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Hacker Movies Series Episode 3
Worm, Interrupted
Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider) and future husband Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) strap on rollerblades and patch into payphones to torment corporate America (and each other) as fashion plate New York City Hackers. Will evil I.T. guy Fisher Stevens (Short Circuit) and his suit girlfriend Lorraine Bracco (Sopranos) succeed in framing these cyberpunks for environmental terrorism actually caused by his computer virus? Find out if this “wake-up call to the Nintendo Generation” crashes and burns with Stuart, Arnie, and Justin when you Donate today!
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The Monkey
When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start occurring all around them.
Sneakers
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking ‘black box’ from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his ‘sneakers’ must save themselves…
Captain America: Brave New World
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
- Feb 18, 2025
- Action, Science Fiction
WarGames
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department’s war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions….
- Feb 14, 2025
- Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama
Battleship
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS…
- Feb 11, 2025
- Thriller, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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