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The Crucial Phase of Cyberpunk film from 1980-2013 onwards
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Blade Runner
Blade Runner, a dystopian film set in the future 2019. Starring Harrison Ford.
"Ridley Scott's 1982 movie, Blade Runner, captures the quintessence of the cyberpunk aesthtic: a juxtaposition of high technology with social decay as a troubling allegory of the relationship between humanity and machines, in particular, artificially intelligent machines"
Pivato J M 2000, A Very Short History of Cyberpunk, viewed 20 August 2013
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Tron
Tron, the film that defined video-gaming in a virtual world released by Disney and winning an Oscar for technical achievment the following year. -
Brazil
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. -
Robocop
A film set int hefuture where a man who is part human, part machine is enforced to be a cop. -
Akira
The first real Japanese anime film, that really made anime, what it i today. -
Hardware
A film set in a post-apocalyptic future follows the rampage of a self-repairing cyborg. -
The Lawnmower man
A film based loosely on the short story by Stephen King -
City of Lost Children
A french film that is considered more steampunk than cyber. the film is about a scientist who steals children to extract their dreams to stop his agieng process. -
Strange Days
kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron's cyber punk thriller starring Ralph Fiennes. In 1999 USA has become a dangerous war zone and an interface called SQUID which reoreds human memories is the only key to find out where a muderer is hiding. -
Ghost in the Shell
Critically aclaimed film "Ghost in the Shell" is a japanese animated film set in the near future where computer technolgies allow humans to go into 'avartars' or shells as they call them. It follows the story of a puppet master controlling the system and people hunting the perosn down. -
Fifth Element
A film directed by Luc Besson. Set in the 23rd century it involves the world to be saved by an unspeakable evil -
Pi
a film directed by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan). The film centres around a man fixated on the symbol Pi and its meaning and becomes compulsively paraonoid. -
The Matrix
A computer hacker finds a group of rebels who tell him that his world isn't so. -
Equilibrium
A warrior-priest and enforcement officer in a future dystopia where both feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs to suppress their emotions. -
I, Robot
2004 film, I, Robot starring Will Smith tells the story of a detective who investigates a suicide/murder of a supposed robot that kills. -
A Scanner Darkly
In an all star cast film, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. It tells the story of a cop living in a highly survielanced society, where privacy is no-where. -
Repo: The Genetic Opera
A musical cyberpunk film about a man named repo who collects body parts if you owe an outstanding debt. -
Elysium
A science fiction cyber punk film that explores a space station called Elysium and its social classes