Movies For Hackers

A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.

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MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
WarGames: The Dead Code	Thriller/Drama	2008	4.5/10
WarGames	Thriller/Drama	1983	7.1/10
Hackers	Crime/Drama	1995	6.2/10
Antitrust	Thriller/Drama	2001	6.1/10
Reboot	Thriller/Drama	2012	4.1/10
Takedown	Thriller/Drama	2000	6.3/10
23	Thriller/Drama	1998	7.3/10
The Net	Thriller/Drama	1995	5.8/10
The Net 2.0	Thriller/Drama	2006	4.7/10
Underground: The Julian Assange Story	Drama/Biography	2012	6.8/10
The Fifth Estate	Thriller/Drama	2013	6.2/10
The Social Network	Drama/History	2010	7.7/10
Enemy of the State	Thriller/Drama	1998	7.3/10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Thriller/Drama	2011	7.8/10
Snowden	Drama/Thriller	2016	7.3/10
Algorithm	Crime/Drama/Thriller	2014	4.8/10
Who Am I	Crime/Drama	2014	7.6/10
Hacker's Game	Drama/Thriller	2015	3.8/10
Blackhat	Drama/Thriller	2015	5.4/10
The Thirteenth Floor	Thriller/Mystery	1999	7/10
Swordfish	Caper story/Thriller	2001	6.5/10
Live Free or Die Hard	Thriller/Action	2007	7.2/10
Untraceable	Slasher/Thriller	2008	6.2/10
The Imitation Game	Drama/Thriller	2014	8.2/10
Pi	Drama/Mystery	1998	7.5/10

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
The Matrix	Fantasy/Action	1999	8.7/10
The Lawnmower Man	Fantasy/Action	1992	5.4/10
Open Windows	Fantasy/Crime	2014	5.2/10
Ex Machina	Fantasy/Mystery	2015	7.7/10
eXistenZ	Science fiction/Thriller	1999	6.8/10
One Point O	Mystery/Science fiction	2004	6.2/10
Inception	Mystery/Science fiction	2010	8.8/10
Ghost in the Shell	Fantasy/Animation	1995	8/10
Avalon	Fantasy/Science fiction	2001	6.6/10
Blade Runner	Science fiction/Thriller	1982	8.2/10
Her	Science fiction/Romance	2013	8.0/10
World on a Wire	Science fiction/Thriller	1973	7.9/10

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
Sneakers	Thriller/Action	1992	7.1/10
Firewall	Thriller/Action	2006	5.8/10
Gamer	Thriller/Action	2009	5.8/10
Virtuosity	Thriller/Action	1995	5.5/10
Eagle Eye	Thriller/Action	2008	6.6/10
Tron	Action/Adventure	1982	6.8/10
Tron: Legacy	Action/Adventure	2010	6.8/10
The Italian Job	Thriller/Action	2003	7.0/10

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
Pirates of Silicon Valley	Television film/Docudrama	1999	7.3/10
Freedom Downtime	Documentary	2001	7.6/10
The Code	Documentary	2001	7.5/10
Code 2600	Documentary	2012	7.4/10
Revolution OS	Indie film/Documentary	2001	7.3/10
Hackers Are People Too	Short Film/Documentary	2008	6.1/10
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists	Documentary	2012	7.3/10
The KGB, the Computer and Me	Documentary	1990	8.3/10
Hacking Democracy	Documentary	2006	7.9/10
Citizenfour	Biography/Documentary	2014	8.1/10
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks	Documentary	2013	6.9/10
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard	Documentary	2013	7.6/10
War for the Web	Documentary	2015	7.4/10
Downloaded	Documentary	2013	6.8/10
Steal This Film	Short Film/Documentary	2006	7.1/10
Deep Web	Documentary	2015	7.1/10
DEFCON: The Documentary	Documentary	2013	5.7/10
DSKNECTD	Documentary	2013	7.4/10
The Hacker Wars	Documentary	2014	6.6/10
Hackers Wanted	Indie film/Documentary	2009	6.5/10
The Secret History Of Hacking	Documentary	2001	7.6/10
Zero Days	Documentary	2016	7.8/10
The Singularity	Drama/Science Fiction	2012	7.3/10
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz	Documentary	2014	8.1/10
Terms and Conditions May Apply	Documentary	2013	7.4/10
BBS: The Documentary	Documentary	2005	8.7/10
Good Copy Bad Copy	Documentary	2007	7.2/10

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