Films about telepresence

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine.

2003 film by The Wachowskis

2003 film by The Wachowskis

2001 film by Cameron Crowe

1990 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

2021 film directed by Lana Wachowski

Tron: Legacy is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Joseph Kosinski, and written by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis. It is the second installment in the Tron series and a sequel to Tron (1982). The film stars Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, and Michael Sheen. The story follows Kevin Flynn's adult son Sam, who responds to a message from his long-lost father and is transported into a virtual reality called "the Grid", where Sam, his father, and the program Quorra must stop the malevolent digital mirror image of Kevin Flynn, Clu, from invading the real world.

2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2012 film directed by Len Wiseman

1995 film by Mamoru Oshii

2003 American-Japanese anthology anime film

1995 film directed by Robert Longo

1995 film by Kathryn Bigelow

Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.

Tron: Ares is a 2025 American science fiction action film that is the third installment in the Tron series following Tron: Legacy (2010). Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was directed by Joachim Rønning, and stars Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, and Gillian Anderson, with Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn from the first two films. The story is about artificial intelligence originating from the Grid entering the real world, namely a highly advanced program called Ares.

2015 film directed by Ilya Naishuller

Ra.One is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language superhero film directed by Anubhav Sinha and produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role and Arjun Rampal as the titular antagonist, with Kareena Kapoor, Armaan Verma, Shahana Goswami, Tom Wu, Dalip Tahil and Satish Shah in supporting roles. The film's title is inspired by Hindu Saga character Ravana. In the film, a video game antagonist escapes into the real world to track down the player who almost defeated him. The son of the game's deceased creator brings the game's protagonist into the real wo

2009 film directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor

2006 anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

1997 film by Alejandro Amenábar

1999 film by Josef Rusnak

2000 film directed by Tarsem Singh

Virtuosity is a 1995 American science-fiction action film directed by Brett Leonard from a screenplay by Eric Bernt, and starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Kelly Lynch. The film follows a disgraced ex-cop (Washington) who must hunt down a virtual reality being (Crowe), composited from the personalities of multiple serial killers, who has gained sentience and escaped into the real world.

2002 film by Andrew Niccol

2016 film by Tom Tykwer

1992 film directed by Brett Leonard

2001 film by Mamoru Oshii

1991 film by Wim Wenders

1983 film by Douglas Trumbull

1973 television serial directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1997 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores

Alag () is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language science-fiction film directed by Ashu Trikha, starring Akshay Kapoor and Dia Mirza. The protagonist has an incredible intellect, as well as telepathy and paranormal powers like controlling lightning and magnetism and with no hair on his entire body. This film was made at a budget of ₹ 8 crore, but earned only ₹ 56 lakh, approximately one-sixteenth of its budget. Several critics noted similarities between the film and 1995 American film Powder.

2013 film by Jorge Dorado

Brainscan is a 1994 American science fiction slasher film directed by John Flynn and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film stars Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves, Jamie Marsh, and T. Ryder Smith. The score was composed by George S. Clinton.

1996 film by Farhad Mann

2002 South Korean action film directed by Jang Seon-u

2007 film by Pearry Teo

1993 film by Albert Pyun

2009 film by Mamoru Oshii

2008 film by Alex Rivera

1997 film by Antonio Margheriti

2012 film

2004 film directed by Kuo Jian Hong

1983 TV film directed by Doug Williams