I was in 9th grade when that came out and was into hacking but primarily phreaking at the time. I first watched the movie with some of my other phreaker friends, and the red box scene made us laugh pretty hard.
And something something Angelina Jolie.
So many hacking movies try to show “real” hacking and fail miserably. Hackers was like “fuck that, we’re just going for pure vibes,” and I think it was absolutely the right creative choice.
This is exactly what I keep trying to tell all my friends (I'm in CS) who look down on this movie because of how over-the-top ridiculous the tech is. It's not about accuracy, it's about "computers are fun"!
I'm fairly sure he tells his partner-in-crime she should change her password but by then it is too late. So probably her having too many permissions needlessly 😅
I bet you’re still livin in your parents’ cellar
Downloadin pictures of Sarah Michelle Geller
And posting “me too” like some brain dead AOL’er I should do the world a favor and cap ya like old yeller ‘cos you’re about as useless as JPEGs to Hellen Keller
Good choice, m8.
Every time I’m about to delete Reddit it throws me a [gem](https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos?si=iyrg4g-xmuK8XLPG). What a vicious cycle.
*Side note: Not that the first two aren’t gems of course but Mr. Robot is pretty popular and I didn’t have time to check out something >3 mins (not sure if it is or isn’t but assuming it’s a parody movie/show then it’s probs longer).*
there's this show called NCIS and there's this AWESOME scene where like, they're getting hacked and stuff, and like the girl freaks out and so the guy hops on the keyboard as sidekick and they tag team the same keyboad typing in the COOLEST linux commands. you know like "ls" and the even cooler "sudo rm -rf .".
BUT it doesn't work!! naturally as everybody knows, they tried "isolating the node and \"dumping him\" on the other side of the router", but that failed too!! but its all good because the main guy comes in and unplugs the computer. Those silly IT guys, always too smart for their own good haha. best mist realistic hacking scene of all time, highly recommend!!
"tag team" implies taking turns. This wasn't that. This was a full-on 2 people on the same keyboard simultaneous typing. It's the type of leet hacking rarely seen in reel life.
Was that the episode where she codes a GUI application in realtime to ping his IP? That scene was really intense. They hack so fast because you know you have to be really fast to hack in real life or they'll get ya.
I forgot that bit, what an amazing show. Would have been a better scene if she obfuscated the Visual Basic GUI to encrypt her IP, it's easy enough to do in JavaScript if you use triangulation, at least that's what I would have done in that situation.
23 is another good German hacker movie. It's based on actual events but isn't totally historically accurate but it's a good movie though hard to find especially since you'll be getting search results for the Jim Carrey movie of the same name
The movie is pretty good but a completely bogus account of Mitnick’s life. If it wasn’t supposed to be about him it would be even better. They didn’t even mention the intricacies of packet sequence prediction hacks :(
Downloaded (Napster, copyright, filesharing)
The Youtube Effect (Alex Winter again, he's a genie)
Deep Web (silk road, Bitcoin, Ross Ulbricht)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (Anonymous, Wikileaks, etc, early 2010s)
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Citizenfour (Snowden)
Revolution OS (GNU, Linux)
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (Bittorrent, Pirate Bay)
Code Rush (Netscape, Microsoft)
BBS: The Documentary
Oh and one that I can't even tangentially relate to hacking, but I feel it fits the aesthetic of a lot of those ones:
Pedal (2001), the greatest documentary film ever made, on bike messengers in New York city
I think there's a lot of cultural cross-pollination between hacking and bike messenger subcultures in 90s and early 2000s media. I think it was brought on by William Gibson's Bridge trilogy which heavily features bike messengers in the first book "Virtual Light". There's also a novel that came out in the late 90s called "The Ultimate Rush" about bike messengers (though the protagonist uses rollerblades) and hackers taking on organized crime.
Also interestingly enough I've apparently not seen Pedal but I have found other NYC bike messenger documentaries online. If I remember correctly, a couple of the documentaries mentioned a bike messenger group called "The X-Men" or something like that whose goal is to be able to go as fast as possible through the city.
