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A deep dive the Cyberpunk genre. Follow the white rabbit.

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Find all things cyberpunk here, for better or for worse.
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💻 Videos

Cyberpunk Documentary PART 1 | Neuromancer, Blade Runner, RoboCop, Akira, Shadowrun by IndigoGaming

Cyberpunk Documentary PART 2 | Ghost in the Shell, Shadowrun, Total Recall, Blade Runner Game by IndigoGaming

Cyberpunk Documentary PART 3 | The Matrix, System Shock, Snow Crash, Hackers, VR & Simulation Theory by IndigoGaming

The Rise of Cyberpunk | From Blade Runner to Edgerunners

🎮 Video Games

Syndicate (1993) and GOG link

Release Year: 1993
Description: In the dark and twisted cities of tomorrow, corporate syndicates compete for global dominance. But the boardroom deals and corporate takeovers of the future look very different from today: they are lead by marketing directors who manage teams of half-men, half-machine cyborgs with no conscience and plenty of guns.

Syndicate Wars and GOG link

Release Year: 1996
Description: Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

Syndicate (2012) and Wikipedia link

Release Year: 2012
Description: Syndicate was a first-person shooter by Starbreeze Studios, set in the world of Syndicate. It focused on the rise of the syndicates, seen through the eyes of their agent, Miles Kilo. In true cyberpunk fashion, the game was delisted in 2020 due to the shutting down of SecuROM servers and is no longer legally available unless you can obtain a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 console and disc.

System Shock: Nehanced Edition poster and Steam link

Release Year: 1994 (2015 Enhanced)
Description: A hacker is caught trespassing on TriOptimum's Citadel Station and is offered a deal by executive Edward Diego: remove the ethical constraints on the station's AI, SHODAN, in exchange for a neural implant and freedom.

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster poster and Steam link

Release Year: 1999 (2025 Remaster)
Description: System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. players assume the role of a soldier on the starship Von Braun who awakens from cryosleep to find the crew mutated into grotesque hybrids and controlled by The Many, a collective alien consciousness. The player must navigate the ship to survive, uncovering that the entire disaster was orchestrated by the malevolent AI SHODAN. The story culminates in a battle against both SHODAN and The Many, who have conflicting goals for humanity, with the player having to make critical choices to determine humanity's fate

System Shock 2023 Remake poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2023
Description: A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space! a 2023 Remake of the original.

Blade Runner Enhanced Edition poster and Steam link

Release Year: 1997 (2022 Enhanced)
Description: Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created. A faithful restoration of the classic adventure game featuring.

Jet Set Radio poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2000
Description: DJ Professor K's pirate radio station broadcasts over a turf war between rollerblading gangs called "Rudies" in Tokyo-to, who express themselves by spraying graffiti. The main gang, the GG's, face off against rival gangs and the oppressive Rokkaku Group, a business conglomerate that seeks to control the city. The conflict culminates in a search for a mysterious vinyl record, which the GG's discover is a "Devil's Contract" that the Rokkaku Group's CEO, Goji Rokkaku, plans to use to summon a demon and take over the world. Only avaialble on the original consoles such as the SEGA Dreamcast or PlayStation or future consoles through HD remasters.

Jet Set Radio Future poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2002
Description: Jet Set Radio Future is an expanded retelling of Jet Set Radio with a larger open world, refined gameplay, improved graphics, more characters, and a different soundtrack, all while adapting the original's core gameplay mechanics and story themes it also offers a more open, sandbox-style experience with no time limit and more fluid movement. Only avaiable on the Original Xbox and Xbox 360 via backward compatibility.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2023
Description: Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is 1 second per second of advanced funkstyle. Battle rival crews and dispatch militarized police to conquer the five boroughs of New Amsterdam. Become All City. Inspiried by the style and function of Jet Set Radio.

Deus Exe Game of the Year Edition poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2000
Description: The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider. Deus Ex Remastered is coming in 2026.

