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The best hacker movies of all time. PHOTO: Cybercrime Magazine.

The Complete List Of Hacker And

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You can learn a lot about cybercrime by watching these icks

– Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief

Sausalito, Calif. – May 4, 2020

We’ve often been asked by our readers if we

know of some good cybersecurity movies. So our
editors set out to compile a list.

Most of the movies we selected have a central theme around hacking.

Others have a certain character or enough footage on the subject 
matter to be included. These movies can make a boring topic (for
some) entertaining. Whatever it takes to get more people interested
in combating cybercrime and the cybersecurity field, we’re all for it.
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Is there a movie you know about, and we should too? Tell us what
we’re missing. We’ll be making updates on the fly until we publish the
2021 edition.

THE LIST

1965 — Alphaville — A secret agent goes to the futuristic city of

Alphaville to find a missing person and eventually stop the ruling
dictator, professor von Braun, and his sentient computer system,
Alpha 60.

1968 — Hot Millions — Peter Ustinov plays an embezzler who

bypasses a mainframe computer’s security system to pay invoices
from his fictitious companies.

1969 — The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes — Dexter Reilly (Kurt

Russell) fixes a computer during an electrical storm and gets shocked.
The computer’s brain has fused with his, and he’s a genius.

1969 — The Italian Job — A robber (Michael Caine) recently released

from prison gets help from a group of Britain’s most infamous
computer hackers to steal gold bullion from underneath the noses of
the Italian police and mafia. One of the film’s most famous scenes is a
massive traffic jam caused by hacking the city’s traffic control
computer.

1970 — Colossus: The Forbin Project — Massive computer systems

from the U.S. — “Colossus” — and Russia — “Guardian” — connect to
each other. Nuclear war is threatened.

1971 — Paper Man — Five bored college students take advantage of a

computer glitch and create a fictitious person, but the prank
backfires.

1974 — The Conversation — Gene Hackman plays a surveillance

expert using high-tech equipment (back in the day) to spy on a couple 
he fears may be in danger. Nominated for three Oscars.

1975 — Three Days of the Condor — CIA codebreaker Robert

Redford tries to figure out why his own agency wants him dead
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Redford tries to figure out why his own agency wants him dead.

1982 — Tron — One of the earliest hacking films. A computer

engineer learns an executive at his company has been stealing his
work and is launched into the world of virtual reality.

1983 — Superman III — Richard Pryor plays Gus Gorman, a hacker

who is caught skimming from his company’s payroll through a
program he developed and is then blackmailed to help turn Superman
evil.

1983 — War Games — High school student (Matthew Broderick)

hacks into a military supercomputer in this classic and activates the
U.S. nuclear arsenal, at a time when most people didn’t know what
hacking was.

1984 — Cloak and Dagger — When 11-year-old Davey sees the

murder of an FBI agent, the dying man hands him an Atari video game
cartridge with military secrets. With Dabney Coleman.

1984 — Electric Dreams — Set in San Francisco, this science fiction

romantic comedy is about a love triangle between an architect, a
cellist, and a personal computer.

1984 — Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age — This documentary

about the hacker community includes footage of interviews with
some of the programmers that created the PC revolution, including
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. Filmed at a hacker conference
held in Sausalito, Calif.

1984 — Hide and Seek — A young computer enthusiast develops a

kind of artificial intelligence program named “Gregory P1.” To ensure
its survival, the computer contacts other computers and begins to
fight the humans. It also hooks into the mainframe computer of a
nuclear power plant.

1985 — Prime Risk — Computer-savvy lovers scam Automated Teller

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Machines and plot to sink the Federal Reserve.

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1985 — Weird Science — Teenagers Gary and Wyatt design their

ideal woman on a computer, and a freak electrical accident brings her
to life in the form of the lovely, superhuman Lisa.

1992 — Single White Female — A woman (played by Bridget Fonda)

advertises for a roommate. She soon discovers that her new
roommate is a hacker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) intent on stealing her
identity.

1993 — Jurassic Park — Not a hacking movie… BUT Seinfeld’s

nemesis “Newman” (Dennis Nery) plays an IT guy who hacks his way
into a coup that involves him stealing dinosaur DNA to sell to the
highest bidder.

