Hacking, programming, and computers
My favorite movies involving hacking, programming, and computers - in chronological order
18 Dec 2010 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 7.2
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.
19 Dec 2010 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 7.7
WarGames 1983
High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly...
24 Oct 2010 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.3
Brazil 1985
Brazil is a Terry Gilliam dystopic black comedy film that reflects the melancholy, dreamlike quality of a famous Brazilian song that’s been translated into English. The film...
06 Nov 2010 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.6
Sneakers 1992
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking "black box" from a...
28 Apr 2011 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.6
The Net 1995
Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a CD-ROM game, she discovers a conspiracy...
29 Apr 2013 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 5.8
Hackers 1995
A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found...
13 Nov 2011 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.0
Johnny Mnemonic 1995
The year is 2021, and half of the Earth's population is suffering from the disease known as Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS). Johnny, a mnemonic data courier, is hired to carry...
13 May 2013 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.7
Strange Days 1995
Lenny Nero, a retired police officer turned street-hustler, accidentally uncovers a conspiracy on New Years' Eve.
25 Mar 2013 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.4
Breaking The Code 1996
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by...
07 Mar 2011 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.7
Mission: Impossible 1996
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to...
25 Jul 2011 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 7.0
Enemy of the State 1998
Hotshot Washington lawyer Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security...
24 Oct 2010 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 7.7
The Matrix 1999
Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a malevolent hacker known as Neo, who finds himself targeted by the police...
10 Nov 2012 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.5
Office Space 1999
Peter is a drone for a software company well on his way to a nervous breakdown when a hypnosis mishap opens his eyes. He becomes so apathetic toward his job that he can't even...
18 Dec 2010 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.0
Pirates of Silicon Valley 1999
This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and...
29 Apr 2011 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.9
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the... 2005
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new...
25 Mar 2013 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.3
Firewall 2006
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into Jack's personal...
09 Apr 2013 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.5
Eagle Eye 2008
Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and...
17 Feb 2011 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 6.6
The Social Network 2010
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of...
31 Mar 2013 -
Fabian [892]
Ø 7.0
Wreck-It Ralph 2012
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting...