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-	There is a body of films that feature [[surveillance]] as a theme or as a plot arc.	+
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-	==List of films==	+
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-	{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"	+
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-	! scope="col" | Film	+
-	! scope="col" | Year	+
-	! scope="col" class="unsortable" style=white-space:nowrap | Description	+
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-	| ''[[1984 (1956 film)|1984]]'' || 1956 || The film is set in a totalitarian society in the future where the population may be monitored at any time.<ref name="kammerer1" />	+
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-	| ''[[23 (film)|23]]'' || 1998 || Hackers sell their research to Russians, but because the Russians want military data instead, the hackers have to elude them.<ref name="kammerer1" />	+
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-	| ''[[Aelita: Queen of Mars]]'' || 1924 || Surveillance is used by the upper class to oversee the working class.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[American Pie (film)|American Pie]]'' || 1999 || In the comedy film, a key scene has the teenage protagonist setting up his webcam so his friends can see him having sex with a girl. The webcast is shared publicly to his peers.<ref name="susman" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Anderson Tapes}}'' || 1971 || Burglars use a luxury apartment's surveillance technology to break in but are unaware of being under surveillance themselves.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[Antitrust (film)|Antitrust]]'' || 2001 || The protagonist learns that his company has an extensive surveillance system to observe and steal code.<ref name="kammerer2" />	+
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-	| ''[[Blow Out]]'' || 1981 || A sound technician inadvertently records a murder and learns that it is part of ongoing political corruption.<ref name="turner96" />	+
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-	| ''[[Blowup]]'' || 1966 || A fashion photographer unwittingly takes photographs of a murder and investigates the circumstances.<ref name="turner96" />	+
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-	| ''[[Blue Thunder]]'' || 1983 || The film features a military helicopter with high-tech surveillance equipment.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[Body Double]]'' || 1984 || The protagonist, staying at a friend's apartment, is able to spy on the neighbor but winds up witnessing her murder.<ref name="kammerer3" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Bourne Identity|dab=2002 film}}'' || 2002 || Amnesiac spy Jason Bourne eludes people from his program trying to track him down.<ref name="kammerer3" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Bourne Supremacy|dab=film}}'' || 2004 || Amnesiac spy Jason Bourne eludes people from his program trying to track him down.<ref name="kammerer3" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Bourne Ultimatum|dab=film}}'' || 2007 || Amnesiac spy Jason Bourne eludes people from his program trying to track him down.<ref name="ebiri" />	+
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-	| ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' || 1985 || The science fiction fantasy film follows a government clerk who works for a totalitarian and bureaucratic government of [[Orwellian]] proportions.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''[[Caché (film)|Caché]]'' || 2005 || A couple finds on their front porch videotapes of them in their home and tries to find out who is recording them.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''[[Cape Fear (1962 film)|Cape Fear]]'' || 1962 || A released criminal follows the family of the man who testified against him.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''[[Code 46]]'' || 2003 || In the near future, personal travel between countries is limited and controlled by technological means, but counterfeiting allows circumvention of these controls.<ref name="kammerer4" />	+
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-	| ''[[The Conversation]]'' || 1974 || A surveillance expert is hired to combine wiretapped recordings of a couple and tries to interpret their conversations.<ref name="turner96" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Dark Knight|dab=film}}'' || 2008 || The vigilante superhero [[Batman]] hacks every cell phone in Gotham City to set up a sonar system to find the criminal the Joker.<ref name="ebiri" />	+
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-	| ''[[Death Watch]]'' || 1980 || In the future, the protagonist has a camera implanted in his brain and is enlisted to probe a dying woman's subconscious.<ref name="kammerer5" />	+
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-	| ''[[Demolition Man (film)|Demolition Man]]'' || 1993 || The science fiction film depicts a 2032 "San Angeles" where everyone's behavior is under surveillance.<ref name="turner114" />	+
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-	| ''[[Disturbia (film)|Disturbia]]'' || 2007 || A teenager under house arrest spies on his neighbor and suspects him of being a killer.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''[[Eagle Eye]]'' || 2008 || Two strangers meet via a strange phone call and are then tracked by someone using everyday technology.<ref name="susman" />	+
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-	| ''[[Echelon Conspiracy]]'' || 2002 || An American engineer gets a cell phone that gives him unlimited wealth, but he is then pursued by security agents.<ref name="kammerer6" />	+
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-	| ''[[EDtv]]'' || 1999 || Ed is a video store clerk whose daily life is broadcast by a company trying to save its cable channel.<ref name="kammerer6" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|End of Violence}}'' || 1997 || A film producer is targeted to keep secret a satellite surveillance program to combat crime.<ref name="kammerer468" />	+
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-	| ''[[Enemy of the State (film)|Enemy of the State]]'' || 1998 || The main character is pursued by the [[National Security Agency]], which uses an array of surveillance technologies.<ref name="susman" />	+
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-	| ''[[Equilibrium (film)|Equilibrium]]'' || 2002 || In a futuristic city where emotions are suppressed through surveillance and control, a law enforcement officer begins experiencing emotions himself.<ref name="kammerer7" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|Das|Experiment}}'' || 2001 || A journalist joins a curious psychological experiment and records the experiment in secret.<ref name="kammerer7" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Final Cut|dab=2004 film}}'' || 2004 || An editor cuts together footage from a device implanted in one's body that can record an entire life, and he finds footage that has a connection with his own past.<ref name="kammerer8" />	+
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-	| ''[[Firewall (film)|Firewall]]'' || 2006 || A technology executive is coerced to rob a bank by criminals holding his family hostage.<ref name="kammerer8" />	+
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-	| ''[[Fortress (1993 film)|Fortress]]'' || 1993 || The science fiction film follows a couple with an illegal second child through a [[Panopticon|panopticonal]] society.<ref name="turner111" />	+
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-	| ''[[Freeze Frame (2004 film)|Freeze Frame]]'' || 2004 || The protagonist is acquitted from the wrongful accusation of killing his wife and children, but due to the media's portrayal, he maintains video surveillance of his own life to ensure having an alibi.<ref name="kammerer9" />	+
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-	| ''[[Gattaca]]'' || 1997 || In the near future, an aspiring astronaut uses a cover identity in training and has to evade genetic screenings used as a surveillance mechanism.<ref name="turner113" />	+
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-	| ''[[Giant (2009 film)|Giant]]'' || 2009 || A security guard at a supermarket watches a cleaning woman through video surveillance and begins stalking her outside work.<ref name="kammerer10" />	+
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-	| ''[[Hackers (film)|Hackers]]'' || 1995 || A group of hackers break into a company's supercomputer and have to evade the U.S. Secret Service.<ref name="kammerer10" />	+
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-	| ''[[Halloween: Resurrection]]'' || 2002 || A group of college students are trapped inside a home with a serial killer, and the killer broadcasts the subsequent events online through multiple cameras.<ref name="kammerer10" />	+
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-	| ''[[Headhunters (film)|Headhunters]]'' || 2011 || High-tech surveillance is used in a showdown between a headhunter who moonlights as an art thief and a potential recruit with a military background.<ref name="rapold" />	+
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-	| ''[[Hi, Mom!]]'' || 1970 || A Vietnam War veteran attempts to make "peep art" by filming people who live across from his apartment building.<ref name="kammerer11" />	+
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-	| ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' || 2002 || A cop works undercover in a triad, and a triad member works undercover in the police department. Each is ordered to track down the mole in the very organization he infiltrated.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Cameron | first1=Allan | last2=Cubitt | first2=Sean | year=2009 | chapter=''Infernal Affairs'' and the Ethics of Complex Narrative | editor-last=Buckland | editor-first=Warren | title=Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema | publisher=Wiley-Blackwell | isbn=978-1-4051-6862-5 | pages=153–154 }}</ref>	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Lives of Others}}'' || 2006 || In [[East Germany]] in the 1980s, a [[Stasi]] officer spies on a playwright.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]'' || 1997 || In part of the film, a couple receives videotapes recording the outside then the inside of their home.<ref name="kammerer468" />	+
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-	| ''[[Look (2007 film)|Look]]'' || 2007 || The film shows surveillance camera footage of events surrounding [[San Fernando Valley]] denizens.<ref name="kammerer12" />	+
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-	| ''[[M (1931 film)|M]]'' || 1931 || A city in pursuit of a child murderer has both cops and criminals engaging in surveillance and snooping on one another.<ref name="ebiri" />	+
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-	| ''[[Menace II Society]]'' || 1993 || A shopkeeper keeps close surveillance on two young black men.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'' || 1927 || The master of the city, Fredersen, keeps close surveillance on the city's workers.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'' || 2002 || The science fiction film depicts a futuristic society under total surveillance.<ref name="susman" />	+
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-	| ''[[Modern Times (film)|Modern Times]]'' || 1936 || A factory worker is demented by the sped-up assembly line and the constant video surveillance.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[My Little Eye]]'' || 2002 || In the horror film, five twentysomethings live together to win a prize but are subsequently targeted by a serial killer.<ref name="kammerer13" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Net|dab=1995 film}}'' || 1995 || A computer programmer in unknowing possession of secret software is tracked by assailants.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Net 2.0}}'' || 2006 || A computer technician who takes a job in [[Istanbul]] finds herself in pursuit by criminals who try to erase her identity from the Internet.<ref name="kammerer14" />	+
