| Jaws (1975) | 8.1 | |
| Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) | 7.3 | |
| Running Scared (2006) | 7.3 | |
| The Thing (1982) | 8.2 | |
| TRON (1982) | 6.7 |
Video arcade movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant video arcade movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, cult classic, exciting, entertaining, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with video arcade, dialogue, chase, runaway, catastrophe, mentor, storytelling, brutality, transformation and destiny plots mostly in Action, Drama and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as video arcade: WarGames (1983), Joysticks (1983), TRON (1982), Rebels of the Neon God (1992), Sequence Break (2017), Pixels (2015), Hot Summer Nights (2017), Wasabi (2001), RoboCop 2 (1990), Dawn of the Dead (1978).
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120K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a ...
Style:
tense, cyber, futuristic, suspenseful, political ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
cold war, hacker, computer genius, computer hacker, computer, chess, computer cracker, nuclear threat, hacking, artificial intelligence, nuclear war, computer system ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
seattle, oregon, ussr, washington state, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, raunchy comedy, gaming, colorful ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
public nudity, video arcade, prank, sexual humor, pac man, sexy girl, sex, teenager, punk, nerd, high school, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Is relevant?
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: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a young hoodlum, and their relationship is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry ...
Style:
slow cinema, art house, aesthetic, neo noir, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage boy, lgbtq, revenge, street life, vandalism, dysfunctional family, nihilism, video arcade, coming of age, youth, city life, elevator ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, taipei
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Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A surreal sci-fi romance wherein a beautiful young woman and strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in bizarre biomechanical mutations and a shocking self-realization.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
science runs amok, body horror, video arcade, fantasy becomes reality, scientist, mutation, technology, virtual reality, hallucinogenic drug, experimental technology, good versus evil, alternate reality ...
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177K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA, Canada, France, Greece, Australia, UK, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, Vietnam, Portugal, Morocco, Thailand, Egypt, Netherlands, Cyprus, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Russia, South Korea, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Qatar, Norway, Philippines, Finland, Austria, Iceland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Israel, Colombia, India, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Estonia, South Africa, Chile, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Croatia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, exciting, cute ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
video game, geek, alien invasion, humanity in peril, chase, transformation, video arcade, alien, escapades, computer cracker, danger, alien attack ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 80s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa, india, london ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Style:
sexy, captivating, exciting, light, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
summer, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, teenage protagonist, brother sister relationship, teenager, criminal, violence, cape cod massachusetts, drug dealing, party ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, new york, boston, wyoming, nevada ...
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45K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his ...
Style:
funny, realistic, exciting, semi serious, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
yakuza, father daughter relationship, police brutality, justice, lone hero, culture clash, japanese mafia, mafia, youth, inheritance, tough guy, bank robbery ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, france, paris france, asia ...
Is relevant?
99K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. ...
Style:
futuristic, tech noir, bloody, cyber, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, robot, robocop, tough girl, dead boy, extreme violence, male protagonist, police, comic book, distopia ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
michigan, texas, detroit, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, creepy, dark, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, epidemic, virus, living dead, siege, shopping mall, gory, isolation ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, bolivia, philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style:
humorous, 3d animation, sweet, not serious, parody ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
heroes, friendship, disguise, hacker, prejudice, disorder, master of disguise, good versus evil, imaginary, obsessive quest, villain, medal ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, year 1982, year 1987, 80s ...
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.
Style:
breathtaking, biting, funny, exciting, saga ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens
Plot:
jungle, adventurer, game, zoologist, friendship, video game, magic, high school, surrealism, archaeologist, teenage boy, team ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, year 1996, year 2016, jurassic ...
Place:
new hampshire, hawaii
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspense, christmas horror, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychic, telekinesis, body horror, psychic power, superhero, video arcade, monster, pluto, addiction, dishonesty, escapades, master villain ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, funny, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
high school, coming of age, abortion, friendship, teenager, stoner, shopping mall, teacher, sex scene, teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, usa
Is relevant?
92K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Style:
natural horror, suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
shark, animal attack, survival, killer shark, monster, sea adventure, shark attack, creature feature, panic, underwater, creature, boat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island, usa, new england, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of the beatles, this musical uses ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
rock and roll, music, the beatles, video arcade, resurrection, greed, disco, hysteria, interracial, hippie, musician, billboard ...
Time:
1940s, year 1978, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
226K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter ...
Style:
inspirational, captivating, suspenseful, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, boxer, revenge, comeback, training, underdog, friendship between men, celebrity, fight, tough guy, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
time travel, chase, world war two, conspiracy, experiment, experiment gone awry, justice, laboratory, chases and races, danger, heroic mission, heroes ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 1940s, 80s, year 1943 ...
Place:
california, philadelphia, nevada, usa, arizona ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, West Germany, France, Bahamas
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 one more time to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, ...
Style:
saga, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
james bond, spy, 007, assassin, female killer, espionage, car chase, terrorism, tough girl, female assassin, secret agent, agent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south of france, monte carlo, caribbean, bahamas, french riviera ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) takes on the local drug cartel.
Style:
cult classic, detective, grindhouse, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, violence, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante justice, hospital, cannon, gang, machine gun, murder, wine, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Is relevant?
102K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Frank Dux has entered the "kumite", an illegal underground martial-arts competition where serious injury and even death are not unknown. Chong Li, a particularly ruthless and vicious fighter is the favorite, but then again Dux has not ...
Style:
exciting, grindhouse, intense, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, mixed martial arts, heroes, martial arts tournament, mentor, tournament, underground fighting, kung fu, hand to hand combat, underdog, master warrior, airport ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, asia, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style:
suspense, black comedy, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
truck, stephen king, supernatural, monster, animate object, car, hostage, objects come to life, heroic mission, stranded, gas station, killer car ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has ...
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, terminator, time travel, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, dystopia, apocalypse, androids and robots, cyberpunk, chase, time traveler ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, near future, year 1997 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, persia, america, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie's father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, beach, boy, youth, young lovers, female nudity, girl, nudity, hospital, mirror, broken mirror ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, teen, romantic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot:
high school, friendship, nerd, couples, opposites attract, teenage girl, teenager, cheerleading, pretend relationship, cheerleader, youth, teen romance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, intense, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, boys' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
benign alien, space and aliens, bounty hunter, fish out of water, space travel, one against many, rescue, mixed martial arts, lone hero, good versus evil, heroes, save the world ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style:
depressing, rough, realistic, bleak, controversial ...
Plot:
drug addict, drug addiction, profanity, drug abuse, cocaine, proles, lower class, wife abuse, heroin, addiction, dysfunctional family, drug ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
london, england, europe
Is relevant?
348K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, social problems, human nature, child prodigy, coincidence, depression, sex, cancer, fictional game show, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, ...
Style:
not serious, funny, teen sex comedy, humorous, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
stoner, stupidity, idiot, obsessive quest, teenager, cannabis, car, amnesia, dumb, friendship, ostrich, alien ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, y2k
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
college, youth, party, fraternity, student life, high school, teenager, coming of age, college life, love and romance, rich snob, flirting ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2009, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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