Movies & biometrics
Le cinéma et la biométrie

Hollywood is using biometrics for years, but not that much. I'm collecting these movies, updating this page from time to time, and some are still to be checked!

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List of biometric movies

Following the initial list, you'll encounter another set of movies, occasionally dubbed as featuring some biometrics, though upon verification, they do not.

Movies denoted with "0" means that I need to check.

Definition

What is a movie with some biometrics inside ?

We are speaking of an « automated » system. But for old movies, it's not adapted.
When the matching is done by a human, there should be :
1. An enrollment. For instance, a fingerprint on a fingerprint card.
2. A matching with a captured biometric trait. For instance, a latent fingerprint.
Matching can be done by a human, comparing the acquisition at enrollment, and the acquisition to match.

So this is excluding matching done by a witness, remembering having seen such person at such place. A physical trace must exist to perform the comparison, in order to be included in my list. For instance, a trace can be a voice record.

That said, there are some exceptions, especially for old movies.

Wrongly dubbed as featuring some biometrics

The following movies do not contain biometrics, even though they may look close. Some websites cite them !

[1942] Escape from Crime : did not find any fingerprint.
[1991] Star Trek 06 The Undiscovered Country : did not see any biometric inside.
[1991] Terminator 2 : Terminator is seeking for clothes. This is not identification !
[1997] Starship Troopers : no automated ID.
[1998] Blade : the katana is not biometric.
[2003] The Italian Job (Braquage à l'italienne) : a lot of technical stuff, but no biometrics.
[2007] Die Hard IV : a lot of hacking, but no biometrics. There was in episode 2.
[2009] District 9 : no biometric ID per se. Differentiating human from alien is not ID.
[2010] The Ghost Writer : there is no biometrics in this movie, I wonder from where it came from.
[2014] Ex Machina : in this movie, biometric systems are avoided. Only card readers !

Serials

Last, but not least. I do not collect all the episodes from serials with biometrics, that's too much 😰 For instance :

[2001] Alias, season 1, episode 9 "Mea Culpa" : a camera able to manufacture a fake fingerprint directly from a photo. Sure, this does not exist.
[1971] Colombo
[1966] Mission: Impossible (forcément)
[1965] The F.B.I.
[1963] The Lawbreakers
[1963] My Favorite Martian
[1957] Perry Mason
[1957] Alfred Hitchcock Presents
[1955] N.O.P.D.
[1941] Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.
[1941] The Spider Returns
[1931] Finger Prints (also a movie in 1927)

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