Movies about games

Movies about games
The list of the best films about games selected by visitors of our site: 13 Sins, Free Guy, Braid, 31, Ghost in the Graveyard, Flashout, Odds Are, Escape Room, The Local Stigmatic, Hero Mode.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

A bright but meek salesman, drowning in debt as he's about to get married, receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada

A bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:20

Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnessed her death during a "game" of Ghost in the Graveyard as young children.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrefantastic
CountryUSA

Three young women from a parallel universe play a blind date reality game that culminates in the euphoric Flashout. They get trapped on unfamiliar planet Earth by a reality repairman who must destroy their pleasure-filled game before the Multiverse is permanently altered.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrethriller
CountryUSA

Three college students play a challenge game called Odds Are... It quickly erupts into a nightmare for the participants who find themselves caught in an unpredictable web of deceit and survival. Based on actual events.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Six friends test their intelligence in a game that takes a dark turn.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration00:56

Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA

A teenage coding genius has just 30 days to create the world's greatest video game or his family loses everything. No pressure.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
Duration02:35

The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror
CountryUSA

Four friends who partake in a popular Los Angeles escape room find themselves stuck with a demonically possessed killer. They have less than an hour to solve the puzzles needed to escape the room alive.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade. This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming...and he’s ready.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father's video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game dubbed 'Beyond The Gates' that holds a connection to their father's disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genreaction
CountryUSA

Follows the journey of John and Colt, gunfighters and sometime lovers, on parallel but very different journeys through an underground dueling culture.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA

In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA

Alexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountryUSA

Joe Mazzello, best known for his acting roles in Jurassic Park, HBO's The Pacific, The Social Network, etc, wrote and made his directorial debut with this story based on his brother's experience as a collegiate baseball star who was skipped over in the Major League Baseball draft. Story centers around an intramural baseball game with his misfit teammates that becomes incredibly important to him as he tries to come to grips with his dashed dream.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA

Genius hacker Connor discovers Cicada 3301, an online treasure hunt that could be a recruiting tool for a secret society. Soon Conner, art-expert friend Avi, and secretive librarian Gwen are dashing from graffiti sites to ancient libraries to uncover real-world clues. But they must outrun aggressive NSA agents, also hot on the trail of Cicada, who want the glory for themselves.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror
CountryNew Zealand

A group of friends must confront their fears in a terrifying game. They must sit by the other players in a circle made of a hundred candles, take one of them and tell a horror story. As stories are told and candles blown out, strange events will start to happen. They will feel strange presences around them, lurking in the shadows. But they MUST NOT leave the game or else a terrible curse will fall upon them...

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUSA, South Africa

Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive as they discover all the games that they've played before.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

When a Native American casino controlled by the mob begins to destroy a close-knit rural town, a band of lovable low-tech misfits hatch a plan to beat them at their own game by pulling off an audacious casino heist.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryFrance, Canada, USA

Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death. Sucks for seven millennials who ignored that rule. Now each one's head will explode unless they kill someone. Will they turn on each other to survive, or will this sunny day be the last for the innocent people of their middle-of-nowhere town?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredocumentary, cartoon, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

From executive producer Zach Braff and director Jeremy Snead, "Video Games: The Movie" is an epic feature length documentary chronicling the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry. Narrated by Sean Astin and featuring in-depth interviews with the godfathers who started it all, the icons of game design, and the geek gurus who are leading us into the future, "Video Games: The Movie" is a celebration of gaming from Atari to Xbox and an eye-opening look at what lies ahead.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany

Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, comedy, detective
CountryUSA

When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the group, their worst tendencies and prejudices rise to the surface, and it is up to the ranger to keep the residents alive, both from each other and the monster which plagues them.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:30

A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryChina
Duration01:26

Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi (Li Yi Feng) has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing mother and childhood sweetheart Qing (Zhou Dongyu) to board the ship Destiny and attend a gambling party controlled by the mysterious Anderson (Michael Douglas). All players join the game with stars. For each game they lose, their opponent captures a star. Everyone is holding daggers behind their backs plotting dirty means by which to overcome their opponents. The game quickly deteriorates into a slaughter and Kaisi must battle save his own skin…

Markimdb: 8
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, India
Duration02:00

    Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryCanada, Belgium

    A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:57

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    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain

    On their last night together, four longtime flatmates' lives are suddenly upended when a secret is revealed during the course of an evening celebration.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, sport
    CountrySweden, Denmark

    A film about Rikard, age 30. He is autistic and severely disfigured. He lives in a home for disabled people. He was separated from his mother as a three-year-old, and this continues to torment him today. To deal with life's trials, Rikard escapes into a fantasy world in which he's a 50-meter-tall giant.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:28

    Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend...or face the deadly consequences.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:03

    When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:36

    Gathered together in a country house, seven friends play an entertaining game, in which participants have to read aloud all of their incoming text messages, and can only answer their calls using loudspeaker mode. They can’t even imagine what stunning surprises about each other they will discover.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryRussia, Belarus

    The film is based on real events. This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a six-year-old boy, they started playing the soldier game in order to preserve his childhood, and he, in order to comply with this honorary title, became a real defender of the Motherland.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryIndia

    Five former friends are abducted and held in a locked mall by a person dressed as Santa Claus.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:57

    Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryGermany

    A team of Special Ops elite soldiers, led by Captain Gus, formed a strong allegiance in battle. Gus is forced to bring the team back into action including a persuasive ex-priest Andreas "Doc" Clemens and fighter Benjamin Scholz when their ex-Commander's daughter is kidnapped. However, the teams' loyalties are tested when a member is framed for shooting another member. Together, Gus and the team must use all their skills in weaponry, martial arts, brute force and technology. The mission to track down the force behind the kidnapping causes the team to sacrifice their lives to uncover the truth, save the daughter and deliver justice - ultimate justice!

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustria
    Duration01:48

    Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUkraine

    Eight friends meet in Odessa to look at their friend's new entertainment club. The club has many exciting rooms where you can play the usual games - "mafia" or "crocodile", but the main concept of the club is "Detectorroom" - a room with an unique and super-accurate lie detector. The owner of the club tries to dissuade his friends to play a dangerous game, but everyone wants to nerve their nerves and to find out each other's private secrets. Friends have a good time and joking with each other, but after four game tours (Fun, Strip, Full Play and Duel), they will never be the same again. But who knows, maybe, it's even better?

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama
    CountryJapan

    Riko is 27, working as a love simulation game designer, and she no longer has big expectations for a man in her life. One day app company TIMEIS, lead by Soichiro, hires her to work on their latest game.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGreece, Germany
    Duration01:24

    In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredocumentary, biography, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:12

    Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be captured at his fourth and final Olympic Games in Rio, where he will compete for the gold in both the 100 and 200 metres races, for a third straight Games before his retirement in 2017. I AM BOLT will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.




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