1992 — Sneakers — A Hacker (Robert Redford) leads a team of

experts who test the security of San Francisco companies. They
discover a black box that can crack any encryption, posing a huge
threat if it lands in the wrong hands… including rogue NSA agents.

1993 — Ghost in the Machine — A computer-powered MRI machine

extracts a serial murderer’s soul, and becomes a deadly technological
weapon.

1994 — Disclosure — A high-tech executive (Michael Douglas) 

unexpectedly finds himself attempting to hack into his firm’s
database to defend his reputation and career and to defeat Meredith
(Demi Moore). E-mails from “A Friend” direct his moves.
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1995 — Hackers —A teenage hacker is back on the scene seven years

after being banned from computers for writing a virus that caused
the biggest stock exchange crash in history. He and his friends must
prove that a sinister superhacker is framing them for a plot to
embezzle funds from a large oil company with a computer worm.
With Angelia Jolie.

1995 — Judge Dredd — Judge Dredd (Sylvester Stallone) is sent to a

penal colony for a murder he didn’t commit. On his way there, he gets
an unexpected sidekick when he reunites with Herman “Fergee”
Ferguson (Rob Schneider), a hacker he previously busted for
destruction of property.

1995 — The Net — A computer programmer (Sandra Bullock) who

lives a reclusive life is looking forward to time off when she becomes
aware of a conspiracy. Her vacation turns into a nightmare when
someone tries to kill her and her identity is stolen. She must prove
who she is while trying to figure out why someone wants her dead.

1995 — Ghost in the Shell — In this animated Japanese sci-fi epic, a

cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a cybercriminal called the
Puppet Master, who hacks into the brains of cyborgs to get
information and use it to commit crimes. (Scarlett Johansson stars in
a 2017 live-action remake.)

1995 — Johnny Mnemonic — A computer chip implanted in his brain

allows a human data trafficker (Keanu Reeves) to securely store and
transport data too sensitive for regular computer networks. When he
gets a valuable package that exceeds the chip’s storage capacity, the
mnemonic courier must deliver the data within 24 hours or die.
Assassins are intent on helping him do just that.

1997 — Masterminds — The new security chief at a prestigious

private school plans to even a score by kidnapping several of the
wealthy students and holding them for ransom. A teenage computer
hacker, expelled from the school for pulling pranks, thwarts his plans. 

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1998 — 23 — After an orphan invests some of his inheritance in a

home computer, he begins discussing conspiracy theories inspired by
a novel on bulletin boards. He’s soon hacking military and
government computers with a friend. Based on a true story.

1998 — Enemy of the State — A lawyer (Will Smith) isn’t aware that a
videotape in his possession proves a congressman was murdered for
opposing surveillance legislation. When he becomes the target of a
corrupt NSA official and his life begins to fall apart, he enlists the help
of an ex-intelligence operative (Gene Hackman).

1998 — Mercury Rising (Code Mercury) — A renegade FBI agent

(Bruce Willis) must protect a 9-year-old autistic boy who has cracked
encrypted government code that was supposed to be unbreakable.

1998 — Pi — Is there a mathematical key that can unlock the

universal patterns in nature? If found, can that key predict anything —
even the stock market? A brilliant, obsessed, and paranoid
mathematician who barricades himself in a room filled with computer
equipment intends to find that key, but might go mad while doing so.

1998 — Webmaster — In this Danish sci-fi thriller, a powerful crime

leader hires a hacker to monitor the security of his computer
operations. When someone else hacks into the database, the 
webmaster must go to extremes to find him, or die within 35 hours.

1999 — Pirates of Silicon Valley — This biographical drama about the

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development of the personal computer and the rivalry between

Apple Computer and Microsoft spans the years 1971 – 1997. Noah
Wyle portrays Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall stars as Bill
Gates.

1999 — Office Space —They’re supposed to be part of one big happy

family, but three computer programmers hate their jobs and their
boss. They concoct a scheme to embezzle small amounts of money
from the high-tech company that employs them, but a mistake results
in a bigger theft than planned. With Jennifer Anniston.

1999 — NetForce — In the year 2005, NetForce, a division of the FBI,

is tasked with protecting the Net from terrorism. A loophole in a
browser allows someone to gain control of the Internet and all the
information it holds. Now the commander of NetForce must stop him,
as he also tracks down a killer.

