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Theme: Mind Upload

Mind Upload refers to the process of transferring human consciousness into a digital medium. This can be the idea of the human brain scanned and uploaded into a computer, onto the internet or into Virtual Reality. Other options include the transfer of the mind into an android body or sleeves (a term that has come to refer to backup copies of one’s body or new bodies).

There has been much speculation about the feasibility and technical difficulties of doing so in the real world. On screens, the idea is a relatively new one that will undoubtedly be explored in the future.


Amelia 2.0 (2017)

10 July 201916 January 2021

Rating: ★½

Mind Upload Into an Android Body

Director: Adam Orton
Actors: Ed Begley Jr, Angela Billman, Ben Whitehair, Kate Vernon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Archive (2020)

26 February 202128 June 2022

Rating: ★★★

Mind Upload Into an Android Body

Director: Gavin Rothery
Actors: Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando, …
Category: Science Fiction

Chappie (2015)

7 March 20157 October 2021

Rating: ★

Artificial Intelligence/Robot Becomes Self-Aware

Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Ninja, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ghost in the Machine (1993)

1 February 20008 June 2022

Rating: 0­

Serial Killer in Cyberspace

Director: Rachel Talalay
Actors: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Wil Horneff, Shevonne Durkin, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

24 July 200517 August 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Cyberpunk Anime

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction

Jung_E (2023)

28 January 202328 January 2023

Rating: ★★

Android Soldier Program

Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Actors: Kang Soo-yeon, Kim Hyun-joo, Ryu Kyung-soo, Lee Dong-hee, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

3 December 200017 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Virtual Reality/Enhanced Intelligence

Director: Brett Leonard
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis, …
Category: Science Fiction

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

17 May 199926 February 2021

Rating: ½

Messianic Cyberspace Madman

Director: Farhad Mann
Actors: Matt Frewer, Patrick Bergin, Ely Pouget, Kevin Conway, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Machine (2013)

15 March 20154 December 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Android Artificial Intelligence/Mind Upload

Director: Caradog James
Actors: Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Pooneh Hajimohammadi, …
Category: Science Fiction

MPD Psycho (2000)

23 February 202124 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Split-Personalitied Detective vs a Body-Hopping Killer

Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Naoki Hosaka, Ren Osugi
Category: Horror

Nightflyers (1987)

19 March 201923 October 2022

Rating: ★★★

Space Expedition Goes Wrong

Director: Robert Collector
Actors: Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Michael Des Barres, …
Category: Science Fiction

Replicas (2018)

17 March 201912 August 2019

Rating: 0­

Scientist Clones His Dead Family

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, John Ortiz, …
Category: Science Fiction

Transcendence (2014)

19 April 201419 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Scientist’s Mind Uploaded Into a Machine

Director: Wally Pfister
Actors: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman, …
Category: Science Fiction

Years and Years (2019)

9 May 20219 May 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Near Future Family Saga

Director: Simon Cellan Jones, Lisa Mulcahy
Actors: Emma Thompson, Rory Kinnear, Russell Tovey, Lydia West, …
Category: Science Fiction

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