Cyberpunk movie recommendations
# In Time
Year: 2011 | Country: US
Director: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer
Synopsis
In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".
# TRON: Legacy
Year: 2010 | Country: US
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain
Synopsis
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.
# Minority Report
Year: 2002 | Country: US
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Kathryn Morris
Synopsis
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
# Alita: Battle Angel
Year: 2019 | Country: US
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein
Synopsis
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
# Ready Player One
Year: 2018 | Country: United States of America
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Synopsis
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
# Akira
Year: 1988 | Country: JP
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tarō Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki
Synopsis
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.
# Ghost in the Shell
Year: 2017 | Country: CN
Director: Rupert Sanders
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han
Synopsis
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
# Blade Runner 2049
Year: 2017 | Country: CA
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright
Synopsis
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
# Blade Runner
Year: 1982 | Country: US
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
Synopsis
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.