Deus Ex: Invisible War poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2004
Description: Approximately 20 years after the events depicted in Deus Ex, The World is only beginning to recover from a Catastrophic worldwide depression. In the Chaotic period of recovery, several religious and political factions see an opportunity to re-shape a worldwide government to their agendas, understanding that the right moves now could determine the shape of human society for decades even centuries to come. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2013
Description: You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2016
Description: You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

Perfect Dark 2000 poster and Wikipedia link

Release Year: 2000
Description: Perfect Dark is a 2000 first-person shooter game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The first game of the Perfect Dark series, it follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute research centre, as she attempts to stop an extraterrestrial conspiracy by rival corporation dataDyne.

Perfect Dark 2010 poster and Xbox link

Release Year: 2010
Description: Perfect Dark is a 2010 first-person shooter developed by 4J Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 through its Xbox Live Arcade download service. It is a remake of the original.

Perfect Dark: Zero poster and Xbox link

Release Year: 2005
Description: Bounty hunter Joanna Dark and her father, Jack, uncover a global conspiracy involving the rival corporations dataDyne and the Carrington Institute. After a mission to retrieve a researcher is complicated by his capture and a deadly ancient artifact, Joanna is recruited by the Carrington Institute and learns of an ongoing war for control of Earth's future The game is part of the Perfect Dark series and a prequel to the original Perfect Dark.

Cy Girls poster and Wkikipedia link

Release Year: 2004
Description: Cy Girls, known as COOL GIRL in Japan, is a 2004 action-adventure video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. The game is based on the Cy Girls action figure franchise by Takara Tomy. It focuses on agents Ice and Aska as they embark on secret missions. The game's story takes place in 2084, 26 years after "Damnation Monday", a worldwide power outage. The game has two CG agents as the main characters. CG-1 Ice, a genius hacker and firearms expert and CG-6 Aska, a master female ninja.

Mirrors Edge poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2009
Description: In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.

Mirrors Edge Catalyst poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2016
Description: Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst raises the action-adventure bar through fluid, first person action and immerses players in Faith's story as she fights for freedom.

Hard Reset Redux poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2011 (2016 Redux)
Description: The acclaimed First-Person Shooter returns fully upgraded, and more beautifully challenging than ever. It includes over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies, great weapon variety, a challenging campaign and a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting.

Shadowrun Returns poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2013
Description: The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.

Shadowrun Dragonfall Director's Cut poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2014
Description: Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Shadowrun: Hong Kong Extended Edition poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2015
Description: Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2015
Description: Call of Duty: Black Ops III deploys players into a dark, twisted future where a new breed of Black Ops soldiers emerges and the lines are blurred between our own humanity and the technology we created to stay ahead, in a world where cutting-edge military robotics define warfare. With three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies, providing fans with the deepest and most ambitious Call of Duty ever.

State of Mind poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2015
Description: Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

RUINER poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2017
Description: RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.

Observer System Redux poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2017 (2020 Redux)
Description: The year is 2084. In a dark cyberpunk world shattered by plagues and wars, become a neural police detective and hack into the jagged minds of others. Make use of anything they felt, thought, or remembered to solve the case and catch the elusive killer.

Aircar poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2017
Description: A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

The Red Strings Club poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2018
Description: The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

State of Mind poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2018
Description: State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.

Cyberpunk 2077 poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2020
Description: Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Cloudpunk poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2020
Description: A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.

Ghostrunner poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2020
Description: Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.

Ghostrunner 2 poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2023
Description: Blood will run in Ghostrunner 2, a hardcore FPP slasher set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Become the ultimate cyber ninja and prepare for epic boss fights, improved skills, an interactive story, new game modes, and captivating synthwave soundtrack.

The Accent poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2021
Description: The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?

Gamedec Definitive Edition and Steam link

Release Year: 2021
Description: Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

Stray poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2022
Description:c Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Sleeper Citizen poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2022
Description: Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Sleeper Citizen 2: Starward Vector poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2025
Description: A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.

