• Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)

• Robocop

• Elysium

Altered Carbon S1

Hackers

How do you not have Johnny Mnemonic?

Trying to avoid the already great recs, for varying levels of cyberpunk themes or aesthetics...

Movies

Gattaca 1997

Elysium 2013

Ex Machina 2015

TV

Almost Human

Cowboy Bebop (any)

Devs

Incorporated (highly recommend!)

Max Headroom

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Battle Angel Alita was a lot of fun. (Admittedly, I'm a sucker for good action sequences.)

Here are a couple "cult" movies:

• Hardware (1990) - not a "good" movie, but never boring and very worth watching. Great soundtrack, fun cameos, several interesting ideas.

• Johnny Mnemonic (1995) - the best really bad cyberpunk movie. A very fun watch, if you're sufficiently protected from cringeing to death. Apparently there's a 2022 black and white cut that has a much better feel, but I've never seen it.

• Videodrome (1983) - it's got lowlifes, it's got high tech (for that time and place), it's got urban dystopias, and it's got evil corporations. I'd argue it's "proto-cyberpunk". Irregardless, it's one of the best SF horror movies ever made. Yes, right up there with Alien, arguably better bc it has more to say about how technology mediates reality and bc it really gets in your head. Heh.

Not 100% sure it qualifies but i believe so, i enjoyed the dredd movie with carl urban and it has a very dystopian setting.

There is also an older one with stallone but i believe that one is more comedic.

E: also since you got blade runner in there i cant help myself and must suggest my favorite movie Alien, at least the first two. Supposedly they play in the same universe as blade runner

My favorites I don’t see!

Strange Days A Scanner Darkly Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Campy ones, if you’re into that: Space Truckers Cherry 2000 964 Pinocchio Nemesis

Movie list pulled from the comments, hard to tell If I missed anything or if there is a question to them being cyberpunk adjacent enough

• 964 Pinocchio (1991)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• Aeon Flux (2005)
• Akira (1988)
• Alien (1979)
• Aliens (1986)
• Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
• Animatrix, The (2003)
• Antiviral (2012)
• Appleseed (2004)
• Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
• Appleseed XIII (2011)
• Appleseed Alpha (2014)
• Astro Boy (2009)
• Avalon (2001)
• Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm OVA) (1993)
• Belle (2021)
• Big Hero 6 (2014)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Brazil (1985)
• Burst City (1982)
• Chappie (2015)
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
• Crimes of the Future (2022)
• Cutie Honey (2004)
• Cyborg (1989)
• Dark City (1998)
• Demolition Man (1993)
• District 9 (2009)
• Dredd (2012)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
• Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
• Elysium (2013)
• Equilibrium (2002)
• Escape from L.A. (1996)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• eXistenZ (1999)
• Ex Machina (2015)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Free Guy (2021)
• Freejack (1992)
• Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
• Futureworld (1976)
• Gamer (2009)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
• Ghost in the Shell (2008)
• Ghost in the Shell (2017)
• Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 1 Ghost Pain (2013)
• Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 2 Ghost Whispers (2013)
• Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 3 Ghost Tears (2014)
• Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 4 Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
• Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 5 Pyrophoric Cult (2015)
• Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (2006)
• Guns Akimbo (2020)
• Hackers (1995)
• Hardware (1990)
• Harrison Bergeron (1995)
• In Time (2011)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Judge Dredd (1995)
• Mars Express (2023)
• megazone23 (1985)
• M3GAN (2022)
• M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Metropolis (2001, anime)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Morgan (2016)
• Mute (2018)
• Nemesis (1992)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
• Nova Seed (2016)
• Outland (1981)
• Pacific Rim (2013)
• Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
• Possessor (2020)
• Ready Player One (2018)
• Real Steel (2011)
• Repo Men (2010)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
• Robocop (1987)
• Robocop 2 (1990)
• Robocop 3 (1993)
• Rollerball (1975)
• Rubber’s Lover (1996)
• Save the Green Planet! (2003)
• Sneakers (1992)
• Soldier (1998)
• Space Sweepers (2021)
• Space Truckers (1996)
• Split Second (1992)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Surrogates (2009)
• The Creator (2023)
• The Electric State (2025)
• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Net (1995)
• The Sixth Day (2000)
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• THX 1138 (1971)
• Timecop (1994)
• Tokio Gore Police (2008)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Total Recall (2012)
• TRON (1982)
• TRON: Legacy (2010)
• TRON: Ares (2025)
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
• Upgrade (2018)
• Videodrome (1983)
• Virtuosity (1995)
• WALL·E (2008)
• Westworld (1973)

