List of films about computers

This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films in which activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot.

Motion picture

 * 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
 * HAL 9000
 * The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
 * Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
 * The Questor Tapes (1974)
 * Demon Seed (1977)
 * Blade Runner (1982)
 * Tron (1982)
 * WarGames (1983)
 * Brainstorm (1983)
 * 2010 (1984)
 * HAL 9000
 * SAL 9000
 * Hide and Seek (1984, TV movie)
 * Electric Dreams (1984)
 * The Terminator (1984)
 * Terminator
 * Skynet
 * D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
 * Flight of the Navigator (1986)
 * Short Circuit (1986)
 * Not Quite Human (1987)
 * Short Circuit 2 (1988)
 * Not Quite Human II (1989)
 * Still Not Quite Human (1992)
 * Arcade (1993)
 * Star Trek Generations (1994)
 * Hackers (1995)
 * Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
 * The Net (1995)
 * Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
 * Enemy of the State (1998)
 * Lost in Space (1998)
 * Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
 * Bicentennial Man (1999)
 * The Matrix (1999)
 * The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
 * Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
 * Virus (1999)
 * A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
 * How to Make a Monster (2001)
 * Swordfish (2001)
 * S1M0NE (2002)
 * Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
 * The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
 * The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
 * I Robot (2004)
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
 * Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
 * Eagle Eye (2008)
 * Iron Man (2008)
 * Moon (2009)
 * GERTY 3000
 * Iron Man 2 (2010)
 * Person Of Interest (2011-2016)
 * Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
 * Computer Chess (2013)
 * Her (2013)
 * Iron Man 3 (2013)
 * The Machine (2013)
 * Automata (2014)
 * Transcendence (2014)
 * Interstellar (2014)
 * Vice (2015)
 * Ex Machina (2015)
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
 * Morgan (2016)

Television series

 * Person Of Interest (2011-2016)
 * Next (2020)
 * Mrs. Davis (2023)

Motion picture

 * Desk Set (1957)
 * The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
 * Alphaville (1965)
 * Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
 * The Andromeda Strain (1971)
 * Cloak & Dagger (1984)
 * Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
 * The Machine That Changed the World (1992, TV miniseries)
 * The Tower (1993, TV movie)
 * Code Rush (2000)
 * The Code (2001 film) (2001)
 * Revolution OS (2001)
 * The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
 * Micro Men (2009)
 * The Social Network (2010)
 * Jobs (2013)
 * The Imitation Game (2014)
 * Steve Jobs (2015)
 * Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Television series

 * Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002)
 * Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
 * Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998)
 * Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017)
 * Commodore 64
 * Macintosh 128K
 * NeXT Computer
 * Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019)
 * Valley of the Boom (2019)
 * The IT Crowd (2006-2013)

Documentaries

 * All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
 * Web Junkie (2013)
 * Silicon Cowboys (2016)

Motion picture

 * The Italian Job (1969)
 * Tron (1982)
 * WarGames (1983)
 * IMSAI 8080
 * Cloak & Dagger (1984)
 * Prime Risk (1985)
 * Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
 * Sneakers (1992)
 * Blank Check (1994)
 * Hackers (1995)
 * The Net (1995)
 * Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
 * Masterminds (1997)
 * 23 (1998)
 * Entrapment (1999)
 * The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
 * Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
 * Altair 8800
 * Track Down (2000)
 * Swordfish (2001)
 * The Score (2001)
 * What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
 * Code Hunter (2002)
 * Bedwin Hacker (2003)
 * The Italian Job (2003)
 * Foolproof (2003)
 * The Incredibles (2004)
 * Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
 * Firewall (2006)
 * The Net 2.0 (2006)
 * Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
 * WALL-E (2008)
 * WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)
 * Untraceable (2008)
 * The Social Network (2010)
 * Robot & Frank (2012)
 * The Fifth Estate (2013)
 * Disconnect (2013)
 * Open Windows (2014)
 * Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014)
 * Blackhat (2015)
 * Chappie (2015)
 * The Throwaways (2015)
 * Snowden (2016)
 * Hacker (2016)
 * Anon (2018)
 * Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (2021)