2000 — Charlie’s Angels — Working for the reclusive millionaire

Charlie ( John Forsythe), Angels Natalie (Cameron Diaz), Dylan (Drew
Barrymore) and Alex (Lucy Liu) take on the case of a young high-tech
genius (Sam Rockwell) who has been kidnapped. Part of the action
involves employing a variety of disguises and technological tricks to
enter a master computer’s massively protected mainframe.

2000 — Takedown — Also known as “Track Down,” the controversial

movie version of the manhunt for legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick is
based on the book by Tsutomu Shimomura, “Takedown: The Pursuit
and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer
Outlaw – By The Man Who Did It.”

2000 — Hackers in Wonderland — This documentary on hackers in

the United Kingdom and in the United States includes interviews
with prominent hackers who reveal what drives them. The hackers
include ColdFire, Phobos, and cyberjunkie.

2001 — Antitrust — When a college graduate (Ryan Phillippe) gets a

job writing software at a multi-billion dollar computer company, he 
has no idea that the founder (Tim Robbins) and new mentor is hiding
dark secrets. Is there anyone he can trust?

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2001 — Freedom Downtime — This documentary covers the plight of

convicted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, from the standpoint that
Miramax misrepresented him in the film “Takedown.” It includes the
story of several computer enthusiasts who confront Miramax reps
about their discontent with aspects of the script, including the film’s
ending.

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2001 — Revolution OS — The history of GNU, Linux, and the open

source and free software movements is traced in this documentary. It
features several interviews with prominent hackers and
entrepreneurs.

2001 — The Score — An aging safecracker (Robert De Niro) plans to

retire, but his fence (Marlon Brando) talks him into one final score,
stealing one of Canada’s natural treasures hidden in the basement of
a Customs House. He joins forces with another thief (Edward Norton)
who hires someone to hack into the Custom House’s security system,
but things go wrong.

2001 — Secret History of Hacking — The focus of this documentary is

phreaking, computer hacking, and social engineering occurring from
the 1970s through the 1990s. John Draper, Steve Wozniak, and Kevin 
Mitnick are prominently featured.

2001 — Swordfish — A spy named Gabriel (John Travolta) plots to

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steal a large fortune. He enlists Ginger (Halle Berry) to persuade

Stanley (Hugh Jackman), who spent two years in prison for hacking an
FBI program, to help. But what is Gabriel really up to, and who or
what is really behind the plot?

2002 — Catch Me if You Can — Frank Abagnale is one of the world’s

most respected authorities on forgery, embezzlement, and secure
documents. His riveting story provided the inspiration for Steven
Spielberg’s film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Abagnale and Tom
Hanks as the FBI agent fast on his heels.

2002 — Minority Report — It’s 2054 and a specialized Pre-Crime

police department in D.C. stops crimes before they are committed
based on information from Pre-Cogs, three psychic beings who
channel their visions into a computer. When they accuse the unit
chief (Tom Cruise) of a future murder, he becomes a fugitive, hunted
by his own department.

2002 — Storm Watch — A champion player of virtual reality games

must suddenly race against time to stop a criminal mastermind who
has stolen his identify from destroying the world with a weather
satellite. Also known as “Code Hunter.”

2002 — Terminal Error — A former employee of a major software

company gets even with the president by planting a computer virus
on an MP3 and giving it to his son. His plan is to crash the computer
terminals, but the virus has a mind of its own and begins to take out
large portions of the city. Father and son must create their own virus
to stop the chaos.

2003 — In the Realm of the Hackers — This documentary reveals how

and why two Australian teenager computer hackers, Electron and
Phoenix, stole a restructured computer security list in the late 1980s
and used it to break into some of the world’s most classified and
secure computer systems.

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2003 — The Core — After several bizarre incidents across the globe, a
geophysicist and scientists determine that the planet’s molten core
has stopped rotating and that the magnetic field will collapse within a
year. They devise a plan to bore down to the core and set off nuclear
explosions to restart the rotation and enlist a hacker to scour the
internet and eliminate all traces of the pending disaster to prevent
worldwide panic.

