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

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: 2,051,899 | Gross: $171.48M

2. 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: 146,618 | Gross: $45.31M

3. 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: 279,252

4. 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: 630,267 | Gross: $281.49M

5. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

R | 129 min | Action, Sci-Fi

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

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

Votes: 543,242 | Gross: $139.31M

6. 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: 212,195 | Gross: $14.38M

7. Vanilla Sky (2001)

R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell

Votes: 285,595 | Gross: $100.61M

8. The Cell (2000)

R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colton James

Votes: 109,071 | Gross: $61.33M

9. Tron (1982)

PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan

Votes: 129,217 | Gross: $33.00M

10. Assassin's Creed (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 208,814 | Gross: $54.65M

11. Virtuosity (1995)

R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

When a virtual reality simulation created using the personalities of multiple serial killers manages to escape into the real world, an ex-cop is tasked with stopping its reign of terror.

Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, Stephen Spinella

Votes: 32,378 | Gross: $24.05M

12. 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: 77,242 | Gross: $15.50M

13. Aniara (2018)

R | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.

Directors: Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Stars: Emelie Garbers, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini

Votes: 11,889 | Gross: $0.04M

14. The I-Land (2019)

TV-MA | 40 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are and how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover the world is not as it seems.

Stars: Natalie Martinez, Kate Bosworth, Ronald Peet, Sibylla Deen

Votes: 19,424

15. 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

16. The Illustrated Man (1969)

PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins

Votes: 3,460

17. Mindwarp (1991)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In post-apocalyptic 2037, Judy rebels against the AI-ruled utopia where people live in a happy VR simulation. She's exiled to a post-nuclear wasteland where she meets drifter Stover. Mutated cannibals capture them for their leader Seer.

Director: Steve Barnett | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin, Elizabeth Kent

Votes: 2,903

18. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)

87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Spaceship crew members start dying because of an unknown defect in a virtual-reality device.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo

Votes: 4,220

19. V-World Matrix (1999 Video)

78 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two men enter a virtual reality simulator.

Director: Ron Ford | Stars: Mikul Robins, Stephanie Beaton, James Servais, Sydnee Steele

Votes: 168

20. The Construct

Sci-Fi, Thriller | Post-production

After awakening from a seemingly terrifying nightmare, Rachel Wilcox slowly begins to discover that she is imprisoned in a seamless virtual simulation designed to study human behavior.

Director: Patrick Garcia | Stars: Brooklyn Benson, Alonso Grandío, Liesl Ahlers, Clayton Boyd

21. In-World War

Sci-Fi | Post-production

A debt-ridden and depressed beta tester is trapped in a buggy virtual reality simulation of the "war on terror".

Stars: Simeon Moses, Brian Levy, Sara Ahmed, Prem Santana

22. Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (1994 Video Game)

Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Dystopian FMV-lite point and click adventure game. By 2095, America has become a fascist theocracy. Two government enforcers are forced to join the underground resistance movement after someone orders the secret police to kill them.

Stars: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder

Votes: 47

23. Little Big: Generation Cancellation (2022 Music Video)

2 min | Music

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Directors: Alina Pasok, Ilya Prusikin | Stars: David Alan Graf, Sam H. Clauder II, Howard Campbell, Andriy Zozulya

Votes: 18

24. Contact (I) (2018)

13 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

When Jason's companion suddenly vanishes before his eyes, he realizes that the world around him may be starting to unravel.

Director: Teal Greyhavens | Stars: Iris Anthony, William Brasington, Hidekun Hah, Jesse Holcomb

Votes: 52

25. Virtual Vixens (1994 Video Game)

Adventure, Sci-Fi

Evil Crystal has imprisoned you and your friend in a virtual reality simulation. He failed to pleasure her and her three friends. You must not.

26. Oscillating Garrett (2011)

7 min | Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A man mourning the sudden loss of his wife becomes trapped in a crashed virtuality when he overstays his time.

Director: Mark Kochanowicz | Stars: Christopher Mann, Mark Kochanowicz, Carrie Leigh Snodgrass, Brian Anthony Wilson

27. Persistence of Memory (1993)

23 min | Short

Scientist Willard Freeman tests out his virtual reality simulation by downloading his mind into the character of a fictional detective searching for a serial killer. But soon the scientist ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Currie | Stars: Marcel Maillard, Sheila Tyson

Votes: 6

28. Escape (1998)

12 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller, Short

A man finds himself victim of a Virtual Reality experience. But... is this experience fiction or reality?

Director: Philippe Roberge | Stars: Paul Buissonneau, Mario Saint-Amand

29. Bagel Protocol (2020)

Not Rated | Animation

In the 22nd century, the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a virtual simulation, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here on the Quantum Bagel Network, ... See full summary »

Director: Jahred Bruno

30. Net: Zone (1996 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Myst clone about young Newton Winters, who enters a virtual reality simulation of the global computer network to find his father Zel who disappeared after discovering the sinister plan of his high tech firm to take over the network.

Director: Sharon Weiss | Stars: Tzvika Forman, Michael Greenshpine, Johnny Philips, Julia Stern

31. The Walkabout (2017 Video Game)

Adventure

A free entry level exploration experience is a great introduction to Virtual Reality. Easily teleport around to explore every inch of this large photo realistic world. Look out over the ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Hesketh

32. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1983)

83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The mind of a computer programmer forced to take a virtual vacation is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation. He must find a way out before he expires.

Director: Douglas Williams | Stars: Raul Julia, Arnie Achtman, Paula Barrett, Patrick Brymer

Votes: 2,574

33. 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: 5,158

34. Electric Dreams (2017–2018)
Episode: Real Life (2017)

TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a near future, a policewoman who still blames herself for a past tragedy accepts her loving wife's suggestion to take a vacation in a virtual simulation, but she soon realizes that this might be the real life and hers is a simulation.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Terrence Howard, Anna Paquin, Rachelle Lefevre, Lara Pulver

Votes: 4,394

35. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode: Code Yellow (2019)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Yo-Yo and Keller take things public; parasitic aliens threaten the human race; and someone really needs boba.

Director: Mark Kolpack | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker

Votes: 2,070

36. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode: Point of Origin (2019)

TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A housewife discovers where she's really from when she's taken away from her family.

Director: Mathias Herndl | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, James Frain, Toby Levins, Zabryna Guevara

Votes: 2,253