A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.
Thrillers / Drama
| 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 |
Science Fiction / Fantasy
| 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 |
| World on a Wire | Science fiction/Thriller | 1973 | 7.9/10 |
Action
| 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: Legacy | Action/Adventure | 2010 | 6.8/10 |
| The Italian Job | Thriller/Action | 2003 | 7.0/10 |
Documentaries
| 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 |
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