virus, something goes wrong.

Director: Mitja Strehlow | Star: Matrilow

34. Futurequest (1994– )

26 min | Documentary

PBS series on where the future of mankind is going, hosted by Jeff Goldblum.

Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Cheech Marin, Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone

Votes: 15

35. Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (1989 Video Game)

Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

After entering the escape pod in Space Quest II, Roger fell into a deep sleep. Well, in this installment, Roger is jarred awake when his ship is sucked into a junk freighter. After escaping... See full summary »

Directors: Mark Crowe, Scott Murphy

Votes: 119

36. From Mania to Obsession (2019)

13 min | Short, Crime, Thriller

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Directors: Andrew Brantley, Kevin Shirka | Stars: Kevin Shirka, Randall Williams, Michael Harrison, Pamela DiBerardino

37. Behind the Mike (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, Don Wilson, Sterling Holloway

38. Anata no naka de ikiru: CG seinen no kodoku to ai (1995 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

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Director: Shinichi Nishitani | Stars: Chikako Aoyama, Tadanobu Asano, Bengal, Mai Hosho

39. The Mole (2006)

26 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

A hermit programmer who's only friend is an AI meets a girl who decides to get him back to normal life.

Director: Igor Nurislamov | Stars: Aleksandr Alyoshkin, Linda Lazareva, Yuriy Oskin, Smilain Ezhusht

40. Action on NTV (2019–2020)

401 min | Short, Action, Comedy

Having done away with ill-wishers, Pushnoy and Hackerman find themselves in a new gangster mess. This time they are assisted by the Bizneschef and his team.

Stars: Ilya Novikov, Ivan Kustarov, Dmitry Kostuchenkov, Artemiy Suzdalev

41. Alone (II) (2005)

56 min | Drama, Thriller

Adia (Shelia Weiss) is a hacker who gets a job ran by Vince (Al Hudson), and his mob. Things go wrong and Adia battles to re-gain her freedom, and escape death. With the help of her friend,... See full summary »

Director: George Butiri | Stars: Shelia Weiss, Alvin Hudson, Bradley Evans, Melanie Hauer

42. Cibele (2015 Video Game)

Adventure, Drama, Romance

19-year-old Nina meets a guy through the MMORPG they both play and falls for him. They hit it off and she learns valuable lessons about love, relationship, sex and disappointment. Cibele is the name of her avatar in the online game.

Stars: Justin Briner, Emmett Butler, Nina Freeman

Votes: 14

43. USB (2019)

Short, Action

A programmer and his sidekick get more than they bargain for when selling a program to the CIA.

Director: Zack Whyel | Stars: Jason Kierce, James Roseman, Michael Ruff, Zack Whyel

44. The Truth About Open Source (2006)

2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

An ironic look on commercialism and Open Source policies.

Director: Stuart Ashen | Star: Stuart Ashen

45. Spectrum Diamond: The Myth and the Legend of Matthew Smith (2002 TV Movie)

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Directors: Lucio Apolito, Paolo Caredda, Alessandro Diaco | Stars: Keith Ainsworth, Philip Bee, Chris Cannon, Richard Hallas

Votes: 15

46. Conspiracies (2004 Video Game)

Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In a high tech dystopian future, only six city-states run by joint Supreme Government exist. In the city-state of Greece, down on his luck programmer Nick Delios is asked to investigate a strange murder. He discovers a conspiracy.

Director: Anestis Kokkinidis | Stars: Vicky Harris, Shiren Youssefian Maanian, Quereshini Naidoo, Ian Robinson

47. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1983)

83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The mind of a computer programmer forced to take a virtual vacation is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation. He must find a way out before he expires.

Director: Douglas Williams | Stars: Raul Julia, Arnie Achtman, Paula Barrett, Patrick Brymer

Votes: 2,575

48. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: User Deadly (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A grumpy luddite detective facing retirement investigates a string of brutal serial killings committed by a sadistic computer freak.

Director: Allan King | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Spence, Harry Guardino, Geordie Johnson

Votes: 85

49. The Jerry Springer Show (1991–2018)
Episode: I Slept with 251 Men in 10 Hours! (1995)

TV-14 | Comedy, Talk-Show

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Stars: Jerry Springer, Annabel Chong, Ron Jeremy, Sinnamon Love

50. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: F.P.S. (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The detectives probe the case of a woman thrown from her balcony, and end up immersing themselves in the world of gaming.

Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 325