If you want to know more about hacking and technology you should watch our picks for the top 10 hacker movies. Hope you’ll enjoy the following ranking. Let us know your favorite in the comments. Here is the list of the top 10 hacker movies.
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1. Hacker – 2016
Hacker is a 2016 crime thriller film directed by Akan Satayev and Stars Callan McAuliffe (Alex), Lorraine Nicholson (Kira), Daniel Eric Gold (Sye), Clifton Collins Jr (Zed). Alex is a young Ukrainian immigrant who wants to support his struggling family by earning money on the internet, but not always legally.
He is slowly slipping into dangerous hacking crimes and being supported by a black market dealer. Alex soon finds himself in a life of identity theft and ways where a return will be impossible.
2. Trackdown – 2000
Trackdown is a 2000 crime thriller film directed by Joe Chappelle and stars Skeet Ulrich (Kevin Mitnick), Russell Wong (Tsutomu Shimomura), Tom Berenger (McCoy Rollins). This has a story about following a skilled computer hacker and a determined computer crimes expert. This thrilling ride retells actual events causing endless private data to be stolen from computers around the world.
What follows is a digital race between Kevin and the cops who are always right behind him. Ending in a generally thought-provoking experience about the high-tech modernity of our lives.
3. Hackers – 1995
Hackers is a 1995 crime film directed by Ion Softley and stars Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, and Lorraine Bracco. Filled with a stylish appeal and a charismatic young cast. Hackers follow a group of high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy.
They discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus and must use their computer skills to find the evidence. While being pursued by the secret service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
4. Swordfish – 2001
Swordfish is a 2001 action thriller film directed by Dominic Sena and stars John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle. As we follow Gabrel Shear on the mission of a lifetime to steal billions of dollars of illegal government funds. We witness the power of technology that makes his plan become reality.
But what starts as a logically motivated crime, blurs with the emotional past of the protagonists haunting and threatening their success.
5. Live Free or Die Hard – 2007
Live Free or Die Hard is a 2007 action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman and stars Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, and Maggie Q. They finally got it right with one of the latest entries to the Die Hard sequels. Turning the series from an action-packed joyride into an action-packed joyride with cyber wars and hacking.
When an attack begins to shut down the vulnerable U.S infrastructure. Legendary John McClane finds himself unable to win alone. So he gets himself help from a brilliant yet idiotic hacker.
6. 23 – 1998
23 is a 1998 German drama-thriller film directed by Hans-Christian Schmid and stars August Diehl, Fabian Busch, and Dieter Landuris. Based on a true story of young computer hackers from Germany. It involves a hacker cult inspired by R.A Wilson’s novel Illuminatus.
Obsessed by the stories the orphaned Carl and his friend Dave start breaking into government and military computers and find themselves in a dangerous game after a big discovery.
7. The girl with a dragon tattoo – 2011
The girl with a dragon tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and stars Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, and Stellen Skarsgard. Being the best most suspenseful yet disturbing American take on the millennium movies, the girl with the dragon tattoo proves itself with mind-blowing direction from David Fincher. And memorable performances from its leading cast. Crafting an experience that will go down your spine just like the brutal events that are explored in this brilliant thriller.
8. Snowden – 2016
Snowden is a 2016 biographical, thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlene Woodley, and Zachary Quinto. A tragic yet intimate inside into the world of cyberwar, hacking, and the dangers of technology. Snowden follows the infamous title-giving hacker who leaked the important government documents of the NSA that became a worldwide media scandal. Making him the most wanted man in the world. Snowden leaves behind a legacy that is explored in this movie.
9. Millennium Series – 2009
Millennium Series is a 2009 Swedish crime thriller film series directed by Niels Arden Oplev and stars Michael Nyqvistt And Noomi Rapace. This masterwork trilogy adapting the dark twisted book series discovers human abysses through the eyes of two protagonists who couldn’t be more different.
When a once-famous journalist and a mentally sick hacker team up to revisit an old case of potential murder, what they find goes way further than anyone wanted. Showing the sheer power of systematic crime.
10. Who am I – 2014
Who am I is a 2014 German Techno-Thriller movie, Directed by Baran Bo Odar and start Tom Schilling, Elias Mbaarek, Wotan Wilk Mooring, and Hannah Hersbrung. In a world in which we all hide behind computer screens and let screens hide everything, they hold inside, how easy it is to hack someone’s identity.
Based on the fragility of modern identities and high-security risks that barely get noticed. The movie tells the story of a German computer whiz, Benjamin. He is invited to join an insurgent group of hackers.
Few honorable mentions
- BlackHat Directed by Michael Mann
- I.T – 2006 Directed by John Moore
- Open Windows – 2014 Directed by Nacho Vigalondo
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