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What, no WarGames? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Granted, that one's more about the cold war than about hacking, but Swordfish is more about... um... I'm not exactly sure what that one's about...

I feel like having Swordfish in there at all skews your "weak side" of that list to the gutter. Not fair to Hackers to be so closely associated with Swordfish.

Edit: typo

Having swordfish in there at all, and not War Games, invalidates the list.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off deserves more credit than swordfish on social engineering alone!

Not to band-wagon it up, but I agree that Swordfish felt like an overly produced Mad TV sketch of a techno-action movie. Expensive cast - cringe worthy though.

Sneakers is an all time favorite of mine. If you like heist movies, I think you will find it to be a very satisfying example of the genre.

The Matrix? It is also unpleasantly fast predicting the future.

Sneakers is a better film: better written, better acting, and better expression of the motivations of real people... but it also falls down on technology.