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Blade Runner (Final cut)

IMDB Rating: 8.30
119614 votes

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Storyline
Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
Actors
Rick DeckardHarrison Ford
Roy BattyRutger Hauer
RachaelSean Young

Akira

IMDB Rating: 7.80
25735 votes

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Storyline
Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
Actors
Shôtarô KanedaMitsuo Iwata
Tetsuo ShimaNozomu Sasaki
KeiMami Koyama

The Matrix

IMDB Rating: 8.50
165742 votes

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Storyline
Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the "Matrix"--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.
Actors
NeoKeanu Reeves
MorpheusLaurence Fishburne
TrinityCarrie-Anne Moss

Blade Runner

IMDB Rating: 8.20
84710 votes

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Storyline
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as 'replicants'. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.
Actors
Rick DeckardHarrison Ford
Roy BattyRutger Hauer
RachaelSean Young