Films about virtual reality

2001 film by Cameron Crowe

2017 film directed by Jake Kasdan

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.

2019 film directed by Jake Kasdan

2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2021 film directed by Malcolm D. Lee

2018 film directed by David Kerr

1988 film by John Carpenter

2021 film directed by Shawn Levy

1995 film by Kathryn Bigelow

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

1997 film by Alejandro Amenábar

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.

2009 Japanese anime film

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.

2021 film directed by Mamoru Hosoda

2013 film by Terry Gilliam

1992 film directed by Brett Leonard

2017 film by Tomohiko Itō

2002 anime film directed by Kenji Kodama

2001 television film

2014 film by William Eubank

2019 Japanese animated film directed by Tomohiko Itō

2001 film by Mamoru Oshii

1997 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores

2023 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

2017 anime film directed by Kenji Kamiyama

upcoming American film directed by Jake Kasdan

2020 film directed by Eric Bress

2009 Swiss science fiction film directed by Ivan Engler

South Korean film directed by Kim Tae-yong

1996 film by Farhad Mann

2012 film directed by Brandon Cronenberg

1995 film directed by Mark Rosman

1985 film by Charles Band, Ted Nicolaou

2019 film directed by Ryuichi Yagi, Takashi Yamazaki

2022 anime film

1993 film by Albert Pyun

2009 television film directed by Peter Berg

2021 film directed by Ayako Kōno

2009 film by Mamoru Oshii

film by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah

2022 film directed by Carlos Vermut

2015 film

1997 film by Antonio Margheriti

2009 film by Chris Hartwill

1997 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker

1983 TV film directed by Doug Williams

2024 dystopian feature film by Aude Léa Rapin

1992 film directed by Steve Barnett