Evil computer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant evil computer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, cult film, surprise ending, futuristic and weird films and TV shows about / with evil computer, danger, suspense, murder, technology, computer, imaginary, chaos, technology gone awry and chase plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, Italy, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as evil computer: Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), WarGames (1983), Robot Holocaust (1987), I, Robot (2004), Virtuosity (1995), Eagle Eye (2008), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Echelon Conspiracy (2009), Brainscan (1994).

List of evil computer movies

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both ...
Style: gloomy, suspenseful, psychotronic, affectionate, allegory ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: computer, artificial intelligence, cold war, scientist, evil computer, cyberpunk, disaster, distopia, human versus computer, science runs amok, talking computer, cyborgs ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: canada, washington d.c., moscow russia, rome italy, colorado ...
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes, NBA superstar LeBron James must rescue his missing son Bronny by navigating through movies in the Warner Bros. catalogue as they challenge against the villainous Al-G's plot to win a basketball ...
Style: humorous, captivating, funny, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: basketball, bugs bunny, coyote, game, african american, evil computer, rabbit, cartoon dog, duck, monster, villain, pig ...
Time: 2020s, future, year 1998, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 7.1
 103K
WarGames (1983)
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: clever, futuristic, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: hacker, cold war, computer, teenager, computer hacker, computer cracker, computer genius, nuclear threat, hacking, artificial intelligence, chess, computer system ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, california, usa, ussr, paris france
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Robot Holocaust (1987)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, arrives with his klutzy robot sidekick at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the sinister Dark One's Power Station. There, he meets a comely woman who convinces him to help rescue her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot: post apocalypse, robot, mutant, revolution, man versus machine, rebellion, heroes, rescue, power relations, escapades, rivalry, master and servant ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.1
 549K
I, Robot (2004)
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, exciting, philosophical, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: distopia, robot, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, cyborgs, androids and robots, computer, hi-tech, a.i., future dystopia, technology gone awry, man versus machine ...
Time: future, 2030s, 21st century
Place: chicago illinois, usa
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 5.5
 31K
Virtuosity (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, sexy, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, serial killer, cyborgs, computer, artificial intelligence, androids, suspense, technology, good versus evil, law enforcement, dystopic future ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 6.6
 190K
Eagle Eye (2008)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: 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: exciting, serious, intense, futuristic, bad ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: surveillance, twists and turns, chase, artificial intelligence, technology gone awry, mysterious character, investigation, law enforcement, computers and web, life turned upside down, intelligence, suspense ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, pentagon
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, thought provoking, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: space travel, astronaut, space, artificial intelligence, scientist, computer, surrealism, human versus computer, technology, evolution, self discovery, spacecraft ...
Time: future, year 2001, 1930s, prehistory, 2000s ...
Place: vatican
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Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
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: clever, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surveillance, chase, twists and turns, spy, computer, a.i., computer system, technology gone awry, computers and web, government agency, on the run, conspiracy ...
Time: future
Place: usa, russia, las vegas, washington d.c., czech republic ...
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 6.0
 12K
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: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, virtual reality, computer, macabre, teenager, video game, transformation, mentor, technology gone awry, experiment gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time: 80s, 90s
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Ghost in the Machine (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. Terry and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, futuristic, sinister ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, computer, hospital, cyberpunk, virtual reality, murder, androids and robots, cybersecurity, hacker, internet, death, suspense ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: ohio, midwest, cleveland ohio
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 6.9
 60K
Westworld (1973)
Genre: Action, 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: exciting, suspenseful, philosophical, tense, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, survival, cyberpunk, computer, artificial intelligence, robot, technology gone awry, vacation, man versus machine, distopia, robot as menace, villain played by lead actor ...
Time: future, 70s, 19th century
Place: usa
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The Terminal Man (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. ...
Style: futuristic, depressing, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, home invasion, serial killer, cyberpunk, human experiment, night, computer, mind control, evil computer, experiment gone awry, murder, medical ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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 5.1
 2K
Embryo (1976)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
Style: psychotronic, cult film, weird, tech noir
Plot: science runs amok, exploitation, serial killer, mad scientist, babies and infants, bad kids, evil computer, childbirth, cult, human, murder of a prostitute, rage ...
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 6.3
 9K
Demon Seed (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
Style: psychotronic, erotic, depressing, perverse, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: computer, laboratory, impregnation, cyberpunk, mind game, captivity, alien, cult, artificial insemination, suspense, pregnancy and birth, nature ...
