Strange Days is one of those often listed near the bottom on lists of the best cyberpunk movies and I almost never see it talked about or mentioned in discussions. I think it goes under the radar because it's not visually spectacular, nor is it very futuristic. Classic dialogue heavy sci-fi.

New Rose Hotel. Featuring Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken! Story by William Gibson! I may be mistaken, but I think he even wrote the screenplay, like in Johnny Mnemonic. But sadly not a very good movie. Its painfully slow. The original short story clearly did not have enough content for a movie. However, if you were to cut it down, there is a really good Cyberpunk movie hidden there. Maybe someday it gets the fancut it deserves...

Cyberpunk has never been what draws me to science fiction, but I'd say the most obscure is probably existence (if that counts?). It came out in 1999 and was overshadowed by the matrix. I

Mute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mute_(2018_film)

i don't know if it counts as proper cyberpunk but it floated to tie top of my mind when i read the post.

in fall 2014 i was visiting a friend in stockholm, and through some weird mix of circumstances we found ourselves in the apartment of a friend of a friend of theirs, at three in the afternoon, like eight of us in a three-person sofa bed and watching Algorithm. the guy who lived there really wanted to show it to us since he thought it was so cool, gritty and realistic. i remember that he had a photograph on his wall of him shaking hands with the king. i think he worked for google. anyway...

it is one of the worst movies i've seen. and it's not funny bad. it's an angsty drama about a computer hacker hiding from the authorities, so it's mostly about how good he is with computers. all in this muted gray-green color, it's mostly shot day-for-night, and it's just soooo boring.

the only detail i vividly remember is a scene where the protagonist swaps to a new burner phone. he does this by taking the SIM card out, throwing the old phone in a bin, and putting the SIM into the new phone. i still think about that scene.

Hardware. Saw this with a friend in the theater, we thought it was terrible. I've revisited it since, and while I won't say it's great I think it's worth a watch.

Probably tekwar. I don't think I've ever seen mention of it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0111385/

Cypher 2002

It's not my favorite but i enjoy rewatching it.

Oh yeah I also came across something called Terminus (1987) which sounds kinda cyberpunk, but haven't watched it yet. See it free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dBxa992y1g

In the year 2037, an international sport has been established, wherein a driver of a truck must cross the country and arrive at a designated terminus, while confronting obstacles and enemies along the way. The lead truck, named "Monster", has been designed by a boy genius (Gabriel Damon) and is to be piloted through the course by a woman named Gus (Karen Allen). Eventually, the truck's AI fails and Gus ends up in uncharted territories...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminus_(1987_film)

I think the most obscure I've seen has to be Arès (2016)

Nobody mentioned it, so it's either really obscure or way too obvious, but: Nirvana (1997).

A game developer finds out that the main character in his next title has become sentient and must save him from endless suffering by deleting all copies of the game shortly before it launches. I saw it many years ago, and really liked it. It hasn't aged perfectly, but all the important cyberpunk bits are there.

Hmmm.... I started watching OtherLife (2017) the other day... it's more of a techno-thriller than cyberpunk tho.... But it does have evil corporates and evil government types... you can see it free here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93okqm

It's kind of meh, but if you're in the mood for something Inception-like, you might dig it.

OtherLife is a 2017 Australian science fiction thriller film directed by Ben C. Lucas. It stars Jessica De Gouw as the co-founder of OtherLife, a company that developed a form of biological virtual reality. When her business partner, played by T.J. Power, insists she license it for unethical use, she struggles to retain control of her invention with the help of her lover...

edit: oops forgot this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherLife

Can't even seem to find it now. It was a non-English film. Eastern European, I think. Most of it was shot in sepia tones. It's about people who put everything into a virtual reality game. Build their whole lives around playing it.

The protagonist makes a fantastic meal for her cat while eating slop herself.

Was probably from the early 2000s. I think I watched it because I ran across a review of it and it happened to be orderable on Netflix DVD.

oh yeah I also came across a movie called "CyberTracker" (1994) recently. It sounds pretty cyberpunk but def low-budget, I haven't watched it.

• See it free on DailyMotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98enpm
• Looks like it has a sequel, kek: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98ephs

In the future, Eric Anthony Phillips is the head of the Secret Service detachment assigned to protect Senator Bob Dilly (John Aprea). Senator Dilly is a champion of the recently implemented Computerized Judicial System (Computerized Justice for short), a product of Cybercore Industry, that uses data as evidence to determine the guilt of accused criminals, then carries out the sentence using cyborg executioners called "Trackers" (Maniaci). However, the more Phillips learns about Dilly and the Cybercore's ruthless plans, the more uncomfortable he becomes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTracker_(film)

Not that obscure but I liked the cyberpunk portions of cloud atlas.

I didn't know about Until the End of the World (1991) till recently. Can't say it was worth watching, but bounty bear was amazing.

Of the movies I put in the picture above, I think Crime Zone is the most fun. It's still not a good movie, but it isn't nearly as painfully bad as Cyber Wars or Gene Generation. Here's a trailer. You can watch it on amazon and tubi right now.

Hotel Artemis (2018) Caught this on Netflix a few years back, pretty decent 'takes place in one night' movie. Really good cast and a cool premise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1998_film)

Aeon Flux was a weird one. Had some cool stuff going on, but the execution was shoddy

I saw a Cyberpunk movie around 2014 that I've been searching for since then. Maybe the folks in this thread can help me find it. I only remember one scene:

It's nighttime, and our protagonist (a white male) walks down a subway-style staircase into an underground (literally and figuratively) VR cafe of sorts. He meets with a woman who takes him down a hallway, and they glance into several of the rooms. We can see people in their VR worlds - some of them are men playing simulations of making love to groups of attractive women. Some are engaging in violent fantasies. They come to the room the protagonist will use to enter the VR space, and it looks like a dentist chair with the headset dangling from the ceiling on a metal contraption. There's CRT displays all around that will allow the woman to monitor the protagonist as he's in his VR world on a mission.

Likely English but possibly a foreign film.

That's all I can remember. Does it ring a bell for anyone? I've spent countless hours trying to track this one down.

It's not Johnny Mnemonic or Strange Days.

Not sure if it's obscure but Johnny mnemonic. But Tek Wars is a bit more ... B movie esque.

There was some 90s mini series that I haven't re watched since when it aired. Wild Palms. Maybe not cyberpunk. But future dystopia at least

I am surprised no one mentioned Decoder (1984). Starring W.S.Burroughs, Gen P. Orridge and Christiane F. of bahnhof zoo. One of there best underground movies ever made.

...not super-obscure in its day but very much a product of the mid-eighties, i doubt many folks are familiar with it fourty years later: michael crichton, tom selleck, gene simmons, peak kirstie alley...

(set in the near future-shock of 1991!)

I can't read that title now except for "The Gene Gene-Ration"

Nirvana by Gabriele Salvadores. But if you want to watch it, get the Italian version with the eng subtitles, I'm told the English voiceover is utter crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(1997_film)?wprov=sfla1

Liquid Sky

Most obscure one I can think of is William shattner Tek war. I dunno if that is obscure to others, but it is to me