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17 films tagged technology
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1999 · Science fiction
A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.
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2010 · Drama
A Harvard undergraduate builds a website that spreads from campus to campus, and is sued by the friend who funded it and by classmates who say he took their idea. Told through the two depositions, with a great deal of fast talking.
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2025 · Science fiction
A young woman drives out with her boyfriend to a weekend at a rich friend's lake house, where the group is smaller and stranger than she expected. A handful of people in one house, and it turns nasty early.
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2018 · Comedy
A thirteen-year-old girl posts advice videos nobody watches and tries to get through the last week of middle school. Small scenes shot close up, and often hard to watch out of sheer embarrassment.
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2014 · Science fiction
A young coder wins a week at his boss's house in the mountains, where he is asked to sit with a robot and work out whether it can think. Three people, one building, and most of it is conversation.
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2021 · Comedy
A cheerful bank teller works out that he is a background character in a violent online game, and starts playing it himself. Bright, fast, and full of jokes about video games.
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2013 · Science fiction
A lonely man in a near-future Los Angeles, who writes other people's love letters for a living, installs an operating system that talks back. Quiet and warm-looking, and largely one man talking to a voice.
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2008 · Action
A billionaire who sells weapons is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and builds himself a way out, then keeps building once he gets home. Light on its feet, with as much workshop as fighting.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Science fiction
In a Washington where murders are stopped before they happen, the cop who runs the unit is named by the system as a future killer and has to run from his own team. It is a chase with a mystery underneath it.
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2006 · Animation
A machine that lets therapists walk into their patients' dreams is stolen, and the team behind it has to chase it while dreams start leaking into waking life. Animated, very fast, hard to hold on to, in Japanese.
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2018 · Science fiction
In a future where almost everyone spends the day inside a vast online world, its dead creator has hidden three keys in it for whoever wants his fortune. A treasure hunt at full speed, stuffed with references to old films and games.
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2010 · Comedy
A slacker bass player in Toronto falls for a girl on rollerblades and learns he has to fight her seven evil exes to date her. Video game rules, comic book panels, and it never slows down.
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2018 · Mystery
A father's sixteen-year-old daughter does not come home, and he starts looking by opening her laptop. The whole thing plays out on computer and phone screens.
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2012 · Action
A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Drama
Three product launches, forty minutes each, spent backstage with Steve Jobs arguing with the same handful of people. It is almost entirely fast talking in corridors.
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2018 · Science fiction
A man left paralysed after an attack is offered an experimental chip that gets him walking again, and the chip turns out to have opinions of its own. It is short, fast and very violent.
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2012 · Animation
The bad guy in an old arcade game is tired of being the bad guy and sneaks into other machines to win himself a medal. Bright, quick, and packed with games you may recognise.
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