Documentaries

 * Hacking Democracy (HBO, Emmy nominated for Outstanding Investigative Journalism)
 * Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984)
 * Hackers in Wonderland (2000)
 * Revolution OS (2001)
 * The Code Linux (2001)
 * Freedom Downtime (2001)
 * The Secret History of Hacking (2001)
 * In the Realm of the Hackers (2002)
 * BBS: The Documentary (2004)
 * The Code-Breakers (2006)
 * Steal This Film (2006)
 * Hackers Are People Too (2008)
 * Hackers Wanted (not officially released, but leaked in 2010)
 * The Virtual Revolution (2010)
 * We Are Legion (2012)
 * The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
 * Citizenfour (2014)
 * Zero Days (2016)
 * Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
 * Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld  (2023)

Television series

 * Person of Interest (2011 - 2016)
 * CSI: Cyber (2015 - 2016)
 * Scorpion (2014 - 2018)
 * Mr. Robot (2015 - 2019)
 * Stalk (TV series) (2020 - )

Virtual reality

 * World on a Wire (1973)
 * Welcome to Blood City (1977)
 * Tron (1982)
 * Brainstorm (1983)
 * The Lawnmower Man (1992)
 * Disclosure (1994)
 * Brainscan (1994)
 * Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) (1995)
 * Strange Days (1995)
 * Virtuosity (1995)
 * VR.5 (1995)
 * Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
 * Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
 * Nirvana (1997)
 * eXistenZ (1999)
 * The Matrix (1999)
 * The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
 * Avalon (2001)
 * Storm Watch (aka Code Hunter) (2002)
 * Code Lyoko (2003)
 * The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
 * The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
 * Avatar (2004)
 * Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) (2004)
 * Cargo (2009)
 * Gamer (2009)
 * Tron: Legacy (2010)
 * Transcendence (2014)
 * Ready Player One (2018)

Viruses

 * Superman III (1983)
 * Office Space (1999)
 * Pulse (2006)

Programming

 * Disclosure (1994)
 * Code Rush (1998)
 * Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
 * Altair 8800
 * The Code Linux (2001)
 * Antitrust (2001)
 * How to Make a Monster (2001)
 * Revolution OS (2001)
 * Dopamine (2003)
 * One Point O (2004)
 * Control Alt Delete (2008)
 * The Social Network (2010)
 * Hidden Figures (2016)
 * IBM 7090

Motion picture

 * FeardotCom (2002)
 * On Line (2002)
 * I-See-You.Com (2006)
 * Untraceable (2008)
 * Catfish (2010)
 * The Social Network (2010)
 * The Internship (2013)

Documentaries

 * Home Page (1998)
 * e-Dreams (2001)
 * Startup.com (2001)
 * Google: Behind the Screen (2006)
 * Steal This Film (2006)
 * Steal This Film II (2006)
 * Google: The Thinking Factory (2007)
 * Download: The True Story of the Internet (2008)
 * The Truth According to Wikipedia (2008)
 * The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)

Communications

 * Electric Dreams (1984)
 * Blank Check (1994)
 * You've Got Mail (1998)
 * Chatroom (2010)

Supernatural

 * Evilspeak (1981)
 * Weird Science (1985)
 * Ghost in the Machine (1993)
 * Ghost Machine (2009)
 * Unfriended (2014) (alternative title: Cybernatural)

War

 * Dr. Strangelove (1964)
 * Doomsday device
 * Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
 * Firefox (1982)
 * WarGames (1983)
 * Brainstorm (1983)
 * Stealth (2005)

Space

 * Apollo 13 (1995)
 * Apollo Guidance Computer
 * RocketMan (1997)
 * From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV miniseries)
 * Apollo Guidance Computer

Anime

 * Ghost in the Shell (1995)
 * Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
 * Chobits (2002)
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003)
 * Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
 * Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004)
 * Ergo Proxy (2006)
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (2006)