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Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

13 points by _v9nk 4 months ago · 19 comments · 1 min read


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?

softwaredoug 4 months 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.

bjourne 4 months 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.

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_v9nkOP 4 months ago

Thank you very much everyone. I saved it to my watchlist and watched some of it.

chistev 4 months ago

Blackberry

drrob 4 months ago

Micro Men. British film about the beginnings of Spectrum and Acorn.

dysoco 4 months 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.

LarryMade2 4 months 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

cranberryturkey 4 months ago

Sneakers

al_borland 4 months ago

I haven’t watched either in a long time, so I can’t remember the vibe, but Pirates of Silicon Valley.

willmarch 4 months ago

Jobs

0xCE0 4 months ago

General Magic (movie)

Halt and Catch Fire (series)

Silicon Valley (series)

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