Movies inspire you to be a smarter and a better person, or in our case a better programmer. Today, when the world is hyper-connected, movies are the best way to see through it.
How many of you have watched these best movies?
1. The Social Network
The whole movie is about how Facebook grew as a business and the various ups and downs it had to face.
2. The imitation Game
As a programmer, You will find this movie extremely engaging.
Alan Turing, a British mathematician, joins the cryptography team to decipher the German enigma code. With the help of his fellow mathematicians, he builds a machine to crack the codes
3. Pirates of Silicon Valley
This is one of the top notch movie among these programming movies lists.
It basically tells the story of how the personal computer was designed by today's giants like Microsoft and Apple.
4. Jobs
The movie sheds light on Stev Job's personal and college life.
The movie revolves around how Apple became the business enterprise that it is today.
5. Mr. Robot
The show follows the footsteps of Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer in a cybersecurity firm βAllsafeβ by day and vigilante hacker operating from his computer, apprehending no-gooders by night.
This movie is fun, rebellious, got stunning soundtrack and even includes realistic aspects of programming.
(Note: It's a TV Series, not a movie but every episode is worth watching.)
6. Source Code
As the name suggests, there is some code involved :P
The hero in the movie enters the body of another person using his programming skills.
7. The Founder
This movie doesn't involve a programmer but is highly recommended if you want to start you first startup.
The movie shows how persistence, determination and hardwork pays off. It's by far the best movie I have seen when it comes to building a business. Besides that it also shows how to scale a business.
8. The Social Dilemma
"Only two organization call their customers users - illegal drugs & software". This statement is quite a relative explanation about this brilliant perfect eye opener documentary , undoubtedly it's Oscar deserving stuff.
A must watch movie for everyone. Every person living in present world is aware about how he or she is addicted to drug called social media in other words we are being used as lab rats not to discover something new but selling to customers, here advertisers are customers we are just products.
9. The Great Hack
In this eye-opening, well-executed documentary, the filmmakers meet the challenge of blending complex tech information with heightening drama. Plus, there's plenty of "rooting interest."
The thing is, in The Great Hack we end up rooting for ourselves, and the long odds of not being one of the fooled, the foiled, and the exploited, unmindful victims of "psy-ops" warfare.
Bonus - Silicon Valley
It is not a movie but TV Series and a must watch if you're a programmer.
This is about Richard, a programmer who creates an app called the Pied Piper and tries to get investors for it. Meanwhile, five other programmers struggle to make their mark in Silicon Valley.
Hope you enjoyed the list. Add a β€ if you liked it.
Please suggest your other favorite movies in comments ππ
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Latest comments (109)
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I am sad because I saw them all. So I'll wait for comments.
I'd add IT Crowd (an English series and Black Mirror, of course)
Ready Player One(Artificial Intellegence Technology's)
"Antitrust" is more about programming, young Open Source programmer is hired by owner of big corporation (inspired by Bill Gates and Microsoft).
Also "Takedown" about capturing Kevin Mitnik.
Hmmm... no documentary that actually are stranger than fiction which relates to programming?
Office Space
Mythic Quest, via Apple+!
Since you included The Social Dilemma, it is only fitting that 'Zero Days' should be in the list. For ones who dont know what this is.. It is about how a computer virus designed by a entire country to destroy the nuclear program of iran, and its impacts.
Devs (a series, not a movie) is also a good one.
Fail Safe, 1964. Besides being a great thriller, this 56 year old film touches on the problematic aspects of technology we worry about today, including privacy concerns, its ability to distance us from others, and our ceding control to processes which can be impossible to understand as a whole. Highly recommended.
Great list but how could you leave out Triumph of the Nerds? It chronicles the story of the personal computer and rise of the consumer tech industry better than any other work!
Officespace, classic must see
Also include the Indie developer!
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