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CYBERPUNK

a list of cyberpunk stuff

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Table of Contents

Movies

  • Ghost in the Shell: In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
  • Gamer: In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.
  • Alita: Battle Angel: A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
  • Blade Runner: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
  • Blade Runner 2049: Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
  • The Matrix:
    • The Matrix: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
    • The Matrix Reloaded: Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
    • The Matrix Revolutions: 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.
  • Ready Player One: When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
  • Upgrade: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.
  • The Fifth Element: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
  • Minority Report: In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
  • Oblivion: A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
  • TRON:
    • TRON: A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
    • TRON: Legacy: The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
  • Looper: In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
  • Total Recall: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
  • Total Recall (remake): A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
  • Elysium: In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
  • Chappie: In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence: A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
  • Equilibrium: In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.
  • Dredd:
    • Judge Dredd: In a dystopian future, Joseph Dredd, the most famous Judge (a police officer with instant field judiciary powers), is convicted for a crime he did not commit and must face his murderous counterpart.
    • Dredd: In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
  • I, Robot: In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
  • Love, Death & Robots: A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.
  • Fortress: In a future, private underground prison/Fortress, the inmates are computer controlled with CCTV, dream readers and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife are inside but want to escape before birth.
  • Cyborg 2: Two companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.
  • Grid Runners: A border cop must defeat the virtual reality warrior while learning to relate to one of the cybersex babes.
  • Avalon: A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
  • Until the end of the world: In 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented.
  • Hardware: The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
  • Cyberpunk (90's documentary): Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.
  • Techno Warriors: No synopsis.
  • Cypher: An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
  • New Rose Hotel: Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.
  • Webmaster: After hacking into the most powerful of all domains the Stoiser domain, JB thought that the cruel Stoiser would kill him. But instead he gave him a job - as a webmaster.
  • Gattaca: A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
  • Brazil: A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
  • Zero Theorem: A hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
  • 13th Floor: No synopsis.
  • Nirvana: The main character Solo in Nirvana, a computer game developed by Jimi for release in 3 days, has gained self-awareness after a virus attack. Solo wants to be deleted. Jimi wants to find his ex.
  • Johnny Mnemonic: 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.
  • Strange days: A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
  • Lawnmower Man: No synopsis.
  • Dark city: A man struggles with memories of his past, which includes a wife he cannot remember, and a nightmarish world, no one else seems to be waking up from.
  • La Jetée: The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
  • Metropolis (1927): In the future, in the Million-acre city of Metropolis, wealthy industrialists and business magnates and their top employees reign from 50 to 1,000-story skyscrapers, while underground-dwelling workers toil to operate the great machines that power the city.
  • Hackers: Hackers are blamed for making a virus that will capsize five oil tankers.
  • Technotise: Edit and I: Edit, a psychology student, installs herself a stolen military chip to pass the university. But due certain circumstances Edit develops a second personality.
  • Space Sweepers: Year 2092 and follows the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory.
  • Kamikaze
  • Hands of Steel
  • Class of 1999
  • Crime Zone
  • Full Metal Yakuza
  • 2047: Virtual Revolution: In a future mega city, where most people spend most time hooked up to a virtual world.
  • Advantageous: In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship.
  • Ares: In a future France with many unemployed, big companies run the country.
  • Finch: On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his creator's beloved dog.
  • Anon (2018): In a world without anonymity or crime, a detective meets a woman who threatens their security.

Podcasts

Social

TV Shows

Anime

Manga

Magazines

  • 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
  • CYBR
  • Datenschleuder: German hacker magazine that is published at irregular intervals by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Topics include primarily political and technical aspects of the digital world (freedom of information, data privacy (data protection), closed-circuit television, personal privacy (personal rights), cryptography and many more).
  • MONDO 2000 (current, covers, archive): Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs.
  • Reality Hackers: pre-MONDO 2000. See up in archive.
  • Lainzine
  • WIRED: WIRED is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

Comics

Hardware

WWW

Videos

Texts

Books

Art

Code

Music

Video Games

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