Ask HN: What are your favorite tech-related movies?

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What are some of the best movies that feature interesting technology, or portray development and hacking realistically?

I'll start: maybe not particularly realistic, but The Matrix (1999) has always been one of my favorite tech-heavy movies.

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Wargames

Hackers

Revolution OS

Freedom Downtime

Any/all Jason Scott movies

Short Circuit 2

I also made a short ~8min piece about GNU with Stephen Fry that I'm still fond of. http://gnu.org/fry/

The Matrix is probably my favorite movie of all time. I've watched my DVD copy so many times that the DVD is wearing out (eg, has scratches, etc.) and I just had to buy a new DVD of it.

Otherwise, I like Hackers a lot (despite the unrealistic aspects), as well as Anti-trust. War Games is another of my favorites. Also, Tron and Tron:Legacy.

Swordfish is also entertaining in its own way.

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