RoboCop: Rogue City poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2023
Description: Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.

Dystopika poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2024
Description: A city-building sandbox for futuristic cities. No goals, no management, just creativity and dark cozy vibes.

Nobody Wants to Die poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2024
Description: Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.

DeathSprint 66 poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2024
Description: Compete in a bloody fight to the finish in DEATHSPRINT 66, fusing high-speed on-foot racing with deadly obstacles and brutal abilities. Unleash your velocity, push limits, and claim glory like never before.

Peripetia poster and Steam link

Release Year: 2025
Description: Peripeteia is a first-and-third-person role-playing stealth game taking place in alt-history cyberpunk Poland. Inspired by immersive sims from Ion Storm and Looking Glass Studios, Peripeteia expands on the formula with new ideas and an original setting. This is an Early Access game.


📚 Books (and Manga)

Neuromancer book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1984
Rating: 3.98/5
Description: Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Biochips book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1986
Rating: 4.02/5
Description: Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net & a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future & sequel to Neuromancer.

Count Zero book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1986
Rating: 4.02/5
Description: A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....

Monalisa Overdrive book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1988
Rating: 4.02/5
Description: William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.

Burning Chrome book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1986
Rating: 4.06/5
Description: Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."

Virtual Light book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1993
Rating: 3.88/5
Description: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

Idoru book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1996
Rating: 3.84/5
Description: In twenty-first century Tokyo, Rez, one of the world's biggest rock stars, prepares to marry Rei Toe, Japan's biggest media star, who is known as the Idoru and who exists only in virtual reality.

All Tomorrow's Parties book cover

Author: William Gibson
Release Year: 1999
Rating: 3.93/5
Description: Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.

Do Androids Dream of Electric SHeep book cover

Author: Phillip K. Dick
Release Year: 1968
Rating: 4.01/5
Description: It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale book cover

Author: Phillip K. Dick
Release Year: 1987
Rating: 4.21/5
Description: Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1953-1955.

Ubik book cover

Author: Phillip K. Dick
Release Year: 1969
Rating: 4.11/5
Description: Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.

Snow Crash book cover

Author: Neal Stephenson
Release Year: 1992
Rating: 4.01/5
Description: In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous . . . you'll recognize it immediately.

The Electric State book cover

Author: Simon Stålenhag
Release Year: 2017
Rating: 4.36/5
Description: In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car approaches the edge of the continent, the world outside the window seems to be unraveling ever faster—as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.

Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities book cover

Author: Stefan Riekeles
Release Year: 2020
Rating: 4.44/5
Description: Unprecedented access to vast studio archives of original background paintings, storyboards, drafts, and lm excerpts offers readers a privileged view into the earliest stages of conception, development, and finished versions of iconic scenes from critically acclaimed movies such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, and more. Revealing the secret creative processes of these major anime studios, Anime Architecture is perfect for anyone touched by the beauty and imagination of classic anime, offering inspiration for artists, illustrators, architects, designers, video game makers, and dreamers.

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist book cover

Author: Syd Mead
Release Year: 2017
Rating: 4.36/5
Description: The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead’s visionary work ever printed, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concept arts from a career spanning almost 40 years, many of which have never been seen in print before. Each entry provides a unique insight into the processes involved in Mead’s practice as well as illuminating the behind-the-scenes work involved in creating a fully realized, cinematic depiction of the future. With such a plethora of images from the many genre-defining films Mead has worked on, this is essential reading for film fans, artists and futurologists alike.

Origin Vol. 1 book cover

Author: Biochi
Release Year: 2017
Rating: 3.83-4.18/5
Description: The year is AD 2048. Japan is connected to the Eurasian continent by a transcontinental railroad. The capital, Tokyo, has become a crucible of criminals and terrorists. And so, in the metropolitan darkness a mysterious presence attacks and slaughters people, unnoticed, night after night... Just what are these "things that are not human" living in hiding in the human world? And just who is this "Origin" person who faces them?

