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Movies For Hackers

A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch. Ratings are from IMDb.

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1. Movies For Hackers
   • Thrillers/Drama
   • Science Fiction/Fantasy
   • Action
   • Documentaries
2. TV Shows For Hackers
3. Other Cool Lists
4. Contributing

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Thrillers / Drama

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
21	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2008	6.8/10
23	Thriller/Drama	1998	7.3/10
Algorithm	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2014	4.8/10
Anonymous	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2016	6.4/10
Antitrust	Thriller/Drama	2001	6.1/10
Blackhat	Thriller/Drama	2015	5.4/10
Brazil	Drama/Science Fiction	1985	7.9/10
Enemy of the State	Thriller/Drama	1998	7.3/10
Hacker's Game	Thriller/Drama	2015	3.8/10
Hackers	Drama/Crime	1995	6.2/10
Hidden Figures	Biography/Drama/History	2017	7.8/10
I.T.	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2016	5.4/10
Listening	Thriller/Drama	2014	5.6/10
Live Free or Die Hard	Thriller/Action	2007	7.2/10
Office Space	Comedy/Romance	1999	7.8/10
Pi	Drama/Mystery	1998	7.5/10
Primer	Thriller/Drama	2004	7.0/10
Reboot	Thriller/Drama	2012	4.1/10
Snowden	Thriller/Drama	2016	7.3/10
Swordfish	Thriller/Caper Story	2001	6.5/10
Takedown	Thriller/Drama	2000	6.3/10
The Circle	Thriller/Drama	2017	5.3/10
The Fifth Estate	Thriller/Drama	2013	6.2/10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Thriller/Drama	2011	7.8/10
The Imitation Game	Thriller/Drama	2014	8.2/10
The Net 2.0	Thriller/Drama	2006	4.7/10
The Net	Thriller/Drama	1995	5.8/10
The Signal	Thriller	2014	6.1/10
The Social Network	Drama/History	2010	7.7/10
The Thirteenth Floor	Thriller/Mystery	1999	7.0/10
Underground: The Julian Assange Story	Drama/Biography	2012	6.8/10
Untraceable	Thriller/Slasher	2008	6.2/10
WarGames	Thriller/Drama	1983	7.1/10
WarGames: The Dead Code	Thriller/Drama	2008	4.5/10
Who Am I	Drama/Crime	2014	7.6/10

Science Fiction / Fantasy

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
2001: A Space Odyssey	Science Fiction/Fantasy	1968	8.3/10
Anon	Science Fiction/Thriller	2018	6/10
Avalon	Science Fiction/Fantasy	2001	6.6/10
Blade Runner	Science Fiction/Thriller	1982	8.2/10
Blade Runner 2049	Science Fiction/Drama	2017	8.3/10
Colossus: The Forbin Project	Science Fiction/Thriller	1970	7.1/10
Ex Machina	Fantasy/Mystery	2015	7.7/10
eXistenZ	Science Fiction/Thriller	1999	6.8/10
Ghost in the Shell	Fantasy/Animation	1995	8.0/10
Ghost in the Shell	Science Fiction/Action	2017	6.9/10
Her	Science Fiction/Romance	2013	8.0/10
Inception	Science Fiction/Mystery	2010	8.8/10
Johnny Mnemonic	Science Fiction/Action	1995	5.6/10
Morgan	Science Fiction/Thriller	2016	5.8/10
One Point O	Science Fiction/Mystery	2004	6.2/10
Open Windows	Fantasy/Crime	2014	5.2/10
The Lawnmower Man	Fantasy/Action	1992	5.4/10
The Matrix	Fantasy/Action	1999	8.7/10
The Matrix Reloaded	Science Fiction/Action	2003	7.2/10
Transcendence	Science Fiction/Drama	2014	6.3/10
World on a Wire	Science Fiction/Thriller	1973	7.9/10

Action

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
Eagle Eye	Action/Thriller	2008	6.6/10
Echelon Conspiracy	Action/Crime/Mystery	2009	5.8/10
Firewall	Action/Thriller	2006	5.8/10
Gamer	Action/Thriller	2009	5.8/10
Kung Fury	Action/Comedy	2015	8.1/10
Sneakers	Action/Thriller	1992	7.1/10
The Island	Action/Adventure	2005	6.9/10
The Italian Job	Action/Thriller	2003	7.0/10
Tron	Action/Adventure	1982	6.8/10
Tron: Legacy	Action/Adventure	2010	6.8/10
Virtuosity	Action/Thriller	1995	5.5/10

