- Black Mirror
An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.
Genre – Drama/Science Fiction
Year – 2011
IMDB Rating – 8.9/10
Creator:Charlie Brooker
Stars:Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Michaela Coel
- CSI: Cyber
Special agent Avery Ryan works to solve crimes as a CyberPsychologist for the FBI.
Genre – Drama/Crime/Mystery
Year – 2015
IMDB Rating – 5.4/10
Creators: Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker
Stars: Patricia Arquette, James Van Der Beek, Shad Moss
- Dark Net
Explores the furthest reaches of the internet and the people who frequently use it, providing a revealing and cautionary look inside a vast cyber netherworld.
Genre – Documentary/Series
Year – 2016
IMDB Rating – 7.3/10
Creator: Mati Kochavi
Stars: Lauren Terp, Kristie, Drew
- Devs
A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.
Genre – Drama/Mystery/Sci-Fi
Year – 2020
IMDB Rating – 7.9/10
Creator: Alex Garland
Stars: Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha
- Halt and Catch Fire
Follows some players in the 80s technological revolution that lead to information society.
Genre- Drama
Year – 2014
IMDB Rating – 8.3/10
Creators: Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers
Stars: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Davis
- Robot
Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable young cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he works for.
Genre – Thriller/Drama
Year – 2015
IMDB Rating – 8.7/10
Creator: Sam Esmail
Stars: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin
- Person of Interest
An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians’ roles, are left a mystery.
Genre – Action/Crime/Drama
Year – 2011
IMDB Rating – 8.5/10
Creator: Jonathan Nolan
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman
- Scorpion
An eccentric genius forms an international network of super-geniuses to act as the last line of defence against the complicated threats of the modern world.
Genre – Action/Drama
Year – 2014
IMDB Rating -7.2/10
Creator: Nick Santora
Stars: Elyes Gabel, Katharine McPhee, Eddie Kaye Thomas
- Serial Experiments Lain
Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of “The Wired”.
Genre – Cyberpunk/Animation
Year – 1998
IMDB Rating – 8.2/10
Stars: Kaori Shimizu, Bridget Hoffman, Dan Lorge
- Silicon Valley
Follows the struggle of Richard Hendricks, a Silicon Valley engineer trying to build his own company called Pied Piper.
Genre – Comedy
Year – 2014
IMDB Rating – 8.5/10
Creators: John Altschuler, Mike Judge, Dave Krinsky
Stars: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Josh Brener
- StartUp
A desperate banker, a Haitian-American gang lord and a Cuban-American hacker are forced to work together to unwittingly create their version of the American dream – organized crime 2.0.
Genre – Thriller/Crime
Year – 2016
IMDB Rating – 8.1/10
Creator: Ben Ketai
Stars: Adam Brody, Edi Gathegi, Otmara Marrero
- The Code
Two Canberra based brothers become entangled in a cover up that involves a remote outback community and key members of the Australian Government.
Genre – Drama
Year – 2014
IMDB Rating – 7.6/10
Creator: Shelley Birse
Stars: Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman, Adele Perovic
- The IT Crowd
The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.
Genre – Comedy
Year – 2006
IMDB Rating 8.6/10
Stars: Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson
- Travelers
Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity.
Genre – Science Fiction
Year – 2016
IMDB Rating – 8.0/10
Creator: Brad Wright
Stars: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper
- Valley of the Boom
Docudrama crosscut with real interviews about the 1990s tech boom in the Silicon Valley.
Genre – Documentary/Drama
Year – 2019
IMDB Rating – 6.5/10
Creator: Matthew Carnahan
Stars: Bradley Whitford, Lamorne Morris, Oliver Cooper
- Westworld
Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, explore a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
Genre – Drama/Mystery
Year – 20160
IMDB Rating – 8.7/10
Creators: Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris
- You Are Wanted
Lukas Franke (Matthias Schweighöfer) is the victim of a cyber-crime attack. All his personal data, web and social media profiles get hacked and he gets accused of being involved in eco-terrorism. Lukas struggles to prove that he is innocent. His family, friends and colleagues doubt his innocence and start suspecting him. Lukas tries to find out who is behind the cyber-attacks and finds another victim, Lena Arandt, with whom he tries to solve the situation
Genre – Thriller/Drama
Year – 2017
IMDB Rating – 6.1/10
Creators: Hanno Hackfort, Bob Konrad, Richard Kropf
Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Alexandra Maria Lara, Catrin Striebeck
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