2003 — The Matrix Reloaded — With the help of Neo (Keanu Reeves),
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), and
other freedom fighters, more and more humans have been freed from
the Matrix and brought to Zion. But 250,000 machines are digging
towards the stronghold and will reach them in 72 hours, so they must
prepare for war.

2003 — Paycheck — Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) makes good

money working on top-secret projects and then agreeing to have his
memory erased, until a payment of $92 million for a three-year-
assignment is canceled. With his life in danger, he must get help from
a scientist (Uma Thurman) he doesn’t remember dating to figure out
the importance of seemingly random items.

2004 — Paranoia 1.0 — A computer programmer receives mysterious

empty packages inside his apartment and tries to find out who’s
sending them, why, and who he can trust. Also known as “One Point
O.” 

2006 — Firewall — When his family is taken hostage, a security

specialist (Harrison Ford) who designs theft-proof computer systems
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for financial institutions must break into his own system and steal
millions of dollars to pay off their ransom.

2006 — Hacking Democracy — This documentary investigates

allegations of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential
election. It follows Bev Harris, the founder of Black Box Voting, a
nonprofit consumer-protection group, and other citizen-activists
who set out to uncover flaws in the voting system.

2006 — The Net 2.0 — A young computer systems analyst arrives in

Istanbul to start a new job, but finds out her identity has been stolen.
She must catch who did it to get her life back.

2006 — A Scanner Darkly — This computer-animated adaptation of

Philip K Dick’s 1977 sci-fi novel is set in the near-future. The U.S.’s
war on drugs, particularly a hyper-addictive substance called D (for
Death), prompts the enforcement of a police state that uses
numberless surveillance scanners.

2006 — Pulse — In this remake of a Japanese horror film, a student is

shocked when her boyfriend, a computer hacker, commits suicide.
Then she and her friends receive online messages from him, asking
for help. Another computer hacker must help her stop a supernatural
plague traveling through the network.

2007 — Live Free or Die Hard — As the nation prepares to celebrate

Independence Day, a disgruntled government security agent
launches an attack on America’s computer infrastructure. Veteran
cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) and a young hacker must help the
F.B.I.’s cyber division take him down.

2007 — Bourne Ultimatum — Operative Jason Bourne (Matt Damon)

teams up with an investigative reporter to find the people who
betrayed him, while a ruthless CIA official and his team continue to
track him down in the hopes of assassinating him before he gets his
memory back.
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2007 — Breach – This docudrama is based on the events leading up to
the capture of FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, convicted of selling secrets
to the Soviet Union. A low-level surveillance expert gets promoted
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and assigned to work with Hanssen, unaware that he is to find proof
that he is a traitor.

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2008 — Eagle Eye — Two strangers, Jerry and Rachel, come together
after receiving mysterious calls from a woman they never met. She
threatens their lives and family to push them into a series of
dangerous situations, controlling their actions using cellphones and
other technology.

2008 — Hackers are People Too — Hackers created this documentary

to portray their community and break down negative stereotypes. It
describes what hacking is, how hackers think, and discusses women in
the field.

2008 — Untraceable — Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) of the

Cyber Crimes Division of the FBI in Portland tries to track down a
psychopathic hacker killing people online in live streaming video. As
his site gets more hits, victims die faster.

2008 — WarGames: The Dead Code 2008 — Is an American teen

hacker playing a terrorist-attack simulator game online a real
terrorist intent on destroying the United States? That’s what 
Homeland Security believes and they set out to apprehend him.

2009 — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — A journalist searches for
the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years with the help
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the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years, with the help
of a young female hacker. When they unravel dark family secrets,
they must protect themselves. This Swedish language film was
remade in English in 2011.

2009 — Gamer — Controlled by a teenage gamer’s remote device,

death-row inmate Kable must battle fellow prisoners every week in a
violent online game. Can he survive enough sessions to gain his
freedom, free his wife from avatar slavery, and take down the game’s
inventor?

2009 — Hackers Wanted — This unreleased American documentary

originally named “Can You Hack It?” follows the adventures of Adrian
Lamo, a famous hacker, and explores the origins of hacking and
nature of hackers.

2010 — The Social Network — Jesse Eisenberg portrays Harvard

student and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg in this drama about
the creation of a social networking site that would become Facebook.

