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All those hackers and computer technologies which are shown in the movies – they are 99% almost real! All those things can happen in real time as well. Right from 1968 to 2017 we have seen so much of movies having those hacking technology stuff. But, what is so special about these hacker movies?

Movies Based On Hacking

Movies Based On Hacking & Computer Technology

You can learn new technologies, new terms and mainly how the stuff works. I have watched almost 90% of the movies on this list and am pretty sure you can learn something potentially useful from these movies too. Some hacking films are even based on real incidents. Here we have a list of 40+ technical films which helps you to learn more about “Hacking”, “Security”, and “Technologies”; I’m sure you’ll love it. You can watch most of the films mentioned here easily, thanks to the online streaming websites/apps like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video.

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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2001- A Space Odyssey

Storyline: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.


2. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

Storyline: Some college students manage to persuade the town’s big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer;


3. The Conversation (1974)

The Conversation (1974)

Storyline: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.


4. Tron (1982)

The Tron

Storyline: A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.


5. War Games (1983)

War Games (1983)

Storyline: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.


6. Cloak and Dagger (1984)

Cloak and Dagger (1984)

Storyline: 11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn’t spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games–and even has an imaginary friend.


7. Prime Risk (1985)

Prime Risk (1985)

Storyline: A female engineer, with the assistance of her pilot-wannabe male friend, discovers a way to rip off ATM machines, but in doing so stumbles upon a plot to destroy the U.S. monetary system.


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8. Sneakers (1992)

Sneakers (1992)

Storyline: Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal.


9. The Lawnmower Man (1992)

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Storyline: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.


10. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Storyline: A data courier, carrying a data package literally inside his head too large to hold for long, must deliver it before he dies from it.


11. The Net (1995)

The Net (1995)

Storyline: Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer.


12. Hackers (1995)

Hackers 1995

Storyline: A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday.


13. Virtuosity (1995)

Virtuosity (1995)

Storyline: A virtual-reality serial killer manages to escape into the real world.


14. Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Storyline: A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.


15. 23 (1998)

23 (1998)

Storyline: The movie’s plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home.


16. Enemy Of The State (1998)

Enemy of the state

Storyline: A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.


17. Webmaster (1998) / Skyggen (1998)

Skyggen (1998)

Storyline: JB is the city’s best attacker, who lives a carefully organized life in and outside the network. After hacking into the most powerful of all domains the Stoiser domain, JB thought that the cruel Stoiser would kill him. But instead he gave him a job – as a webmaster.


18. Office Space (1999)

Office space

Storyline: Comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss.


19. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Storyline: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him.


20. eXistenZ (1999)

eXistenZ (1999)

Storyline: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.


21. The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

Storyline: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

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      1. Anirudh Karthik says:
        February 19, 2013 at 8:00 pm

        Die Hard 4 is my favorite one and BTW I was thinking about the Transformers, which wasn’t mentioned, and fount that they don’t come under Hacking Category. Anyway, you could mention Transformers 2, as the problem starts from the selling of the item in eBay 🙂 Waiting for the next collection of films. Thanks.

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        1. Mothi Venkatesh says:
          November 16, 2013 at 3:42 pm

          Yeah! Transformers are my favorite. They can also add Oblivion in this list 🙂

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      2. Bharat Chauhan says:
        February 19, 2013 at 8:04 pm

        Is there a 3rd part also, because I don’t find Underground here?

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        1. Pradeep Kumar says:
          February 19, 2013 at 8:48 pm

          Are you referring to “Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012)” bro? Oops, didn’t really notice it, will add it. 🙂

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          1. Bharat Chauhan says:
            February 19, 2013 at 10:26 pm

            Yeah. Now it looks perfect. 😉

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      3. Srivathsan says:
        February 19, 2013 at 9:00 pm

        You can add Pirates of The Silicon Valley to this list.

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      4. ved says:
        February 19, 2013 at 9:44 pm

        no indian movie?

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        1. Pradeep Kumar says:
          February 19, 2013 at 9:56 pm

          Have mentioned “Unnaipol Oruvan (2009)” / “A Wednesday (2008)” bro. If you know any good Indian-based hacking movies, do let me know. 🙂

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      5. Raj says:
        February 19, 2013 at 10:53 pm

        How come you forgot The Pirates of silicon valley here?

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        1. Pradeep Kumar says:
          February 19, 2013 at 11:02 pm

          Srivathsan & Raj : I think you didn’t see the full post bro, here is the second part – http://moviesdrop.com/movies-based-hacking-computer-technology/2/ – at the end I mentioned the reason why I didn’t add them. 😀

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          1. Srivathsan says:
            February 22, 2013 at 2:50 pm

            Fine. But now I am eagerly waiting for the list of documentaries 😀

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      6. Mohammed Abdullah Khan says:
        February 19, 2013 at 8:53 pm

        Hey Pradeep,

        Awesome collection man !

        I was waiting to all the movies related to hacking and computers. Did a nice job dude.

        Thanks.

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      8. Vipin says:
        February 20, 2013 at 8:04 am

        Make another post with inspiriing documentaries. You can add Pirates of silicon valley, TPB AFK like movies.

