Cyberpunk Movies and Shows

[comicshorse]

Yeah. I included it because in a lot of ways, it's sort of cyberpunk adjacent, but you're right in that some parts of the feel are a bit different.

Cyberpunk usually includes vast chunks of humanity all piled together in a bleak cityscape, a sort of morally grey adventure that leaves the protaganist not all that much better off in the end, and so on. They aren't truly definitional or universal, but the genre does have a kind of feel to it that others may not include.

'The Warriors'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I'm only partially kidding here. It hits every definition provided above plus things I associate with Cyberpunk ; very morally grey protagonists, urban crime and weird, extreme costumes for the characters. Hell the film even starts with 'Sometime in the Future'

On a more likely not the BBC series 'Humans' about hte introductions of intelligent robots and its affects on human society, and the robots themselves

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Brawndo]

I'm going with the dark horse candidate: Person of Interest.

At first it seems like just another crime procedural with a sci-fi gimmick, but then patiently digs deeper into its core premise and before too long it's a full-fledged "20 minutes into the future" cyberpunk series about AI.

[Jan Mattys]

Battle Angel Alita (original title: "Gunnm") is also quite a good cyberpunk manga.

The Battle Angel Alita movie is also out in the theaters these days. I have yet to see it, but surely will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alita:_Battle_Angel


edit: also, YES, do yourself a favour and watch the Ghost in the Shell animated movie of 1995. Seriously, it's a milestone. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjS0Vvs8KA

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I recently stumbled into a Youtube channel named DUST. They seem to specialize in sci-fi short films. Thematically they're all over the place, but many of them show cyberpunk influences, like "The Nostalgist", where a man uses fancy glasses to view his cyberpunk world as more of a steampunk world (for spoilery reasons). The shorts almost without exception look remarkably good and many have quite clever premises, and I should really put some effort into finding out what the business model behind this stuff is, because it can't just be a Youtube channel on the kind of budget you'd need for this quality.

So that's my tip of the week.