Wikipedia | In the future (“seven years from now”), America has lost the war on drugs. The highly addictive, debilitating, and illegal Substance D has swept across the country. In response, the government develops an invasive, high-tech surveillance system and puts in place a network of informants and undercover agents.
Bob Arctor (Reeves) is an undercover agent assigned to immerse himself in the drug underworld and… read more
Link: A Scanner Darkly at IMDB
Wikipedia | Puzzlehead is a Sci fi drama starring Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, and Mark Janis. It was written and directed by James Bai and the film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2005 before opening in limited release in New York City on March 23, 2006.
Walter, a scientist living in a dark world where technology has been outlawed, secretly works to… read more
Link: Puzzlehead at IMDB
Wikipedia | It is the not-too-distant future. The population is divided between those who live “inside”, in high-density cities physically separated from “outside”, where a poor underclass lives. Access into and travel between the cities is highly restricted, and regulated through the use of health cover documents, known as “papelles” in the global pidgin language of the day (which comprises elements of English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Italian,… read more
Link: Code 46 on IMDB
Wikipedia | Chrysalis is a French science fiction film directed and partly written by Julien Leclercq and starring Albert Dupontel. The film was commercially released in France on 31 October 2007.
In 2025 in Paris, police lieutenant David Hoffman investigates the circumstances behind the body of a young girl named Manon, who was resurrected after a car crash and now has scars around her eyes. Hoffman… read more
Link: Chrysalis on IMDB
Wikipedia | In 1989, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), an innovative software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears. Twenty years later, his son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), who became the controlling shareholder after his father’s disappearance, takes little interest in the company besides an annual practical joke on the board of directors. Sam is visited by his father’s friend and ENCOM executive Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner), who… read more
Link: Tron: Legacy on IMDB
Wikipedia | Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) along with his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) perform illegal corporate espionage by entering the subconscious minds of their targets, using two-level ‘dream within a dream’ strategies to “extract” valuable information. The ‘extractors’ carry “totems” – small objects which behave in unpredictable ways – to distinguish reality from a dream environment; Cobb’s totem is a spinning top which spins perpetually in the… read more
Link: Inception on IMDB
Wikipedia | Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk film, loosely based on the short story “Johnny Mnemonic” by William Gibson. The title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information, is played by Keanu Reeves. The film portrays Gibson’s dystopian view of the future with the world dominated by megacorporations and with strong East Asian influences. The film has garnered a cult following… read more
Link: Johnny Mnemonic on IMDB
Wikipedia | The movie starts with Edward “Eddie” Morra (Bradley Cooper), standing on the rooftop of his luxury penthouse. Someone is trying to break into his apartment, as he prepares himself to jump.
Three months earlier, Eddie is a New York City author struggling with writer’s block and a looming deadline. Things get worse when his girlfriend, Lindy (Abbie Cornish), dumps him, after growing tired of supporting him… read more
Link: Limitless on IMDB