Hacking movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant hacking movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, entertaining, serious, realistic, exciting and intense films and TV shows about / with hacking, hacker, computer, technology, suspense, twists and turns, internet, conspiracy, chase and mentor plots mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hacking: Who Am I (2014), Snowden (2016), Mr. Robot (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), Nerve (2016), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), The Hummingbird Project (2018), The Bad Guys (2022), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), WarGames (1983).

List of hacking movies

 7.5
 59K
Who Am I (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Style: surprise ending, suspenseful, twist ending, stylized, clever ...
Plot: hacker, computer, hacking, computer hacker, computers and web, computer cracker, split personality, cybercrime, suspense, mind game, twists and turns, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 7.3
 155K
Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, factual, serious, political ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: espionage, fighting the system, journalism, hacking, internet, whistleblower, moral dilemma, surveillance, hacker, spy, idealism, media ...
Time: year 2015, year 2009, year 2011, year 2004, year 2012 ...
Place: geneva switzerland, hong kong, japan, russia, hawaii ...
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 8.5
 394K
Mr. Robot (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, melancholic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: hacker, computers and web, fighting the system, computer hacker, conspiracy, split personality, secret society, psychotherapy, hacking, paranoia, conspiracy theory, introvert ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: ​When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, cyber ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, hacking, facebook, suspense, characters killed one by one, sign language, plot twist, dark web, murder, threat, psychopath, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 134K
Nerve (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds ...
Style: exciting, romantic, tricky, intense, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: teenager, suspense, game, internet, rivalry, hacker, technology, heroine, hacking, moral dilemma, race against time, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: new york, seattle
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: hacker, gunfight, terrorism, police officer, tough cop, geek, lone hero, technology, hacking, computer hacker, car chase, fbi ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, maryland, los angeles, baltimore ...
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The Hummingbird Project (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Style: psychological, sentimental, rough, inspirational
Plot: stock market, merchant, hacking, finance, game, trafficking, court, violence, hopes, death, suspense, money ...
Place: usa
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 6.8
 46K
The Bad Guys (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When the infamous Bad Guys are finally caught after years of countless heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
Style: entertaining, 3d animation, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: heist, chase, hacking, prison, organized crime, gang, robbery, pickpocket, escape, friendship, animal that acts human, wolf ...
Time: future, 2020s
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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, bleak, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, future dystopia, cyborgs, heroic mission, hacking, computers and web, distopia, computer, computer cracker, cyberspace ...
Time: future, near future, 2000s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada, japan, beijing china
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 7.1
 103K
WarGames (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a ...
Style: clever, futuristic, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: hacker, cold war, computer, teenager, computer hacker, computer cracker, computer genius, nuclear threat, hacking, artificial intelligence, chess, computer system ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, california, usa, ussr, paris france
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 6.2
 71K
Hackers (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: hacker, cyberpunk, computer, hacking, computer cracker, internet, high school, secret service, programmer, computer virus, frame up, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1988
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
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 5.5
 16K
I.T. (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, intense, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: surveillance, internet, suspense, hacker, twists and turns, home invasion, revenge, hacking, technology, spy, business, manipulation ...
Place: ireland, new york
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, rough, clever, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, investigation, rape, hacker, missing person, sexual abuse, twists and turns, strong female character, murder mystery, vengeance, uncover truth, journalist ...
Time: year 1966, 2010s, year 2011, 60s, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, sweden, europe, eastern europe ...
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 6.2
 7K
Takedown (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and ...
Style: talky, ironic, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hacker, computer, conspiracy, hacking, greed, internet, life philosophy, runaway, secrets, mentor, nerd, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, california
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 5.8
 59K
Firewall (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: State-of-the-art security system creator, Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into Jack's personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, suspense, rescue, family in danger, robbery, blackmail, computer, hostage, heist, surveillance, bank robbery, hacking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington state, usa, seattle
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 5.4
 62K
Blackhat (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hacker, computer, terrorist, terrorism, espionage, suspense, cybercrime, hacking, geek, terrorist plot, spy, chase ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, los angeles, china, malaysia, chicago illinois ...
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The Social Network (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style: clever, intellectual, realistic, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: entrepreneur, computer genius, facebook, geek, computer, programmer, computers and web, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, social relations, hacker, ambition ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: harvard university, california, usa, san francisco, los angeles ...
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 7.1
 60K
Sneakers (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hacker, computer, spy, conspiracy, surveillance, mathematics, betrayal, hacking, manipulation, mathematician, computer cracker, cyberpunk ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 1969
Place: canada, russia, san francisco
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The Fifth Estate (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Style: thought provoking, political, tense, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: journalism, internet, computers and web, politics, spy, hacker, international relations, computer, hacking, technology, whistleblower, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2010, year 2011, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, cairo egypt, paris france, switzerland, berlin germany ...
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 6.0
 15K
The Den (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, murder, panic, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop, cyberspace, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.1
 30K
Antitrust (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
Style: suspenseful, twist ending, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hacker, programmer, computer, conspiracy, murder, business, technology, betrayal, uncover truth, dishonesty, hacking, manipulation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california, usa, portland oregon
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 8.7
 1.9M
The Matrix (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, intense, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: distopia, artificial intelligence, martial arts, existentialism, philosophy, cyberpunk, alternate reality, virtual reality, fight, gunfight, post apocalypse, hacker ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 22nd century ...
Place: los angeles
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 6.0
 70K
The Net (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down. While on ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: hacker, computer, programmer, suspense, computer cracker, conspiracy, identity theft, espionage, woman in danger, technology, spy, stolen identity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: san francisco, washington d.c., los angeles, usa, california ...
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 6.2
 52K
Untraceable (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds ...
Style: clever, intense, surprise ending, scary, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, internet, kidnapping, hacker, special agents, fbi, vengeance, sadism, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
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 6.5
 190K
Swordfish (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. ...
Style: exciting, sexy, entertaining, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: hacker, spy, computer hacker, heist, bank robbery, computer, suspense, terrorism, twists and turns, hot and sexy, hostage, master criminal ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, monte carlo, california, malibu california ...
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 4.1
 2K
The Crash (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, a team of white collar criminals are enlisted by the Federal government to thwart a cyber-attack that threatens to bankrupt the United States of America.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: hacking, computers and web, financial crisis, criminal, government agency, dishonesty, conspiracy theory, government, bankrupt, hacker, misfit partners, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, paris france, hong kong, london, big ben london
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 4.6
 4K
The Net 2.0 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, woman in danger, dishonesty, mind game, frame up, life turned upside down, hacking, mistaken identity, computer, disorder, law enforcement, police investigation ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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 5.1
 15K
Open Windows (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nick is excited to discover that he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receives an offer he can't refuse: the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins ...
Style: twist ending, tense, suspenseful, psychological, stylized ...
Plot: internet, suspense, obsession, twists and turns, computer, manipulation, paranoia, technology, woman in danger, adaptation, greed, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, london, texas, los angeles, austin texas
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 6.2
 104K
The Losers (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal ...
Style: exciting, humorous, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: betrayal, cia, teamwork, mercenary, vengeance, superhero, escapades, fight scenes, twists and turns, revenge, swat team, spy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mumbai india, new mexico, puerto rico, miami, pentagon ...
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The Investigation: A Haunting in Sherwood (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Private Investigator Gareth Morris went missing in 2018 whilst investigating noises coming from a house in Sherwood. He hacked into the home's security system and recorded everything.
Style: scary, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, investigation, paranormal, missing person, haunted house, video surveillance, surveillance camera, paranormal activity, security system, private investigator, hacking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, united kingdom
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