Off the top of my head.

Movies:
Blade Runner
Ghost in the Shell

TV Shows:
Burn Notice
Firefly

Tokyo Gore Police - Privatized police force, horrific biological creatures, all kinds a kee-razy blood n' guts violence with ridiculous martial arts
Repo! A Genetic Opera - Organlegging +1...Can't pay for that liver? We'll take that back, thank you very much. Scuzzy underground economy based around retrieving painkillers from the blood streams of the dead. Ad blimps. Goth. Post-apocalypse.

Not D&D, Traveller. Joss Whedon used to GM a game and the show has Wash saying "hang on travellers" in the pilot.

Not a movie or TV show, but... a book... (don't tell me you can't read, you're on the intarweb fer chrisakes!)

Next
by Michael Crichton

Genetic S.N.A.F.U.s...
Corporations patenting a persons cell line, then losing all samples, then kidnapping that person's descendants to forcibly take new ones... you know... since they technically own the cells they're made of and all...
yeah... read it.

Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Blade Runner
Running Man (for the combat sports bit and I love the whole anti-establishment angle)
Death Race (same reason as above)
Dark City (for it's weird noirness)
The Departed
Revolver
Layer Cake
actually most Guy Ritchie movies.
There's probably more, the first run off of my new campaign is going to be loosely based off of the Maltese Falcon.

The reason why I didn't list books is because SR has written books. Quite a few. There has been maybe two (at least if you take out the magic factor) movies that specifically use the setting and no TV show that is specifically SR.

What movie had Michael J Fox where he was a race car driver that ended up getting zapped into the future. I remember it has a very SR feel to it (sans the magical aspect.)

I love how the future guns in that movie were airsoft mp5s with some of the parts stripped off.

*edit* Ah Freejack is the name. I totally forgot about that movie. *edit*

^^That was Emilio Estevez, not M.J. Fox.

And, I only mentioned that book cuz it wasn't a SR book, and yet it captures a certain element of corporate greed that is very SR.

This thread has many great suggestions. I repeat the first three, since they are my top picks whenever the question comes up. The last two deserve mention, and I had not seen them yet in the thread:

• Blade Runner (1982) - As close as film has gotten to the setting.
• Ronin (1998) - as close as film as gotten to a team of runners on a typical run.
• The Usual Suspects (1994) - "That you did not know you stole from Lofwyr is the only reason you are still alive, but he feels you owe him. You will repay your debt."
• Sneakers (1992) - One of the better heist films not yet mentioned.
• The Dresden Files (2007) - for modern day magic.

I've not watched Babylon AD, although judging by this thread I'll have to rent a copy. I thought the trailer looked quite entertaining.

I saw exiled a little while ago, and rather liked the over the top gun play, double crossing and confusion, and the main protagonists' loyalty to each other.

Not necessarily very SRey, but then my personal choices have already gone, and Eastern gangster movies are always fun, even if they are relentlessly silly.

Babylon A.D. is probably a C- movie at best (Freejack is better if not because of the fact that it has a bit of camp to it.) A lot of 'trying to hard to be a badass' kind of dialogue. After a while it gets really old, and Van just seems to play Riddick but in a different setting.

It has some SR moments, but overall it is a pretty lame movie (I don't think I would pay to see it.)

Emilio Estevez, M.J. Fox... I saw the movie about 7-8 years ago and to be honest they both have that young pretty boy face.

Touche. I forget that people used to play that.

Used to? You know that with that comment someone, somewhere has just had a character killed during chargen.

what was that movie with clive owen eating carrots and killing people? that was awesome! and kind of shadowrunny
also, a great shadowrun esque book is "Atered Carbon"

Shoot 'Em Up is the Clive Owen film in question.

theres another movie i can hardly remember, but it involved wage slaves taking drugs to prevent emotions, and a type of martial arts to dodge bullets. is that vague or what?

Equilibrium

you are my hero, I want to watch that again

One of my all time fav movies. The timing of its release really sucked though, since it came out between a couple of really big blockbusters that everyone wanted to see and so got no play.

However, it is one of the best dark future, mind-control (by drugs), evil empire movies around. And the hero is a really kick ass gun Adept (with maxed out Firefight and Krav Maga marital arts).

I'm gonna have to add The A-Team. Former special ops soldiers on the run trying to make ends meet the only way they really knw how. All the classic roles: Hannibal-leader, Face-face, Murdock-rigger/nutcase (and be honest we've all had a nutcase on the team), B.A.-muscle/rigger/tech-wiz

Second I'd have to go with Blazing Saddles. The reason being most of my games involve a great deal of laughter and usually end up just north of ridiculous.

