# List of films about computers

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

* 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
** HAL 9000
* The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
* Colossus: The Forbin Project (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)
* Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
* Enemy of the State (1998)
* Lost in Space (1998)
* Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
* Bicentennial Man (1999)
* The Matrix (1999)
* The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
* Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
* Virus (1999)
* A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
* How to Make a Monster (2001)
* Swordfish (2001)
* S1M0NE (2002)
* Star Trek: Nemesis (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)
* Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
* Morgan (2016)
* Share? (2023)

### 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 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

* A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story (2010)
* 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)
* Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (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)
* WarGames: The Dead Code (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)
* Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (2021)

### Documentaries

* Hacking Democracy (HBO, Emmy nominated for Outstanding Investigative Journalism)
* Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984)
* Hackers in Wonderland (2000)
* Revolution OS (2001)
* The Code (2001)
* Freedom Downtime (2001)
* The Secret History of Hacking (2001)
* In the Realm of the Hackers (2002)
* BBS: The Documentary (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)
* The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
* Citizenfour (2014)
* Zero Days (2016)
* Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
* Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld (2023)

### Television series

* Person of Interest (2011 - 2016)
* CSI: Cyber (2015 - 2016)
* Scorpion (2014 - 2018)
* Mr. Robot (2015 - 2019)
* Stalk (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)
* Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (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 (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) (2004)
* Cargo (2009)
* Gamer (2009)
* Tron: Legacy (2010)
* Transcendence (2014)
* Ready Player One (2018)

## Viruses

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

## Programming

* Disclosure (1994)
* Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
** Altair 8800
* Code Rush (2000)
* The Code (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
* Colossus: The Forbin Project (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

## Anime

* Ghost in the Shell (1995)
* Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
* Chobits (2002)
* Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003)
* Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
* Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004)
* Ergo Proxy (2006)
* Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (2006)