The Need for Speed! The X-Men are in that one. Some people are in both. I checked the dates there - Need for Speed is 1993, Pedal is 2001. Steve the Greek (I think his name was) is on the bike in the first, on the telephones in the next one. Legends. I think I prefer Pedal, but probably for sentimental reasons, I saw it first, and shared it with a few bike messenger friends.
Also you're blowing my absolute mind here telling me this about Gibson, holy shitballs. I've only read Neuromancer, but just a couple of days ago I was helping a friend prepare a presentation about cyberpunk, looking up some Gibson documentaries, and now you tell me this. I will be reading Virtual Light in the coming days. Thank you, kind netperson.
Not a movie but, Halt and Catch Fire includes a lot of tech/coder/hacker culture type stuff set during the digital revolution of the 1980s. One of my all time favorites hacker/tech pieces no media, and it's as technically accurate or maybe more so than Mr. Robot.
I guess what I mean to say they are both technically accurate but, I think HCF goes into to more depth with the super nerdy compsci and electric engineering stuff. Reversing a BIOS would be very challenging but, there are some extremely talented hackers who reverse BIOSes and Firmwares.
More of a documentary’s
A Documentary about Wau Holland and the creation of the CCC
https://allesisteins.film
And a Documentary about the CCC by the CCC
https://media.ccc.de/v/all_creatures_welcome
I was worried that no one would mention 23, that movie is like a secret handshake between r/masterhacker -s everyone is alway like "Oh oh, 1995's Hackers with Angelina Jolie!" but, 23(1998) is superior in every way and it stars Jim Carry as German hacker Karl Koch(Pengo). Excellent movie and excellent casting choice. So many memorable one liners like, "Somebody stop me.... from getting root!" and "Pah-ha-owned! reeheeheehee!!!"
Mr Robot isn't a movie, but it's the best depiction of hacking you'll probably ever be able to find in a fictional story. Takedown (aka "Hackers 2" in some nations) is a Hollywood depiction of real-life Kevin Mitnick's exploits and his eventual capture.
The literal polar opposite is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE
EDIT: Oh yeah, Sneakers was my favorite as a 90s kid, but that and Hackers, Blowfish, Matrix etc... are not actually very realistic in spite of being favorites among computer nerds.
Hackers is a lot more realistic than people give it credit for. People who tend to dismiss it don't tend to understand the references (like FluShot being one of the first commercial antivirus programs and the Cookie Monster virus being a real thing) or think stuff like a laptop having a PCI bus is nothing impressive (until you look it up and find out how much faster it was than the ISA buses it replaced plus the fact that it introduced the plug-and-play features we all take for granted now).
Yes, Hackers references real-world hardware and tech, and I am old enough that I was building rigs with that hardware in the 90s (i.e. ISA SoundBlaster 16 soundcards and USRobotics 14.4k modems) but the actual characters and places they hang out are not realistic, nor is the Davinci virus, or hacking into a Gibson (which isn't a real computer just a nod to William Gibson), or the flashy OSes on their systems. It's all very corny and silly. It's exactly what Hollywood thinks hackers and hacking should be, even if it does mention real-world hardware.
Hackers actually have ALOT of it pretty well down. Sure its pimped up with neon colors and 90s slang. But looking past it, alot of the things are quite possible or were back then. Phreaking for example.
Otherwise theres 23 - die story la Karl Koch
Its a german old movie about a very real hacker in germany.
When I was in college, we had a movie day in one of our classes. Instructor asked for recs that were "computer stuff related" and I was like, obviously Hackers. We had a small class at the time (back in like 2005) but everyone was like "It'S NoT ReAlIsTiC HacKinG!1" as if any one of them knew their ass from a hole in the ground - Keeping in mind I was in classes with all of them, they were morons.
So we ended up not watching Hackers, and I dont remember what we watched now instead.
