The 13 Best Tech Thriller Movies on Canal+ (July 2026)

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Ghost in the Shell (1995)

IMDb 7.9 🍅 95% Letterboxd 4.1 1h 23m

Directed by Mamoru Oshii

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGroundbreaking anime that visualizes the internet as a tangible, infiltrable space where consciousness itself becomes hackable.

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

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Looper (2012)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 93% 1h 58m

Directed by Rian Johnson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIngenious time-travel mechanics weaponized by organized crime create a uniquely technological noir problem-solving narrative.

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

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Escape from New York (1981)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 85% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 39m

Directed by John Carpenter

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRetrofuturistic prison-as-technology presages surveillance state anxieties through architectural rather than digital control systems.

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 50m

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI infiltration of global intelligence networks elevates Mission's tech stakes beyond gadgetry into existential digital warfare.

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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Companion (2025)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 37m

Directed by Drew Hancock

✦ MovieMuse AI takeExplores uncanny valley of AI companions as surveillance tools infiltrating intimate human relationships convincingly.

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 38% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 55m

Directed by Fede Álvarez

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHacking sequences prioritize elegant code-cracking over action, centering on the intellectual penetration of encrypted systems.

After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

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M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 57% Letterboxd 2.6 2h 0m

Directed by Gerard Johnstone

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilitary AI weaponization; stolen consumer-tech becomes autonomous soldier, exposing defense-industry IP theft risks.

After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal.

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Demonlover (2002)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 53% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 1m

Directed by Olivier Assayas

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAgoraphobic protagonist weaponizes smart-home isolation as advantage; tech entrapment becomes physical metaphor.

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.

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Dog 51 (2025)

IMDb 5.8 Letterboxd 2.7 1h 40m

Directed by Cédric Jimenez

✦ MovieMuse AI takePredictive AI protagonist-antagonist explores algorithmic bias and systemic control through cutting-edge behavioral surveillance.

In the near future, Paris is divided into three zones that separate social classes, and no one can escape ALMA, a predictive AI that has revolutionized law enforcement. When ALMA’s creator is assassinated, Salia, a top agent, and Zem, a jaded cop, are forced to work together to solve a murder that may expose the dark secrets of the system they serve.

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The Residence (2025)

IMDb 5.8 Letterboxd 2.8 1h 50m

Directed by Yann Gozlan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmart-home-as-thriller transforms domestic automation into claustrophobic architecture of algorithmic manipulation and monitoring.

In the near future, during a health crisis, novelist Clarissa Katsef visits the Ludovico Foundation housing complex in search of inspiration. With the help of her AI assistant Dalloway, she finds fresh inspiration as she immerses herself in her writing.

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The Shrouds (2025)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.0 2h 0m

Directed by David Cronenberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrief-stricken tech invention becomes horror vehicle examining how surveillance technology colonizes intimacy and mourning.

Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.

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57 Seconds (2023)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 13% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 39m

Directed by Rusty Cundieff

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTemporal loop mechanism tied to wearable tech generates escalating stakes through micro-scale time manipulation paradoxes.

When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.

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Hot Seat (2022)

IMDb 4.3 🍅 16% Letterboxd 2.0 1h 39m

Directed by James Cullen Bressack

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBanking infrastructure's digital fortress becomes physical maze, collapsing cybersecurity into architectural thriller logic.

An ex-hacker is forced to break into high-level banking institutions, another man must try to penetrate the booby-trapped building to get the young man off the hot seat.

Best Tech Thriller Movies on Canal+