[NoLove6]

So I am looking for some good movies out there where the main content is either hacking, programming, etc as the story line. Any suggestions?!?! There is of course, Hackers, Swordfish, Anti-Trust............

[duffman18]

How about Sneakers or War Games

[alias120]

Takedown is alright.

[no2pencil]

Office space

[Choscura]

Fight Club (social engineering) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (also social engineering). 21 is a good hacking movie too.

[Shane Hudson]

The Girl * films!

I have only seen The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but read all three books.. loved them!

[Alex6788]

Live free or die hard is good and the theme is really techy and it has hacking in it.

[CharlieMay]

The Core

[NoLove6]

duffman18, on 21 November 2010 - 03:11 AM, said:

How about Sneakers or War Games

Sneakers and Wargames are of course great movies for their times. Wargames 2 was also entertaining. Not good, but if you needed something as background noise on while doing something else, it would suffice .

[NoLove6]

Shane Hudson, on 21 November 2010 - 04:35 AM, said:

The Girl * films!

I have only seen The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but read all three books.. loved them!

Thanks for those. I check out the plot of those on Netflix, looks really interesting, and have already added some of them to my que

[modi123_1]

The Matrix... Tron... Thirteenth Floor.. Tron: Legacy... Ghost in the Shell... Johnny Mnemonic...ExistenZ

Bless the mighty google... it bring'eth forth: 30 best hacker movies.
Of note"
Virtuosity (1995)
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)

[lordofduct]

I'm surprised Blade Runner hasn't been said. Hunting robots that are trying to hack their termination date.

"Strange Days" is also pretty cool. Recording dreams and selling it on the black market.

If Fear and Loathing (ugh, only Gilliam film I can't stand) and Fight Club fit in here, then these certainly do (which I don't think they do... how is fear and loathing a 'social engineering' movie? It's more of the escapades of a sad pathetic drug addict who wrote a hyperbolic take on his own life.).

Cube - good B movie weird movie. I wouldn't call it hacking, but certainly an interesting computer mayhem, screwy weird movie. The sequels all suck.

Existenz was said, bringing it up again because it's so bad you must see it. That and Cronenburg in general makes hilariously awesome movies. Definitely see Scanners, Naked Lunch, The Fly, and anything by him if you're into sci-fi in general.


There's a ton more out there, very seldom are your techy movies blockbusters though. Bladerunner and Matrix really only being the ones fitting in there.

This post has been edited by lordofduct: 21 November 2010 - 04:35 PM

[SixOfEleven]

Another is The Net with Sandra Bullock. Has always been a favorite of mine.

[calvinthedestroyer]

Jurassic Park II (the book) was very computer in-depth.

[NeoTifa]

Oh damn, it's been 9-10 months. I was getting ready to sweat in anticipation.