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-	| ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four (film)|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' || 1984 || The film is set in a totalitarian state where citizens are under complete surveillance.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[One Hour Photo]]'' || 2002 || An employee at a photo processing department processes a family's photos and imagines himself to be their uncle.<ref name="kammerer14" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Osterman Weekend|dab=film}}'' || 1983 || A television host allows the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] to wire his home for video surveillance since his visiting friends are suspected to be spies.<ref name="kammerer468" />	+
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-	| ''[[Panic Room]]'' || 2002 || A woman and her daughter use [[closed-circuit television]] to follow the movements of criminals invading their home.<ref name="kammerer469" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Parallax View}}'' || 1974 || A journalist investigates the assassination of a United States Senator and infiltrates the responsible corporation.<ref name="kammerer15" />	+
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-	| ''[[Peeping Tom (film)|Peeping Tom]]'' || 1960 || A photographer hunts down women and records their reactions as he kills them.<ref name="kammerer468" />	+
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-	| ''[[Pi (film)|Pi]]'' || 1998 || A mathematician finds out that [[pi]] is the key to the stock market and religion and is targeted by several organizations.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|President's Analyst}}'' || 1967 || In the satire film, an analyst for the President of the United States becomes expendable and teams up with two allies. Meanwhile, a telephone company seeks to implant electronic devices in people's brains.<ref name="kammerer16" />	+
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-	| ''[[Rear Window]]'' || 1954 || The wheelchair-bound main character spies on people in his apartment complex and thinks one of them is a murderer.<ref name="gray" />	+
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-	| ''[[Red Road (film)|Red Road]]'' || 2006 || In Scotland, a woman who is paid to watch a dangerous corner of North Glasgow tracks a former criminal and begins stalking him.<ref name="ebiri" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|Le|Samouraï}}'' || 1967 || The film's hit man resides in a flat that is bugged by the police who suspects him of being responsible for a contract killing.<ref name="ebiri" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|A|Scanner Darkly|dab=film}}'' || 2006 || An undercover cop is ordered to spy on his associates as a paranoid government monitors its citizens.<ref name="susman" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Secret Cinema}}'' || 1967 || A woman is manipulated by people around her so a director can film her to screen the results in a theater.<ref name="kammerer17" />	+
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-	| ''[[Sliver (film)|Sliver]]'' || 1993 || The main character is spied on by one of her fellow apartment tenants.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[Snake Eyes (film)|Snake Eyes]]'' || 1998 || A homicide detective investigates an assassination attempt at a boxing match.<ref name="kammerer468" />	+
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-	| ''[[Sneakers (1992 film)|Sneakers]]'' || 1992 || A team of computer hackers is contracted by the government to steal a code-breaking machine.<ref name="turner96" />	+
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-	| ''[[Surveillance (2008 film)|Surveillance]]'' || 2008 || Two FBI agents hunting a serial killer come across a mass shooting in a small town, and they use video surveillance to uncover the truth of the shooting.<ref name="kammerer19" />	+
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-	| ''[[Surveillance 24/7]]'' || 2007 || Filmed through surveillance cameras, a teacher takes home a lover and wakes up to find him murdered.<ref name="kammerer19" />	+
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-	| ''[[Thelma & Louise]]'' || 1991 || Surveillance cameras record Thelma and Louise as they commit crimes.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse}}'' || 1960 || German police investigate unsolved murders at a hotel, which is rigged with a sophisticated TV system.<ref name="kammerer19" />	+
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-	| ''[[THX 1138]]'' || 1971 || The film is set in a dystopian society where citizens are drugged and under surveillance.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''[[Timecode (film)|Timecode]]'' || 2000 || The experimental film displays a split screen of four cameras following different people in a film production office.<ref name="kammerer466" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|The|Truman Show}}'' || 1998 || The main character is unaware that his small-town life is constructed and is recorded 24 hours a day and aired to TV viewers.<ref name="ebiri" />	+
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-	| ''[[Vacancy (film)|Vacancy]]'' || 2007 || A couple staying at a motel begin watching low-budget horror movies available on tape and realize the movies were filmed in their own motel room.<ref name="kammerer21" />	+
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-	| ''[[World Without a Mask]]'' || 1934 || An engineer invents technology that can see through walls. The technology is pursued by criminals from the underworld.<ref name="ball102" />	+
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-	| ''{{sortname|La|Zona|dab=film}}'' || 2007 || A group of disadvantaged teenagers break into a gated community that is heavily under surveillance.<ref name="kammerer11" />	+
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-	| ''[[The Purge]]'' || 2013 || In the near future, all crime becomes legal for 12 hours and a family strives to survive the night.<ref name="kammerer11" />	+
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