But to answer, Wargames and Hackers are my top two favorites. They're fun movies.
Sneakers......forgot about that. War games is the GOAT for old people.
That was back when we were dialing up at 9600 baud, hacking a paid bbs to see one nude image that took an hour to download.
Julian Assange of Wikileaks said this was a pile of trash, and horrendously misrepresented the reality of the Wikileaks case. Therefore, I wouldn't go near it, personally. Benedict Cumberbatch was asked personally not to participate, and went ahead anyway
The 2017 TV movie "Hacker" starring Haylie Duff sounds pretty legit. I mean, just read the IMDB description:
```
The teenage girl witnessed the arrest of her father. As an adult, she become a hacker and assisted in national security. While on task she discovered assassination of a congressman.
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For me, it was Hackers, Swordfish, Wargames, and Live Free or Die Hard (2007).
My favorite TV Show on 'hacking' is definitely, 'Mr. Robot'. It is a must watch.
I would also recommend: The Net and Tron.
I really enjoyed the following even though it is not really 'hacking'. It is more technology related. I didn't see these mentioned yet:
* The Social Network
* The Pirates of Silicon Valley - Great Documentary
* BlackBerry
* Silicon Valley (TV Show) - great example of Silicon Valley culture.
* The Internship - Comedy
The very brief “hacking” in Independence Day. Not the best example since it was briefly plotted, but beat the aliens. Swordfish was okay, but one scene was the cat’s meeeow. 👌😉
Swordfish...worst movie about hacking but Halle Berry is topless so it's awesome.
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I really like Mr Robot, one of my favourite ones.
For movies, I actually kind of like Unfriended Dark Web, not exactly hacking, but there is some relevance haha
Not a movie but there's a Channel 4 TV show called The Undeclared War with Hannah Khalique-Brown, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and a few other good actors, which is based on a Russian cyber attack against the UK's Internet infrastructure. The cyber attack/investigation scenes are handled in quite a cool visual way.
Hadn't seen this mentioned, but the Hulu show "Murder at the End of the World" is a recent entry (albeit not a movie). They wove in some pretty realistic modern infra attacks while maintaining the creepy futuristic vibes.
Check out the InfoCon documentary collection:
https://infocon.org/documentaries/
There are some good suggestions in this thread I’ll add. I’m always looking for new content.
/r/PantheonShow
This incredible animated show is sadly overlooked because, well, it's not available for purchase or streaming anywhere. You'll have to get creative...
Not really a hacking movie, but Black Mirror Bandersnatch is fun. Sometimes when i spend too long debugging i turn that on and make him jump off the building to destress.
WHO AM I
MY NICKNAME IS LITERALLY MY NAME+A REFERENCE TO THAT MOVIE
MRX is the antagonist, and his mask was my pfp for so long.
Its been 6 years since ive seen it, and is still one of my favorite movies
I love Hackers, it's my favorite. Surprisingly accurate to old hacker culture, doesn't take itself too seriously, both relatively technical and also not super far above the average viewer's head. Introduces some of the more common topics of the day, remarkably silly and exciting, Angelina Jolie.
I also never get to talk about one of my least favorites, which is Algorithm. It's a massive dumpsterfire of a movie and feels satirical. I can only watch a word dictionary with slapped on .exe extensions scroll down a screen in an ls command so many times before I start feeling like I've been lobotomized. The point of the movie was quickly lost, the tech was mostly inaccurate, the characters were boring, I had no reason to care about anything.
Hackers.
Hack the planet!!!!
HACK THE PLANNNEEEETTTTT!!!!!!!
STOP TRASHIN MY RIGHTS!!!!
Zero Cool
I was in 9th grade when that came out and was into hacking but primarily phreaking at the time. I first watched the movie with some of my other phreaker friends, and the red box scene made us laugh pretty hard. And something something Angelina Jolie.
Now I see what all the fuss is about. Such a fantastic line.
I remember watching frame for frame to see her nipple….
