HackerFlicks
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Movies[edit]
- 23 (1998)
- directed by Hans-Christian Schmid ("the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany", watch now)
- Algorithm (2014)
- A freelance computer hacker discovers a mysterious government computer program. He breaks into the program and is thrust into a revolution. watch now
- Antitrust (2001)
- directed by Peter Howitt
- Avatar (2009)
- An ex-marine merges with an avatar to join an extraordinary natural world. For amazing dreams of a future world. watch trailer
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Cyberdystopia manifested. Be enlightened.
- Breakfast Club (1985)
- How geeks, freaks, and jocks get along.
- Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- When one nerd wins. He plays D&D.
- Fight Club (1999)
- How it could of happened.
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- directed by Mamoru Oshii ("A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the 'Puppet Master'.")
- Ghost in the Shell: Innocence (2004)
- directed by Mamoru Oshii ("Bato, a cyborg detective for Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot who slaughtered her owner.")
- Ghost in the Shell: The Laughing Man (2005)
- directed by Kenji Kamiyama ("After 6 years underground infamous hacker 'The Laughing Man' forewarns about his next crime.")
- Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (2006)
- directed by Kenji Kamiyama ("Two years after the first GITS, hacker nicknamed the 'Puppet Master' is behind a series of complicated incidents.")
- Technotise: Edit & I (2009)
- directed by Aleksa Gajić ("Female psychology student visits a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body.")
- Hackers (1995)
- directed by Iain Softley (watch now)
- Highlander (1986)
- token nerd fantasy flick
- Insecurity (2007)
- directed by Rohan Harris ("Insecurity is a hacker film, but rather unlike any you're likely to have seen before." CC-BY-ND watch now)
- Interstellar (2014)
- directed by Christopher Nolan. [1]
- Johnny Mneumonic
- Another post-apocalyptic future to avoid.
- The Matrix (1999)
- directed by the Wachowski brothers ("A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.")
- Network (1976)
- Activism against TV networks
- Oblivion (2013)
- despite Tom Cruise, a tale of a possible future when science without religion is victorious.
- Pi (1998)
- directed by Darren Aronofsky ("A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.")
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
- directed by Martyn Burke ("History of Apple and Microsoft.")
- Real Genius (1985)
- directed by Martha Coolidge
- Revenge of the Nerds (1984) The title says it all. Tri-Lambda members find Nerd Corps on this site.
- The Road (2009)
- post-apocalypse scenario after growth economics and naive ideas about love went wrong.
- Short Circuit (1986)
- directed by John Badham ("Robot in a group of experimental bots in a lab is electrocuted, becomes intelligent, and escapes")
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
- robots.
- Sneakers (1992)
- directed by Phil Alden Robinson ("Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal.")
- Takedown (2000)
- directed by Joe Chappelle (watch now)
- This is Spinal Tap 1984
- Just because. It hacks you.
- TRACEROUTE (2016)
- directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner ([[2]Project Page])
- TRON (1982)
- directed by Steven Lisberger
- TRON Legacy (2010?)
- The future
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- Remember, remember.
- Waking Life (2001)
- Thinking about the meaning of life in the universe
- Wargames (1983)
- directed by John Badham
- Welt am Draht (1973)
- directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ("Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality…")
- World War Z (2013)
- Another bad future to avoid: where animals hate humans for their failure to care for the Earth.
Others (not formatted):
- Altered States (1980)
- Enemy of the State: giving ideas of tracking abilities of the powers above
- The Conversation: ideas of how to add recordings to get greater fidelity
- various Batman and Mission Impossible films.
