Tech noir movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant tech noir movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tech noir, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic, serious and futuristic films and TV shows about / with technology, cyberpunk, distopia, violence, murder, dialogue, dystopia, blood, gun and transformation 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 tech noir: Life (2017), Beyond the Dreamcatcher (0000), Anon (2018), Alita: Battle Angel (2019), Blade Runner (1982), Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020), Mute (2018), Paycheck (2003), Strange Days (1995), Possessor (2020).

List of tech noir movies

 6.6
 275K
Life (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: scary, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, tragic ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: monster, mars, space, space station, space travel, space exploration, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, alien creature, first contact, death ...
Time: 2010s, near future, year 2017, future
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Beyond the Dreamcatcher (0000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When an online shock jock's latest episode takes him on a journey into the notorious deep web, his own darkness threatens to drag him into the depths of the binary abyss.
Style: psychotronic, neo noir, avant garde, psychedelic, tech noir ...
Plot: drug, hallucination, transformation, technology, religion, insanity, catholic, depression, memory, darkness, black market, rape ...
Place: usa
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 6.1
 52K
Anon (2018)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears ...
Style: tech noir, detective, apocalyptic, exciting, mystic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, technology, murder investigation, dystopia, distopia, mind control, surveillance, police, female assassin, serial killer, secret identity, investigation ...
Time: future, near future
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does ...
Style: futuristic, action adventure, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, female protagonist, cyborgs, distopia, post apocalypse, female warrior, tough girl, adaptation, martial arts, woman fights a man, bounty hunter, danger ...
Time: future, near future, year 2019, 2010s
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 8.1
 875K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 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.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.
Style: anime, tech noir, adult animation, 3d animation, neo noir ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cyberpunk, sword, artificial intelligence, male female partnership, virtual reality, tattooed man, back from the dead, soldier, supernatural power, yakuza, receptionist, transcendence ...
Time: distant future, 2020s
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 5.5
 39K
Mute (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.
Style: tech noir, neo noir, cyber, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, bartender, mute, prostitute, gangster, doctor, missing girl, male objectification, vengeance, love, justice, adaptation ...
Time: near future, future, 2030s
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 6.3
 118K
Paycheck (2003)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, tech noir, thought provoking, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, amnesia, twists and turns, time travel, changing the past or future, frame up, destiny, prophecy, technology, time machine, gunfight ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle
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 7.2
 84K
Strange Days (1995)
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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 6.5
 53K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological horror, tech noir, psychological, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, murder, brutality, mind control, transgression, assassin, assassination attempt, sociopath, serial killer, assassination, food, blood ...
Time: near future, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada
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 7.6
 222K
The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 7.5
 231K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, revenge, murder, surgery, microchip, dystopia, nanotechnology, technology, super soldier, cyborgs, super computer ...
Time: near future, future, 2010s
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 5.7
 17K
Antiviral (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save his own life .
Style: disturbing, medical horror, tech noir, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, obsession, infection, celebrity, uncover truth, social decay, infected, hidden truth, danger, cannibalism, visceral, existentialism ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, california
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 8.0
 676K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot: time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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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 8.5
 1.1M
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, frightening ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: monster, alien, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, heroine, survival horror, evil alien, spaceship, female protagonist, creature, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
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Escape from New York (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style: retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.6
 189K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles, california
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 5.9
 133K
The 6th Day (2000)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, tech noir, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cyberpunk, lookalikes, cloning, conspiracy, genetic engineering, one against many, dystopia, murder, danger, rivalry, clone, dishonesty ...
Time: future, year 2000, near future, 2010s, y2k ...
Place: argentina, patagonia
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 7.2
 162K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: cult classic, homoerotic, suspenseful, serious, black comedy ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, alien, distopia, mind control, social commentary, anti conformity, violence, resistance, evil alien, capitalism ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
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 5.1
 37K
Cyborg (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, martial arts, post apocalypse, violence, chase, vengeance, androids and robots, one man army, chaos, tough heroes, female robot ...
Time: future, year 1989, year 2019, 80s, 21st century
Place: new york, georgia, usa, charleston south carolina, south carolina ...
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 5.2
 26K
The Fly II (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Style: tech noir, scary, cult classic, bloody, surprise ending ...
Plot: teleportation, mad scientist, gory, monster, body horror, cocoon, creature feature, mutation, insect, creature, transformation, laboratory ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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 6.0
 14K
Brainscan (1994)
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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 5.6
 131K
Judge Dredd (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, police, dystopic future, dystopian future, dystopia, apocalypse, post apocalypse, good versus evil, brutality, superhero, law enforcement, judge ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: new york, usa
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Collateral Damage (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Style: exciting, intense, tech noir, action packed, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: terrorism, revenge, terrorist, vigilante, vigilantism, heroes, one man army, vengeance, firefighter, righteous rage, loss of son, loss of wife ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colombia, washington d.c., south america, latin america, los angeles
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 8.1
 995K
The Terminator (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical ...
Style: tech noir, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, kids, teens, manly ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyborgs, time travel, cyberpunk, man versus machine, terminator, androids, androids and robots, dystopia, time machine, on the run, sent to the past ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, near future, year 1984 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, north america, mexico, california
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Style: psychedelic, mind bending, tech noir, psychological, non-linear ...
Plot: computer, programmer, free will, alternate reality, flashback, time travel, computer game, video game, repeated scene, cyberpunk, time loop, conspiracy ...
Time: 80s, near future, 2010s, year 1984
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
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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 7.2
 112K
Videodrome (1983)
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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