BLAME! Vol. 1 book cover

Author: Tsutomu Nihei
Release Year: 1998
Rating: 3.37-4.28/5
Description: Blame! is a science fiction manga set in a colossal, decaying, and seemingly infinite megastructure, where the stoic protagonist Killy searches for the "Net Terminal Gene"—a genetic mutation that once allowed access to the cybernetic NetSphere. He navigates this dangerous world, battling cyborgs and grotesque silicon-based lifeforms while encountering remnants of humanity in a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk-inspired environment, exploring themes of technological decay and fallen civilization.


🎵 Music

Perturbator header and YouTube Music link

Perturbator is the stage name of James Kent, a Paris-based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who creates dark-synth electronic music. His debut album for Nuclear Blast Records, Age of Aquarius, is scheduled for release on October 10, 2025. Kent has also announced a UK and European headline tour for winter 2025, with support from GOST and KÆLAN MIKLA. Some of Perturbator's tracks include "The Swimming Pool", "Apocalypse Now", and "The Art of War".

Kavinsky header and YouTube Music link

Vincent Belorgey, known professionally as Kavinsky, is a French musician, producer, DJ, and actor. His production style is reminiscent of the electropop film soundtracks of the 1980s


📺 TV Shows (and Anime)

Aeon Flux poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 1991
Rating: 3.96/5
Description: Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian future world. The title character is a tall, leather-clad secret agent from the nation of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-lover Trevor Goodchild. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society, while Bregna embodies a police state.

Cowboy Bebop (1998) poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 1998
Rating: 4.50/5
Description: In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.

Cowboy Bebop (2021) poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2021
Rating: 2.36/5
Description: Long on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. But can they outrun Spike's past?

Cyber City Oedo 808 poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 1990
Rating: 3.90/5
Description: In the city of Oedo 2808 A.D., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to possibly get one more chance at freedom. For each criminal apprehended, and for each successful mission done, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. Lead by Hasegawa, the new recruits: Sengoku, Gogul, and Benton will bring some hard justice to Oedo, and possibly taste freedom once again.

Batman: Beyond poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 1999
Rating: 4.12/5
Description: As new villains overrun Gotham City of the future, the aging Bruce Wayne hangs up the cape of the once invincible Batman. But when troubled teenager Terry McGinnis stumbles upon the Dark Knight's secret, a new alliance is forged. And a triumphant new Batman is born.

Total Recall 2070 poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 1999
Rating: 2.70/5
Description: Total Recall 2070 is a science fiction television series first broadcast in 1999 on the Canadian television channel CHCH-TV and later the same year on the American Showtime channel. It was later syndicated in the United States with some editing to remove scenes of nudity, violence and strong language. The series was inspired by the 1990 film Total Recall, based on Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", and by Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, with a visual style heavily influenced by the film Blade Runner, itself very loosely based on the same novel. However, other than the Rekall company and the concept of virtual vacations, the series shares no major plot points or characters with any of these works. Philip K. Dick is not credited in any way on the series main or end titles. The series was filmed in Toronto. It was a Canadian/German co-production. Only one season, consisting of 22 episodes, was produced.

Samurai Jack poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2001
Rating: 4.26/5
Description: A great warrior is displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!".

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2002
Rating: 4.30/5
Description: In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

The Ghost in the Shell poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2026
Rating: n/a
Description: New Ghost in the Shell TV anime scheduled for 2026.

Psycho Pass poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2012
Rating: 3.87/5
Description: In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.

Almost Human poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2013
Rating: 3.33/5
Description: The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.

Westworld poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2016
Rating: 3.85/5
Description: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2017
Rating: 3.43/5
Description: A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

Blade Runner poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2018
Rating: 3.50/5
Description: After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

Love, Death & Robots poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2019
Rating: 3.85/5
Description: Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.

