Must Watch Movies on Cybersecurity One Should Know About

Movies one should watch on the subject of cybersecurity.

Almost every one of us loves to watch movies. Cybersecurity is such an interesting subject that there are many movies that have been made on this subject, these movies tell different aspects related to cybersecurity. Here are some of the best ones.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Released: 2011

IMDb rating: 7.8

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

Director: David Fincher

Disgraced financial reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) finds a chance to redeem his honor after being hired by wealthy Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) to solve the 40-year-old murder of Vanger's niece, Harriet. Vanger believes that Harriet was killed by a member of his own family. Eventually joining Blomkvist on his dangerous quest for the truth is Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), an unusual but ingenious investigator whose fragile trust is not easily won.

The Great Hack

Released: 2019

IMDb rating: 7.1

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Director: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim

The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story. The Great Hack is the work of Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, the husband-and-wife team who made The Square, the Oscar-nominated film about the Arab spring. Here, they tell the story via the personal journeys of two contrasting individuals: David Carroll, a New York media professor who attempts a circuitous, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful journey via the English legal system to find out what data Cambridge Analytica held on him; and Brittany Kaiser, an ex-employee of Cambridge Analytica who turned "whistleblower".

Snowden

Released: 2016

IMDb rating: 7.3

Rotten Tomatoes: 61%

Director: Oliver Stone

Disillusioned with the intelligence community, top contractor Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) leaves his job at the National Security Agency. He now knows that a virtual mountain of data is being assembled to track all forms of digital communication — not just from foreign governments and terrorist groups, but from ordinary Americans. When Snowden decides to leak this classified information, he becomes a traitor to some, a hero to others, and a fugitive from the law.

Bourne Ultimatum

Released: 2007

IMDb rating: 8

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Paul Greengrass

Matt Damon plays a character who loses his memory and has to find the people who wronged him. In order to do so, he teams up with an investigative officer, while the CIA team uses Cyber Security tools to trace their movements and set up traps to sabotage their plans.

The Ex-Machina

Released: 2015

IMDb rating: 7.7

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Alex Garland

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) a programmer at a huge Internet company, wins a contest that enables him to spend a week at the private estate of Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), his firm's brilliant CEO. When he arrives, Caleb learns that he has been chosen to be the human component in a Turing test to determine the capabilities and consciousness of Ava (Alicia Vikander), a beautiful robot. However, it soon becomes evident that Ava is far more self-aware and deceptive than either man imagined.