# The best hacker movies

Green text on black screens, phone phreaks and codebreakers: the best films about hacking, according to Cobalt, Hackers-Arise and Techworm.

- 77 votes · 13 items
- Jun 15, 2023 · Kirsty Kennedy
- https://even.best/en/l/4202/the-best-hacker-movies

## Top 10

1. **Sneakers (1992)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — A team of penetration testers and a code-breaking box.
2. **The Matrix (1999)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Neo, the hacker who learns reality is a simulation.
3. **Hackers (1995)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Teenage hackers framed for a corporate crime; a cult classic.
4. **WarGames (1983)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — A teenager hacks into a military supercomputer.
5. **Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher (2014)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — A Berlin hacker collective and Europol.
6. **Zero Days (2016)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — A documentary on the Stuxnet cyberweapon.
7. **Citizenfour (2014)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Edward Snowden's revelations, as they happened.
8. **The Social Network (2010)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A Harvard hacker builds Facebook.
9. **Tron (1982)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A programmer trapped inside a computer.
10. **23 (1998)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The true story of the hacker Karl Koch.
11. **The Imitation Game (2014)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Alan Turing and the Enigma codebreakers.
12. **The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Hacker Lisbeth Salander and a journalist, by Fincher.
13. **Blackhat (2015)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — A convicted hacker freed to chase cybercriminals, by Michael Mann.

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