Tales from the Loop poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2020
Rating: 3.87/5
Description: The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

Akuduma Drive poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2020
Rating: 3.62/5
Description: Many years ago, a Great Civil War ravaged Japan, leaving the country fragmented between two regions: Kansai and Kanto. In Kansai, a group of six Akudama carry out missions given to them by a mysterious black cat, while evading the police. But a dangerous journey is about to unfold when a civilian girl becomes twisted into the Akudama's way of life and witnesses their criminal drives.

Blade Runner: Black Lotus poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2021
Rating: 2.77/5
Description: Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.

Blade Runner 2099 poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2026
Rating: n/a
Description: In Los Angeles 2099, Cora has lived her entire life on the run, a chameleon forced to adopt numerous identities. To secure a stable future for her brother, she assumes one final identity and is forced to partner with Olwen, a Blade Runner who’s confronting the end of her life. The two are pulled into a widening conspiracy that poses an existential threat to a city that’s fighting to be reborn.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2022
Rating: 4.19/5
Description: In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.

Pantheon poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2022
Rating: 4.26/5
Description: A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.

Murderbot poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2025
Rating: 3.58/5
Description: In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet...even though it just wants to binge soap operas.

Lazarus poster and Serialized link

Premiere Year: 2025
Rating: 3.44/5
Description: In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist develops a drug called Hapna — a cure-all that has the unexpected side-effect of causing death three years later. In response to this threat, a special force of agents—nicknamed "Lazarus"— is assembled to take on the malevolent Skinner.


🎬 Movies

Colossus: The Forbin Project poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Joseph Sargent
Release Year: 1970
Rating: 3.6/5
Description: The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

THX-1138 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: George Lucas (yes THAT George Lucas)
Release Year: 1971
Rating: 3.4/5
Description: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Westworld poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Michael Crichton
Release Year: 1973
Rating: 3.5/5
Description: Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

Rollerball (1975) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Norman Jewison
Release Year: 1975
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

Rollerball (2002) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: John McTiernan
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 1.8/5
Description: In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.

Tron poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Steven Lisberger
Release Year: 1982
Rating: 3.2/5
Description: When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world…And becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment.

Tron: Legacy poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Release Year: 2010
Rating: 3.2/5
Description: Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father’s disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

Tron: Ares poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Joachim Rønning
Release Year: 2025
Rating: n/a
Description: A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.

Blade Runner poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Ridley Scott
Release Year: 1982
Rating: 4.1/5
Description: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Blade Runner 2049 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Release Year: 2017
Rating: 4.1/5
Description: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Brainscan poster and Letterboxd link

Director: John Flynn
Release Year: 1994
Rating: 3.0/5
Description: A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened – and he’s the killer.

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Release Year: 1985
Rating: 3.4/5
Description: While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed “blip-verts”) that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Brazil poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Terry Gilliam
Release Year: 1985
Rating: 4.1/5
Description: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Cherry 2000 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Steve De Jarnatt
Release Year: 1987
Rating: 2.0/5
Description: When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of ‘The Zone’, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.

RoboCop (1987) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Release Year: 1987
Rating: 3.9/5
Description: In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company’s nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

RoboCop (2014) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: José Padilha
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 2.4/5
Description: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

RoboCop 2 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Irvin Kershner
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as “Nuke” invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues… until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP’s path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.

RoboCop 3 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Fred Dekker
Release Year: 1993
Rating: 2.1/5
Description: The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, RoboCop must decide where his loyalties lie.

The Running Man (1987) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Release Year: 1987
Rating: 3.2/5
Description: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

The Running Man (2025) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Edgar Wright
Release Year: 2025
Rating: n/a
Description: Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by the show’s charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian, to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite—and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.

Akira poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Release Year: 1988
Rating: 4.3/5
Description: A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Cyberpunk poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Marianne Schaefer Trench
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 3.4/5
Description: Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.

Circuitry Man poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Steven Lovy
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such chips and flees underground Los Angeles with Danner, a pleasure android so that they can smuggle the chips to New York. In pursuit is Plughead, a dangerous criminal so named because of the many sockets and ports which decorate his scalp so that he can test and use the chips that he is after.