Well it appears that most of te ones that live on my SR shelf of DVDs have already been mentioned... repeatedly. So I will throw in one that seems to have been - mostly - overlooked and one that I didn't see mentioned at all.

Sneakers (1992)
A team of quasi legal specialists, most with a criminal background and focussed around breaking into corporate places. Sounds pretty good to me.

and

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
A group getting together to perform a robbery to try and keep their favourite Barrens bar from being knocked down by developers. Oh, and with a new street drug and a trenchcoat wearing corporate hit squad. Lovely!

For TV Shows I would suggest the following.

Hustle (2004 - Now)
This is a favourite for me and fits in much better with my SR group's 'less is more' attitude to combat. Sneaky, technical and criminal. Also with a strong emphasis on team and roles within the team.

and

Players (1997)
Probably because this the is closest I can get to a live action Cyber City Oedo 808 series. Still, I loved it and I think it's a good look at 'runners 'going straight'.

I'd also like to suggest the videogames Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

Think of Max Payne as an undercover Lone Star gunslinger adept with maximum combat sense, improved reflexes and fire-arms who's family is killed by cram/nitro/jazz/kamikaze/k-10/tempo addicts and goes up against the mafia on a search for vengeance, and stumbles on something much bigger than his quest for vengeance. It's also got conspiracy and both underworld and corporate intrigue, without spoiling it for anyone who wants to play it (and I'd highly recommend it).

The Fall of Max Payne is even more Shadowrun, because Mona Sax is clearly a Shadowrunner Face/Wetwork Specialist. And the mooks are a bunch of mercenaries who disguise themselves in cleaning company jumpsuits.

Those were two awesome games. Nothing like running up some stairs, having the door thrown open at the top by a mook with a shotgun, and diving backwards in slow motion while you drill him and his two buddies in the head with repeated two fisted firing action before crashing and rolling down the rest of the stairs.

The Good the bad the weird

Nuff said

Ghost Dog, Forest Whitaker. He would be the perfect adept warrior kind of guy for SR.

I just wish there was magic in Ghost In the Shell: SAC and 2nd Gig, cause that show (sans magic) is the epitome of what shadowrun is.

We just watched a movie the other week that is also a really good one. It's got Chow Yun-Fat in it, The Replacement Killers (1998). It's a great run gone bad story. It's why you don't double cross a AAA without a way out of the country ASAP.

While I'm on the topic of games, I found Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory (the only ones I've played) definately gave me inspiration for shadowruns and B&E work. In fact, after playing Pandora Tomorrow, I did a one on one run where a invisible way adept I was GM'ing infiltrated a morgue via the subway tunnels.

Deus Ex is very shadowrun. In particular it highlights what it must have been like for Cyber-monsters on either side of the law when bioware and nanites came through. And then there's all the corporate intrigue and clandestine societies and the idea of approaching your objective many different ways.

Would anyone that played Anarchy Online say that that games was pretty inspired by Shadowrun?

You know it just so happens that I have the latest version of Traveller put out by Mongoose sitting next to my computer.

Blade Runner is absolutley a must see, game generating, sci-fi super fest. I just can't get enopugh of those panoramic veiws of LA.

Jonny Mnenomic is definitly one of my top favorites.

Escape from New York is good.

Death Race was pretty well done IMO.

And last "I Pity the Fool!" who forgets the original team... "THE A TEAM"

Doo do do Doo

Ronin and Heat. Two great DeNiro flicks and the template I use for a lot of the style elements in my games.

After reading the Augmentation, my first thought was that James Cameron did read it before he created Dark Angel. But the dates speak against it. Maybe it would be more correct to assume that some SR writers are Dark Angle fans. - Though I'm pretty sure, James Cameron does know SR. The Seattle setting just can't be a mere coincidence.

I'm going to have to add in the movie 'Taken'. The movie covers locating, planning, and extraction rather well. The main character is a face / gun bunny. He calls his profession 'Preventer'. He stops bad people.

Very modern day SR. Lots of use of contacts and people he knows.

Sorry no matrix wizbangs unless you call him contacting a networked buddy for information.

The movie drove home the point of being very well connected around the world.

The premise behind the movie is his daughter goes on a trip to Europe and she's kidnapped to be sold into a human trafficking ring. He warns the BGs that his certain set of skills will let him find them and kill them.