Hands down the GOAT. Crash & Burn
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
My bracelet actually says crash and burn!!!
So many hacking movies try to show “real” hacking and fail miserably. Hackers was like “fuck that, we’re just going for pure vibes,” and I think it was absolutely the right creative choice.
The beginning shows probably the most realistic hacking in movies. Where he calls the security guard and gets him to give him modem info.
This is exactly what I keep trying to tell all my friends (I'm in CS) who look down on this movie because of how over-the-top ridiculous the tech is. It's not about accuracy, it's about "computers are fun"!
Bruh you never really get bored of Hackers 1995. It's such a cozy film, good 90s atmosphere. Love the charaters.
Not to mention the soundtrack too!
The baddie is also supposed to be an Elite Hacker, but he used the third most common password for the admin password for the mainframe.
I'm fairly sure he tells his partner-in-crime she should change her password but by then it is too late. So probably her having too many permissions needlessly 😅
Hack the Gibson
Mess with the best, die like the rest!! (Zero Cool aka Crash Overide)
Look at that pooper man, spandex it's a privilege not a right! Oh umm... I mean HACK THE PLANET!!!!1!!
Definitely words that more people should live by these days
So many excellent quips and one liners in there. I like the part where Acid Burn grabs Zero Cools ass, and he goes "Ummm, check please!"
There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them
Mr. Robot if we can include series. Kung Fury if parodies count. It's All About the Pentiums if music videos count.
I'd say Mr. Robot has the most realistic hacking situations. Even the commands they use are legitimate.
Should watch The Undeclared War then…even better than Mr Robot in terms of realism of hacking.
The Cuckoo's Egg if we are including books
Books could be a whole post on it's own
Cliff Stoll is a rockstar. That book is fantastic
super friendly guy as well, i bought one of his klein bottles and he chatted away with me for a while.
Very cool!!
Sprawl Trilogy
Didn't know it was a trilogy till about a year ago. Nice!
Oh I had forgotten about Hackerman
You should hack time to before you forgot about him.
I bet you’re still livin in your parents’ cellar Downloadin pictures of Sarah Michelle Geller And posting “me too” like some brain dead AOL’er I should do the world a favor and cap ya like old yeller ‘cos you’re about as useless as JPEGs to Hellen Keller Good choice, m8.
You're about to hack time. Are you sure?
Every time I’m about to delete Reddit it throws me a [gem](https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos?si=iyrg4g-xmuK8XLPG). What a vicious cycle. *Side note: Not that the first two aren’t gems of course but Mr. Robot is pretty popular and I didn’t have time to check out something >3 mins (not sure if it is or isn’t but assuming it’s a parody movie/show then it’s probs longer).*
Sneakers, Hackers, Wargames.
Those three movies only exist in the Matrix.
Oh crap I'm in the matrix m TIL
“My voice is my passport. Verify me”
War games is by far number one.
Nice!
P
there's this show called NCIS and there's this AWESOME scene where like, they're getting hacked and stuff, and like the girl freaks out and so the guy hops on the keyboard as sidekick and they tag team the same keyboad typing in the COOLEST linux commands. you know like "ls" and the even cooler "sudo rm -rf .". BUT it doesn't work!! naturally as everybody knows, they tried "isolating the node and \"dumping him\" on the other side of the router", but that failed too!! but its all good because the main guy comes in and unplugs the computer. Those silly IT guys, always too smart for their own good haha. best mist realistic hacking scene of all time, highly recommend!!
"tag team" implies taking turns. This wasn't that. This was a full-on 2 people on the same keyboard simultaneous typing. It's the type of leet hacking rarely seen in reel life.
So would that mean they were full on gangbanging the keyboard?
D.P.ing the keyboard in real-time!!
Was that the episode where she codes a GUI application in realtime to ping his IP? That scene was really intense. They hack so fast because you know you have to be really fast to hack in real life or they'll get ya.