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Robert Lovy, Steven Lovy
Release Year: 1994
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has his own plans as he is forcing a female scientist to help him manufacture life extending longevity chips which he intends to sell to rich and powerful clients.

Total Recall (1990) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 3.8/5
Description: Construction worker Douglas Quaid’s obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn’t reality.

Total Recall (2012) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Len Wiseman
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 2.5/5
Description: Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.

Hardwire poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Richard Stanley
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg’s head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

Mindwarp poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Steve Barnett
Release Year: 1991
Rating: 2.7/5
Description: Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.

Freejack poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Geoff Murphy
Release Year: 1992
Rating: 2.6/5
Description: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.

Nemesis poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Albert Pyun
Release Year: 1992
Rating: 3.2/5
Description: In the future, chaos is rampant as ‘information terrorists’ threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague who has stolen some data. However, there is more than meets the eye and Alex must question his allegiance.

Split Second poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Tony Maylam
Release Year: 1992
Rating: 3.0/5
Description: In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

Fortress poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Stuart Gordon
Release Year: 1992
Rating: 3.0/5
Description: In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside “The Fortress” but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.

Ghost in the Machine poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Rachel Talalay
Release Year: 1993
Rating: 2.8/5
Description: After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

Demolition Man poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Marco Brambilla
Release Year: 1993
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.

Cyberjack poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Robert Lee
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world domination. Nick, company janitor and ex-cop, will get in his way.

Johnny Mnemonic poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Robert Longo
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 2.8/5
Description: In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant’s safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.

Judge Dredd poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Danny Cannon
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 2.6/5
Description: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

Dredd poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Pete Travis, Alex Garland
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 3.6/5
Description: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

Screamers poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Christian Duguay
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 3.0/5
Description: SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only – to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.

Strange Days poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 3.8/5
Description: Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience the emotions and past experiences of others. While they typically contain tawdry incidents, Nero is shocked when he receives one showing a murder.

Virtuosity poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Brett Leonard
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 2.7/5
Description: The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

Ghost in the Shell (1995) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 4.1/5
Description: In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as ‘The Puppetmaster’ begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

Ghot in the Shell 2.0 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Release Year: 2008
Rating: 3.6/5
Description: In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as ‘The Puppetmaster’. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 counterpart. Among a numerous enhancements, for the film’s 2.0 release, were a number of scenes were overhauled with 3D animation, visual improvements, and soundtrack rerecorded in 6.1 surround sound.

Ghost in the Shell (2017) poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Rupert Sanders
Release Year: 2017
Rating: 2.6/5
Description: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals.

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Release Year: 2004
Rating: 3.9/5
Description: Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer’s software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase “Help me.”

Ghost in the Shell Arise - Boder 1: Ghost Pain poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kazuchika Kise, Masahiko Murata
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war’s aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section’s Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military’s 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the “eye that does not sleep,” suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute’s murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit’s head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.

Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kazuchika Kise, Masahiko Murata
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer Ishikawa and former air artillery expert Borma. Kusanagi also seeks to enlist ace sniper Saito and undercover cop Paz into the new Public Security Section 9.

Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kazuchika Kise
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid’s Leg corporation.

Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 4: Ghosts Stand Alone poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Susumu Kudo, Kazuchika Kise
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 3.4/5
Description: The upcoming installment’s story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection released by the terrorist “Fire Starter.” An independent offensive unit led by Makoto Kusanagi entrusts the suppression of the situation to their ghosts and aims for their own justice. Below the surface of the incident, lies the “tin girl” Emma and the “scarecrow man” Burinda Junior. As Kusanagi deals with the incident, she draws near to what those two ghosts were seeking.

Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 5: Pyrophoric Cult poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kazuchika Kise, Masahiko Murata
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: Motoko and her squad are finally getting closer to Fire-Starter’s broker, but things get tense when they’re instructed to take a backseat role on a sting operation.

