The 17 Best Tech Thriller Movies on Now TV (July 2026)

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Inception (2010)

IMDb 8.8 🍅 87% 2h 28m

Directed by Christopher Nolan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDream-sharing technology as espionage weapon elevates heist formula into cerebral sci-fi exploration of consciousness manipulation.

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

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Tenet (2020)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 70% 2h 30m

Directed by Christopher Nolan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInverted time mechanics create genuine philosophical dread—a tech concept that weaponizes physics itself into narrative tension.

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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The Accountant (2016)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 53% Letterboxd 3.3 2h 8m

Directed by Gavin O'Connor

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAutism-savant protagonist's neurological precision transforms financial forensics into kinetic cat-and-mouse thriller spectacle.

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

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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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Cellular (2004)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 56% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 34m

Directed by David R. Ellis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSingle-device premise (cell phone) generates escalating stakes—early 2000s tech thriller capturing mobile era's isolation and vulnerability.

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

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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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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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Restore Point (2023)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 54m

Directed by Robert Hloz

✦ MovieMuse AI takeConsciousness backup tech interrogates identity theft at existential scale, making digital resurrection a genuine noir moral quandary.

It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.

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Timecop (1994)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 43% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 38m

Directed by Peter Hyams

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-travel surveillance creates paradoxical hunt—the genre's most ingenious use of speculative tech as plot architecture.

In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

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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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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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The Lawnmower Man (1992)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 35% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 48m

Directed by Brett Leonard

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVirtual reality becomes psychological weapon, transforming consciousness itself into battleground between human and digital transcendence.

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

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Æon Flux (2005)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 9% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 33m

Directed by Karyn Kusama

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBiomechanical body enhancement versus totalitarian surveillance state creates aesthetic tech-noir with real ideological teeth.

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Retribution (2023)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 30% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 31m

Directed by Nimród Antal

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGPS tracking and real-time algorithmic control compress thriller pace into brutal technical precision—modern kidnapping as software execution.

When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks — all with his kids trapped in the back seat.

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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.

Best Tech Thriller Movies on Now TV