2010 — Inception — A thief (Leonardo DiCaprio) who can enter

people’s dreams and steal their secrets begins using his gift for
corporate espionage. Can he also plant an idea into someone’s mind?
The film won four Oscars.

2010 — Tron Legacy — In this revamped Tron continuation, Sam

(Garrett Hedlund) searches in and out of the computer world for his
father, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), a brilliant computer programmer.

2012 — Underground: The Julian Assange Story — This Australian

film follows the early career of the WikiLeaks founder, from his start
as a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne.

2012 — Skyfall — James Bond (Daniel Craig) must prove he still has
what it takes as he tracks down the source of a cyber-terror attack at
M16 headquarters and goes up against a genius hacker.
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2012 — Code 2600 — This documentary explores the rise of the

Information Technology Age through the eyes of the people who
helped build it and the events that shaped it.

2012 — Genius on Hold — The downfall of Walter L. Shaw, a

telecommunications genius who became destitute, and his
disillusioned son, who became a notorious jewel thief, are the
subjects of this documentary.

2012 — Reboot — A young female hacker can’t remember a traumatic

event that leaves her with an iPhone glued to her hand. The phone’s
timer is counting down to zero and fellow hackers must help her solve
the puzzle.

2012 — We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists — Filmmaker

Brian Knappenberger documents the hacking group Anonymous,
including interviews from group members.

2013 — Disconnect — Three intersecting stories center around the

impact of the Internet on people’s lives. The characters include a
victim of cyberbullying, a lawyer who communicates constantly
through his cell phone but can’t find time to connect with his family,
and a couple whose secrets are exposed online.

2013 — Goodbye World — More than one million cellphones

simultaneously receive a two-word message, followed by the collapse 
of the power grid and widespread panic. A group of people who find
shelter in a cabin soon find out what it’s like to live in a post-
apocalyptic world.
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2013 — Fifth Estate — Based on real events, the film begins as

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and
Daniel Domscheit-Berg join forces as underground watchdogs and
create a platform for whistleblowers to leak covert data to expose
government secrets and corporate crimes.

2013 — Terms and Conditions May Apply — This documentary

exposes how much the Internet and cellphone usage allows
corporations and governments to learn about people.

2013 — Mickey Virus — In this Bollywood hacker comedy, Delhi

Police must seek the help of a lazy hacker to solve a case.

2014 — Algorithm — A computer hacker who specializes in breaking

into secure systems, including the telephone company and people’s
personal accounts, hacks a government contractor and discovers a
mysterious computer program, thrusting him into a revolution.

2014 — Citizenfour — This documentary by Laura Poitras about

whistleblower Edward Snowden and the NSA spying sandal includes
interviews of Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013 and features work by
journalist Glenn Greenwald.

2014 — Ex Machina — A young programmer wins a competition that

makes him the human component in a groundbreaking experiment
where he must evaluate the capabilities and consciousness of Ava, a
breathtaking A.I.

2014 — The Hackers Wars — This documentary discusses hacktivism

in the United States, including the government’s surveillance and
persecution of hackers and journalists.

2014 — Open Windows — A blogger finds out he’s won a dinner with
an actress he devotes his website to and is disappointed when she
cancels. When he gets a chance to spy on her every move with his
laptop, his life gets crazy. 

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2014 — The Imitation Game — M16, the newly created British

intelligence agency, recruits mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict
Cumberbatch) and his team to crack the Germany’s Enigma code
during World War II. Nominated for 8 Oscars.

2014 — The Signal — Nic, who is a student at MIT, is on a road trip

with two companions when an annoying computer hacker distracts
them. They track him to an abandoned shack. After strange
occurrences, Nik wakes up wounded and disoriented, wondering
what has happened to his friends, and who are these people in space
suits?

2014 — Unfriended — a mysterious, supernatural force haunts a

group of online chat room friends using the account of their dead
friend.

2014 — Who Am I — A subversive hacker group intent on gaining

global fame invites a young German computer whiz to join them.

2015 — Blackhat — Convicted hacker Nicholas Hathaway (Chris

Hemsworth) joins a team of American and Chinese technical experts
to track down a Balkan cyberterrorist operating in Southeast Asia.

