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1. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,054,528 | Gross: $171.48M
2. Don't Worry Darling (I) (2022)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While her husband leaves home everyday to work in a top secret facility, a young 1950s housewife begins to question her life when she notices strange behavior from the other wives in the neighborhood.
Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 147,151 | Gross: $45.31M
3. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)
R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff
Votes: 279,765
4. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
R | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 630,915 | Gross: $281.49M
5. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
R | 129 min | Action, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 543,760 | Gross: $139.31M
6. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 212,385 | Gross: $14.38M
7. The Cell (2000)
R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.
Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colton James
Votes: 109,138 | Gross: $61.33M
8. Vanilla Sky (2001)
R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
Votes: 285,806 | Gross: $100.61M
9. Tron (1982)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
Votes: 129,355 | Gross: $33.00M
10. Assassin's Creed (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 208,942 | Gross: $54.65M
11. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
R | 100 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.
Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 77,315 | Gross: $15.50M
12. Aniara (2018)
R | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Directors: Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Stars: Emelie Garbers, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini
Votes: 11,931 | Gross: $0.04M
13. Virtuosity (1995)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
When a virtual reality simulation created using the personalities of multiple serial killers manages to escape into the real world, an ex-cop is tasked with stopping its reign of terror.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, Stephen Spinella
Votes: 32,417 | Gross: $24.05M
14. The I-Land (2019)
TV-MA | 40 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are and how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover the world is not as it seems.
Stars: Natalie Martinez, Kate Bosworth, Ronald Peet, Sibylla Deen
Votes: 19,457
15. The Illustrated Man (1969)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins
Votes: 3,467
16. Harsh Realm (1999–2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Lt. Hobbes is sent into a VR wargame simulation where he is to terminate a renegade General who has taken control of the program.
Stars: Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Cameron K. Smith
Votes: 1,200
17. Mindwarp (1991)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In post-apocalyptic 2037, Judy rebels against the AI-ruled utopia where people live in a happy VR simulation. She's exiled to a post-nuclear wasteland where she meets drifter Stover. Mutated cannibals capture them for their leader Seer.
Director: Steve Barnett | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin, Elizabeth Kent
Votes: 2,910
18. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Spaceship crew members start dying because of an unknown defect in a virtual-reality device.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo
Votes: 4,220
19. V-World Matrix (1999 Video)
78 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two men enter a virtual reality simulator.
Director: Ron Ford | Stars: Mikul Robins, Stephanie Beaton, James Servais, Sydnee Steele
Votes: 168
20. Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (1994 Video Game)
Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Dystopian FMV-lite point and click adventure game. By 2095, America has become a fascist theocracy. Two government enforcers are forced to join the underground resistance movement after someone orders the secret police to kill them.
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder
Votes: 48
21. In-World War
Sci-Fi | Post-production
A debt-ridden and depressed beta tester is trapped in a buggy virtual reality simulation of the "war on terror".
Stars: Simeon Moses, Brian Levy, Sara Ahmed, Prem Santana
22. The Construct
Sci-Fi, Thriller | Post-production
After awakening from a seemingly terrifying nightmare, Rachel Wilcox slowly begins to discover that she is imprisoned in a seamless virtual simulation designed to study human behavior.
Director: Patrick Garcia | Stars: Brooklyn Benson, Liesl Ahlers, Clayton Boyd, Alonso Grandío
23. Little Big: Generation Cancellation (2022 Music Video)
2 min | Music
Directors: Alina Pasok, Ilya Prusikin | Stars: David Alan Graf, Sam H. Clauder II, Howard Campbell, Andriy Zozulya
Votes: 19
24. Virtual Vixens (1994 Video Game)
Adventure, Sci-Fi
Evil Crystal has imprisoned you and your friend in a virtual reality simulation. He failed to pleasure her and her three friends. You must not.
25. Contact (I) (2018)
13 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
When Jason's companion suddenly vanishes before his eyes, he realizes that the world around him may be starting to unravel.
Director: Teal Greyhavens | Stars: Iris Anthony, William Brasington, Hidekun Hah, Jesse Holcomb
Votes: 52
26. Escape (1998)
12 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller, Short
A man finds himself victim of a Virtual Reality experience. But... is this experience fiction or reality?
Director: Philippe Roberge | Stars: Paul Buissonneau, Mario Saint-Amand
27. Bagel Protocol (2020)
Not Rated | Animation
In the 22nd century, the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a virtual simulation, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here on the Quantum Bagel Network, ... See full summary »
Director: Jahred Bruno
28. Persistence of Memory (1993)
23 min | Short
Scientist Willard Freeman tests out his virtual reality simulation by downloading his mind into the character of a fictional detective searching for a serial killer. But soon the scientist ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Currie | Stars: Marcel Maillard, Sheila Tyson
Votes: 6
29. Oscillating Garrett (2011)
7 min | Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A man mourning the sudden loss of his wife becomes trapped in a crashed virtuality when he overstays his time.
Director: Mark Kochanowicz | Stars: Christopher Mann, Mark Kochanowicz, Carrie Leigh Snodgrass, Brian Anthony Wilson
30. The Walkabout (2017 Video Game)
Adventure
A free entry level exploration experience is a great introduction to Virtual Reality. Easily teleport around to explore every inch of this large photo realistic world. Look out over the ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Hesketh
31. Net: Zone (1996 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Myst clone about young Newton Winters, who enters a virtual reality simulation of the global computer network to find his father Zel who disappeared after discovering the sinister plan of his high tech firm to take over the network.
Director: Sharon Weiss | Stars: Tzvika Forman, Michael Greenshpine, Johnny Philips, Julia Stern
32.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
(1983)
83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The mind of a computer programmer forced to take a virtual vacation is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation. He must find a way out before he expires.
Director: Douglas Williams | Stars: Raul Julia, Arnie Achtman, Paula Barrett, Patrick Brymer
Votes: 2,574
33.
The Animatrix (2003)
Episode:
Program
(2003)
Unrated | 7 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Cis and Duo, a pair of freed minds, practice their skills in an old-fashioned samurai sword-fight. Duo tells Cis that he's tired of living outside the Matrix and he wants her to come with him... and he's not accepting no for an answer.
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Hedy Burress, Phil LaMarr, John DiMaggio
Votes: 5,159
34.
Electric Dreams (2017–2018)
Episode:
Real Life
(2017)
TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a near future, a policewoman who still blames herself for a past tragedy accepts her loving wife's suggestion to take a vacation in a virtual simulation, but she soon realizes that this might be the real life and hers is a simulation.
Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Terrence Howard, Anna Paquin, Rachelle Lefevre, Lara Pulver
Votes: 4,398
35.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode:
Code Yellow
(2019)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Yo-Yo and Keller take things public; parasitic aliens threaten the human race; and someone really needs boba.
Director: Mark Kolpack | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker
Votes: 2,072
36.
The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode:
Point of Origin
(2019)
TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A housewife discovers where she's really from when she's taken away from her family.
Director: Mathias Herndl | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, James Frain, Toby Levins, Zabryna Guevara
Votes: 2,253