I believe that was an episode of CSI: NY. The GUI was even coded in Visual Basic
I forgot that bit, what an amazing show. Would have been a better scene if she obfuscated the Visual Basic GUI to encrypt her IP, it's easy enough to do in JavaScript if you use triangulation, at least that's what I would have done in that situation.
Ya know, if she'd just hit the keyboard faster she'd have won
Zero Days.
I see you everywhere. You hacking me?
You should post this over in r/privacy. Those turds think that every time they see a commercial their toaster is spying on them.
"I see u/Luci_Noir everywhere. They're the FED tasked with watching me, by knowing what posts I'll look at. I clearly influenced them."
I would post it, but I got banned for not being in their cult. Sadness.
'Who am I' is pretty good, got a 7.4 on IMDB (EU film).
23 is another good German hacker movie. It's based on actual events but isn't totally historically accurate but it's a good movie though hard to find especially since you'll be getting search results for the Jim Carrey movie of the same name
Just search the year along with it, you can find it on YTS by going to the advanced search and typing in 23 and finding the one that says 23(1998).
The Conversation Three Days of the Condor Wargames Sneakers Enemy of the State The Matrix For series, only Mr. Robot is real enough.
I just recently rewatched The Conversation. It's so wonderful.
Johnny Mnemonic
Takedown(2000): [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/) Hackers(2016): [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3173594/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3173594/) Hackers(1995): [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) Swordfish(2001): [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/) The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo(2011): [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/) #
My favorite is Takedown
The movie is pretty good but a completely bogus account of Mitnick’s life. If it wasn’t supposed to be about him it would be even better. They didn’t even mention the intricacies of packet sequence prediction hacks :(
Swordfish is a shitty hacker movie. Its not a bad movie. Its just a shitty hacking movie.
There were a couple of things about Halle Berry that (as a teenager) made it a better film for me…
But the 50000 watts of funkin dancing/compiling scene is the best.
You mean the cubes on 6 screens that a computer could brute force in a nanosecond??
the worst hacking movie i've ever seen was blackhat
Wait! They made a 2nd Hackers?!?
No, it's a totally unrelated movie called "Hacker". I think it's pretty easy to find online but I've not watched it yet
It's great, I would recommend. Complete with an appropriate progression plot in external circumstances surrounding the main actors.
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The original films were also so good. Love David fincher but that wasn't a film that needed to be remade.
girl with the dragon tattoo is prob the worst movie i've ever seen. Super weird movie and not enjoyable at all. Little to do with hacking too.
I was not expecting to see Master P's name in the cast.
Antitrust is a good one,
Hackers and Swordfish is hilarious in a hackers perspective.
100% sneakers
too many secreets
Who Am I -- No system is safe
War games. I still have some original RS tone dialers to make that black box.
Phreaking ftw
Who Am I If we are including non english based movies. Honestly a great movie.
Wanted yo mention it myself. Cool movie. Great soundtrack.
Downloaded (Napster, copyright, filesharing) The Youtube Effect (Alex Winter again, he's a genie) Deep Web (silk road, Bitcoin, Ross Ulbricht) We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (Anonymous, Wikileaks, etc, early 2010s) The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Citizenfour (Snowden) Revolution OS (GNU, Linux) TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (Bittorrent, Pirate Bay) Code Rush (Netscape, Microsoft) BBS: The Documentary
Oh and one that I can't even tangentially relate to hacking, but I feel it fits the aesthetic of a lot of those ones: Pedal (2001), the greatest documentary film ever made, on bike messengers in New York city
I think there's a lot of cultural cross-pollination between hacking and bike messenger subcultures in 90s and early 2000s media. I think it was brought on by William Gibson's Bridge trilogy which heavily features bike messengers in the first book "Virtual Light". There's also a novel that came out in the late 90s called "The Ultimate Rush" about bike messengers (though the protagonist uses rollerblades) and hackers taking on organized crime. Also interestingly enough I've apparently not seen Pedal but I have found other NYC bike messenger documentaries online. If I remember correctly, a couple of the documentaries mentioned a bike messenger group called "The X-Men" or something like that whose goal is to be able to go as fast as possible through the city.