2015 — Cyberbully — In this made-for-TV movie, A British teenage 

girl (Emily Osment) retreats from family and friends when a computer
hacker forces her to do his bidding, threatening to leak compromising
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2015 — Deep Web — Filmmaker Alex Winter interviews the people

behind the Deep Web and bitcoin and follows the arrest and trial of
Ross Ulbricht (“Dread Pirate Roberts”), founder of online black
market Silk Road.

2015 — Debug — Six young hackers assigned to fix the computer

system on a vessel drifting in deep space become prey to an artificial
intelligence source intent on becoming human.

2015 — Hacker’s Game — A cyber-detective working for a human

rights organization and a hacking expert with shady connections
meet on a rooftop and bond over a game of virtual chess. Will their
romance survive deception?

2016 — Anonymous — A young Ukrainian immigrant turns to hacking

and identity theft to support his parents, with help from a friend who
is a black-market dealer. Petty crimes soon escalate. The film is also
known as “Hacker.”

2016 — Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee — Complex

antivirus pioneer John McAfee made millions before leaving the U.S.
to live in a compound in the jungle in Belize. This Showtime
documentary, which he calls fiction, portrays his life in Belize and
2012 departure after a neighbor was murdered.

2016 — I.T. — Aviation tycoon Mike Regan (Pierce Brosnan) hires an

I.T. consultant on a temporary basis to do some work at his house and
is so impressed he gives him a full-time job. He’s fired when he
oversteps boundaries and seeks revenge against the businessman
and his family.

2016 — Nerve — Friends pressure a high school senior to join the

popular online game Nerve. She becomes caught up in the thrill of the
adrenaline-fueled competition, partnered with a mysterious stranger,
but the game takes a sinister turn.
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2016 — Risk — Laura Poitras spent six years making this

documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who gave her
the opportunity to closely film him but later tried to censor the film.

2016 — Snowden — Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Edward J.

Snowden in Oliver Stone’s biopic of the former National Security
Agency contractor who becomes disillusioned with the intelligence
community and leaks classified information, becoming a fugitive from
law and a hero to many.

2016 — Zero Days — Alex Gibney’s documentary focuses on Stuxnet,

or “Operation Olympic Games,” a malicious computer worm
developed by the United States and Israel to sabotage a key part of
Iran’s nuclear program.

2017 — Ghost in the Shell — Major (Scarlett Johansson) is saved from

a terrible crash and cyber-enhanced as a soldier to stop the world’s
most dangerous criminals. She soon discovers that her life was
actually stolen and determines to recover her past, find out who did
this to her, and stop them before they do it to others.

2017 — Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web — This documentary tells

the story of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, a super-hacker,
entrepreneur and notorious Internet pirate accused of money
laundering, racketeering, and copyright infringement.
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2017 — The Circle — Mae (Emma Watson) lands a dream job at a
technology and social media company called the Circle. She is soon
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( o a s) to pa t c pate a
experiment that takes transparency to a new level.

2018 — Anon — In a world where everyone’s lives are transparent,

traceable, and recorded by the authorities, causing crime to almost
cease, a detective (Clive Owen) tries to solve a series of murders that
may involve a mysterious hacker (Amanda Seyfried).

2018 — The Girl in the Spider’s Web — Computer hacker Lisbeth

Salander (who is also an avenging angel for abused women) and
journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies,
cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

2018 — Hacked — After losing his job to a state-of-the-art

supercomputer, a disgruntled computer technician decides to test his
replacement. In the meantime, a group of hackers infiltrates the
building to steal the new technology.

2018 — Unfriended: Dark Web — After a teen finds a mysterious

laptop, he invites several friends to play a game online. The night
turns deadly when they become the target of cyber-terrorism.

2019 — The Great Hack — This documentary examines the

Cambridge Analytica scandal through the roles of several people
affected by it.

2019 — Password — A police officer hunts for a cybercriminal who is

destroying people’s lives by hacking their passwords.

2020 — KnowBe4: The Making Of A Unicorn — A Cybersecurity

Story. How CEO Stu Sjouwerman built a culture of fun and a company
worth $1 billion. With Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick. 23-
minute documentary produced by Cybercrime Magazine.

KnowBe4: The Making Of A Unicorn. A Cybersecurity Story

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– Steve Morgan is founder and Editor-in-Chief at Cybersecurity Ventures.

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