Shadowrun Master Movie List, Alphabetized even Options

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I went through all the movie threads that came up for my search and compiled this list. I will try to update it from time to time. When a new movie thread starts, feel free to cut and paste this list to the new thread. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

A couple of sources for more information about a title: The Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia

Master Movie List

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6th Day, The
8 mm
24
28 Days Later
Abyss, The
Aeon Flux [bioware, "corporate" enclaves, high-tech gear, horrible plague, tooth compartments, cyberware, arm transplants, phys ads]
AD Police [sprawls, cyborgs, police state, drones, corporate enclaves]
AI [artificial intelligence, sprawls, ecological destruction, drones]
Akira [sprawls, go-gangs, ecological destruction, police state, "Awakened" mutants]
Alien series
Alien Nation
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
Alone in the Dark
American History X
American Psycho
American Yakuza Films
Among Wolves/Les Loups Entre Eux [SR style teamwork and SR style team]
Angel Heart
Appleseed [cyborgs, big guns, sprawls, ecological destruction, drones]
Army of Darkness
Assault on Precinct 13
Austin Powers movies
Avalon [Matrix/VR, "ultraviolet" nodes, sprawls]
Back to the Future 1&2
Babylon 5
Bad Company
Baise-moi
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
Band of the Hand
Bangkok Dangerous [gritty assassin flick]
Banlieu 13/District 13 [sprawls, "El Infirnio"-style barrios, gangs, cynical politics]
Barb Wire [dark background and naked Pam Anderson]
Batman Begins [adept mentor, twisted adept magical group]
Be Cool
Better Tomorrow, A 1&2
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Hit, The
Big Lebowski, The
Big Sleep, The
Big Trouble In Little China
Black Rain
Blackhawk Down
Blade series
Bladerunner [sprawls, ecological destruction, bioware [Replicants], class conflict, corporate enclaves, Japanese influence]
Blind Fury
Blue Thunder
Blues Brothers, The
Boondock Saints
Bottle Rocket
Bourne Identity and sequels
Brainscan
Brazil
Breakaway
Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Broken Arrow
Bronx, The
Brother
Brotherhood of the Wolf
BubbleGum Crisis [sprawls, cyborgs, police state, drones, corporate enclaves]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bulletproof Monk [Adepts, magic scrolls]
Bullitt
Burn Notice
Cannonball Run
Carlito's Way
Casablanca
Cave, The
Charlie’s Angels 2
Children of Men [sprawls, ecological destruction, police state, class conflict]
Chinatown
City of God [best example of the barrens ever put to film - imperialus]
City of Industry [Nothing says SR like Lucy Liu getting nekkid]
City of Lost Children
Clear and Present Danger
Cloak and Dagger
Clockwork Orange [sprawls, police state, go gangs, class conflict, science gone crazy]
Collateral
Colossus
Con Air
Condemned, The [blood sports]
Confidence
Constantine
Conversation, The
Corrupter, The
Cowboy Bebop
Cradle to the Grave
Crank
Crow, The series
Crying Freeman
Cure
Cyberwars AKA Avatar [SINs, bounty hunters, megacorps, grossly obese deckers]
Cyborg
Cypher
DareDevil
Dark Angel w/Dolph Lundgren
Dark Blue
Dark City
DaVinci Code, The
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Day Watch
Dead or Alive
Death Machine
Death Race 2000 [sprawls, blood sports, cynical politics, crazy vehicles]
Deathwish series
Deep Blue Sea
Deep Rising
Demolition Man [sprawls, police state, ecological destruction, corporate enclaves, dystopian future, VR safer than real sex]
Departed, The
Desperado
Diehard series
Dirty Dozen, The [what hiring a bunch of random street drek for an op is really like]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Diva [very Paris "Shadowrun" feel]
Dog Soldiers
Domino
Doom
Dresden Files [magic and investigation and otherworldly everything]
Drop Zone
Dude, Where's My Car?
