The 10 best movies for techies and where to stream them

To switch off after work, nothing beats a cozy movie evening on the sofa at home. Are you looking for the right film? We introduce you to ten films that tech lovers cannot avoid.

What does the technology of the future look like? How did you imagine today’s technology at the time? Numerous classic films provide exciting answers to these questions. Do you like spectacular and exciting visions of the future and gripping action sequences? We traveled through film history for you and show you which films are particularly impressive from a tech perspective.

In Spike Jonze’s romantic tragic comedy, the newly separated Theodore installs a new computer operating system with an intelligent voice function. The charming computer voice called Samantha, who at the beginning only reads his e-mails to him, quickly becomes an intimate contact person. Theodore falls in love with Samantha, which brings with it some problems.

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At the age of eleven Years ago, the computer geek Dade Murphy paralyzed 1,507 systems, including the Wall Street data center, with a self-programmed computer virus. As a result, he did not have access to a computer or a push-button telephone until he was 18 years old. At the age of 18, Dade Murphy happened to find out about a criminal hacker and was hunted by the police himself.

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Johnny is a data courier who, thanks to a memory chip, has the ability to smuggle information into his brain. But the last order overloaded its capacity. If he cannot download the data within 24 hours, his head threatens to burn through. A world race against time begins.

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The student David is a geek. One day, unsuspecting, he logs into a secret computer system that controls the US nuclear arsenal. Believing he was just playing a conflict between Russia and the USA, David starts the countdown to World War III.

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A group of computer experts , the sneakers, is hired by large companies to test their security systems for leaks. But then their leader Martin is blackmailed with his criminal past by two NSA agents. The sneakers then have to accept an order in which they are supposed to steal a secret decryption program. The supposedly simple task turns out to be a great danger.

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The computer specialist Edward Snowden Quits his job at the American security agency NSA overnight and leaves his girlfriend Lindsay. He wants to expose the extent of the surveillance by the American secret services by publishing secret documents. But the CIA tracked him down and Snowden had to flee.

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The highly intelligent computer nerd Mark manages to hack into his university network and finds a lot of information there about female students, which he then publishes. With it he lands a huge success that he can soon turn into money. Mark Zuckerberg continues to develop the network and built an empire years later. However, the way there was more than rocky.

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Gray Trace ‘woman was killed in a raid. He himself was left paraplegic. One day, Gray is contacted by a wealthy inventor who wants to conduct a healing experiment on him. An artificial intelligence-based implant is said to give Gray undreamt-of powers and abilities, which would give him the opportunity to take revenge on the perpetrators of his attack.

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Since the world is in With the year 2045 on the brink of collapse, the vast virtual world of Oasis, created by the eccentric James Halliday, is the only way out for many people. When he dies, he leaves an immense fortune to whoever finds a digital Easter egg in the Oasis first. The young gamer Wade Watts also takes part in the treasure hunt, but also exposes himself to considerable dangers.

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The spacecraft Discovery has the task of researching a monolith excavated on the moon whose origin and material are unknown and which sends a signal in the direction of Jupiter. On board the spaceship, only the astronauts Poole and Bowman are awake, while the rest of the crew is in cold sleep. But the on-board computer, HAL 9000, becomes a threat to the crew.

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