Documentaries

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
BBS: The Documentary	Documentary	2005	8.7/10
Citizenfour	Documentary/Biography	2014	8.1/10
Code 2600	Documentary	2012	7.4/10
Deep Web	Documentary	2015	7.1/10
DEFCON: The Documentary	Documentary	2013	5.7/10
DSKNECTD	Documentary	2013	7.4/10
Downloaded	Documentary	2013	6.8/10
Freedom Downtime	Documentary	2001	7.6/10
Good Copy Bad Copy	Documentary	2007	7.2/10
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age	Documentary	1984	7.7/10
Hackers Are People Too	Documentary/Short Film	2008	6.1/10
Hacking Democracy	Documentary	2006	7.9/10
Hackers Wanted	Documentary/Indie Film	2009	6.5/10
In the Realm of the Hackers	Documentary	2003	7.4/10
Indie Game: The Movie	Documentary	2012	7.7/10
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web	Documentary	2017	7.0/10
Pirates of Silicon Valley	Documentary/Drama/TV Film	1999	7.3/10
Plug and Pray	Documentary	2010	7.2/10
Revolution OS	Documentary/Indie Film	2001	7.3/10
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web	Documentary	2017	7.4/10
Softwaring Hard	Documentary	2014	8.2/10
Steal This Film	Documentary/Short Film	2006	7.1/10
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard	Documentary	2013	7.6/10
Terms and Conditions May Apply	Documentary	2013	7.4/10
The Code	Documentary	2001	7.5/10
The Great Hack	Documentary	2019	7.0/10
The Hacker Wars	Documentary	2014	6.6/10
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz	Documentary	2014	8.1/10
The KGB, the Computer and Me	Documentary	1990	8.3/10
The Secret History Of Hacking	Documentary	2001	7.6/10
The Singularity	Drama/Science Fiction	2012	7.3/10
War for the Web	Documentary	2015	7.4/10
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists	Documentary	2012	7.3/10
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks	Documentary	2013	6.9/10
Zero Days	Documentary	2016	7.8/10

TV Shows

TITLE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
Black Mirror	Drama/Science Fiction	2011	8.9/10
CSI: Cyber	Drama/Crime/Mystery	2015	5.4/10
Dark Net	Documentary/Series	2016	7.3/10
Devs	Drama/Mystery/Sci-Fi	2020	7.9/10
Halt and Catch Fire	Drama	2014	8.3/10
Mr. Robot	Thriller/Drama	2015	8.7/10
Person of Interest	Action/Crime/Drama	2011	8.5/10
Scorpion	Action/Drama	2014	7.2/10
Serial Experiments Lain	Cyberpunk/Animation	1998	8.2/10
Silicon Valley	Comedy	2014	8.5/10
StartUp	Thriller/Crime	2016	8.1/10
The Code	Drama	2014	7.6/10
The IT Crowd	Comedy	2006	8.6/10
Travelers	Science Fiction	2016	8.0/10
Valley of the Boom	Documentary/Drama	2019	6.5/10
Westworld	Drama/Mystery	2016	9.0/10
You Are Wanted	Thriller/Drama	2017	6.1/10

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Contributing

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movies-for-hackers's Issues

You forgot Strange Days (1995)

cmon get with it here

Original Wargames version?

Why the 2008 version is listed here instead of the original 1983 version?

By year?

Sorry, just found your sortable version. Strangely didn't see it at first. Can be closed.

Add Drake & Josh

[feature request] Add checkboxes in the list

It'd be so easy for us to finish the list if there were check-boxes :)

• Checkboxes - The request
• Checkboxes - II, When Implemented
• The Matrix

Add 13th Floor

aka "The Matrix lite"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/

Add Revolution 2012-2014 (TV Series)

Dystopian/Cyberpunk style world where electricity has stopped functioning all over the world. Main characters include an electrical engineer a developer and many conversations around their lives and how it applies to the new 0-electricity world.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070791/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series)

Add Zero Days (2016)

A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.

From IMDb- Zero Days

Please add "The Net" to "Tv series"

Computer programmer Angela Bennett discovers a shadowy group of cyber terrorists who completely erase her true identity. Falsely labeled a criminal, she finds herself on the run, and she'll never stop until she's got her life back.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163953/

IMDB Rating 4.7

It is based on the movie and has 22 eps

Add cyberwar

Add cyberwar

Add The 13th Floor

Electric Dreams

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/

Nerve (2016)

The 2016 movie, Nerve with Emma Roberts and Dave Franco should be on this list.

Paper Man (1971)

Paper Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067551/
Thriller/Drama
1971
6.3/10

Well thank you!

You are so selfish!
Thank you for ruining my weekends.
Thank you for consuming my open source work time with this great movies compilation.

But seriously, great list.
Thanks for opening this repo it's a great idea! :-)

include animatrix

Add Sybil

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Please add "Jake 2.0" to "TV series"

ake Foley is a computer technician for the NSA who secretly longs for a chance to work on the field. Circumstance puts him in a top secret laboratory, in the middle of a shootout between security guards and a saboteur. During the battle, a vial containing an experimental serum explodes, covering Jake with shrapnel. But it turns out that the serum is actually nanomites, microscopic submachines that heal his injuries and alter his body. Upon discovering his new mind-boggling powers, Jake begins to operate at an atomic level, possessing superhuman strength, lightning-fast speed, heightened hearing, magnified vision and the ability to communicate telepathically with computers. The NSA soon realizes Jake is an untested asset and forms a Special Ops team with him at its core. As Jake finally realizes his dream of being a field operative, he must also contend with the return of would-be girlfriend Sarah Heywood, who is involved in a Congressional investigation which threatens to expose his

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367344/

IMDB rating 6.9

16 eps

Serial Experiments Lain (are Animated Series allowed?)

