IT related movies

Hey guys, I recently posted about computer related books and was interested in finding some about movies. I am not interested in documentaries of any type, but more interested in fiction like movies. I've seen The Net, Antitrust and Hackers, I really enjoyed those and would like to find more. I prefer movies that are from the late 90s and up, but very open to more.
Thank you very much!

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WafflesAndRootbeer

There really aren't many, at least not in American cinema. Hackers or computer geeks are almost always used as a plot tool to move things along but rarely are they the core subject of stories. You can find all sorts of movies about "tech gone bad" as far as people using it for criminal activities or the "big brother is watching" angles if that interests you.

cyberguypr

I love Sneakers.

Fernling306

cyberguypr wrote: »

I love Sneakers.

This is type of thing I'm looking for! Just watched the trailer great looking movie with a great cast, thank you.

usagent27

try Operation Takedown

ptilsen

The second Matrix movie displays Trinity using nmap to identify an actual vulnerability, which she proceeds to exploit. That's all I got, unfortunately.

SubnetZero

Pirates of Silicon Valley, War Games, Sneakers, Hackers, Antitrust, Swordfish, Firewall, and some others I can't think of

the_Grinch

Enemy of the State, Die Hard 4, The Conversation (Gene Hackman)....

Bokeh

Try Falcon and the Snowman

the_Grinch

Three Days of the Condor was semi computer related...

Zartanasaurus

Swordfish was decent for various reasons.

Monkerz

Harrison Ford in FIREWALL

Don't know if this is a good movie or not, I have only seen clips from it..

*Note: Looks like SubnetZero beat me to the punch.

cyberguypr

Another one that I liked was Deja Vu.

arwes

Not a movie, but I have to say the computer jargon I've heard in the CBS TV series Person of Interest has been pretty much spot on as far as context goes. It could certainly be worse!

FloOz

WarGames!!!!!

N2IT

pruspeter wrote: »

WarGames!!!!!

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

arwes

Oh yeah, Cloak & Dagger was pretty good too. An espionage movie involving a kid, his imaginary friend & the Atari 2600, but it's fairly dark. Here's a trailer for it narrated by Optimus Prime.

Tackle

Firewall was a pretty good tech movie.

I do enjoy watching movies when I know what they're doing isn't possible, or at least hasn't been invented yet. And they're always typing like a mad man into a command prompt. Makes me LOL.

vinbuck

OfficeSpace and although not a movie, the British comedy "The IT crowd" is hilarious if you work in IT.

Jayjett90

vinbuck wrote: »

OfficeSpace and although not a movie, the British comedy "The IT crowd" is hilarious if you work in IT.

Ehhh The IT Crowd is a bit too wacky for me

VAHokie56

I have posted this scene from Firewall before but it seems appropriate to do so again....his FW rule is kinda suspect at best but hey at least they where using wire shark!

oh and lol @ a device named "Router"

firewall.wmv - YouTube

coty24

arwes wrote: »

Not a movie, but I have to say the computer jargon I've heard in the CBS TV series Person of Interest has been pretty much spot on as far as context goes. It could certainly be worse!

beat me to it! the IP's they use on there are crazy, the recent one Finch used a cantenna! I love that show, fighting, shooting and hacking, what's not to love!

arwes

Yeah, there's some wacky things on Person of Interest (like the cellphone pairing that works with every cellphone apparently) and I read somewhere that TV shows & movies tend to use bogus out of range IP's to avoid displaying any real ones. I remember the makers of the Heroes TV show **** one person off by using a mocked up AOL Instant Messenger with a handle of something like ClairBear, and the girl who really had the account was bombarded by people asking her questions. But yeah, the cantenna thing was awesome!

Trifidw

Monkerz wrote: »

Harrison Ford in FIREWALL

Don't know if this is a good movie or not, I have only seen clips from it..

*Note: Looks like SubnetZero beat me to the punch.

You tell me... firewall.wmv - YouTube

Oh dear...

AlexNguyen

Short Circuit, Tron, I Robot, Millenium a.k.a. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (the Swedish version) where you see Lisbeth using Metasploit, The Social Network.

NOLAJ

arwes wrote: »

Not a movie, but I have to say the computer jargon I've heard in the CBS TV series Person of Interest has been pretty much spot on as far as context goes. It could certainly be worse!

Awesome show!!

hiddenknight821

How can someone forget Chloe from 24?

DevilWAH

Any self respecting computer geek who grew up with Arcades has to watch this

King of Kong

Loosely based on the true story, these are the kind of people we all hope we arn't like

(oh and these arnt actors, these are the real people!!)

CodeBlox

Try "firewall" or "untraceable".

AlexNguyen

hiddenknight821 wrote: »

How can someone forget Chloe from 24?

She's in the Firewall movie with Harrison Ford. That movie has been cited many times already in this thread.

rsutton

+1 to sneakers, didn't care for Firewall. IT crowd is good for the lulz