Movies Like The Net (1995)

The Net is a 1995 action, crime, drama, mystery, thriller film from Irwin Winkler with a MovieMagicScore of 6.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Net 2.0 and Blackhat.

Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

The Net 2.0

2006

The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem.

5.1

MagicScore

Blackhat

2015

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.

5.5

MagicScore

The Legend of Zorro

2005

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

6.1

MagicScore

The Internship

2013

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

6.2

MagicScore

Black Warrant

2022

A semi-retired special ops assassin and a DEA agent cross paths on separate missions to stop a cyber terrorist organization that has built a dangerous machine threatening to attack the power grid and bring catastrophe to the world.

5.5

MagicScore

Spin Me Round

2022

When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic getaway devolves into chaos and catastrophe.

4.9

MagicScore

The Bourne Ultimatum

2007

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

7.4

MagicScore

Project X

2016

A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, PROJECT X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.

6.3

MagicScore

Cyborg She

2008

A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.

7.2

MagicScore

#10

Hackers

1995

Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Live Free or Die Hard

2007

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

6.6

MagicScore

#12

The Girl from the Wardrobe

2013

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.

5.8

MagicScore

#13

Enemy of the State

1998

The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert 'Bobby' Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday shopping. Unbeknownst to Dean, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the trail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious NSA official named Reynolds. Using satellite surveillance, bugs, and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves while also framing him for murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, he attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

2011

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

7.1

MagicScore

#15

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.

6.6

MagicScore

#16

Flesh & Blood

2018

Kimberly, a teenager suffering from agoraphobia, has not left the house since her mother's unsolved murder. On the eve of Thanksgiving, she begins to suspect that the safe harbor of home and her doting father may be a dangerous mirage.

6.9

MagicScore

#17

Minority Report

2002

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

Predestination

2014

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

7.4

MagicScore

#19

Dashcam

2021

A video editor for a news show in New York City receives government files containing footage from a police car's dashcam.

4.6

MagicScore

#20

Transamerica

2005

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

7.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Net?

The top films similar to The Net by MovieMagicScore are The Net 2.0 (5.1), Blackhat (5.5), The Legend of Zorro (6.1). Each shares action/crime/drama/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Net worth watching?

The Net holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.0/10 from 1,444 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Net?

The Net (1995) is a action, crime, drama, mystery, thriller film directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Net?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more action recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Net

This ranked list pairs The Net (1995), a action and crime and drama and mystery and thriller film from Irwin Winkler, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Sandra Bullock take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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