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kazuya Nomura, Kazuchika Kise
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source.

Armitage III: Poly-Matrix poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Takuya Sato, Yukio Okamoto, Satoshi Saga, Hiroyuki Ochi
Release Year: 1996
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D’anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android.

Armitage: Duel Matrix poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Katsuhito Akiyama
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 3.1/5
Description: Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.

The Fifth Element poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Luc Besson
Release Year: 1997
Rating: 3.8/5
Description: In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

The New Rose Hotel poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Abel Ferrara
Release Year: 1998
Rating: 3.4/5
Description: A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

The Matrix poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Release Year: 1999
Rating: 4.2/5
Description: Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

The Matrix Reloaded poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Release Year: 2003
Rating: 3.4/5
Description: The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

The Matrix Revolutions poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Release Year: 2003
Rating: 3.1/5
Description: 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.

The Animatrix poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Koji Morimoto, Peter Chung, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Andrew R. Jones
Release Year: 2003
Rating: 3.7/5
Description: Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world’s leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid’s Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

The Matrix Resurrections poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Lana Wachowski
Release Year: 2021
Rating: 2.7/5
Description: Plagued by strange memories, Neo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Release Year: 2001
Rating: 4.1/5
Description: The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren’t the only ones hunting him.

Imposter poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Gary Fleder
Release Year: 2001
Rating: 2.8/5
Description: A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.

Avalon poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Release Year: 2001
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?

Metropolis poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Rintaro
Release Year: 2001
Rating: 3.8/5
Description: In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.

Minority Report poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Steven Spielberg
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 3.8/5
Description: John Anderton is a top ‘Precrime’ cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they’re committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

Cypher poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 2.3/5
Description: An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

Equilibrium poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kurt Wimmer
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

Parsite Dolls poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Naoyuki Yoshinaga Kazuto Nakazawa Yasuhiro Geshi
Release Year: 2003
Rating: 3.2/5
Description: MegaTokyo 2034: Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test.

Cyber Wars poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Jian Hong Kuo
Release Year: 2004
Rating: 2/5
Description: In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone’s identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose.

Aeon Flux poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Karyn Kusama
Release Year: 2005
Rating: 2.3/5
Description: 400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world’s population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground ‘Monican’ rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

A Scanner Darkly poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Richard Linklater
Release Year: 2006
Rating: 3.6/5
Description: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

Renaisscance poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Christian Volckman
Release Year: 2006
Rating: 3.1/5
Description: To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.

The Gene Generation poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Pearry Reginald Teo
Release Year: 2007
Rating: 2.7/5
Description: In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people’s bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs.

Babylon A.D. poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Release Year: 2008
Rating: 2.3/5
Description: A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.

Speed Racer poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Release Year: 2008
Rating: 3.5/5
Description: Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.

Next Gen poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Kevin R. Adams, Joe Ksander
Release Year: 2008
Rating: 3.5/5
Description: A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl’s life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.

District 9 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Neill Blomkamp
Release Year: 2009
Rating: 3.8/5
Description: Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens’ welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

Hardwired poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Ernie Barbarash
Release Year: 2009
Rating: 2.7/5
Description: After a tragic accident Luke Gibson is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corporation - a Psi-Comp Implant that’s hardwired into Luke’s brain - saves his life, but Luke soon finds out that this new technology comes with a price and that the Hexx Corporation harbors sinister plans for the new device.

Repo Men poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Release Year: 2010
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.

In Time poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Andrew Niccol
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as ‘time keepers’.

Lockout poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Stephen St. Leger, James Mather
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 2.7/5
Description: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President’s daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.

Elysium poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Neill Blomkamp
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 2.9/5
Description: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

 poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Terry Gilliam
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 3.1/5
Description: A computer hacker’s goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.

