Screenplay: Lana Wachowski

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lana Wachowski. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Matrix

1999 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Keanu Reeves · Laurence Fishburne · Carrie-Anne Moss · Joe Pantoliano

Plot In the near future, Computer hacker Neo is contacted by underground freedom fighters who explain that reality as he understands it is actually a complex computer simulation called the Matrix....

7.9

192K votes

7.9

192K votes

The Matrix Revisited

2001 · Documentary · 123 min. · United States

Direction Josh Oreck

Cast Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Lorenzo di Bonaventura · Joel Silver

Plot An "extras-only" DVD, packed with documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of the ground-breaking 1999 movie "The Matrix". Includes a rare interview with the elusive writer/directors, the Wachowski Brothers;...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

V for Vendetta

2005 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction James McTeigue

Cast Natalie Portman · Hugo Weaving · Stephen Rea · John Hurt

Plot Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation...

7.5

129K votes

7.5

129K votes

The Second Renaissance Part II (S)

2003 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Mahiro Maeda

Plot With the robot city isolated and it's ambassadors ejected form the United Nations, a trade war begins to protect the human economy from superior products. When the trade war escalates...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Second Renaissance Part I (S)

2003 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Mahiro Maeda

Plot Historical file 12-1 of the Zion archive describes the birth of the machines and their evolution. The machines, created by man in his own likeness to function as simple workers,...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Sense8 (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction J. Michael Straczynski · Lana Wachowski · Lilly Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Jamie Clayton · Naveen Andrews · Doona Bae · Miguel Ángel Silvestre

Plot TV Series (2015-2018). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. The series follows eight people around the world who become telepathically linked following a tragic death. The story follows these characters around the...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

Sense8: A Christmas Special (TV)

2016 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Lana Wachowski

Cast Doona Bae · Jamie Clayton · Tina Desai · Tuppence Middleton

Plot The journey continues as these eight singular hearts and minds weave in and out of each other’s lives finding deeper connections, learning darker, more desperate secrets about one another and...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Animatrix

2003 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Andrew R. Jones · Shin'ichirō Watanabe · Mahiro Maeda · Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Plot The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation...

7.0

21K votes

7.0

21K votes

Sense8: Together Until the End (TV)

2018 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · J. Michael Straczynski

Cast Toby Onwumere · Tina Desai · Miguel Ángel Silvestre · Jamie Clayton

Plot In the final instalment, personal lives are pushed aside as the cluster, their sidekicks, and some unexpected allies band together for a rescue mission and BPO take-down in order to...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Kid's Story (S)

2003 · Movie · 15 min. · United States

Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe

Plot A teenager has dreams of falling that feel more real than his actual life. He turns to the internet for answers and receives some cryptic replies via his PC. In...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Final Flight of the Osiris (S)

2003 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Andrew R. Jones

Plot After discovering a force of machines on its way to Zion, the crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempts to warn the city by using the Matrix.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Bound

1996 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Jennifer Tilly · Gina Gershon · Joe Pantoliano · John P. Ryan

Plot Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

Cloud Atlas

2012 · Movie · 172 min. · United States

Direction Tom Tykwer · Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Tom Hanks · Halle Berry · Jim Broadbent · Hugo Weaving

Plot An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and...

6.4

27K votes

6.4

27K votes

The Matrix Reloaded

2003 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Keanu Reeves · Laurence Fishburne · Carrie-Anne Moss · Hugo Weaving

Plot Zion, mankind's last free city, has been located by the machines. With 250,000 sentinels only hours away, Zion's military leaders scramble all hovercrafts and personnel to defend the city and...

6.4

83K votes

6.4

83K votes

The Matrix Revolutions

2003 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Keanu Reeves · Laurence Fishburne · Carrie-Anne Moss · Hugo Weaving

Plot In the third installment, the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous civilian volunteers like Zee and the Kid, desperately battles...

6.0

113K votes

6.0

113K votes

The Matrix Resurrections

2021 · Movie · 148 min. · United States

Direction Lana Wachowski

Cast Keanu Reeves · Carrie-Anne Moss · Neil Patrick Harris · Jada Pinkett Smith

Plot Follows Neo who is living an ordinary life in San Francisco, where his therapist prescribes him blue pills. However, Morpheus offers him the red pill and reopens his mind to...

5.0

13K votes

5.0

13K votes

Speed Racer

2008 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Emile Hirsch · Matthew Fox · Susan Sarandon · John Goodman

Plot Based on the classic 1960's Japanese animated series chronicling the aspirations of a young race car driver as he attempts to obtain glory, with the help of his family and...

4.9

10K votes

4.9

10K votes

Assassins

1995 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Antonio Banderas · Julianne Moore · Anatoli Davydov

Plot Robert Rath is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk. But, as things go, it ain't so easy. A younger, peppier assassin named...

4.8

14K votes

4.8

14K votes

Jupiter Ascending

2015 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Lilly Wachowski · Lana Wachowski · Hermanas Wachowski

Cast Mila Kunis · Channing Tatum · Eddie Redmayne · Sean Bean

Plot Jupiter Jones was born at sea after her astronomer father was murdered by Russian police and her mother left for life in the US. She now lives in Chicago and...

4.4

16K votes

4.4

16K votes