The theme of virtual reality and all that is connected with it is quite popular in modern cinema. You can portray hackers and programmers on a movie screen inside completely different genres: from science fiction to thriller.
These movie heroes were often recognized as cult ones, and films revealing the inner world and the intricacies of hackers' work more than once became laureates of the most prestigious film awards.
We present the top 10 best films about hackers and programmers who masterfully own incredible computer technologies.
10. Who am I | 2014
Among hackers, Benjamin enjoys great authority, but in real life, the guy is nothing of himself. He has a soft character and does not develop relationships with peers.
At some point, Benjamin gets acquainted with his absolute antipode. Max is a confident and very sociable guy. In a duet, they commit several crimes in cyberspace, which subsequently cause wide resonance in society.
Benjamin is very happy that now in this world there is someone who will really need him. However, the virtual manipulations of these guys will very soon lead to the fact that their real lives will be in great danger.
9. Hacking | 2000
The genius of computer technology Kevin Mitnick is conditionally released from custody. With his friend, he meets with an exiled FBI officer who talks about hacking personal information of mobile subscribers, pushing the main character to violate the law.
Two years later, Kevin escapes from prison. He has to hide from the police and the FBI. Staying with a friend, he learns about a specialist in the field of cybersecurity, Tsutomu Shimomura, who presents the latest development that allows you to listen to other people's conversations. After that, the main character decides to hack into Tsutomu's computer and steal files, which he succeeds with great success ...
8. Snowden | 2016
Once his cherished dream was to devote his life to honest service to his country. He trusted the official statements of the United States government and firmly believed in the fight against terrorism waged by his state after the events of September 11th.
Then none of his friends could even have imagined that this particular guy, Edward Snowden, would be able to carry out one of the largest exposures of our time, having made public secret documents confirming the fact of total surveillance by the U.S. government for his citizens and citizens of other countries.
Having unveiled the details of this conspiracy, Snowden made huge sacrifices: "put an end" to his career, broke up with his beloved girl, left his native country, for which he is not a hero, but a traitor ...
7. Quieters | 1992
Martin Bishop leads the security team. He used to be a talented hacker, because of which he had a lot of trouble with the police.
At the moment, his group has to work for the government. In the course of the development of the plot, it turns out that the experts did not work for the government at all, which is why they were drawn into a very dubious story.
6. Social network | 2010
In this picture, we are talking about the creation of one of the most ambitious, in the vast virtual space, social networks - Facebook. The amazing popularity of this network around the world has dramatically changed the lives of a handful of Harvard students who managed to make a huge fortune in a very short period of time.
5. The first player to get ready | 2018
By 2045, human civilization will again be one step away from the apocalypse. Most people on the planet are distracted from harsh reality by plunging into virtual reality. The fashion game is the global game OASIS.
The person who created OASIS is James Holliday. He decides after his death, all his huge fortunes will be left to the gamer, who will be the first to find the “Easter egg” hidden by James somewhere in the open spaces of the game. Almost all of humanity is connecting to this unusual competition ...
4. Cyber | 2015
At the beginning of the film, the viewer observes the measured life of a modern person. It may seem that nothing in the whole world can add any dissonance to the calculated sequence of events, because the existence of man has become so mechanized and comfortable that it seems that nothing can disturb this established system.
However, it is the developments that are being carried out in the field of the latest technologies that are the main threat to the safety of the people living on the planet. The best experts from the USA and China are trying together to counter the most powerful cyber attack that humanity has ever encountered.
3. War games | 1983
An ordinary schoolboy, David, by coincidence, gets access to the military computer air defense system. The viewer gets acquainted with what is happening as if through the eyes of a teenager - adults here look stupid and are constantly exposed to his ridicule.
The action in the picture is developing quite dynamically, forcing the viewer to be in constant tension.
2. Hackers | 1995
The central character of the picture loves to penetrate into the depths of the virtual world that are inaccessible to ordinary users. He is a talented hacker, at one point he manages to break into the cyber defense of Gibson's computer, which is the property of the huge Ellington corporation.
A hacker who wanted to have some fun becomes an eyewitness to a large-scale fraud theft of a huge amount of money ...
1. The matrix | 1999
This iconic picture depicts reality, which is nothing more than a comfortable virtual reality created by a powerful computer in order to subjugate humanity.
The physical shell of humans is used by smart machines as a source of heat and electricity. Having learned the truth about this world, a hacker with the nickname Neo enters into a confrontation with a cyber regressor ...