Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "simulated-reality"

1. The Matrix (1999)

R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 2,051,471 | Gross: $171.48M

2. Free Guy (2021)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When Guy, a bank teller, learns that he is a non-player character in a bloodthirsty, open-world video game, he goes on to become the hero of the story and takes the responsibility of saving the world.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery

Votes: 424,984 | Gross: $121.63M

3. Don't Worry Darling (I) (2022)

R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

While her husband leaves home everyday to work in a top secret facility, a young 1950s housewife begins to question her life when she notices strange behavior from the other wives in the neighborhood.

Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde

Votes: 146,548 | Gross: $45.31M

4. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)

R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.

Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff

Votes: 279,204

5. The Truman Show (1998)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

Votes: 1,195,050 | Gross: $125.62M

6. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

R | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 630,187 | Gross: $281.49M

7. Total Recall (1990)

R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 354,304 | Gross: $119.39M

8. Dark City (1998)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt

Votes: 212,176 | Gross: $14.38M

9. The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.

Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James, Kate Winslet

Votes: 254,922 | Gross: $130.18M

10. eXistenZ (1999)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 107,143 | Gross: $2.84M

11. Bolt (2008)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real.

Directors: Byron Howard, Chris Williams | Stars: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton

Votes: 228,798 | Gross: $114.05M

12. Pleasantville (1998)

PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves transported to a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that colorless, complacent world.

Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy

Votes: 136,273 | Gross: $40.57M

13. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

R | 100 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.

Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 77,238 | Gross: $15.50M

14. Solaris (2002)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis

Votes: 86,257 | Gross: $14.97M

15. Repo Men (2010)

R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 110,664 | Gross: $13.79M

16. Archive (2020)

TV-MA | 109 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs.

Director: Gavin Rothery | Stars: Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando

Votes: 26,384

17. The Mandela Effect (2019)

TV-MA | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.

Directors: Benjamin Epps, David Guy Levy | Stars: Charlie Hofheimer, Aleksa Palladino, Robin Lord Taylor, Clarke Peters

Votes: 4,824

18. World on a Wire (1973)

Not Rated | 212 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His ... See full summary »

Stars: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau

Votes: 6,773

19. Harsh Realm (1999–2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Lt. Hobbes is sent into a VR wargame simulation where he is to terminate a renegade General who has taken control of the program.

Stars: Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Cameron K. Smith

Votes: 1,181

20. Cargo (2009)

112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.

Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter | Stars: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzom Brauen

Votes: 20,106

21. Extracted (2012)

R | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A scientist who has invented a technology to construct virtual realities from people's memories finds himself in a perilous situation, after he reluctantly allows it to be used for a purpose he never imagined.

Director: Nir Paniry | Stars: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart, Richard Riehle

Votes: 12,513

22. The Big Space Travel (1975)

66 min | Romance, Sci-Fi

Three teens are selected for a space flight on the spacecraft Astra. The children are subjected to crises and breakdowns, they have to deal with all sort of problems in outer space.

Director: Valentin Selivanov | Stars: Ludmila Berlinskaya, Sergey Obrazov, Igor Sakharov, Lyusena Ovchinnikova

Votes: 341

23. Everymanhybrid (2010–2018)

TV-MA | 1,022 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Cabin fever inspires three friends to create a series of fitness videos. However, things quickly turn dark as a host of supernatural entities including Slenderman, The Rake, and the psychotic HABIT enters their lives to wreak havoc.

Stars: Vincent Caffarello, Evan Jennings, Jeffrey Koval, Alex Koval

Votes: 143

24. Discontinued (2022)

91 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A depressed millennial discovers that the world she knows is just a simulated version of reality that is being shut down. Suddenly, she's the only one who wants to stick around.

Director: Trevor Peckham | Stars: Ashley Hutchinson, Langston Fishburne, Robert Picardo, Charlie Talbert

Votes: 490

25. Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox

Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Completed

A scientist uses his time machine to repeatedly travel back in time to meet his younger self so they can experiment with paradoxes.

Director: Stimson Snead | Stars: Samuel Dunning, Cassandra Carpenter

26. Unique Lady (2019–2021)

Action, Comedy, Fantasy

An electronics student decides to take part in a gaming contest, but finds herself stuck in a fantasy kingdom, with the inability to leave until the objective of finding love is met

Stars: Jun Gong, Jade Cheng, Yiffan Wei, Yilun Fang

Votes: 81

27. Virtual Nightmare (2000 TV Movie)

86 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

Sci-Fi mystery. In the future the world has apparently reached complete perfection, but when Dale suffers a car accident he begins noticing disturbing glitches in the fabric of reality.

Director: Michael Pattinson | Stars: Michael Muhney, Tasma Walton, Todd MacDonald, Jennifer Congram

Votes: 677

28. Midnight Science (2021)

86 min | Sci-Fi

On the eve of Y2K, a failing scientist attempts to win a technology competition by fusing an experimental machine with the disembodied brain of a megalomaniacal televangelist. The resulting abomination threatens an apocalyptic nightmare.

