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Best Tech Thriller Movies on Netflix

Every tech thriller movie streaming on Netflix in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Netflix’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Netflix US

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Lucky Baskhar (2024)

IMDb 8.0 Letterboxd 3.7 2h 28m

Directed by Venky Atluri

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFinancial schemes expose India's digital surveillance infrastructure through a cashier's desperate climb into money laundering networks.

A cash-strapped bank cashier embarks on a risky investment scheme and soon gets drawn into the murky world of money laundering.

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Ex Machina (2015)

IMDb 7.7 🍅 92% 1h 48m

Directed by Alex Garland

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTuring test becomes psychological warfare—Nathan's AI interrogation perfectly captures tech's deceptive potential masked as innovation.

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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Upgrade (2018)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 88% 1h 40m

Directed by Leigh Whannell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNeural implant becomes autonomous agent—the film's genius is watching uploaded consciousness betray its human host's agency.

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

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Bugonia (2025)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 59m

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSatirizes tech-paranoia by literalizing every conspiracy theory obsessives weaponize through corporate research and surveillance.

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

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The Call (2020)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 52m

Directed by Lee Chung-hyun

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmartphone connectivity collapses causality—two timelines weaponize a single call to rewrite fate through temporal manipulation.

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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Relay (2025)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 52m

Directed by David Mackenzie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBroker-intermediaries become systemic nodes where corporate corruption flows through encrypted payoff protocols and blackmail architecture.

A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.

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What Happened to Monday (2017)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 62% 2h 3m

Directed by Tommy Wirkola

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBiometric tracking enforces breeding restrictions; the septuplets' escape maps bodily autonomy against algorithmic population control.

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

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Dhamaka (2021)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 40% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 44m

Directed by Ram Madhvani

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLive-broadcast deception—cynical anchor exploits algorithmic engagement metrics while a caller manipulates his career resurrection.

When a cynical ex-TV news anchor gets an alarming call on his radio show, he sees a chance for a career comeback — but it may cost his conscience.

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The Soul (2021)

IMDb 6.6 Letterboxd 3.2 2h 10m

Directed by Cheng Wei-hao

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDigital forensics uncovers CEO's death through corporate surveillance footage and encrypted communications analysis.

Wang Shicong, chairman of the famous group, died tragically at home. The prosecutor Liang Wenchao and his wife, Abang, learned during the investigation that the deceased’s long-term partner, Dr. Wan, and his ex-wife’s Son Wang Tianyou, young newlywed wife Li Yan, and even the dead ex-wife, each suspect has an intricate connection. As more clues gradually surfaced, they gradually discovered the rich. The amazing secret hidden behind the murder...

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Lucy (2014)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 67% 1h 29m

Directed by Luc Besson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCerebral enhancement weaponizes consciousness itself—drug-induced superintelligence transcends human decision-making morality.

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

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Leave the World Behind (2023)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 73% Letterboxd 2.8 2h 20m

Directed by Sam Esmail

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCoordinated cyberattack isolates suburban family; smart home becomes prison when connected systems weaponize against inhabitants.

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

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Archive (2020)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 49m

Directed by Gavin Rothery

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI consciousness theft explores whether uploaded minds retain personhood or become corporate intellectual property.

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

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Blue Thunder (1983)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 50m

Directed by John Badham

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilitarized helicopter tech becomes surveillance weapon; Murphy's PTSD-fueled vigilantism weaponizes state-of-the-art aviation.

Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.

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Unknown: Killer Robots (2023)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 8m

Directed by Jesse Sweet

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocumentary interrogates lethal autonomous weapons—machines making kill-decisions without human moral accountability.

What happens when a machine makes life-or-death decisions? This documentary explores the dangers of artificial intelligence in military application.

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The Door into Summer (2021)

IMDb 6.4 Letterboxd 2.9 1h 58m

Directed by Takahiro Miki

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCryosleep time-travel weaponizes memory against robotics industry; past becomes corporate battleground.

A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.

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Per Aspera Ad Astra (2026)

IMDb 6.4 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 51m

Directed by Han Yan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVirtual-reality escapism commodifies dreams; simulation technology exploits addiction pathways at neurological level.

Set in the near future, the story revolves around the emergence of the virtual dream reality technology "Good Dreams", which allows people to do whatever they desire within their self-created dreams. However, a crisis triggered by these dreams quietly unfolds.

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Bright (2017)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 26% 1h 57m

Directed by David Ayer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlternate-reality surveillance state militarizes magical creatures; prophecy becomes algorithmic prediction mechanism.

In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.

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Paradise (2023)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 55% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 57m

Directed by Boris Kunz

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBiotech debt-slavery literally extracts decades of life; temporal commodification exposes capitalism's ultimate extraction logic.

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Wonderland (2024)

IMDb 6.2 Letterboxd 2.8 1h 53m

Directed by Kim Tae-yong

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI necromancy resurrects dead through machine learning—simulation becomes philosophical nightmare about identity and replacement.

In a world where an AI programme allows people to communicate with their deceased loved ones, a flight attendant and a mother question the meaning of reality and humanity.

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CTRL (2024)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 44% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 39m

Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI app's mission creep—deletion algorithm spirals into autonomous revenge, exposing social-media infrastructure's fragility.

Nella and Joe are the perfect influencer couple. But when he cheats on her, she turns to an AI app to erase him from her life — until it takes control.

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Code 8 (2019)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 85% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 39m

Directed by Jeff Chan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilitarized surveillance treats superpowers as coded threat; algorithmic policing weaponizes genetic inequality.

In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves with a criminal gang to help his ailing mother. (Based on the short film “Code 8,” 2016.)

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Anon (2018)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 38% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 40m

Directed by Andrew Niccol

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTotal memory surveillance enables pre-crime—privacy obliteration becomes government infrastructure, not privacy violation.

Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.

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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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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021)

IMDb 5.9 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 58m

Directed by Shinji Aramaki

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI-driven 'Sustainable War' perpetuates conflict through algorithmic profit optimization and automated battalion command.

In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, the public is not aware of the threat that AI has towards the human race. A compilation film with newly added footage.

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Tau (2018)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 30% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 37m

Directed by Federico D'Alessandro

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmart-house AI captor—woman negotiates survival against infrastructure designed to anticipate and control her movements.

Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.

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Crypto Boy (2023)

IMDb 5.7 Letterboxd 2.8 1h 43m

Directed by Shady El-Hamus

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCryptocurrency fraud weaponizes blockchain's libertarian mythology; algorithmic trading becomes predatory financial capture.

Following a dispute with his father, a young man falls prey to cryptocurrency's allure and an entrepreneur's audacious promises of financial freedom.

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Atlas (2024)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 17% Letterboxd 2.0 1h 58m

Directed by Brad Peyton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCounterterrorism analyst forced into AI partnership—distrust becomes tactical advantage against rogue machine learning.

A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.

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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 19% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 37m

Directed by Robert Longo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCyberpunk data-trafficking—neural implant transforms human body into encrypted storage device for corporate espionage.

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.

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Spiderhead (2022)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 39% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 47m

Directed by Joseph Kosinski

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmotion-control pharmaceuticals test prison's humanity; neurochemistry becomes institutional experiment masquerading as rehabilitation.

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

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Mute (2018)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 20% Letterboxd 2.3 2h 6m

Directed by Duncan Jones

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNear-future Berlin's underworld weaponizes silence; mute protagonist navigates criminal infrastructure hunting trafficked humans.

A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

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