60 movies about IT and programming
The holidays are over, but all of us will have much spare time during the Christmas weekend. For this reason, we have prepared a collection of movies about IT, that we have watched during the 15-year developer career.
Below you can see the table containing 60 different movies that are divided into several categories: a documentary movie about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, movies about hackers, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet and technologies’ development, startups, game development and also several movies without any categories, but connected with IT.
The table is divided into several columns:
# — movie number.
Name and link — the link refers to Kinopoisk or YouTube commonly.
Year — everything is clear, the year of a movie release. 2016 is underlined for your convenience
Rating — Kinopoisk rating. It may seem a little bit complex about what to choose: Kinopoisk, IMDB, or nothing. For your convenience, we have created this column. Those ratings higher than 7 are underlined also for your convenience.
Comment — our personal opinion about the movie watched, which is also made for your convenience and to choose what to see. You should consider this like a recommendation, nothing more.
So, read, add to favourites, watch, and enjoy. Wish you all good holidays!
About Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
1 |
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview |
2012 |
7.66 |
A lot of interesting things about Jobs can be taken from this interview. Много интересного о личности Джобса можно почерпнуть из этого интервью. |
|
2 |
iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World |
2011 |
7.42 |
The documentary film, if not watched – see |
|
3 |
Bill Gates: How a strange man changed the world |
2009 |
7.38 |
The same as above, but about Bill Gates |
|
4 |
Antitrust |
2000 |
6.72 |
I rewatched this movie 20 times, but not because it is a masterpiece. The matter is that in 2000 I did not have the Internet, but there was the only disc with this film. For the prototype of the corporation is evil and the manager is taken by Microsoft and Gates. |
|
5 |
Steve jobs |
2015 |
6.65 |
Hollywood fake for the mass consumer. The actor is also similar to Jobs, as I am to the Pope. I have watched this movie of respect for Jobs. |
|
6 |
Jobs |
2013 |
6.47 |
Another Hollywood Fake for a mass consumer. I actually do not know which one is better. Finished this movie also in respect for Jobs. |
|
7 |
Corporate Monsters: Apple |
2012 |
— |
Here and after, I have mentioned the series of documentary movies about Apple, Mircosoft, Google, Facebook, Yandex. |
|
8 |
Corporate Monsters: Microsoft |
2012 |
— |
|
About hackers
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
9 |
Snowden |
2016 |
7.00 |
The inferior documentary version of Citizenfour. One can watch. |
|
10 |
The Imitation Game |
2016 |
7.59 |
Nominated for an Oscar, a powerful film about Alan Turing and a decryption during the Second World War. |
|
11 |
Anonymous |
2016 |
6.4 |
Recently released in cinema. I won’t judge a trailer. |
|
12 |
Citizenfour |
2014 |
7.26 |
Really liked it. Filming interviews with a real Snowden. I was positively shocked by the level of work of the US State Department. |
|
13 |
Who Am I |
2014 |
7.44 |
A German movie about a scored IT person who joins a group of other hackers and begins to change before our eyes. It is really exciting. The storyline is 5+. |
|
14 |
The Net |
2008 |
7.46 |
Seems to be OK |
|
15 |
Swordfish |
2001 |
7.24 |
I have watched it really many years ago, but the film was really nice |
|
16 |
WarGames |
1983 |
7.10 |
Have not finished watching this one. |
|
17 |
Wikileaks |
2013 |
6.57 |
About Julian and Assange and WikiLeaks. Generally, quite interesting. |
|
18 |
Underground |
2012 |
6.93 |
Recommended |
|
19 |
Firewall |
2006 |
6.27 |
— |
|
20 |
Cypher |
2002 |
6.99 |
— |
|
21 |
Track Down |
2000 |
6.51 |
Despite the rating, I really liked the movie at that time. It is interesting in the aspect of social engineering. |
About Artificial Intelligence
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
22 |
Lucy |
2014 |
6.73 |
An excellent symbiosis of action and household philosophy from Luc Besson. The ending was especially impressed. |
|
23 |
Ex Machina |
2014 |
7.10 |
One of the best AI movies I have ever watched, |
|
24 |
Transcendence |
2014 |
6.51 |
Second on my list of the best films about AI (Johnny Depp plays the role of a talking monitor with AI). |
