Movies like Tron
If Tron's mix of hacker, video game and virtual reality stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Tron's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Ready Player One
2018 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 140 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: video game, virtual reality, dystopia · Also adventure and action
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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The Matrix
1999 · Directed by Lana Wachowski · 136 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, simulated reality · Also action and science fiction
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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Free Guy
2021 · Directed by Shawn Levy · 115 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: video game, virtual reality · Also adventure and science fiction
A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story.
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TRON: Ares
2025 · Directed by Joachim Rønning · 119 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Jeff Bridges · Shares: computer simulation · Also science fiction and adventure
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
2012 · Directed by Jay Oliva · 76 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and action
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
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Alita: Battle Angel
2019 · Directed by Robert Rodriguez · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
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The Hunger Games
2012 · Directed by Gary Ross · 142 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and adventure
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of…
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The Truman Show
1998 · Directed by Peter Weir · 103 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, simulated reality
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
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The Creator
2023 · Directed by Gareth Edwards · 134 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and action
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive…
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9
2009 · Directed by Shane Acker · 79 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and adventure
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…
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Divergent
2014 · Directed by Neil Burger · 140 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and adventure
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find…
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Oblivion
2013 · Directed by Joseph Kosinski · 124 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly…