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.

Artificial intelligence plots

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)

Computers as plot devices

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)
Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019)
Valley of the Boom (2019)
The IT Crowd (2006-2013)

Documentaries

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Silicon Cowboys (2016)

Hacking as a plot narrative

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)