The 12 Best Tech Thriller Movies on MGM+ (July 2026)

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning poster

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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WarGames (1983)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 54m

Directed by John Badham

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film's prescient terror: a teenager's modem accidentally triggers nuclear war, making hacking feel genuinely consequential.

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

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The Running Man (2025)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 62% Letterboxd 3.1 2h 13m

Directed by Edgar Wright

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDystopian game show broadcasts surveillance state control; tech becomes weaponized entertainment spectacle.

Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite — and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.

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Paycheck (2003)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 27% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 59m

Directed by John Woo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMemory erasure as corporate weapon transforms technological control from external surveillance into intimate neurological possession.

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

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Mercy (2026)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 25% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 39m

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI judge protagonist creates chilling meditation on algorithmic justice and whether machines can be manipulated.

In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.

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Code 46 (2003)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 52% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 33m

Directed by Michael Winterbottom

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBiometric identity documents as MacGuffins expose how future tech threatens the very concept of individual personhood.

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

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The Satan Bug (1965)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 57% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 54m

Directed by John Sturges

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponized pathogens as tech thriller subject matter presages biotech as the new frontier of catastrophic innovation.

A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.

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Unforgettable (1996)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 27% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 56m

Directed by John Dahl

✦ MovieMuse AI takeExperimental memory serums blur criminal investigation with consciousness manipulation, weaponizing neuroscience against human agency.

Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution presents itself in an experimental "memory" serum designed by a neurobiology professor, which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but with potentially fatal consequences.

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Futureworld (1976)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 31% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 48m

Directed by Richard T. Heffron

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBillion-dollar corporate safety retrofits mask Delos's fundamental problem: technology's capacity for lethal malfunction never truly ends.

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.

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Clockstoppers (2002)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 29% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 34m

Directed by Jonathan Frakes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-manipulation wristwatch transforms juvenile adventure into exploration of temporal tech's weaponized potential against society.

Until now, Zak Gibbs' greatest challenge has been to find a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his father's various inventions and slips it on -- something very strange happens. The world around him seems to come to a stop, everything and everybody frozen in time. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device and he and his quick-witted and beautiful new friend, Francesca, start to have some real fun.

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Cyborg (1989)

IMDb 5.1 🍅 22% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 26m

Directed by Albert Pyun

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCyborg assassination in plague cities embodies tech thriller's anxiety: biotechnology merges with human bodies as replaceable machinery.

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

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The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)

IMDb 4.2 🍅 33% Letterboxd 2.3 0h 57m

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInvisibility formula as militarized commodity explores how scientific breakthroughs become tools for authoritarian market domination.

An ex-major forces a scientist to develop a invisibility formula, with which he plans to create an invisible army and sell it to the highest bidder. However there are side effects to the formula.

Best Tech Thriller Movies on MGM+