India, July 16 -- When it comes to cinematic cool, few things shine brighter on screen than a Tesla. Sleek and silent, it looks like something out of a futuristic sci-fi movie. Tesla vehicles are no longer just cars. They are visual shorthand for the future. Whenever you see a Tesla car in movies, remember that the Tesla aesthetic continues to thrive on screen. Here are 10 movies with Tesla cars and also an explanation on what the deal is with Tesla and the Blade Runner franchise.

Over the last decade, movies with Tesla cars have become shorthand for sleek tech, wealth, modernity, and increasingly, for a kind of volatile genius that's hard to separate from the man behind the machine because it's impossible to talk about Tesla's cinematic...