A collection of recommended movies for people working in the Software and IT Industry
| MOVIE | PLOT | YEAR | RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Social Network | Tells the story of Harvard student and programming genius Mark Zuckerberg, who would go on to create Facebook, and change the world forever. | 2010 | 6.8/10 |
| Office Space | Gibbons hates his job at a software company, and resents dealing with excessive managerial oversight and the everyday minutia of a soulless corporate gig. | 1999 | 7.3/10 |
| The Matrix | The Matrix depicts a dystopian future involving a simulated reality created by sentient machines. | 1999 | 4.8/10 |
| Takedown | This 2000 movie portrays the story of a computer hacker, Kevin Mitnick which took the plot from the book ‘Takedown’ written by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura. | 2000 | 6.4/10 |
| Source Code | The movie takes you to an interesting plot of tracking Chicago commuter train bomber with a top secret operation. | 2011 | 6.1/10 |
| Pirates of Silicon Valley | The incidents that happened throughout the year span of 1971–1997 are depicted in the picture when finally Apple and Microsoft announced an alliance. | 1999 | 5.4/10 |
| The Imitation Game | You can see the struggles of Alan Turing and team in the process which eventually decodes the prominent German Enigma code. | 2014 | 7.3/10 |
| The Fifth Estate | The Fifth Estate portrays the incidents and controversies that paved the way for WikiLeaks. | 2013 | 3.8/10 |
| Jobs | The movie Jobs portrays important incidents in his life right from his college to the finding of the Apple iPod. | 1995 | 6.2/10 |
| Primer | This 2004 American movie portrays the unintentional discovery of time travel. The experts evaluate that the movie Primer is made exclusively for engineers and not for an average audience. | 2004 | 5.4/10 |
| Ex Machina | The Ex Machina runs around an interesting plot of artificial intelligence and the fictional discovery of “strong AI” | 2015 | 5.6/10 |
| The Terminator | Although ‘The Terminator’ highlights the negative aspects of technology and how it can destroy humanity, the film still attracts the eyeballs of the geeks for its visualization of a post-apocalyptic future where the battle between the machines and the humans ensues. | 1984 | 7.2/10 |
| Snowden | Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the titular role, it puts light on the many revelations made by Snowden in 2013 regarding USA’s surveillance program. | 2016 | 7.8/10 |
| 3 Idiots | While it speaks heavily of societal pressure on doing engineering and the objection to listening to our own hearts, it also shows some remarkable scientific inventions like the virus inverter. | 2009 | 7.5/10 |
| Her | The film exactly assesses that aspect of Artificial Intelligence to which people grow too close to. | 2013 | 7.0/10 |
| Steve Jobs | Directed by Danny Boyle of ‘127 Hours’ fame, ‘Steve Jobs’ depicts the life of the Apple founder. | 2015 | 4.1/10 |
| THE FOUNDER | It shows how persistence, determination and hard work pays off. The movie is not only centered around how to build a business but it also shows how to scale the business. | 2016 | 7.3/10 |
| THE INTERNSHIP | We all have that dream where we get to work with a company like Google. Well here is a movie about two adults who did, yeah you heard me right, two adult interns. | 2001 | 6.5/10 |
| THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS | Here is another movie that has nothing to do with coding or inventions. This a real story of a salesman with little money, a family and his dream of becoming a broker. | 2000 | 6.3/10 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker. | 2011 | 7.8/10 |