|
25 |
Her |
2013 |
7.56 |
And this is the third best film about AI. The plot, feelings, emotions, everything is present on the level. |
|
26 |
Source Code |
2011 |
7.77 |
I liked it |
|
27 |
I, Robot |
2004 |
7.84 |
I really liked it at that moment |
|
28 |
Simone |
2002 |
7.11 |
Did not like it, even though Al Pacino is starring |
|
29 |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
2001 |
7.92 |
ОК |
|
30 |
Computer Chess |
2013 |
6.32 |
ОК |
|
31 |
Johnny Mnemonic |
1995 |
6.85 |
Not ОК |
About the Internet and technologies’ development
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
32 |
Middle Men |
2009 |
6.95 |
Comedy-drama-crime about the birth and development of the porn industry online. Excellent shot! |
|
33 |
Download: The True Story of the Internet |
2008 |
7.54 |
It is a documentary movie. I highly recommend for watching. |
|
34 |
Revolution OS |
2001 |
7.22 |
On the GNU movement and the creation of Linux, with comments by Richard Stallman, Linus and other participants in the venture called OpenSource. |
|
35 |
Desk Set |
1957 |
7.36 |
Did not watch |
|
36 |
Corporate Monsters: Google |
2012 |
— |
|
|
37 |
Corporate Monsters: Yandex |
2012 |
— |
|
|
38 |
Corporate Monsters: Facebook |
2012 |
— |
|
About startups
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
39 |
2010 ‧ Drama/History ‧ 2h 1m |
2010 |
7.73 |
One of my favourite movies, rewatched several times. |
|
40 |
Silicon Valley (series) |
2014 |
8.06 |
Comedy series from 3 seasons of 8 episodes (Preparing 4th for the spring of 2017). Almost every phrase is quite cool. |
|
41 |
Startup (Russian) |
2014 |
5.29 |
The history of the Yandex creation in the projection of feature films. The quality is not pretty good, but if you are launching a startup, it would be nice to watch it. |
|
42 |
The Nerd’s Confession |
2014 |
6.23 |
A good movie about startups and morals in business. |
|
43 |
Joy |
2015 |
6.64 |
I liked it. The film is about a creative girl who has dreamed since childhood to bring her ideas to life. The time has come, but everything is not so simple. |
About games and game development
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
44 |
Ben X |
2007 |
7.44 |
An interesting story line about the gamer who has Alzheimer’s disease. It is really exciting. |
|
45 |
Existenz |
1999 |
7.02 |
Recommended |
|
46 |
Hooked on the Game |
2009 |
6.15 |
Dynamic Russian film, medium quality. When I looked, I liked it. |
|
47 |
Hooked on the Game 2 |
2010 |
5.83 |
Dynamic Russian film, medium quality. When I looked, I liked it. |
|
48 |
Gamer |
2009 |
6.62 |
— |
Without any categoris
|
# |
Name and link |
Year / Rating |
Comment |
|
|
49 |
Black Mirror |
2011 |
8.45 |
Caution: Danger to the brain! After watching you can vomit on the monitor. People with a weak psyche often receive lingering depression. For the rest, I recommend this movie for watching. |
|
50 |
The Matrix |
1999 |
8.5 |
There is hardly anyone who has not watched The Matrix. |
|
51 |
A Beautiful Mind |
2001 |
8.56 |
One of the best films I have ever seen. I watched the movie first in the first year of university. Since then, I have rewatched the movie more than 10 times. You may wonder where is IT sphere in this film, right? John Nash made an enormous contribution to cryptography and statistics. |
|
52 |
99 Francs |
2007 |
7.3 |
It is aslo one of the favorite films, a very creative story line, with irony and unexpected twists. French humor in movies is the best in my opinion. IT here is in the context of marketing. |
|
53 |
Paranoia 1.0 |
2003 |
6.5 |
Have not mastered |
|
54 |
The Thirteenth Floor |
1999 |
7.56 |
— |
|
55 |
Chatroom |
2010 |
6.59 |
I recommend this movie only for a single time |
|
56 |
The Net |
1995 |
6.98 |
More than 20 years passed, but I do not remember anything |
|
57 |
Margin Call |
2011 |
6.67 |
A good movie with Kevin Spacey |
|
58 |
Tron: Legacy |
2010 |
6.9 |
I don’t remember the details of the movie. However, I remember that the friends of mine really liked this film in 3D. |
|
59 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
1991 |
8.3 |
The second movie of the series is a real masterpiece. Highly recommended. |
|
60 |
RoboCop |
2014 |
6.13 |
Since there is a Terminator, there must be a Robocop as well. I watched this movie in the cinema, and received positive impressions and feelings. However, in order not to create a chaos here, I don’t add other superheroes here, like Iron Man, X-Men and others. |