Every tech thriller movie streaming on Max in the US right now — 8 films ranked by rating, checked against Max’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Max US
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReality-bending AI simulation premise predates The Matrix, making virtual identity theft disturbingly prescient.
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisualizes cyberspace as tangible battleground where code becomes kinetic action, not just screens and typing.
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.
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.
Directed by Michael Apted
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmartphone metadata becomes the thriller's spine—surveillance capitalism transformed into espionage mechanism brilliantly.
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
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.
Directed by Asif Kapadia
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-travel narrative structured entirely through found-footage digital artifacts, making the medium the message.
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDepicts algorithmic censorship and digital book-burning as totalitarian control, surprisingly resonant adaptation.
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
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