1992 - sneakers

1975 - rollerball

1982 - TRON

2002 - equilibrium

1989 - cyborg

1994 - timecop

2015 - chappie

1995 - 12 monkeys

1992 - the lawnmower man

2002 - minority report

If you have Escape From New York, you should also have Escape From LA.

Upgrade (2018)

Snow Crash once someone makes it

Serious question - does the '93 Mario Brothers count?

No cyberpunk collection is complete without Ghost in the shell (not the scar Jo one)

Minority Report and the Sixth Day

I'd definitely recommend adding Space Sweepers for something fun and upbeat (for cyberpunk).

For a scifi horror with more cyberpunk elements than you might expect, I'd suggest Morgan (2016).

Soldier (1998) might be too much of a stretch but it's got a lot of the elements (minus an evil corporation) and it's a solid film.

Edit: I forgot Outland! It's great, plot is basic but works, actors are fun (it's got Sean Connery) and the aesthetics/sets are prime Alien/Aliens territory. I think of it as being set in the Aliens universe.

Terminator

Metropolis

Does Equilibrium count as Cyberpunk?

Judge Dread (there are several)

Demolition Man

I don't think I'd call Dark City really cyberpunk. I don't know what you'd call it. Retro-1940s but in a sci-fi environment?

checks Wikipedia

Wikipedia calls it "neo-noir".

Well OP you could literally watch the Cyberpunk series that Netflix put out.

It's really good. Great soundtrack

Don't see Johnny Mnemonic

Aeon Flux, you gotta get the animated series though!

I’ll endorse Hackers also, very heavy with style

Strange Days (1995). The main premise is cyberpunk as fuck, the story gets real dark and it stars Ralph Fiennes playing what is essentially a brain dance dealer. Great film.

Ghost in the shell both the original movie and the first two seasons of the of og anime are both classic cyberpunk media

Equilibrium

1995 The Net

I scrolled pretty far and didn't see Duncan Jones's Mute. Very strong cyberpunk aesthetics, and a great story.

Solid list OP. I didn't watch the peripheral, gonna check it out.

I know everyone recommended a bunch of movies, if you want my take, looking at the compilation list someone posted, from that list if I had to recommend just one cyberpunk movie it would be The original Ghost in the shell (1995)

And now I am questioning what cyberpunk is? I think I had a firm grasp on what it is but now I am not sure because I don't know if The matrix really checks that many boxes, there are no corporations and like poverty. There are people living in dare situations but it is more like in a post apocalypse way.

Anyway, cheers o/

If good is not a requirement go get Freejack.

Here's some quick possible additions off the top of my head: Minority Report, Strange Days, Ghost in the Shell.

"Mars express", "Ghost in the shell", and "Alita"; Brazil is a classic; The most recent Dredd movie is a lot of fun. I like Existence tho it veers more into "biopunk" if you make those distinctions. "Tetsuo the iron man" Is probably my favorite cyberpunk movie; It also has one of the best industrial soundtracks ever made. "Elysium" and "District 9" were very high regarded at the time. Brandon Cronenberg's movies are also pretty rad as well. More subdued but they easily get under your skin. I really love "antiviral" and "possessor" ; again like daddy Cronenberg they tend to veer into biopunk territory.

I'd add "Tokio gore police."; "Full metal yakuza" and "Electric Dragon 80.000 V" from some good ol' Japanese craziness.

Ghost in the shell

Johnny Mnemonic

Ghost in the Shell

Elysium

Metropolis (2001)

A bit of a stretch for cyberpunk, but Alphaville (1965) is awesome (and has lemmy in it's alternative tilte).

Also THX 1138 (1971)

I think Cyber City Oedo 808 hasn't been mentioned yet

Good choice including The Matrix.

Too bad they never made any sequels.