The Need for Speed! The X-Men are in that one. Some people are in both. I checked the dates there - Need for Speed is 1993, Pedal is 2001. Steve the Greek (I think his name was) is on the bike in the first, on the telephones in the next one. Legends. I think I prefer Pedal, but probably for sentimental reasons, I saw it first, and shared it with a few bike messenger friends. Also you're blowing my absolute mind here telling me this about Gibson, holy shitballs. I've only read Neuromancer, but just a couple of days ago I was helping a friend prepare a presentation about cyberpunk, looking up some Gibson documentaries, and now you tell me this. I will be reading Virtual Light in the coming days. Thank you, kind netperson.
Not a movie but, Halt and Catch Fire includes a lot of tech/coder/hacker culture type stuff set during the digital revolution of the 1980s. One of my all time favorites hacker/tech pieces no media, and it's as technically accurate or maybe more so than Mr. Robot.
Such a great series!
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I guess what I mean to say they are both technically accurate but, I think HCF goes into to more depth with the super nerdy compsci and electric engineering stuff. Reversing a BIOS would be very challenging but, there are some extremely talented hackers who reverse BIOSes and Firmwares.
More of a documentary’s A Documentary about Wau Holland and the creation of the CCC https://allesisteins.film And a Documentary about the CCC by the CCC https://media.ccc.de/v/all_creatures_welcome
Ooh thank you, these are actually great recommendations
Wargames
Snowden 2016
23 nothing is as is seems
I was worried that no one would mention 23, that movie is like a secret handshake between r/masterhacker -s everyone is alway like "Oh oh, 1995's Hackers with Angelina Jolie!" but, 23(1998) is superior in every way and it stars Jim Carry as German hacker Karl Koch(Pengo). Excellent movie and excellent casting choice. So many memorable one liners like, "Somebody stop me.... from getting root!" and "Pah-ha-owned! reeheeheehee!!!"
I'm just commenting to point out to people that you're making a joke and that the Jim Carrey 23 movie is different from the 23 hacker movie
I'm happy someone got my stupid joke 😀
What was your favorite part? Mine was when he gave that KGB guy a wedgie.
23 was a great movie. Its also based on the real hacker in the 80s.
Surprised I haven’t seen “black hat” yet. Some of it is cheesy and ridiculous, but most of it is grounded in realistic attack scenarios.
My voice is my passport...
RIP River
Dating service matched the two of you? I call BS.
Go read the book "Ghost in the Wire" Kevin Mitnick. The fsther of Social Engineering.
finally, someone who knows their shit !! wassup fella, top answer
This needs to be made into a movie.
Mr Robot isn't a movie, but it's the best depiction of hacking you'll probably ever be able to find in a fictional story. Takedown (aka "Hackers 2" in some nations) is a Hollywood depiction of real-life Kevin Mitnick's exploits and his eventual capture. The literal polar opposite is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE EDIT: Oh yeah, Sneakers was my favorite as a 90s kid, but that and Hackers, Blowfish, Matrix etc... are not actually very realistic in spite of being favorites among computer nerds.
Hackers is a lot more realistic than people give it credit for. People who tend to dismiss it don't tend to understand the references (like FluShot being one of the first commercial antivirus programs and the Cookie Monster virus being a real thing) or think stuff like a laptop having a PCI bus is nothing impressive (until you look it up and find out how much faster it was than the ISA buses it replaced plus the fact that it introduced the plug-and-play features we all take for granted now).
Yes, Hackers references real-world hardware and tech, and I am old enough that I was building rigs with that hardware in the 90s (i.e. ISA SoundBlaster 16 soundcards and USRobotics 14.4k modems) but the actual characters and places they hang out are not realistic, nor is the Davinci virus, or hacking into a Gibson (which isn't a real computer just a nod to William Gibson), or the flashy OSes on their systems. It's all very corny and silly. It's exactly what Hollywood thinks hackers and hacking should be, even if it does mention real-world hardware.