Time: future, 70s
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 7.2
 96K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: 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, psychological, psychedelic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hallucination, cyberpunk, insanity, television, paranoia, body horror, mind control, surrealism, satire, suicide, cult, brainwashing ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: canada, pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia ...
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 3.2
 152
Access Code (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A secret organization gains control over the American nuclear weapons. A journalist ventures out to stop them.
Style: suspenseful, serious
Plot: evil computer, reporter, spy, law enforcement, terrorism, save the day, code breaking, government agency, special agents, chaos and mayhem, reconnaissance, car theft ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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 6.2
 7K
The Lift (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he ...
Style: slasher, scary, experimental, campy, serious ...
Plot: elevator, isolation, skyscraper, journalism, monster, suspense, evil computer, reporter, androids and robots, macabre, teenager, suffocation ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, holland, netherlands, amsterdam
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 6.6
 28K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, suspenseful, sexy, surreal, intense ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, supernatural, transformation, macabre, monster, experiment, zombie, laboratory, another dimension, mutant, murder ...
Time: 80s
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Hands of Steel (1986)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: terminator, cyberpunk, cyborgs, exploitation, androids and robots, distopia, evil computer, buddies, monster, invasion, decapitation, fistfight ...
Time: future, year 1987, near future
Place: italy, manhattan new york city, guatemala, arizona, utah
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
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: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: truck, survival, suspense, supernatural, gas station, monster, car, crazy, hostage, animate object, race against time, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: north carolina, usa
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 5.5
 7K
TerrorVision (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Style: psychotronic, scary, slasher, funny, parody ...
Plot: alien, monster, television, creature feature, cult, body horror, exploitation, satellite, friendly alien, alien on earth, mutant, fear ...
Time: 80s
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 4.3
 128
Thrillkill (1984)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Karlie Kendall's job is to write computer games - but in her spare time she hacks bank accounts. With 5 million dollars gathered, she wants to retire to Brazil - unaware that her secret partner Adrienne intends to keep all the money. Moreover, ...
Plot: computer, woman with a gun, suspense, evil computer, murder, dismemberment, intrigue, computer cracker, drowning, dead woman, spy, pantyhose ...
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 4.5
 1K
Deep Space (1988)
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: rough, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, campy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, technology gone awry, creature feature, rescue, secret project, mutant, alien encounter, supernatural, rivalry, deadly creature, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
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 3.6
 703
Mutant Hunt (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In New York City sometime in the near future, Z, the evil chairman of the Inteltrax Corporation, has taken a small army of cyborgs designed to perform hazardous tasks and altered them to kill humans for pleasure. The inventor of the cyborgs, Dr. ...
Style: futuristic, serious, rough, bleak, psycho sexual ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mad scientist, martial arts, a.i., androids and robots, society, chaos, mutant, against the odds, inventions and discoveries, technology gone awry, rivalry, man versus machine ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new york
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 4.1
 288
Invader (1991)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A crashed UFO and its reverse-engineered computer system take over the minds of soldiers at an air force base. The alien entity (in the guise of A.S.M.O.D.S., (Asmodeus), a strategic flight defense systems program for fighter jets) is discovered by ...
Plot: alien, evil computer, supernatural, ufo, military base, brainwashing, helicopter, gunfight, alien space craft, burned corpse, airplane shot down, mind control ...
Place: pentagon
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 5.9
 124K
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, exciting, suspenseful, philosophical, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cyberpunk, cloning, lookalikes, conspiracy, dystopic future, genetic engineering, clones, suspense, murder, rivalry, apocalypse, dishonesty ...
Time: future, year 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: argentina, patagonia
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
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, philosophical, saga, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, prophecy, robot, fight, man versus machine, oracle, chosen one, alternate reality, martial arts ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 23rd century, year 2003 ...
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Video Violence 2 (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Howard and Eli, the killers from the first Video Violence movie, are back and are now hosting their own TV show. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the show looks a the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their ...
Style: slasher
Plot: filmmaking, serial killer, killer, evil computer, nude, violence, female nudity, murder, death, child murder, body mutilation, electrocution ...
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style: futuristic, exciting, epic, thought provoking, bad ending ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, fight, virtual reality, robot, post apocalypse, alternate reality, chosen one, freedom, mission, prophecy ...
Time: future, distant future, near future, 23rd century, 2000s ...
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