        Thanks in advance 🙂

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      9. manoj says:
        February 23, 2013 at 7:13 pm

        The Cube series is also worth mentioning

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      10. Aditya Chintha says:
        March 10, 2013 at 11:18 am

        Awesome list!!!!!

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      12. Rounak Baral says:
        March 23, 2013 at 9:29 pm

        Going to bookmark the post. 🙂

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      13. Himanshu Negi says:
        April 18, 2013 at 11:30 pm

        Die hard 4.0 was awesome ! watched it many times 😀

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      14. Anonymous says:
        May 11, 2013 at 3:14 am

        Thanks for sharing this great list. It have showed me a hole new hacker list of movies that I’ll never will have searched for. Thanks!

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      15. Tushar says:
        July 3, 2013 at 11:11 pm

        Wall-E Wall-E one of my fav movie.. of-course Oscar winner too.

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      16. K A Zinger says:
        August 5, 2013 at 3:22 pm

        Hi there, dats a gr8 list but it seams AVATAR, Source Code, Sword Fish,Surrogates is missing; better do a through search again…. KEEP IT UP !!

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      17. Aniruddha says:
        August 23, 2013 at 12:39 pm

        Really good Collection 🙂 damn loving…

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      18. Vasu says:
        August 31, 2013 at 5:13 pm

        What an amazing list of movies to spend my Friday and Saturday nights 🙂

        Had saw, Deja Vu, Matrix series, Gamer, Skyfall, Die Hard and Eagle eye, now on the list is Underground and Tron!

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      19. Haraprasad Ghosh says:
        September 23, 2013 at 10:25 am

        My fave rate movie in hacking technology

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      20. Fieran says:
        January 12, 2014 at 12:03 am

        dudes, babes, favour! I watched a movie a looong time ago about a kid who hacks using his father’s machine and then terrorists take him his family hostage believing the dad’s discovered their secret plans.
        I forgot what the dang movie’s title was!

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      21. Geekyard says:
        February 23, 2014 at 6:27 pm

        You have missed to include the movie “The Untraceable” 🙂

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        1. MoviesDrop | Editorial Staff says:
          February 26, 2014 at 8:59 am

          Hi Geekyard, we have a part 2 of this list. 😉

          http://moviesdrop.com/2013/lists/movies-based-hacking-computer-technology/2/

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      22. PrIyAnGsHu BG @ Tech Audible says:
        March 1, 2014 at 7:25 pm

        Great list. Quite an unique list indeed. I haven’t yet watched most of these movies, just gonna check them all. The “Untraceable” looks interesting, going for it at first 😀

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      23. Vikas says:
        April 18, 2014 at 9:48 pm

        My fav movies Die hard 4 some time watch me…. me ho na stiop hackers i am ready white hat wait here some time

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      24. kinganurag says:
        April 19, 2014 at 7:53 pm

        Your list contains all movies which i considered best Technology or Hacking movies.

        Great list !!!

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      25. vinni kapoor says:
        May 2, 2014 at 1:10 pm

        Mickey virus an indian movie bas
        ed on hacking is missing here

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      26. Umar says:
        March 8, 2015 at 6:11 pm

        add THE Blackhat(2015)

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      27. obat asam urat says:
        April 23, 2015 at 12:16 pm

        no films of the 2000s

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      28. aman says:
        September 17, 2015 at 12:01 pm

        U missed blackhat & swordfish bro

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      29. Arup says:
        February 18, 2016 at 2:36 am

        You are missing another great movie “Who Am I – No System Is Safe”.

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        1. Pradeep Kumar says:
          February 18, 2016 at 12:07 pm

          Hi Arup, it’s already there in the list mate. 🙂

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      30. Arup says:
        February 19, 2016 at 8:25 pm

        Sorry friend I had not checked the part II of this list.

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      31. hamy says:
        March 19, 2016 at 11:48 am

        that are good movies that enough to your passion for it field

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      32. Amit Saroj says:
        April 7, 2016 at 5:24 am

        Transcendence is worth mentioning

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      33. mahesh Belsare _ Amravati says:
        June 5, 2016 at 8:17 pm

        Nice update of tech. Hacking movies list …… , Pradeep Kumar …..Thanks.

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      34. chirag says:
        September 24, 2016 at 10:51 am

        and weird science it is a movie in which two students make a software of a girl that comes in real life

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      35. jaykaran says:
        October 21, 2016 at 11:33 am

        Great list Hacking movies

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      36. Kartik Jha says:
        October 26, 2016 at 10:58 am

        Nice list! Have seen 34 out of them 😀

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        1. Nwachukwu Excel says:
          August 8, 2018 at 9:20 am

          That’s quite amazing cos’ asides Tron and the recently released “Ready Player One” am still in the dark when it comes to hacking and sci-fi movies. Don’t mind if you share a drive link to some of your videos. I’ll be very grateful.

          Reply
      37. shivam kumar says:
        November 23, 2016 at 6:46 am

        Hiii guys I watched a Hollywood movie on utv action in which it american aeroplane I am forgetting movie name can you tell me?

        Reply
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