Director: Jonathan Anthony | Stars: Christopher Michael Anthony, Shirley Kwon, June Elizabeth Williams, Keenan Baker

Votes: 15

29. A Dream of Color in Black and White (2005)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A writer investigates the suspicious death of his sister at an old Victorian mansion inhabited by her widowed scientist husband on the verge of a breakthrough in dream traveling, an ex-lover from his past, and the doctor she is now in a relationship with.

Director: Blake Fitzpatrick | Stars: Jeffrey Fellin, Josh Tucker, Rachel Ommerman, Tom Davis

Votes: 79

30. Progulka po eshafotu (1992)

123 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Two people in love find a hut in the woods, where they decide to overnight. The hut was on the shore of a lake and the beautiful view was only spoilt by an axe stuck in the wooden ... See full summary »

Director: Isaakas Fridbergas | Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Olga Drozdova, Boris Plotnikov, S. Adoev

Votes: 112

31. The Mitoté (2020)

30 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery

A Transcendental film about the six Toltec characters that govern the human mind. 'Reality' starts to appear less real as Max wakes up to the illusory nature of existence through a series of seeings into the subconscious mind.

Director: Mana Bennett | Stars: Sita Rose Bennett, Gary James Bennett, Mana Bennett, Shanti Bennett

Votes: 109

32. Cable Two's the Matrix (2021 Video)

220 min | Sci-Fi

A digital world becomes reality in Cable Two's italian-infused remake of the hit 1999 blockbuster The Matrix.

Director: Drazza | Stars: Riley Arby, Drazza, Mike O'Dyllan, Sheda

33. Microsm (2018)

6 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi | Completed

Dr. Graves works in an isolated laboratory. Her world may not be what it seems.

Director: Keanen Shaw | Stars: Lynetta Zuber, Sergio Gonzalez, Alexander Chaidez

34. Paramount Paragraphics: Crime Fighters (1938)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Crime

A look at the training methods of the San Francisco police department, showing how the young police officers are trained and equipped to fight crime. The course of intensive study covers, ... See full summary »

Director: Leslie M. Roush | Star: Alois Havrilla

35. La Scienza della Fantascienza (2015)

Documentary, Sci-Fi

A catalog of the forms and themes of a genre in which not the character but the idea is the real hero.

Stars: Nembo Buldrini, Renato Giovannoli

36. Doel Belang (2007)

30 min | Short, Mystery

After encountering a stranger, gardener Adam starts questioning if he and all other people around him are just characters in an unfinished book.

Director: Veno Musinovic | Stars: Gordan Sarajlic, Lovro Lajos, Filip Saric, Marko Hrenovic

37. Ich rette das Multiversum (2005)

11 min | Short, Sci-Fi

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Director: Ulf Groote | Stars: Markus Graf, Nikola Lenk, Liane Siems, Andreas Vögler

Votes: 17

38. The Animatrix (2003)
Episode: Program (2003)

Unrated | 7 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

Cis and Duo, a pair of freed minds, practice their skills in an old-fashioned samurai sword-fight. Duo tells Cis that he's tired of living outside the Matrix and he wants her to come with him... and he's not accepting no for an answer.

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Hedy Burress, Phil LaMarr, John DiMaggio

Votes: 5,155

39. Darkroom (1981–1982)
Episode: Closed Circuit (1981)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Aging TV newsman Greg Conway discovers that he is being replaced by a computer-generated simulation that perfectly replicates his appearance and behavior.

Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: James Coburn, Robert Webber, Mary Frann, John Randolph

Votes: 48

40. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode: The Search, Part II (1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Odo has found his home and is introduced. Meanwhile Sisko finds out peace talks between the Dominion and the Federation have already started.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell

Votes: 2,323

41. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Frame of Mind (1993)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Riker begins to question reality when he finds himself in an alien insane asylum and faces the prospect his life on the Enterprise has been a delusion.

Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,410

42. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: The Thaw (1996)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Voyager finds a group of people in connected stasis chambers where something has gone terribly wrong.

Director: Marvin V. Rush | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien

Votes: 2,318

43. The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode: Special Service (1989)

TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

John Selig discovers that his life is secretly being videotaped and is a huge hit on a cable television show.

Director: Randy Bradshaw | Stars: David Naughton, Keith Knight, Elias Zarou, Susan Roman

Votes: 251

44. F/X: The Series (1996–1998)
Episode: Flashback (1997)

Action, Crime, Drama

Rollie and Angie fool an delusional imprisoned man who murdered a politician in 1979, into thinking it's still 1979 so they can uncover what really happened then and who was involved.

Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Cameron Daddo, Christina Cox, Richard Waugh, Jason Blicker

Votes: 8

45. Smallville (2001–2017)
Episode: Labyrinth (2007)

TV-PG | 40 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Clark enters a parallel environment in his subconscious where he is powerless, no one believes the truth about him, and things have turned out much, much differently.

Director: Whitney Ransick | Stars: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance

Votes: 1,270