Virtual reality movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant virtual reality movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, futuristic, serious, intellectual, cyber and weird films and TV shows about / with virtual reality, cyberpunk, technology, dystopia, hacker, computer, existentialism, murder, virtual world and distopia plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as virtual reality: OtherLife (2017), Ready Player One (2018), Virtual Girl 2: Virtual Vegas (2001), Free Guy (2021), Upload (2020), Gamer (2009), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), The Zero Theorem (2013), Reverie (2018).
Best films
List of virtual reality movies
18K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLIfe expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of ...
Style:
suspense, tense, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
virtual reality, computer, coma, technology, medicine, experiment, memory, prison, corruption, chase, father daughter relationship, computer program ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India, Singapore, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Style:
exciting, captivating, atmospheric, stylized, cyber ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, video game, virtuality, geek, dystopia, teenage boy, love, quest, computer, teamwork, virtual world ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, jurassic, 80s ...
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, ohio, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When the VirTech Corporation unveils one of the most controversial and sought after virtual reality machines ever to be developed, it takes a Las Vegas show by storm. The machine is able to make any fantasy come to life, and everyone wants to try it ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
virtual reality, strong sexual content, sexploitation, sex in a hot tub, workplace, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal, manipulation, sexual fantasy, cybersex, sex ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
las vegas
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482K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A bank teller realizes he's a background character in an open world action game.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, exciting, action comedy, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
virtual reality, video game, game, gamer, changing lives, career change, fictional city, heroes, fantasy world, bank teller, programmer, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, seattle, tokyo
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89K
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the future where humans are able to “upload” themselves into their preferred choice of afterlife, Nathan meets his early death and is greeted by Nora in his version of heaven. Follow the two as Nathan grows accustomed to life away from his ...
Style:
futuristic, romantic, humorous, light, funny ...
Plot:
virtual reality, virtual world, looking for sex, mysterious death, hi-tech, life after death, afterlife, love interest, murder, technology, love and romance, sex scene ...
Time:
near future, 2030s, future, 2020s
Place:
brooklyn new york city
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144K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate ...
Style:
futuristic, action packed, stylized, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
distopia, mind control, virtual reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, hacker, profanity, dystopian future, computer game, death, danger, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2030s, year 2009, near future, 2000s, future ...
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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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306K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
virtual reality, dream, alternate reality, surrealism, lost love, disfigurement, redemption, obsession, tragic love, love, hopes, death ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Style:
surreal, philosophical, thought provoking, offbeat, psychedelic ...
Plot:
loneliness, computers and web, society, computer, computer system, virtual reality, escape from reality, computer genius, dystopian future, uncover truth, hacker, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A former detective specializing in human behavior is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, exciting, psychological thriller, detective ...
Plot:
virtual reality, subconscious, psychology, artificial intelligence, strong female character, murder, family problems, supportive coworker, computer program, help, family relations, imagination ...
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2.8M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, cerebral, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, teamwork, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, twists and turns, fictional reality, existentialism, lucid dream ...
Time:
year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place:
japan, paris france, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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145K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Taiwan, Japan, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As Kevin Flynn searches for proof that he invented a hit video game, he is "digitalized" by a laser and finds himself inside The Grid, where programs suffer under the tyrannical rule of the Master Control Program. With the help of TRON, a ...
Style:
surreal, visually stunning, cyber, suspenseful, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, computer, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, dystopia, computer game, programmer, computer genius, motorcycle race, hacking, computer hacker ...
Time:
80s, future, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, pentagon, north america
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style:
futuristic, cyber, stylized, tech noir, cult classic ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, dystopia, dystopian future, heroic mission, danger, computers and web, computer cracker, artificial intelligence, yakuza, hacking ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place:
japan, arizona, beijing china, canada
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14K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style:
disturbing, creepy, tech noir, twist ending, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virtual reality, computer, computer game, macabre, cursed object, murder, experiment gone awry, video game, voyeurism, teenager, cyberpunk, transformation ...
Time:
90s, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time ...
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
virtual reality, survival, save the world, danger, escape from reality, imaginary, trapped in space, murder, crew, planet, gang rape, interracial couple ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, post apocalypse, cannibalism, wasteland, dystopian future, trap, cannibal, rebel, danger, rivalry, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a ...
Style:
tech noir, cult classic, futuristic, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, dystopia, police brutality, violence, conspiracy, kick-butt women, bodyguard, corruption, haunted by the past, uncover truth, violent ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1995, near future, year 1999 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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275K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, mind bending, suspense, cyber ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, technology, memory loss, post apocalypse, dystopic future, dystopian future, on the run, flying car, mars, false memory ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place:
seattle, big ben london, australia
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Smooth advertising executive David is in a relationship with yoga teacher Juliette. Then his eye is caught by Sophie, the girlfriend of his best friend Wim, a fashion photographer. Things get completely out of hand during a campaign for augmented ...
Style:
psychological, tense, stylized, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
virtual reality, dysfunctional relationship, love affair, workplace, obsession, workplace situations, infidelity, inventions and discoveries, disorder, love and romance, buddies, photograph ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman enters an underground bunker where gifted children use augmented reality technology to wreak havoc.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, minimal cast ...
Plot:
virtual reality, evil child, children, killer child, childhood trauma, found footage, creepy kid, childhood memory, little girl, artificial intelligence, student, trapped in a building ...
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113K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, twists and turns, alternate reality, dystopia, cyberspace, bodyguard, parallel world, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1999, near future
Place:
canada
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184K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, cerebral, surreal, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, robot, distopia, virtual reality, androids and robots, utopia, technology gone awry, cloning, dystopian future, cyborgs, technology, dystopia ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
san diego california
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Style:
futuristic, scary, cyber, bad ending, suspense ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyberspace, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, man versus machine, eye, vengeance, internet, computer, computer hacker, intelligence, animal experimentation ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
arizona, washington d.c.
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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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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, erotic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
virtual reality, double suicide, woman seduces a man, suicidal, virtual world, mind game, lifestyle, escapades, youth, obsessive quest, mysterious character, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, south of france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Style:
futuristic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, resistance fighter, twists and turns, virtual reality, murder, body swapping, doppelganger, female nudity, multiple storylines ...
Time:
future, distant future
Place:
san francisco
Is relevant?
142
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, violence, computer game, murder, maniac, empathy, rape, conspiracy, video game, illusion, rivalry, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
near future, medieval times
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112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Style:
suspenseful, philosophical, meditative, cerebral, futuristic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, experiment gone awry, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, uncover truth, dystopian future, mad scientist, rebellion, computer, virtual world ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1983
Place:
england, london, europe, north carolina, rio de janeiro ...
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774
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
VR.5 is an American television program originally broadcast on the Fox network from March 10, 1995 to May 12, 1995. Ten of its thirteen episodes were aired during its original run. The title of the show refers to the degree of immersion the ...
Style:
cyber, serious, futuristic, neo noir, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cryogenics, virtual reality, cyberpunk, frozen alive, virtual world, monster, ghost, rivalry, time travel, imaginary, fictional reality, parallel world ...
Time:
90s
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