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Hacker Movies Series Episode 1
Ferris Bueller’s Day After
Matthew Broderick logs into a high-security military base to find the next Galaga and winds up playing WarGames with A.I. capable of global thermonuclear annihilation. Can the geeky teen and girlfriend Ally Sheedy (Breakfast Club) track down the creator of this doomsday device and fix the faulty programming before Dabney Coleman (9 To 5) and the clueless military brass escalate things to Defcon One? Arnie, Stuart, and Justin take you behind Hollywood’s firewall to access cinema’s biggest hacker films when you register as a donating Now Playing user.
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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….
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.
Perfect Blue
Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.
Star Trek: Section 31
Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.
- Jan 28, 2025
- Science Fiction, Adventure
Teen Wolf: The Movie
The wolves are howling once again, as a terrifying ancient evil emerges in Beacon Hills. Scott McCall, no longer a teenager yet still an Alpha, must gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against this powerful and…
Teen Wolf Too
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he’s paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the…
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