Technology gone awry movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant technology gone awry movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, stylized and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with technology gone awry, chaos, danger, technology, imaginary, cyberpunk, catastrophe, artificial intelligence, intelligence and computer plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as technology gone awry: Westworld (2016), Black Mirror (2011), 9 (2009), Primer (2004), Transcendence (2014), Stay Alive (2006), Eagle Eye (2008), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), THX 1138 (1971), Chappie (2015).
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556K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style:
futuristic, psychological thriller, stylized, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, consciousness, robot, androids, murder, moral dilemma, man versus machine, technology gone awry, escapades, scientist, sex, sex scene ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
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728K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, philosophical, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly
Plot:
technology, dystopian future, dystopia, twists and turns, satire, human nature, social decay, computers and web, alternate reality, society, social satire, media ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
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156K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg, UK, Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style:
adult animation, surreal, apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, survival, technology gone awry, vestiges of humanity, robot, fate of humanity, heroes, distopia, danger ...
Time:
future, 1940s, year 2009
Place:
canada
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121K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style:
philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
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246K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style:
cerebral, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, technology, consciousness, technology gone awry, resurrection, science, scientist, nanotechnology, computers and web, chaos, hi-tech, computer ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, year 2010 ...
Place:
peru, usa, africa, europe, asia ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as ...
Style:
scary, slasher, demonic, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
group of friends, virtual reality, technology gone awry, supernatural horror, ghost, teenage life, husband murders wife, supernatural, cursed object, characters killed one by one, murder, survival ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new orleans
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201K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push ...
Style:
suspense, serious, action thriller, intense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
chase, surveillance, artificial intelligence, mysterious character, investigation, technology gone awry, computers and web, intelligence, fugitives, law enforcement, hacking, hacker ...
Time:
year 2008, near future, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., afghanistan, chicago, indianapolis indiana, pentagon ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, philosophical, neo noir ...
Plot:
virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, twists and turns, time travel, computer system, artificial intelligence, consciousness, parallel world, simulated reality, imaginary ...
Time:
future, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, pasadena california
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57K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, bleak, mindfuck, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, dystopia, dystopian future, cyberpunk, brainwashing, escape, prison, dystopic future, alone in the world, fighting the system, androids and robots ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1971, 90s, 1920s
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282K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, parents and children, androids and robots, human versus robot, technology, technology gone awry, brutality, consciousness, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2015, near future, 21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 'The Philadelphia Experiment', a secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, experiment gone awry, technology gone awry, danger, government facility, chaos, disorder, time paradox, death threat, time travel, alien, mission ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style:
scary, medical horror, suspenseful, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, genetics, mutant, island, survival, chaos and mayhem, experiment gone awry, mutation, dangerous animal, stranded, brutality, experiment ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, indonesia, pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, ...
Style:
futuristic, cyber, suspense, tech noir, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, fighting the system, chase, technology gone awry, imaginary, life is a bitch, society, cyberspace, dystopian future, bounty hunter, computer, battles ...
Time:
future, 2000s, near future
Place:
asia, singapore
Is relevant?
67K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a ...
Style:
tense, sexy, philosophical, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, computer, life philosophy, robot, technology gone awry, vacation, dystopia, villain played by lead actor, cyborgs ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, year 1973, 19th century ...
Place:
space western, usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, rescue, apocalypse, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, distant planet, deadly creature, man versus machine, space travel, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, man versus machine, secret laboratory, female robot, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, programmer, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
england
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, technology gone awry, bio weapon, creature feature, outer space, satellite, rescue, evil alien, alien encounter, deadly creature, danger, supernatural ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Is relevant?
340K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, conspiracy, cloning, escape, clone, dystopian future, dystopia, isolation, fugitives, technology gone awry, genetics, lookalikes ...
Time:
future, year 2019, year 2005, 2010s, near future ...
Place:
fictional island, los angeles
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6K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman (James Marshall) and reporter Jennifer Evans (Naomi Watts) begin separate investigations. Newman gets ...
Style:
suspense, perverse, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
elevator, technology gone awry, mad scientist, supernatural, gory, journalism, danger, uncover truth, race against time, psychopath, disorder, woman in danger ...
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
Is relevant?
385K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India, UK, Mexico, Japan, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
stylized, visually stunning, cyber, exciting, visual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, computer program, cyberspace, disappearance, chase, virtual reality, dystopic future, dystopia, hacker, distopia, computer genius ...
Time:
future, year 2010, 2010s, near future, 80s ...
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, cyborgs, killer robot, robot, androids, dystopia, man versus machine, desert, artificial intelligence, wasteland ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has ...
Style:
futuristic, saga, philosophical, reflective, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, dystopia, post apocalypse, prophecy, chosen one, distopia, man versus machine, robot, alternate reality, existentialism ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A teenager girl mistakenly downloads the Mangler 2.0 computer virus into her highschool's new state of the art computer system and all hell breaks loose.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, computer, stephen king, youth, technophobia, technology gone awry, teenage life, science runs amok, human versus computer, college, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues ...
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
surveillance, chase, computer game, computers and web, computer system, technology gone awry, on the run, government agency, casino, conspiracy, artificial intelligence, secret service ...
Time:
year 2009, future
Place:
usa, prague, czech republic, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
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20K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After receiving a package from his Grandfather, Rei, a young inventor living in England during the mid-19th century, has his life thrown into disarray. The package contains a "Steam Ball", a device of incredible power, and a letter asking ...
Style:
anime, adult animation, exciting, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
steampunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, heroic mission, inventions and discoveries, master villain, danger, rivalry, chases and races, chase, father son relationship, violence ...
Time:
1860s, year 2004, 1800s, future, 19th century
Place:
england, japan, manchester, united kingdom, london ...
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611K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, dystopia, dystopian future, androids, technology gone awry, fate of humanity, hi-tech ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2030s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He’s good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time out hanging out in the all-powerful online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has – until the girl of his dreams, ...
Style:
anime, humorous, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
artificial intelligence, virtual reality, code breaking, chaos, satellite, relationships, technology gone awry, teenage life, high school student, virtual world, save the world, family relations ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, california, tokyo
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911
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A top secret government study involving the manipulation of the weather goes awry, leaving L.A. in the path of a destructive hurricane. A meteorologist sets out to save the city.
Style:
serious, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
catastrophe, disaster, manipulation, heroes, danger, technology gone awry, escapades, save the day, undercover, chaos, government agency, forces of nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, pacific ocean
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dante travels across a desolate, futuristic Spain in search of his girlfriend, Ula. He is pursued by a bloodthirsty, cybernetic Rottweiler.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, rottweiler, chase, manhunt, technology gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, danger, gory, on the run, killer dog, dog ...
Time:
future
Place:
spain, europe
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