Top 10 best hacker and cybersecurity movies you should watch once

1

Snowden

Trailer Snowden

Movie information:

• Release date: September 16, 2016
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Crime
• Duration: 134 minutes
• Directed by: Oliver Stone
• Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo
• IMDb Score: 7.3/10
• Awards: Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bandung Film Festival for Imported Film
• Link to watch movies on Netflix

Movie content:

The film recreates the life of Edward Snowden - a former analyst of the US National Security Agency (NSA) revealing a series of secrets surrounding the US and British government's spying programs to the media. From an injured soldier to becoming a senior analyst for the CIA and NSA, the young soldier increasingly helps to make the government's face more beautiful in the eyes of the people.

However, the diligent employee gradually discovered the underground activities to monitor, monitor and eavesdrop on all people in America and he himself was among them. He decided to make it all public no matter how much danger to himself, but for him the world needed to know this truth.

2

Algorithm

Trailer AlgorithmAlgorithm

• Release date: July 19, 2014
• Duration: 91 minutes
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Murder
• Directed by: Jon Schiefer
• Actors: Raphael Barker, Keith Barletta, Julie Ceballos
• IMDb Score: 4.8/10

Synopsis: You will follow a guy named Will, a freelance hacker who breaks into a secret government contractor and downloads their recent development programs. Will understands what it is like to be a hacker and he has taken advantage of it to do a lot of different complicated things both to satisfy his passion and to support his own life. The world operates according to a sequence of codes that if you can hack it, you will become the hegemony of the world. The segments about hacking or coding in the movie are built very honestly, in addition, the film has the color of a documentary about hackers, giving us a more objective view and this is a movie that coders don't. I have watched it at least once in my life.

3

The Italian Job

Trailer The Italian Job

• Release date: March 25, 2004
• Genre: Crime, Murder, Action
• Duration: 111 minutes
• Directed by: F. Gary Gray
• Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton
• IMDb Score: 7.0/10

Movie content:

The last mission is a remark of the famous French version of the same name in 1969. The film's content revolves around the revenge plan of a group of talented people. With the help of computer genius Lyle (Seth Green), a group of people including Steve (Edward Norton), Left Ear (Mos Def), Charlie (Mark Wahlberg), Rob (Jason Statham) and John Bridger (Donald Sutherland). Successfully performed a jewelry robbery mission.

However, a member of the group, Steve, wants to take the results for himself, so he kills John and the others are lucky to survive. The group then recruits a hacker named Stella (Charlize Theron) who is John's daughter to plan together to find and kill the traitor Steve.

4

Live free or die hard

Trailer Live free or die hard

• Release date: 13/07/2007
• Genre: Murder, Action
• Duration: 128 minutes
• Directed by: Len Wiseman
• Actors: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
• IMDb Score: 7.1/10

The film is an American action film produced in 2007, also known as Die Hard 4, and this fourth part is the story of a hacker played by Timothy Olyphant who paralyzes the entire American infrastructure in a plan of a lifetime is to transfer billions of dollars from the Federal Reserve into its own account. Tense, thrilling with continuous happenings, epic action scenes, but the film still gives the audience witty and humorous lines even when the shocking action is taking place.

5

Blackhat

Trailer Blackhat

Movie information:

• Release date: January 16, 2015
• Genre: Murder, Action, Crime
• Duration: 133 minutes
• Directed by: Michael Mann
• Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei
• IMDb Score: 5.4/10

Synopsis: A series of nuclear reactors in the US and China were attacked by malicious code, leading to a terrifying explosion that killed and injured many people in the country of billions of people. The US stock exchange was completely manipulated overnight, causing market chaos with huge losses. Tran Dai Vi (Wang Luc Hoanh) - China's senior cybersecurity officer is tasked with coordinating with the US government to investigate the attacks. Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth), a super hacker who is serving a prison sentence, is temporarily released by the FBI and offers to cooperate to find the culprit. Together with computer expert Tran Lien (Thang Duy) - Dai Vi's younger sister and senior FBI assistant Carol Barrett (Viola Davis), Hathaway and Dai Vi must find the mysterious culprit behind the attacks. attack through the Internet, as well as prevent his next plot.