Sunday is usually a good day to relax at home - with or without company - and enjoy a movie.
So today, we will present you with a list of the 10 best Hacker Movies... the ones that in our opinion every IT and security enthusiast should have seen...
at least once! 🙂
10. Demon Seed (1977)
An organic super-computer — fed all of humanity's knowledge by the Chinese for the purpose of research into fighting cancer. Unfortunately, the super-computer goes so far as to hack its creator's own computer-automated home, and develops a morbid interest in the scientist's wife. What happens next is completely beyond simple hacking, but this film brings to the fore the anxiety and fear we might feel about a future where computers can think and act on their own.
9. Existence (1999)
In eXistenZ, Cronenberg abandons the body as the central axis of his thematics. The result is that the body, which in other works is presented as the foundation of human existence and the measure through which the truth of things is ascertained, here is unable to define reality. As in other virtual reality works, so in this particular film the senses, the human body, are unable to distinguish between virtual reality, the game, and the truth. Ted, on his first trip to the game, touches his body and says that he feels normal, just like in reality. When he returns to the supposed reality, his senses give him the impression that he is in a false world. Like Neo in The Matrix, Ted touches the furniture, caresses the surfaces, but cannot be sure through touch whether he has returned to reality or not. Later, Ted tries to convince Allegra that they are still in the game. But he himself cannot be completely sure. Reality and the game are now impossible to distinguish.
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8. The Net (1995)
Angela, a computer expert, accidentally discovers the existence of an organization of cyber-terrorists. In order to stop her, they electronically erase her identity and... transform her into a criminal wanted by the police.
7. Sneakers (1992)
Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) is the leader of a team of men who specialize in controlling security systems. Excellent knowledge of technology, each with a dark past weighing on them, undertakes burglaries in banks and public institutions, assessing the tightness of their protective controls. And everything goes well until a decoder of government systems secures them a central position in the vortex of a war between the government, foreign agents and a billionaire, a semi-insane friend from the past.
6. Swordfish (2001)
The world's most skilled hacker is recruited into the mysterious and ruthless Gabriel's gang to crack some impenetrable bank codes and transfer billions of dollars from illicit government sources to other accounts. But in this game of cyber-espionage, no one is what they seem.
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5. War Games (1983)
A young man (Matthew Broderick) accidentally hacks into the mainframe of the United States Department of Defense. Thinking he has found a war game, he unknowingly triggers a series of hostilities, possibly causing World War III.
4. Takedown (2000)
The film is based on the one and only famous phreaker of our time, Kevin Mitnick. The film takes place with the FBI chasing Kevin, trying to catch him, with the latter using his knowledge and social engineering techniques (phishing) to escape them. The real pursuit of Mitnick begins when he attracts the attention of another hacker, Tsutomu Shimomura. Working with the authorities and John Markoff, Shimomura tries to trace the traces of the most notorious wanted man in the US, when two years later they break into his apartment. The scary thing about the whole case is that the film is based on true events and that all the hacks and tricks that Mitnick devises to bypass the protections, he had actually carried out.
3. Hackers (1995)
In the cutthroat world of cyber espionage, their curiosity was a crime. Now, they must hack into the network to prove their innocence and prevent a catastrophe!
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2. Tron (1982)
Programmer Kevin Flynn wants to prove that the top video game on the market belongs to him and that the company Encom has stolen it from him. In his attempt to find proof, he connects to the company's mainframe..
The creator of a videogame is transformed and becomes an element of the computer, as a result of which he has to face the world and on the other hand an electronic micro-culture that lives and breathes beyond our perception..
1. The Matrix (1999)
Hacker Thomas Anderson lives an ordinary life until he meets the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him to the real world. In reality, the time is 200 years ahead and the world has been taken over by artificial intelligence machines. The machines have created a fake reality of the 20th century, the Matrix, to keep people quiet, until they manage to take power from people and dominate the world. Anderson is pursued by the Agents, computers in human form, because he is considered the Chosen One who will lead people to victory against the machines and to dominance on Earth.
0. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
The 4th of July is the national holiday in the United States. It's their Independence Day. As the holiday approaches, the entire nation is on vacation. But not John McClane. The New York cop is now grown up, middle-aged, divorced, and in and out of Alcoholics Anonymous, trying to deal with his drinking problems. On top of that, his teenage daughter, Lucy, is ready to go to college and become a woman, which is a constant source of arguments with her father. He is assigned to transport a young hacker named Matt Foster to the FBI in Washington, D.C., for questioning. But what initially seems like a routine case turns into a thrilling adventure. When traffic lights on the streets begin to malfunction, a series of accidents take place and traffic becomes chaotic.
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