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* ''[[The Truman Show]]''. The "cave" is a town-sized TV show soundstage.
* The ending of the movie ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]''. The "cave" is the main character's own mind after going insane under [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]].
* Partial example: ''[[They Live!]]!'', in which radio signals are beamed into our brains, causing us to see things inaccurately.
* ''[[Dark City]]'' - The cave is an alien spaceship/laboratory made up to look like an American city ca. the 1930s.
* ''The 13th Floor'' - The cave is a virtual reality simulation inside of another virtual reality simulation.
* ''[[eXistenZ]]'' - The cave is the virtual reality game. However, Plato's theory is subverted when it turns out that {{spoiler|transCendenZ is just as fake as eXistenZ}}. And the people who want to destroy the cave? Insane terrorists who want to [[Culture Police|stop you from playing video games]].
* ''[[THX 1138]]'': The cave is the entire underground city, and the final scene {{spoiler|where THX climbs the ladder and escapes into the sun}} is a clear reference to the "rough ascent" and transcendence as described in the allegory.
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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' two-parter "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E8 Silence in The Library|Silence in the Library]]"/"[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]". The "cave" is {{spoiler|the library's computer system}}.
** The Matrix in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14 E3 The Deadly Assassin|The Deadly Assassin]]", {{spoiler|the eponymous setting}} in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S19 E1 Castrovalva|Castrovalva]]", and the alternate realities in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E7 The Celestial Toymaker|The Celestial Toymaker]]" and "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E2 The Mind Robber|The Mind Robber]]". Also {{spoiler|the fake Earth}} in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S13 E4 The Android Invasion|The Android Invasion]]".
** Also the tunnel in Gridlock.
* [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]: Professor Moriarty discovers that he's a character in a holodeck fantasy, and it even gets down to the point where he is questioning the memories and personality he was programmed with, rejecting them for a chance at a new identity and existence. When Picard fails to live up to his promise, a follow up episode has Moriarty trapping Picard and Data in one of these briefly leading Picard to muse that their own reality might be a Platonic Cave.
* [[Star Trek: Voyager]] has the Q create a representational reality that reflects the basic ideas of the Q Continuum for us mere mortals (though they don't try to fool the humans into thinking it's real, it at least suggests that there is more to reality than they're capable of handling.)
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]''. Reality itself is the "cave," a "fallen" portrayal of the limitless wonder of the Supernal Realms. And even for those who manage to break the ropes and turn around to look at the way out, there are demiurges guarding the mouth of the cave, and a trench before you can even get to them.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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