Films about video games

2012 animated film directed by Rich Moore

2017 film directed by Jake Kasdan

2022 animated film directed by Rich Moore and Phil Johnston

Tron is a 1982 American science fiction action adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story he co-wrote with Bonnie MacBird. The film stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with anthropomorphic programs in his attempt to escape. It also stars Bruce Boxleitner (in the eponymous role), David Warner, Cindy Morgan, and Barnard Hughes. Tron was one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive computer-generated imagery (CGI).

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.

2010 film directed by Edgar Wright

2019 film directed by Jake Kasdan

2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2021 film directed by Malcolm D. Lee

2015 film directed by Chris Columbus

2021 film directed by Shawn Levy

WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.

2017 film directed by Tony Leondis

2003 film by Robert Rodriguez

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.

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

1994 film directed by Alan Metter

2018 interactive film directed by David Slade

2023 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

Existenz (stylized as eXistenZ) is a 1999 science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg. The film follows Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a game designer who becomes the target of assassins while playing a virtual reality game of her own creation. An international co-production between Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, it also stars Jude Law, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Christopher Eccleston, Willem Dafoe, and Robert A. Silverman.

2007 film by Nic Balthazar

2019 film directed by Steven Knight

2006 film by William Brent Bell

2023 film directed by Jon S. Baird

2021 film directed by Joe Carnahan

1992 film directed by Barry Levinson

2005 film directed by Rick Bota

2017 film by Tomohiko Itō

2001 television film

1984 film by Nick Castle

2001 film by Mamoru Oshii

2006 film directed by Nicholaus Goossen

1997 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores

2022 film directed by Toby Meakins

2023 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

2014 film by by James Rolfe

1989 film directed by Todd Holland

2021 film directed by Michael Dowse

upcoming American film directed by Jake Kasdan

Brichos is a 2007 Brazilian animated film directed by Paulo Munhoz.

1993 American family comedy film by Neal Israel

web video from 2006

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.

2024 Norwegian documentary film

1983 film directed by Joseph Sargent

2016 film by Matthias Hoene

1989 film by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

2019 film directed by Ryuichi Yagi, Takashi Yamazaki

2010 film by Gilles Marchand

1985 film by Charles Band, Ted Nicolaou

upcoming film directed by David O. Russell

2021 film directed by Ayako Kōno

1993 film by Albert Pyun

2022 anime film

2008 film by Stuart Gillard

1988 film by Agnès Varda, Gordon Chan

2025 Romanian comedy drama film by Radu Jude

1984 film by Richard Franklin

2009 film by Mamoru Oshii