Biopunk movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant biopunk movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, weird, visually appealing, psychotronic and stylized films and TV shows about / with biopunk, death, transformation, blood, storytelling, catastrophe, violence, danger, dialogue and apocalypse plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
biopunk movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as biopunk: Doom: Annihilation (2019), Akira (1988), Repo Men (2010), Save the Green Planet! (2003), Gattaca (1997), The Toxic Avenger (2023), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), eXistenZ (1999).

List of biopunk movies

Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.
Style: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: scientist, monster, biopunk, mars, survival, chainsaw, female warrior, violence, space marine, soldier, secret laboratory, hell ...
Time: future, near future
Place: space western, nevada
Is relevant?
 8.0
 224K
Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style: anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
 6.3
 114K
Repo Men (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, absurd, visually appealing, cyber ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, evil corporation, dystopic future, rebel, fight scenes, virtual reality, biopunk, chase, hitman ...
Time: future, near future, year 2010, 2010s
Place: usa
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Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A traumatized young man abducts Korean leaders, believing they're toxic reptilian aliens - a fifth column launching a takeover of beloved Earth. Stumped law enforcement geniuses half-seriously hire a disgraced, disheveled private detective with ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, dark humor, biopunk, twists and turns, brutality, space and aliens, death of father, death of mother, earth, anti hero, alien, serial killer ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
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 7.7
 344K
Gattaca (1997)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, dystopia, philosophy, society, paraplegic, eugenics, hopes, dystopian future, twists and turns ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: detroit, riviera, french riviera
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The Toxic Avenger (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: THE TOXIC AVENGER! Now wielding a glowing mop with super-human strength, he must race against time to save his son and stop a ruthless and ...
Style: epic, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: biopunk, toxic waste, superhero, supernatural, intoxication, superhuman powers, toxic, supernatural power, supernatural ability, graphic violence, drinking, police ...
Place: new jersey
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in ...
Style: thought provoking, visually stunning, emotional, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: gorilla, ape, planet of the apes, rebelliousness, chimpanzee, animal testing, virus, rebellion, experiment gone awry, animal experimentation, dystopia, animal ...
Time: future, year 2011, jurassic, 2010s, near future ...
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa, north america
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, teen, saga, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, family outing, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, vigilante, revenge, mad scientist, super powers, superhuman powers, teenage girl, teenager, good versus evil, spider, transformation, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, seattle
Is relevant?
 6.8
 113K
eXistenZ (1999)
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
Is relevant?
 3.4
 1K
Antibody (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a terrorist with an implanted nuclear detonator gets shot, a team of scientists must defuse the bomb by miniaturizing themselves and going into his bloodstream. His organism's antibodies start to mass against them.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, terrorism, nuclear bomb, danger, heroes, race against time, nanotechnology, biopunk, monster, interracial, escapades, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Genre: Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A worldwide epidemic encourages a bio-tech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
Style: gothic, dark, medical horror, horror musical, visual ...
Plot: goth, medical, opera, violence, mercilessness, support group, musician, torture, addiction, rock, life is a bitch, against humanity ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, paris france
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 7.0
 75K
Soylent Green (1973)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Plot: dystopia, conspiracy, food, cannibalism, death, murder, overpopulation, distopia, police detective, investigation, law enforcement, consciousness ...
Time: future, distant future, near future, 2020s, 70s ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 6.6
 145K
Outbreak (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, plague, virus, quarantine, bio weapon, monkey, catastrophe, disaster, medical, infection, deadly virus, disease ...
Time: jurassic, future, 60s, year 1967, 90s ...
Place: africa, utah, northern california, usa, washington d.c. ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 91K
Species (1995)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from ...
Style: sexy, suspense, erotic, scary, sexual ...
Audience: boys' night, toddlers, adult
Plot: genetic engineering, cocoon, nudity, alien, deadly creature, monster, genetics, dna, femme fatale, interspecies sex, danger, cloning ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, jurassic, 20th century, year 1993
Place: los angeles, usa, santa monica california, utah
Is relevant?
 5.9
 22K
Immortal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York City in the year 2095 where genetically altered humans live side by side with unaltered men and women.
Style: surreal, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot: cyberpunk, genetics, mythology, fantasy world, cyborgs, ancient egypt, parallel universe, dystopian future, transformation, society, dystopia, androids ...
Time: future, year 2004
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant?
 6.1
 22K
Code 46 (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: dystopia, dystopian future, husband wife relationship, infidelity, distopia, cyberpunk, abortion, cloning, pregnancy, coitus, forgery, investigation ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future
Place: asia, shanghai, china, middle east, seattle ...
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The Gene Generation (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved ...
Style: serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, apocalypse, hitman, chaos, danger, dystopian future, woman with a gun, society, femme fatale, life is a bitch, hot chick, fight ...
Time: future
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 5.3
 4K
Body Melt (1993)
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.
Style: medical horror, horror comedy, saga, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot: body horror, male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, police officer, hardcore, zombie, gory, exploitation, biopunk, violence, bare chested male ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne
Is relevant?
 5.4
 16K
Replicant (2001)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cloning, killer, murder, martial arts, cyberpunk, police investigation, serial killer, genetic engineering, rivalry, law enforcement, government agency, criminal heroes ...
Time: future, 2000s, near future
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
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Xam'd: Lost Memories (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Story: Set on a peaceful island during a violent terrorist attack, a young boy is suddenly transformed into a metal-cased mercenary. But with this great power comes even greater danger. Aiyuki must discover how to master this remarkable new power-or risk ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, atmospheric, mecha ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hopes, self discovery, fish out of water, life turned upside down, young heroes, family relations, child in peril, heroes, escapades, youth, parents and children, buddies ...
Place: japan, asia
Is relevant?
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: loneliness, depression, philosophy, insanity, misanthropy, suicide, alienation, hate, surrealism, infiltration, stream of consciousness, death ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan
Is relevant?
 6.3
 26K
Shivers (1975)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Style: sexual, disturbing, grindhouse, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: exploitation, parasite, sex maniac, rape, sex, insanity, body horror, gory, zombie, evil wins, lust, puffy nipples ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: canada, montreal
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 6.7
 67K
Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot: body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: canada
Is relevant?
 6.8
 69K
Innerspace (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, humorous, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: hypochondriac, mad scientist, lone hero, dystopic future, rescue, experiment gone awry, experiment, disorder, race against time, goofy hero, danger, destiny ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place: san francisco
Is relevant?
 5.8
 106K
Splice (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops ...
Style: twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: genetic engineering, genetics, monster, creature, supernatural, experiment gone awry, danger, cloning, laboratory, imaginary, dna, pregnant from rape ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: america, usa
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time: year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
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The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face ...
Style: exciting, gloomy, serious, saga, action packed ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, superhuman powers, chase, transformation, mutant, unstoppable, creature, experiment gone awry, scientist, split personality, giant, antidote ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
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 7.0
 692K
Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, space horror ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, androids, survival, alien, outer space, space and aliens, distant planet, robot, alien encounter, expedition, creature, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2000, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland, seattle
Is relevant?
 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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