Your birth year
2006
Blade Runner
1982
Blade Runner is 24 years older than you
It's from 1982, before you were born.
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Genre
- Sci-fi noir
- Star
- Harrison Ford
- Released
- 1982
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About
As of 2026, it's 44 years old.
Blade Runner flopped in 1982 and then spent the next forty years being recognized as one of the most influential films ever made — its rain-soaked, neon-drenched future basically invented the entire visual language of cyberpunk. A weary cop hunts artificial humans and quietly questions what makes anyone human at all.
Moody, philosophical, and gorgeous, its 'tears in rain' monologue is one of the most celebrated speeches in film, improvised in part by the actor.
Visionary, melancholy, and slow-burning, Blade Runner is the box-office disappointment that ended up designing the future of science fiction.




