We always said that Uplink was based on the Hollywood vision of hacking. It's suprising that there aren't that many films about this topic - but here are the ones we enjoyed watching while we were supposed to be working on Uplink.

Johnny Mnemonic

It's quite a cool film if you can suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. The script was apparently written by William Gibson - the same guy that wrote Neuromancer (which appears in our "Books" section). It's worth watching this film just to see the 3d vision of cyberspace - the best i've ever seen in a movie. I actually intended for Uplink to look like this origionally. Hehe.

Sneakers

As far as i'm aware, this is the only movie about hacking that I would consider "a good film". It's sort of like Mission Impossible, in that they have a man inside the building during the hack. It's a great story with some cool gadgets, and it's more about classical hacking than the futuristic view of Johnny Mnemonic.