Hacker Movie List
What follows is a list of “hacker movies” in no particular order.
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War Games (1983)
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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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
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Prime Risk (1985)
A female engineer, with the assistance of her pilot-wannabe male friend, discovers a way to rip off ATM machines, but in doing so stumbles upon a plot to destroy the U.S. monetary system.
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Takedown (2000)
This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker “Kevin Mitnick”.
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Explorers (1985)
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up
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The Social Network (2010)
A chronicle of the founding of Facebook, the social-networking Web site.
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Cloak And Dagger (1984)
11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn’t spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games–and even has an imaginary friend, a super-resourceful secret agent.
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Enigma (2001)
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
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Ghost In The Shell (1995)
A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
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The Conversation (1974)
A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Anti-Trust (2001)
A computer programmer’s dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
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Middle Men (2009)
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
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Jurassic Park (1993)
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.
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Tron: Legacy (2010)
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.
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Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
History of Apple and Microsoft.
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Sneakers (1992)
Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal.
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The Matrix (1999)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009)
A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing — or dead — for forty years by a young female hacker.
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Die Hard (1998)
New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.
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Swordfish (2001)
A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world’s greatest hacker (who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money.