Eddie and the Cruisers
El Topo
Encrypt
Enemy of the State [Computer based subterfuge, SINless (invisible) lifestyle, covert ops]
Entrapment
Equilibrium [sprawls, police state, ecological destruction, crazy pharmacology]
Eraser
Escape From New York/LA [sprawls, police state, ecological destruction, gangs]
Every James Bond Movie
Excalibur
EXistenZ [VR/Matrix, "ultraviolet" nodes]
Exit Wounds
Face/Off
Fallen [Free spirit Trickster with Possession Power]
Farscape
Fast and the Furious, The
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ferris Beuler's Day Off
Fifth Element, The [dystopian future, overcrowded sprawl, coffin apartment, rocker (Ruby Rhod), elemental magic, an adept (Leelu), megacorporations, and metahumans]
Fight Club
Final Fantasy [magic, ecological destruction, high-tech gear]
Firefox [run to steal an experimental jet, border crossings]
FireStarter [fire elemental adept]
Fish Called Wanda, A
Fist Full of Dollars, A
Flatliners
Fly, The [Insect spirits]
Foolproof
Fortress
Four Brothers, The
Freejack
French Connection, The
From Dusk ‘Til Dawn
Fugitive, The
Full Contact
Full Time Killers
Future Sport
Gargoyles [magic, shadowruns, secret research labs/raids, biotech, cybertech]
Gattaca
Get Shorty
Ghost Dog [Street Samurai]
Ghost in the Shell [sprawls, cyborgs, ecological destruction, VR/Matrix]
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence [sprawls, cyborgs, ecological destruction, VR/Matrix]
Ghostbusters
Ghosts of Mars
Godfather, The trilogy
God's Army I- III
Golden Child, The
Golgo 13
Gone In 60 Seconds
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
Good Thief, The
Goodfellas [mafia]
Grindhouse
Grosse Pointe Blank [How mercs and assassins fit into normal society]
Gung Ho [Japanese corporate culture, feelings toward japanese expansion when SR was created]
Gymkata
Hackers [Young Angelina Jolie How deckers/hackers can screw you]
Hard Boiled
Hard Candy
Hard Rain
Hard Target
Hardware
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man [armored long coats, hit teams, hooders]
Harry Potter series
Heat [SR style teamwork]
Heavy Metal
Heist
Hellboy [magical group, funded as a UCAS FBI black bag operation]
High Noon
Hire, The
Hollow Point
Hot Fuzz [how the runs usually go]
House of Games
Howl's Moving Castle
Hudson Hawk
Hunted, The
I Robot [sprawls, drones, high-tech gear]
Immortals, The
Indiana Jones' Franchise
Inside Man
Insider
Island, The [sprawls, bioware [clones], high-tech gear, corporate enclaves]
Italian Job, The [SR style teamwork]
Jackal, The
Jackie Brown
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
John Carpenter's Vampires
Johnny Mnemonic [shadowrunners, sprawls, cyberware, VR/Matrix, Japanese culture, monowhip, yakuza, wired reflexes, cyberzombie, headware memory]
Judge Dredd
Jurassic Park
Kill Bill
Killer, The
Killing Zoe
King Kong
King of New York
Kiss of the Dragon
LA Confidential
La Femme Nikita (French version, not TV series)
Ladykillers [SR style teamwork]
Land of the Dead
Langolears, The
Last Boyscout
Last Man Standing
Last Samurai, The
Lawnmower Man [VR/Matrix]
Layer Cake
Legally Blonde [face]
Leon: The Professional
Limey, The
Live Free or Die Hard [hackers, ineffective encryption, a Johnson who knocks off his freelancers to tie up loose ends, Mr. Lucky]
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Logan’s Run
Long Goodbye, The
Long Kiss Goodnight, The
Lord of War [arms dealer, face]
Lost Boys, The
Lucky Number Slevin
LXG
Mad Max series [dystopian future, ecological destruction, go gangs, crazy vehicles]
Magnificent Seven, The [hiring a runner team, runner team, SR style teamwork]
Maltese Falcon, The
Man on Fire
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Mariachi
Matador, The
Matrix, The [VR/Matrix, AI, ultraviolet nodes, ecological destruction, sprawls]
Max Headroom [VR/Matrix, AI, sprawls, corporate enclaves, Japanese culture, media saturation]
Mean Guns
Memento
Men in Black, MIB2
Mercury Rising
Metropolis
Miami Vice
Miller’s Crossing
Mimic
Minority Report [Augmented Reality, drones, bioware, crazy pharmacology, magic [psychics], sprawls, crazy vehicles, high-tech gear]
Mission, The
Mission Impossible [SR style teamwork]
Montana
Mother Night
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mummy, The (Returns)
Munich
National Treasure
Negotiator, The
Nemesis
Nest, The
New Rose Hotel [shadowrunners, commlinks, Japanese culture]
New York 1997
Net, The [Computer based subterfuge, Hackers, Internet (matrix) terrorism]
Nightwatch
Nikita
Ninth Gate, The
No Country For Old Men [worth including for the action scenes, and the socio-political commentary.]
No Escape
Ocean's Eleven, etc [SR style teamwork]
Office Space
One, The
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in the West
Opportunists, The
Order, The
Out of Sight
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
Over There
Panic Room
Patton
Payback
Paycheck
People I Know
Perfect Score, The
Phoenix
Planet of the Cannibals
Point Blank
Point Break
Point of No Return
Postman, The
Predator series [Ruthenium/Chameleon Suit, sprawls, ecological destruction, gangs]
Proof of Life
Psycho [Hiding out after the run]
Pulp Fiction
Punisher, The
Ravenous
Real Men [spy/action film parody, clown hit squad, legwork]
Red Dawn
Reign of Fire [Dragons and tanks, ecological destruction, dragons in modern times]
Relic, The
Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins
Renaissance [sprawls, corporate influence, smartlinks, paid criminals, crazy pharmacology, shades of gray morality]
Replacement Killers, The
Reservoir Dogs [SR style teamwork]
Resident Evil series
Returner
Revenge
Rise:Blood Hunter [Naked Lucy Lui kills vampires]
Rising Sun [japanese corp environment]
Robocop [shadowrun team hired by a corporate Mr. Johnson, cyberware, corporate enclaves, high-tech gear, media saturation, privatized police, cyberzombie]
Rock, The
Rollerball (original & remake) [blood sports, corporate enclaves]
Romeo Must Die
Romper Stomper
Ronin [SR style teamwork, showing what Shadowrunners "do", Mr. Johnson]
Running Man (Le prix du danger / The price of peril) [blood sports, corporate enclaves, media saturation, sprawls, ecological destruction, cynical politics]
Running Scared
S1m0ne [virtual reality]
Safehouse
Saint, The
Salton Sea, The
Scanners
Scarface
Score, The
Screamers
Semi-Automatic
Serenity [sci fi tech, adept martial arts stuff, secret government projects, normal people turned into rampaging cannibals (HMVV)]
Series 7
Seven
Seven Samurai [SR style teamwork]
Shadow, The [What a guy with Invisibility and Illusion spells can do]
Shaft
Shaun of the Dead [ghouls]
Shawshank Redemption
Shoot "Em Up [gun/melee adept, squatter lifestyle, biometric safety]
Shooter
Shrek the Third [Shrek - leader, Puss - sammie, Donkey - connections, Artie - string-pulling face, kingdom coup, shifting alliances]
Silent Mobius [magic, sprawls, cyborgs, flying cars]
Silent Trigger
Silverado [SR style teamwork]
Silver Streak [Leonardo's letters, Face example, getting through security checkpoints, motivation for running, racism]
Sin City
Skyline Cruisers
Smokin’ Aces [multiple teams converging on same target]
Snatch
Sneakers [SR style teamwork]
Solarbabies [magic, ecological destruction, police state, blood sports]
Soldier [stuck in the barrens with some Megacorp's private army tearing the place up to find you, dystopian future, corp experiment]
Solo [corp experiment]
Soundless
Soylent Green [dystopian future, soy foods, sprawls, class warfare, ecological destruction]
Spanish Prisoner, The
Spartan
Spawn - The animated director's cut
Species [bug hunt]
Speed (only the first one)
Split Second
Spy Games
Star Wars [SR style teamwork]
Starship Troopers
Steel Dawn
Sting, The
Strange Days [VR/Matrix, shadowrunners, AR, sprawls, class warfare, cynical politics, dystopian future, BTLs]
Stranger Than Fiction
Straight Shooter
Streets of Fire
Subway
Suicide Kings
Surviving the Game
Swordfish [SR style teamwork]
Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Tank Girl
Taxi
Telefon
Terminator, The series [sprawls, cyborgs, high-tech gear, threat of possible dystopian future]
Tetsuo: The Iron Man [sprawls, cyborgs, bioware]
Thick as Thieves
Thief
Think Big
Things to do in Denver when You're Dead
Third Man, The
This Is England
This Gun for Hire
Thomas Crown Affair
To Cast A Deadly Spell
To Catch a Thief
Tomb Raider films
Tombstone
Total Recall
Touch of Evil
Training Day
Transporter, The
Triads, The Inside Story
Trigun
True Lies
True Romance
Twelve monkeys
Two, The
Two Jakes, The
Ultraviolet [sprawls, Awakened people, high-tech gear, Asian influence]
Unbreakable [adept who has denied his abilities, Immunity to Normal Weapons, Immunity to Pathogens/Toxins, boosted strength, mystic armor, some sort of sixth sense, Weakness (Water)]
Under Siege
Undercover Blues
Underworld
Unforgiven, The (Clint Eastwood version)
Universal Soldier
Unleashed
Untouchables, The
US Marshalls
Usual Suspects, The [SR style teamwork]
Vampires
Versus
Volcano High
Virtuosity [sprawls, VR/Matrix, AI, cyborgs, drones, police state, class warfare]
Wall Street [Corporations only concerned with bottom line, corporate espionage]
Wargames
Warlock, The movies [runners have somehow called down the wrath of the biggest baddest mojo slingers there are]
Warriors, The [gangs with themes]
Way of the Gun, The
Where Eagles Dare
White Noise
Whole 9 Yards, The
Wild at Heart
Wild Bunch, The [SR style teamwork]
Wild Geese, The
Wild, Wild West
Wizards
World Police: Team America
X-Men series [Adepts/spellcasters, secret training facility, high tech gear]
Yakuza [yakuza, realistic swordplay]
Year of the Rat
Zatoichi series [Blind sword adept/Mercenary criminal with a heart of gold]