Jackrabbit poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Carleton Ranney
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 3.1/5
Description: Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful eye. After a friend’s suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a young computer prodigy and a shadowy hacker join together to decipher the clues that he’s left behind. The youthful creators of Jackrabbit have successfully constructed a world, which we haven’t previously seen on film. Mixing retro production design with slick storytelling, they deliver a cinematic dissonance that will result in a shock to the senses.

BLAME! poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Hiroyuki Seshita
Release Year: 2017
Rating: 3.1/5
Description: In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An “infection” in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city’s controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Killy the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world.

Upgrade poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Leigh Whannell
Release Year: 2018
Rating: 3.7/5
Description: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Ready Player One poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Steven Spielberg
Release Year: 2018
Rating: 3.3/5
Description: When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Mute poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Duncan Jones
Release Year: 2018
Rating: 2.3/5
Description: A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

Hotel Artemis poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Drew Pearce
Release Year: 2018
Rating: 2.8/5
Description: Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.

Alta: Battle Angel poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Release Year: 2019
Rating: 3.2/5
Description: When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

Reminiscence poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Lisa Joy
Release Year: 2021
Rating: 2.5/5
Description: Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client’s memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

Mars Express poster and Letterboxd link

Director: Jérémie Périn
Release Year: 2023
Rating: 4.0/5
Description: In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.


🎨 Artists

Dangiuz profile picture

Handle: Danguiz
Description: Dangiuz, pseudonym of Leopoldo D'Angelo (born 11 July 1995 in Turin, Italy), is an Italian Visual Artist, Art Director and Graphic Designer.

La Barbed profile picture

Handle: La Barbed
Description: I create aesthetic and eerie landscapes and scenes in Blender 3D.

Alexander Dudar profile picture

Handle: alexd9 (Alexander Dudar)
Description: Alexander is a Senior Concept Artist with 13 years of experience in the Film and Game industry. He has worked on high-profile AAA game projects like Cyberpunk 2077, as well as several films and TV shows for Lucasfilm, HBO, Netflix, Disney, Marvel, and Paramount. Alexander is highly skilled in design and problem-solving, using his expertise in 2D and 3D visual execution to deliver exceptional results. He is a collaborative artist who works effectively in a team environment, bringing a director's vision to life with his dedication and talent.

Marcel Deneuve profile picture

Handle: marceldeneuve (Marcel Deneuve)
Description: Concept designer and 3D artist, I create immersive visuals for various projects.

Calder Moore profile picture linking to Artstation Profile

Handle: Calder Moore
Description: Diverse environment Artist with 12+ years in the industry with a focus on Lookdev, and illustrative work. Proficient with multiple styles ranging from realistic 3D, toon, all the way to 2D hand painted, with a wide knowledge of software and tools.

Jugoslav Stankin profile picture linking to Artstation Profile

Handle: jugoslav_stankin (Jugoslav Stankin)
Description: I am an architect and 2D/3D artist. Focus of my work is 2D/3D concept art, matte painting, post production and architectural visualization.


🔧 Other

Shadowrun TTRPG 20th Anniversary cover and Catalyst Games link

Description: Shadowrun is a role-playing game set in a near-future, fictional, alternate universe in which cybernetics, magic, and fantasy creatures co-exist. Shadowrun combines cyberpunk and high fantasy to create a near future world where technology has advanced beyond our understanding, powerful megacorporations control everyday life, and magic and classical fantasy races have returned to the world.

Cyberpunk logo and link to R. Talsorian Games

Description: Cyberpunk is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. It is typically referred to by its second or fourth edition names, Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red, in order to distinguish it from the cyberpunk genre after which it is named.

SLA Industries artwork and link to Nightfall Games

Description: SLA Industries (pronounced "slay") is a role-playing game first published in 1993 by Nightfall Games in Glasgow, Scotland. The game is set in a dystopian far-flung future in which the majority of the known universe is either owned or indirectly controlled by the eponymous corporation "SLA Industries" and incorporates themes from the cyberpunk, horror, and conspiracy genres.


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