It's **impossible** to answer this question (and here's my... er, answer, explaining why!) To understand why, we need to understand what [cryonics][1] is. Alcor is [a life extension foundation][2] who are involved in cryonics. On their own website, they have a frequently asked questions section, with the following information: > ***Q:** What is cryonics?* > > **A:** **Cryonics (from Greek kryos meaning icy cold) is the low-temperature > preservation of humans who can no longer be sustained by contemporary > medicine**, in the expectation they can be healed and resuscitated in > the future using more advanced medical technologies. Cryopreservation > of people is not reversible with current technology, and is today only > practiced following legal death. The rationale for cryonics is that > current medical and legal definitions of death are inaccurate and that > cryopreserved patients who do not meet the more stringent > information-theoretic definition of death retain sufficient > biological/neurological structure to be restored to full physical and > mental health using advanced future technologies. See About Cryonics. > > ***Q:** Has anyone ever been revived?* > > **A:** **No adult human has ever been revived from temperatures far below > freezing.** Cryonics patients are cared for in the expectation that > future technology, especially molecular nanotechnology, will be > available to reverse damage associated with the cryonics process. > > ***Q:** Aren’t cryonics patients dead?* > > **A:** A person who can be resuscitated is not dead. Therefore if cryonics > patients are preserved well enough that they might someday be > resuscitated, then they aren’t dead: they are cryopreserved. > > **Before cryonics procedures can begin under present law, a patient must > be legally dead**. I've highlighted some key pieces of information that show two very important facts: 1. No one has ever been revived from a cryonic state, as the technology isn't advanced enough yet to do this. 2. For any patient to be cryopreserved, they must be declared "legally dead". In your question, you ask: *Are there any (realistic) movies about cryopreservation?* The problem here is obvious: as there's never been a successful revival of a preserved patient, *we have no idea what a realistic revival would actually look like*. Of course, there are plenty of films that have attempted to show cryonics. [Iceman][3] showed a prehistoric man who had been frozen in ice *naturally* and was revived. [Aliens][4], [Avatar][5], [2001: A Space Odyssey][6] and [Interstellar][7] all showed it being used to traverse great distances in space (which is the most common reason it is shown). [Demolition Man][8] shows freezing being used as a form of penitentiary. From a more light hearted point of view, [Futurama][9] shows the lead character unwittingly become frozen, waking up thousands of years later. But it's impossible to comment on how *realistic* any of these depictions are, because we simply don't have advanced enough technology to actually *know* what a realistic revival would look like. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics [2]: http://www.alcor.org/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(1984_film) [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film) [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film) [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film) [8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film) [9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama