80s Cyber Related Movies
This science fiction drama tells the origin story of an artificially intelligent, computer-generated television host.
What is Max Headroom?
A lawyer isn’t aware that a videotape in his possession proves a congressman was murdered for opposing surveillance legislation. When he becomes the target of a corrupt NSA official and his life begins to fall apart, he enlists the help of an ex-intelligence operative (Gene Hackman).
What is Enemy of the State?
1998 film - Lawyer was played by Will Smith
Convicted hacker Nicholas Hathaway joins a team of American and Chinese technical experts to track down a Balkan cyberterrorist operating in Southeast Asia.
What is Blackhat?
"I'll be back"
What is The Terminator?
Said by Terminator in the 1984 film
He played John Spartan in Demolition Man.
Who is Sylvester Stallone?
This high school student hacks into a military supercomputer in this classic and activates the U.S. nuclear arsenal, at a time when most people didn’t know what hacking was.
What is WarGames?
The year is 2032 in San Angeles, a utopian city created by the citizens of Southern California. When a violent criminal breaks out and threatens the societal peace, John Spartan is awoken from 36 years spent cryogenically frozen in ice to capture the fugitive, but he becomes distracted when forced adapt to the future society made up of voice-controlled devices, autonomous connected cars, and more.
What is Demolition Man?
Artificially intelligent doll is a technological wonder, designed to befriend children and support parents. However, it’s only a matter of time the doll becomes sentient and decides to take on a life of her own, leaving those around her to reap the extraordinary consequences.
What is M3gan?
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Matthew Broderick played Ferris in the 1986 film
This actor played a hacker in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
Who is Robert Redford?
A computer engineer learns an executive at his company has been stealing his work and is launched into the world of virtual reality.
What is TRON?
In this 1996 movie, an epic fight against an alien race, computer expert David Levinson achieves a crucial win when he hacks into the fleet of spaceships coming toward Earth, infecting them with a virus and putting a stop to the looming alien invasion.
What is Independence Day?
Jesse Eisenberg portrays Harvard student and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg in this drama about the creation of a social networking site that would become Facebook.
What is The Social Network?
"Never send a human to do a machine's job."
What is The Matrix?
Said by Agent Smith in the 1999 film
Charlize Theron played a cyberterrorist that coerces Dom into working for her, hacks and takes control of cars, and reaps havoc in The Fate of the Furious.
Who is Cipher?
2017 film The Fate of the Furious
Teenagers Gary and Wyatt design their ideal woman on a computer, and a freak electrical accident brings her to life in the form of the lovely, superhuman Lisa.
What is Weird Science?
In this 1992 movie, a hacker leads a team of experts who test the security of San Francisco companies. They discover a black box that can crack any encryption, posing a huge threat if it lands in the wrong hands… including rogue NSA agents.
What is Sneakers?
When a woman steals the identity of Sandy Patterson, a financial firm account executive, and wrecks his credit rating, he sets out to confront her.
What is Identity Thief?
"I was meant to be new. I was meant to beautiful. The world would've looked to the sky and seen hope, seen mercy. Instead, they'll look up in horror."
What is Avengers: Age of Ultron?
Said by Ultron in the 2015 film
Jonny Lee Miller plays a teenage hacker that finds himself framed for the theft of millions of dollars from a major corporation.
Who is Master hacker Dade Murphy, aka Zero Cool, aka Crash Override?
1995 film Hackers played by actor Jonny Lee Miller
A high school student who wants the day off breaks into his school’s computer system and changes grades and attendance records.
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Played by Matthew Broderick
In this 1999 movie, a dystopian future, humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality created by intelligent machines to distract humans while they use their bodies as an energy source.
What is The Matrix?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in Oliver Stone’s biopic of the former National Security Agency contractor who becomes disillusioned with the intelligence community and leaks classified information, becoming a fugitive from law and a hero to many.
What is Snowden?
"Great Scott!"
What is Back to the Future?
Said by Doc in the 1985 film
An IT guy that hacks his way into a coup that involves him stealing dinosaur DNA to sell to the highest bidder.
What is Wayne Knight?
1993 film Jurassic Park - played Dennis Nery