I feel that Serial Experiments Lain is a hacker essential, but its a short animated series... Should it be added here, or perhaps make a new repo for series'?

Please Tron (1982)

sci-fi essential

Support bash

it's work for dash but not for bash.

Adding 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Although Space odyssey is great sci-fi space movie but connection like HAL 9000 could make it into this list although I haven't forked the repo for this. Would like to know your view in this.

hello there

Add Johnny mnemonic (1995)

Please add johnny menemonic . May not be hacking exclusive , but gives a good idea of Data Transfer and Security.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/

ORDER the movies in each section by rating.

The movies in each section aren't ordered in any sensical way, maybe order them alphabetically, or by rating?

Add Westworld

Westworld
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi TV Series
9.1/10

Please add "Whiz Kids" to TV Series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085110/

The adventures of a group of young kids who are amateur computer experts and detectives.

They even have a custom made computer - really awesome (in 1983)

IMDB rating: 7.1

Brazil by Terry Gilliam

I don't see one of the most important films for the hacker culture, Brazil by the awesome Terry Gilliam

Wikipedia
Slashdot

Clarify movie ratings are from IMDB

I was a initially annoyed by the fact that Antitrust had a 6.1 while Hackers has a 6.2 because I thought they were personal ratings of the movies. Could it be made clearer where those rating come from by adding the IMDB link to the rating as well? Additionally, maybe add rottentomatoes.com. What would nice feature is a voting system to give a "hacker rating"; by hackers, for hackers.

Please add "Johnny Mnemonic" to "SciFI"

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/

IMDB Rating: 5.6

Movies sorting by title

When you sort films by title it didn't sort it alphabetically

Create CSV List

When there's a csv file, one is able to view it inside GitHub and sort by attributes! That would be nice imo

Anything lighthearted?

These titles all seem pretty heavy; dramas, thrillers, etc.

I don't really have any suggestions myself, but are there any geeky movies that are easier on the heart? Maybe Scott Pilgrim vs. The World?

(UNRELEASED MOVIE) - War for the Web

This movie is apparently nothing more than an idea (and an Indiegogo campaign) to produce a documentary. For almost four years, no part of the movie has been released.

Politicized SciFi Moves are missing

• RoboCop,
• District 9,
• Elysium.

Because hacking is not unrelated to politics.

Question on adding computer/startup related movie

There are some computer related movies/documentaries which focus on startup like Ctrl + Alt + Compete (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2061626/?ref_=tt_rec_tt) or Startup.com (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/?ref_=tt_rec_tt) or ... Is there any plan to add them to the list?

Add iBoy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3171832/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

it's awesome movie :)

Add 8th wonderland

A website where people can virtually live in a true democracy becomes so popular that its leading members take questionable actions to improve the real world as well. This backfires and various governments brand them terrorists.

Imdb URI : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060234/

Mr. Robot

Is there any reason Mr. Robot is missing? Is it too popular?
I think it's one of the best.

Please add "You are wanted" to "TV Series"

Lukas Franke (Matthias Schweighöfer) is the victim of a cyber-crime attack. All his personal data, web and social media profiles get hacked and he gets accused of being involved in eco-terrorism. Lukas struggles to prove that he is innocent. His family, friends and colleagues doubt his innocence and start suspecting him. Lukas tries to find out who is behind the cyber-attacks and finds another victim, Lena Arandt, with whom he tries to solve the situation. Together they find out that someone from the German BKA (Federal Criminal Police) pulls the strings behind this crime.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5462886/

Imdb Rating: starts on March 17, 2017

Add Hacker (2016)

imdb link

6.2 stars

add Anon (2018)

Hi!

Anon (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397194/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anon_(film)

Ulterior States Documentary

Movie request: "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

It's and older movie and so some might giggle looking at the then-state-of-the-art hardware, but the language and science is pretty much on target, and its a really engaging frankensteins-like thriller. very well respected - but if you go looking on youtube beware the Trailers From Hell John Landis video where he gives it all away.

[feature request] Include TV shows as well

There are many tv series such as Silicon Valley, etc that are great and hackers would love to watch them. I suggest that a new column be made for TV shows.

Add Cyberbully - TV Movie (2015)

This time I checked the list first!

I've used this movie to help my kids understand some of the risks on the internet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4135218

Add Cybergeddon

IMDB link

It's a 2012 miniseries made by Anthony Zuiker, who created the CSI franchise.

Can anyone give me an ideas for final project for university ?

Sort titles by rating

It feels a little silly that the first title shown is currently:

WarGames: The Dead Code at 4.5/10

When the top should be something like:

Inception: 8.8
Mr Robot: 8.7
The Matrix: 8.7

It might be better having a combined list of every genre combined, sorted by rating. Instead of just genres with no sorting.

Add Code Rush

Documentary on how Netscape / Mozilla early days

https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y