Needs 'Triumph of the Nerds' in documentaries, and 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' needs to move to any of the film sections (it's not a documentary).
A list of movies about hacking
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#12This doesn't appear to be so much a curated list of much-watch movies so much as a list of all movies about hacking ever.
Here is my curated list of movies ever hacker and cyberpunk enthusiast must watch:
* Sneakers
* Ghost in the Shell
* Tron
Why is Tron there? Because the screenwriter loosely based the character around her husband. Who was her husband? Alan Kay. Tron's protagonist is Alan Kay.
Re: A list of movies about hacking
#13D.A.R.Y.L.
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#14Aw, I'm a hackerpunk so only 1/2 are watchable. I just don't know which half.
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#15No Mr. Robot?
I haven't seen enough of the titles on the list to know if any of them are series, but AFAIK this is only a list of movies.
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#16I found many must-see movies on these lists:
1. Directors Guild of America's The 80 Best-Directed Films: http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1602-Spring-2016/...
2. TSPDT's The 1,000 Greatest Films: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.p...
They aren't about hackers, for sure. But these two lists are more diverse than IMDb 250.
Try movies from the 60s and 70s on these lists. Lots of gems among them.
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#17No AKIRA? I thought this one is pretty acclaimed, and frequently hailed as a cyberpunk classic
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#18D.A.R.Y.L. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/
As a young nerdy kid, this movie had such an impact on my at the time I saw it. I pretended I was a robot for months afterwards :)
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#19Or you can just watch this:
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#20Seeing this list inspired me to write about the list I keep for the books I read, many of them cyberpunk/scifi. After reading so many of these types of books, you can't help notice their elements in other media. It's interesting in seeing the print inspirations for many of these movies. The term "The Matrix" was first coined in William Gibson's Neuromancer and considered to be the seminal Cyberpunk novel, even predat…
Just read Neuromancer this summer. One of the benefits of renting random people's places are the libraries you run across; that was a great read (though somehow disturbing, mystical/mind blowing, and hollow inducing all at the same time).