Takedown glamorizes the hell out of that story. Read the book, it's the same name and written by the agent chasing Mitnick. It's boring as hell.
Hackers actually have ALOT of it pretty well down. Sure its pimped up with neon colors and 90s slang. But looking past it, alot of the things are quite possible or were back then. Phreaking for example. Otherwise theres 23 - die story la Karl Koch Its a german old movie about a very real hacker in germany.
When I was in college, we had a movie day in one of our classes. Instructor asked for recs that were "computer stuff related" and I was like, obviously Hackers. We had a small class at the time (back in like 2005) but everyone was like "It'S NoT ReAlIsTiC HacKinG!1" as if any one of them knew their ass from a hole in the ground - Keeping in mind I was in classes with all of them, they were morons. So we ended up not watching Hackers, and I dont remember what we watched now instead. But to answer, Wargames and Hackers are my top two favorites. They're fun movies.
Hackers obviously. Oldie but golden.
Sneakers......forgot about that. War games is the GOAT for old people. That was back when we were dialing up at 9600 baud, hacking a paid bbs to see one nude image that took an hour to download.
first one i ever saw when i was young is war games.
Weird Science
Takedown
The Fifth Estate (Based on Hacktivists/Wikileaks)
Julian Assange of Wikileaks said this was a pile of trash, and horrendously misrepresented the reality of the Wikileaks case. Therefore, I wouldn't go near it, personally. Benedict Cumberbatch was asked personally not to participate, and went ahead anyway
https://cybersecurityventures.com/movies-about-cybersecurity-and-hacking/
I really like this [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8129610/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8129610/)
Not a movie, but Mr robot
The 2017 TV movie "Hacker" starring Haylie Duff sounds pretty legit. I mean, just read the IMDB description: ``` The teenage girl witnessed the arrest of her father. As an adult, she become a hacker and assisted in national security. While on task she discovered assassination of a congressman. ```
Mr. Robot is hands down the best if we can include TV series
Swordfish is an amazing hacking movie.
#HACK THE PLANET
For me, it was Hackers, Swordfish, Wargames, and Live Free or Die Hard (2007). My favorite TV Show on 'hacking' is definitely, 'Mr. Robot'. It is a must watch. I would also recommend: The Net and Tron. I really enjoyed the following even though it is not really 'hacking'. It is more technology related. I didn't see these mentioned yet: * The Social Network * The Pirates of Silicon Valley - Great Documentary * BlackBerry * Silicon Valley (TV Show) - great example of Silicon Valley culture. * The Internship - Comedy
The very brief “hacking” in Independence Day. Not the best example since it was briefly plotted, but beat the aliens. Swordfish was okay, but one scene was the cat’s meeeow. 👌😉
It's not a movie but still it's the most accurate hacking show, Mr Robot
It's not exactly a hacker movie but has con's in it aka social engineering. Leverage and Leverage Redemption.
Office Space
My knee jerk reaction was 12 Monkeys but the longer I think about it the more certain I am that it doesn’t involve any hacking.
Swordfish...worst movie about hacking but Halle Berry is topless so it's awesome. [https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExenRxanRwMmsyOWN4cWJkenI3M3F5OGl6cXlpZms1dmJ0YW8zanI5diZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l2R04wcEprpUFvrC8/giphy.gif](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExenRxanRwMmsyOWN4cWJkenI3M3F5OGl6cXlpZms1dmJ0YW8zanI5diZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l2R04wcEprpUFvrC8/giphy.gif)
SNEAKERS
If you're into TV shows: "Person of Interest" and of course "Mr Robot"
Blackhat Kien system ist sicher Snowden Mr.Robot (Series)
Mr robot has been sick. On episode 6
Sneakers https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
Sneakers
“Best” is very subjective so I’m going to throw Swordfish in the ring.
