The History of Cyberpunk Media

  • World on a Wire

    World on a Wire
    "Welt am Draht"
    A science fiction film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm. A German film that originally aired as a two-part miniseries.
  • The Terminal Man

    The Terminal Man
    Directed by Mike Hodges, based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Stars George Segal. About the dangers of mind control and the power of computers.
  • Blade Runner

    Blade Runner
    Blade Runner is an American dystopian science fiction thriller film. It was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. It was written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. It is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
  • Tron

    Tron
    1982 American science fiction film released by Walt Disney Productions. Scripted and directed by Steven Lisberger. Stars Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, and Barnard Hughes. A computer programmer is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer, where he interacts with various programs in his attempt to get back out.
  • Videodrome

    Videodrome
    Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Deborah Harry.
  • RoboCop

    RoboCop
    A science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Starring are Peter Weller, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox.
  • Gunhead

    Gunhead
    Japanese live-action mecha film. Adapted by Kia Asamiya into the manga Gunhed, based on a screenplay by James Bannon and Masato Harada.
  • Hardware

    Hardware
    British-American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Richard Stanley and starring Dylan McDermott. Inspired by a short story in 2000 AD, the film depicts the rampage of a self-repairing cyborg in a post-apocalyptic slum.
  • The Lawnmower Man

    The Lawnmower Man
    American science fiction action horror film written by Brett Leonard and Gimel Everett. The film stars Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, a simple-minded gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence Angelo, the scientist who decides to experiment on him.
  • Strange days

    Strange days
    American cyberpunk thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Co-written and produced by her ex-husband James Cameron and co-written by Jay Cocks, it stars Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Michael Wincott. Nominated for five Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing for Cameron and Cock
  • The Matrix

    The Matrix
    American–Australian science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving.
  • Dead or Alive: Final

    Dead or Alive: Final
    Dead or Alive: Final is a 2002 Japanese cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Takashi Miike. It is the third in a three-part series, preceded by Dead or Alive in 1999 and Dead or Alive 2: Birds in 2000.
  • Immortals

    Immortals
    English language, French-produced live-action and animated science fiction film, directed by Enki Bilal and loosely based upon his comic book La Foire aux immortels. It was one of the first major films to be shot entirely on a "digital backlot", blending live actors with computer generated surroundings.
  • The Gene Generation

    The Gene Generation
    Biopunk science fiction film about an assassin who battles DNA hackers. The film was directed by Pearry Teo, and stars Bai Ling, Parry Shen, Faye Dunaway, and Alec Newman.
  • Repo Men

    Repo Men
    Repo Men is a 2010 American-Canadian science fiction action-thriller film directed by Miguel Sapochnik, and starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. It is based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia.
  • Dredd

    Dredd
    Dredd is a British-South African science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland. It is based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Karl Urban stars.