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.

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

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.

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!)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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I can’t read that title now except for “The Gene Gene-Ration”

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