Movies like Hacker's Game (2015)
The best movies like Hacker's Game (2015) are The Heart Machine (2014), Algorithm (2014) and Hacker (2018). If Hacker's Game hooked you with its thriller and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWho Am I (2014)7.6/10 from 1,804 votes
- Newest180 (2026)Released 2026
The Heart Machine (2014)
A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online but has never met in person, has been living in the same city the whole time and sets out to find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Algorithm (2014)
A freelance computer hacker discovers a mysterious government computer program. He breaks into the program and is thrust into a revolution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Hacker (2018)
A hacker is targeted by a nefarious ex-NSA head who wants to be able to monitor and control activities of citizens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Fifth Estate (2013)
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOut in the Dark (2012)
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSnails in the Rain (2013)
Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTakedown (2000)
Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThose People (2015)
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Web (2013)
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has implanted computer chips into asteroids in a diabolical scheme, and one hacker must stop him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCyberbully (2015)
A chilling real-time thriller featuring a teenager, Casey, battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thiseCupid (2011)
Marshall is an over-worked ad exec who is suffering from a serious case of the seven year itch with his loving boyfriend. As Marshall’s 30th birthday nears he sets hell-bent on changing his life and comes across a mysterious dating app called eCupid which quickly turns his world upside down, overwhelming him sexy guys at every turn!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe String (2009)
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom Beginning to End (2009)
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDisconnect (2013)
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTestosterone (2003)
Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him and his editor, Louise, is hounding him. Instead of working, however, Dean spends his time searching for his Argentine lover Pablo, who went out one night for cigarettes and never came back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Everything Before Us (2015)
The Department of Emotional Integrity (DEI) documents all relationship activity. A 'relationship score' is given to keep people accountable for their choices. The score is public for all to see, and affects various aspects of daily life. Two couples, teenagers and early 30s, face different but intersecting challenges in their relationships within the rules of the DEI.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
I Miss You (2019)
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new play in honor of his lost love, in which Gabriel’s inner turmoil is transformed into an eye-popping gay fantasia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Who Am I (2014)
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIs It Just Me? (2010)
A socially shunned columnist finds his romantic match online, but messaging under the wrong account causes his sleazy roommate’s picture to be forwarded, creating an identity mix-up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisChatroom (2010)
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisYossi & Jagger (2002)
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolate outpost is guarded from attack.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParis Under Watch (2012)
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays waste to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Falls: Testament of Love (2013)
Picking up five years after the doomed romance between Mormon missionaries RJ and Chris, though their lives have taken radically different paths, the death of a mutual friend unexpectedly reunites the two men at a time when both are attempting to establish their adult lives. As old feelings of love and regret are rekindled, RJ and Chris must once again confront their seemingly impossible love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bubble (2006)
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHacker (2016)
Alex, an immigrant from Ukraine comes to Canada and becomes involved with an online criminal organization called Darkweb. What starts off as a way to help his parents financially, soon becomes a personal vendetta against the entire banking system, when his mother is fired from her job at the bank
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAsylum (2005)
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this180 (2026)
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Good Neighbor (2022)
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFire with Fire (1986)
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuburbicon (2017)
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hacker's Game?
The closest matches to Hacker's Game are The Heart Machine (2014), Algorithm (2014) and Hacker (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hacker's Game?
People who watched Hacker's Game most often go on to The Heart Machine (2014), Algorithm (2014) and Hacker (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hacker's Game?
Who Am I (2014), rated 7.6/10 by 1,804 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hacker's Game?
180 (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hacker's Game?
Yes: The Heart Machine (2014), Algorithm (2014) and Hacker (2018).
How are movies similar to Hacker's Game chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hacker's Game, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.