Gabriel Shear (John Travolta), a spy, plots to steal a huge fortune and recruits Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry) to persuade a computer hacker (Hugh Jackman) to help.Ī jilted fan (Elijah Wood) soon finds himself in a deadly cat-and-mouse game after accepting the opportunity to spy on his favorite actress (Sasha Grey) via his laptop.Īlex (Callan McAuliffe), a young hacker, turns to identity theft and hacking to support his financially drained family and runs into the FBI’s most wanted hacker. Tron is one of the earliest hacking movies on this list. This Laura Poitras documentary about the NSA spying scandal and whistleblower Edward Snowden features interviews of Snowden in 2013 and work by Glenn Greenwald.Ī software programmer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) discovers that Edward Dillin (David Warner) has been stealing his work and is pulled into the virtual world. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)Ī journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) search for answers about a woman who disappeared forty years ago. The vacation turns into a nightmare when her identity is stolen and someone attempts to kill her.ġ6. John McClane and a young ethical hacker Mat Farrell (Justin Long) team up to take down cybercriminal Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) as he launches an attack on America’s infrastructure.Īngela Bennet (Sandra Bullock), a computer programmer, becomes aware of a conspiracy during her time off. Karl Koch (August Diehl) and his friend David (Fabian Busch) start breaking into government and military databases and find themselves facing the consequences. Despite having limited resources, they make a platform for whistleblowers to leak covert information anonymously and expose corporate crimes and government secrets.Ī cyborg policewoman Major Motoko Kusanagi (Mimi Woods) hunts a cybercriminal called the Puppet Master who hacks into the minds of cyborg-human hybrids to steal information. The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) become underground watchdogs of the powerful and privileged. The theft draws the attention of an NSA agent and things get more complicated when Russian thugs steal her laptop and kidnap a mathematical whiz who can activate FireWall. Hacker Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is recruited to steal a powerful computer program called FireWall that can access codes for the world’s nuclear weapons.
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