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Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

13•ismailsevik•5mo ago
I really enjoy Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network. Every time I watch it, I get the idea to make a cool app. So, do you have any similar movie recommendations?

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cranberryturkey•5mo ago
Sneakers
ismailsevik•5mo ago
Looks like a good movie. Thanks.
cranberryturkey•5mo ago
It is. its old but it still holds up
cranberryturkey•5mo ago
Hackers is good too but a little cheesy and then there's The Net which is decent.
massung•5mo ago
Shh! Too many secrets!
cranberryturkey•5mo ago
Seatech Astronomy
al_borland•5mo ago
I haven’t watched either in a long time, so I can’t remember the vibe, but Pirates of Silicon Valley.
softwaredoug•5mo ago
I really liked The Founder about Roy Kroc and McDonalds. Currently on Netflix

Very similar themes and story. Not about an “app” but how McDonalds works is about food preparation innovation and the tech/process behind it. And like The Social Network a lot of people are left in Krocs dust.

chistev•5mo ago
Blackberry
LarryMade2•5mo ago
Here's a few:

Brainstorm - shows the progression of developing technology (in this case a device that can record and playback a subjects' experiences.)

Real Genius - College antics with a bunch of kids developing a stronger laser

Silicon Valley - mini series again about silicon valley culture/developing new tech - also how ideas are discovered and others stumble upon similar, etc.

American Experience: Silicon Valley - documentary of early silicon valley and the people who started the companies

willmarch•5mo ago
Jobs
bjourne•5mo ago
Middle Men, perhaps. A story about two guys who built a payment provider for porn companies who then took all their customers' money and ran.
fuckaj•5mo ago
So dont take 3% forever (for a company probably valued at 33x or 100% if you like), take 100% now for a zero value company and criminal charges.
dysoco•5mo ago
Nowhere near the same quality and actually (mini)series but:

- Halt and Catch Fire (actually pretty good quality and full series)

- The Playlist (creation of Spotify)

- The Dropout (creation of Theranos... do not get advice from this one though)

- WeCrashed (about WeWork, haven't seen this one though)

- Silicon Valley (silly comedy but might work)

Also some TV/movies/docs you might find in YouTube:

- Pirates of Silicon Valley (movie about bill gates and steve jobs)

- Project Code Rush (about the beginning of Mozilla)

- Aardvark'd: 12 weeks with geeks (doc about a startup by Joel Spolsky of StackOverflow fame).

Oh and also those two Steve Job movies that came out side by side.

ismailsevik•5mo ago
There is a treasure here, I will add to list.
0xCE0•5mo ago
General Magic (movie)

Halt and Catch Fire (series)

Silicon Valley (series)

drrob•5mo ago
Micro Men. British film about the beginnings of Spectrum and Acorn.
ismailsevik•5mo ago
Thank you very much everyone. I saved it to my watchlist and watched some of it.

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