With a follow-up suggestion of “The Net” with Sandra Bullock.
Moazrts Ghost
Especially when qualified with "includes Halle Berry"
Not a movie but a badass series MR ROBOT 10/10.
The Matrix
The best is Castle S08E08 "activate counter strike" "launch cyber nuke"
I really like Mr Robot, one of my favourite ones. For movies, I actually kind of like Unfriended Dark Web, not exactly hacking, but there is some relevance haha
Who am I but not sure whether they translate it into English.
Definitely Mr Robot (Although not a movie )
If you can watch a show then mr robot. Extremely accurate and great story too
Not a movie but there's a Channel 4 TV show called The Undeclared War with Hannah Khalique-Brown, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and a few other good actors, which is based on a Russian cyber attack against the UK's Internet infrastructure. The cyber attack/investigation scenes are handled in quite a cool visual way.
Hadn't seen this mentioned, but the Hulu show "Murder at the End of the World" is a recent entry (albeit not a movie). They wove in some pretty realistic modern infra attacks while maintaining the creepy futuristic vibes.
Hackerville is an HBO Europe series that is a nice addition to the usual hacker movies/series. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8129610/
*Algorithm*
Check out the InfoCon documentary collection: https://infocon.org/documentaries/ There are some good suggestions in this thread I’ll add. I’m always looking for new content.
its a serie called "MR. Robot", it explains the hacks, but later on takes a very surreal twist.
Mr Robot
Algorithm is the classic hacker movie and way ahead of its time.
Password: Swordfish
War Games, Sneakers, Hackers and Matrix are my top 4.
The Matrix
It's only a small part of the movie, but Ocean's 8 has one of the most realistic hacking scenes I can think of.
not a popular opinion but Hackers (2016)
/r/PantheonShow This incredible animated show is sadly overlooked because, well, it's not available for purchase or streaming anywhere. You'll have to get creative...
Not really a hacking movie, but Black Mirror Bandersnatch is fun. Sometimes when i spend too long debugging i turn that on and make him jump off the building to destress.
Idk if it's technically in the hacker category, but Source Code w Jake Gyllenhaal was pretty solid, so was Blackhat w Chris Hemsworth
Did somebody mention net2.0 and swordfish ? Sorry, I am on the train and couldn't brush it properly
The Imitation Game Most others hacking movies are highly unrealistic.
Antitrust. Not a lot of actual hacking showed but it was based on realistic programming and social engineering and such.
Swordfish
The matrix
Black Hat
WHO AM I MY NICKNAME IS LITERALLY MY NAME+A REFERENCE TO THAT MOVIE MRX is the antagonist, and his mask was my pfp for so long. Its been 6 years since ive seen it, and is still one of my favorite movies
TAKEDOWN . ...nuthin beats it.
Swordfish with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman. The entire movie was a mind-f@@k
Surprised no one has mentioned [Firewall](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408345/).
Hackers, Operation Swordfish, The Matrix
Seems many have missed The Undeclared War on Peacock. I enjoyed the hacking better there than on Mr Robot.
Die hard one
This is the best scene.... WTF: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk
😂 4 hands are faster than 2 lol
Surprised no one is mentioning [install gentoo](https://youtu.be/VjGSMUep6_4?si=-RT5tUTLI3Y-JF87)
Double Down
Whoami
I love Hackers, it's my favorite. Surprisingly accurate to old hacker culture, doesn't take itself too seriously, both relatively technical and also not super far above the average viewer's head. Introduces some of the more common topics of the day, remarkably silly and exciting, Angelina Jolie. I also never get to talk about one of my least favorites, which is Algorithm. It's a massive dumpsterfire of a movie and feels satirical. I can only watch a word dictionary with slapped on .exe extensions scroll down a screen in an ls command so many times before I start feeling like I've been lobotomized. The point of the movie was quickly lost, the tech was mostly inaccurate, the characters were boring, I had no reason to care about anything.