I find it more plausible that the producers read Gibson's Virtual Light as the parallels between it and Dark Angel are uncanny.

SR Denver bears a lot of similarities to Dark Angel's Seattle, I noticed, well, the whole checkpoint system.

Any traditional Cold War spy thriller will cover the East/West Berlin city checkpoint system.

Shadowrun pulls from an amazingly vast number of sources.

I read Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love, the other day. Interestingly enough, I have a "Thrilling Locations" book from the James Bond roleplaying game, which includes the Orient Express.

I'm surprised by how long it took for Equilibrium and Heat to make this list. I'll try to only meantion movies that haven't been on this list.
Really got to thinking about playing SR again after a 6 year break while watching the Max Pain movie.
The new 007 movies have some SR-esque qualities to them.
Smoking Aces
While watching RockaRolla I kept thinking he's an Elf, he's an Orc, oh he's a Troll..
Transporter
ADPolice Files
UltraVoilet
Minority Report (wonder why this hadn't made this thread before?)
Swordfish
the Replacement Killers (while we are talking Fuqua check out Bait and Training Day) (while we are talking Chow YunFat check out A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled -best Street Sam/fire fights. Peroid.)
True Romance

and I always wanted to run a SR game that was like Judgement Night.

I thought of a few other films that reminded me the other day (I can't remember if they've been mentioned or not):

1. The recent Rambo film - mercs carrying out an extraction
2. Munich - contacts, teamwork, slight misjudgements with explosives and counter hits
3. Collateral - particularly the way he gets his jobs and the meet in the night club
4. Carlito's Way - for the atmosphere

I just watched Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog. It's about a modern day african american assassin who follows the ancient japanese code of Bushido. Sound familiar to anyone?

One show rules them all for shadowrunness.

The Golden Girls.

Yes sah! Saw it when it came out and I have it on DVD.

Looking at my movie case I've come to realize that (almost) every film I own is good Shadowrun watching. Yes, even The Wizard of Oz.

A young girl from the CAS OD's on Red Mesc and finds herself travelling with a straw ally homunculus, a full body cyborg and one of Parashield's Cybertooth tigers with a malfunctioning fight or flight response modification?

For my money, there is no movie that would show off the "world" of shadowrun like Johnny Numonic.

Don't flame me yet.

Yes, acting was bad, plot was bad, science was bad. I never said it was a good movie. But it had street sams, razorboys, a megacorp killing it's own citizens for the sake of profit, and it had the idea of a shadowrun (Okay, it's not a GOOD idea to hire Keaneu Reeves to do something for you, but it is still the idea of a Shadowrun.)

Ronin, for the tactics behind shadowrunning. Ghost in the shell, Stand Alone Complex is also pretty much shadowrun. You have cybernetic implants, the matrix, all that stuff.

Lastly, for something that people haven't mentioned too much . . . Hellboy. A lot of people forget that half of Shadowrun is magic, and Hellboy has done a good job of integrating 'runs' (although sanctioned by the government) with magic. Again, not the greatest movies out there, but movies that incorporate shadowrunning elements none the less.

New Rose Hotel because it's about guys getting paid by a japanese corporation to extract a scientist, who finally got crossed. And maybe even more because of the Welsh's line ("We can make this complicated or we can make it simple. Simple means blood. Complicated means money. What we're going to recommand is complicated.")

Nirvana because it features corporate host hacking, SR-style Matrix metaphor, obvious cybereyes and organleggers.

And I challenge anyone to watch the Firefly episode "Ariel" and not think of a run gone wrong/right. Infiltration, theft, assault, escape from the authorities and the bad magic "blue hands guys". Hell yeah!

Also, "The Eraser" had those way cool particle cannons, never mind the x-ray glasses. Not exactly SR, but close to the feel.

Dollhouse seems to be a good fit so far. If that isn't the good example of skillwires than I don't know what is.

Denis Leary was amazing in that. "Sure its got blood on it, what money doesnt?" and "Damn it now you're cutting in to my drinking time."

I'll have you all know that my wife is pretty annoyed at you all, our Netflix queue is up past 100 before any of her movies get here (just don't tell her that the order can be re-arranged ).

New Rose Hotel and Johnny Mnemonic don't count since Gibson wrote it dammit. That's like saying the book that reminds you the most of cyberpunk is Neuromancer. I reject your entries!

Bah, read the short stories then watch the movies and tell me they're even close

I just watched Dollhouse last night, yep, it is super-duper SR...