| The Thirteenth Floor | A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered. | 1999 | 7.0/10 |
| WarGames | Thriller/Drama | 1983 | 7.1/10 |
| Who Am I | Crime/Drama | 2014 | 7.6/10 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Fantasy/Science fiction | 1968 | 8.3/10 |
| Blade Runner | Science Fiction/Thriller | 1982 | 8.2/10 |
| Blade Runner 2049 | Science Fiction/Drama | 2017 | 8.3/10 |
| Ex Machina | Fantasy/Mystery | 2015 | 7.7/10 |
| Ghost in the Shell | Fantasy/Animation | 1995 | 8.0/10 |
| Inception | Mystery/Science fiction | 2010 | 8.8/10 |
| Transcendence | Science Fiction/Drama | 2014 | 6.3/10 |
| World on a Wire | Science Fiction/Thriller | 1973 | 7.9/10 |
| MOVIE | GENRE | YEAR | RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBS: The Documentary | Documentary | 2005 | 8.7/10 |
| Citizenfour | Biography/Documentary | 2014 | 8.1/10 |
| Code 2600 | Documentary | 2012 | 7.4/10 |
| Deep Web | Documentary | 2015 | 7.1/10 |
| DEFCON: The Documentary | Documentary | 2013 | 5.7/10 |
| DSKNECTD | Documentary | 2013 | 7.4/10 |
| Downloaded | Documentary | 2013 | 6.8/10 |
| Freedom Downtime | Documentary | 2001 | 7.6/10 |
| Good Copy Bad Copy | Documentary | 2007 | 7.2/10 |
| Hackers Are People Too | Short Film/Documentary | 2008 | 6.1/10 |
| Hacking Democracy | Documentary | 2006 | 7.9/10 |
| Hackers Wanted | Indie Film/Documentary | 2009 | 6.5/10 |
| In the Realm of the Hackers | Documentary | 2003 | 7.4/10 |
| Indie Game: The Movie | Documentary | 2012 | 7.7/10 |
| Pirates of Silicon Valley | Television Film/Docudrama | 1999 | 7.3/10 |
| Plug and Pray | Documentary | 2010 | 7.2/10 |
| Revolution OS | Indie Film/Documentary | 2001 | 7.3/10 |
| Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web | Documentary | 2017 | 7.4/10 |
| Softwaring Hard | Documentary | 2014 | 8.2/10 |
| Steal This Film | Short Film/Documentary | 2006 | 7.1/10 |
| TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard | Documentary | 2013 | 7.6/10 |
| Terms and Conditions May Apply | Documentary | 2013 | 7.4/10 |
| The Code | Documentary | 2001 | 7.5/10 |
| The Hacker Wars | Documentary | 2014 | 6.6/10 |
| The Internet"s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | Documentary | 2014 | 8.1/10 |
| The KGB, the Computer and Me | Documentary | 1990 | 8.3/10 |
| The Secret History Of Hacking | Documentary | 2001 | 7.6/10 |
| The Singularity | Drama/Science Fiction | 2012 | 7.3/10 |
| War for the Web | Documentary | 2015 | 7.4/10 |
| We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists | Documentary | 2012 | 7.3/10 |
| We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks | Documentary | 2013 | 6.9/10 |
| Zero Days | Documentary | 2016 | 7.8/10 |
| TITLE | GENRE | YEAR | RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mirror | Drama/Science Fiction | 2011 | 8.9/10 |
| CSI: Cyber | Crime/Drama/Mystery | 2015 | 5.4/10 |
| Dark Net | Documentary Series | 2016 | 7.3/10 |
| Halt and Catch Fire | Drama | 2014 | 8.3/10 |
| Mr. Robot | Thriller/Drama | 2015 | 8.7/10 |
| Person of Interest | Action/Crime/Drama | 2011 | 8.5/10 |
| Scorpion | Action/Drama | 2014 | 7.2/10 |
| Serial Experiments Lain | Cyberpunk/Animation | 1998 | 8.2/10 |
| Silicon Valley | Comedy | 2014 | 8.5/10 |
| StartUp | Crime/Thriller | 2016 | 8.1/10 |
| The Code | Drama | 2014 | 7.6/10 |
| The IT Crowd | Comedy | 2006 | 8.6/10 |
| Travelers | Science Fiction | 2016 | 8.0/10 |
| Westworld | Drama/Mystery | 2016 | 9.0/10 |
| You Are Wanted | Drama/Thriller | 2017 | 6.1/10 |
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