25 Best Movies About Social Media You Should Watch
Social media has become part of our everyday lives and influences how we communicate, the news that reaches us on a daily basis, as well as how we experience reality. That, and the reverberations of social media throughout society now have marked countless movies that examine its presence in real life — or extrapolate into what film imagines other forms it will take over time. The 25 Best Movies About Social Media You Should Watch!
The Social Network (2010)
Director: David Fincher
Synopsis: “The Social Network” (a biographical drama about the founding of Facebook) From the personal case to legal proceedings, Mark Zuckerberg and his partners Edward Savarin as well as Winklevoss twins. Not only does the show delve into themes of friendship, ambition and betrayal — but it shines a light on how the breakneck speed at which Facebook took off drastically altered personal relationships (and helped to set in motion several ways technology would re-wired society). Directed by David Fincher with a script from Aaron Sorkin, it offers an intricate look at the people who gave us one of the most life-changing social networks on earth.
Unfriended (2014)
Director: Levan Gabriadze
Synopsis: This innovative horror flick takes place entirely on a computer screen, chronicling the video chat of one group of friends that winds up getting deadly when an evil spirit latches onto their call. Set in real-time and utilizing social media platforms instant messaging, video calls to build suspense. The movie investigates cyberbullying and its ramifications, guilt as well as vengeance; it highlights the implications of online behavior plus the chilling pestering dynamism about past acts during a time dominated by digital presence.
The Great Hack (2019)
Netflix Original: Directors: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Synopsis: The Big Tech Nightmare DocumentariesFilmmaker Karim Amer once again gives us a bleak picture of Facebook and its influence, this time in collaboration with directors Jehane Noujaim and Erin Case on Netflix documentary series The Great Hack. The Great Hack weaves a remarkably gripping and complex tale of technology, democracy & data with the uncanny real-life characters such as Brittany Kaiser, to question ideals like ethical use (100:38).
Eighth Grade (2018)
Director: Bo Burnham
Synopsis: A coming of age film in which an introverted 13-year-old girl, Kayla, tries to survive the last week at her bleak middle school. Desperados will introduce audiences to the worries, routines and fears that come hand in hand with being a teenager growing up surrounded by social media through Kayla. The series takes on a look at how teenagers of today are using social media, namely YouTube and Instagram to try establish an identity for themselves in the digital arena but it proves more times than not devastating!
Searching (2018)
Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Synopsis: Searching is a movie starring John Cho, Debra Messing, and Joseph Lee. David Kim is a dad whose daughter goes missing and he winds up digging through her digital life to track down what happened. Through digital interfaces, the film itself memorably devolves back into Scooby Doo mode: not simply concealing its truths but displaying them with gizmos galore. The film only ends up reaccentuating the bittersweet twister of social media being a double-age scalpel that connects and is dangerous.
Nerve (2016)
Directed: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Synopsis: In Nerve, high school senior Vee joins an online game that challenges its users to complete stunts and then delivers big cash prizes or death. The stakes of the dares become more dire, and themes such as voyeurism are brought up in other scenes — with consideration on how social media has kept people addicted to thrills. By way of storyline, there are criticisms over lack or privacy and the addictive nature of online fame, reminding that living for the digital spotlight is not good.
Catfish (2010)
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Synopsis: A documentary following Nev Schulman as he crosses the country to meet a woman with whom he developed an online relationship, only to realize that she may not be who she says and also more involved in his life than ever before. Catfish follows the theme of “catfishing,” which typically involves one person posing as someone else online and creating an entirely false identity. This seems to suggest that authenticity, trust and pretense is as much of a theme here — even though this is only the trailer.
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Director: Matt Spicer
Synopsis: A twisted dark comedy about the pursuit of a social media celebrity by an obsessed Ingrid Thorburn, young woman in “Ingrid Goes West” As Ingrid’s obsession progresses, the film examines how reality and online facades can be difficult to distinguish between. It satirizes the superficiality of social media celebrity and just how far individuals will push to get some ridiculous outside type of validation relationship.
Disconnect (2012)
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Synopsis: “Disconnect” is an ensemble drama in which the Internet, phone and TV are projected as serial killers running loose. The film delves into the world of cyberbullying and identity theft, to online sex work offers a snapshot of life-in-isolation amid technology —as well as proves just how disconnected we truly are. And it says, you know what one thing is important when all of the world now lies behind screens?
The Circle (2017)
Director: James Ponsoldt
Synopsis: Adapted from Dave Eggers book, The Circle envisions a future in which the world’s largest tech company advocates for 24-7 transparency at the cost of privacy. As the eponymous Mae Holland (Emma Watson) gets sucked into this creepier-than-Creepyville conglomerate and all of its invasive endeavors, it opens up some pretty big moral quandaries. It relies heavily on the surveillance culture of our world and discusses, in a few other ways as well apart from the general conspiracy behind it about how far this can go with technology having its hand inside everyone’s pockets.
Friend Request (2016)
Director: Simon Verhoeven
Synopsis: When a The movie really illustrates the horrors of social media and how our interactions online can be ghastly, it displays the vengeful side rejects experience in a digital age.
Trust (2010)
Director: David Schwimmer
Synopsis: Trust is a drama that revolves around the lives of Annie, who was raped by someone posing as her online friend. The film focuses on the impact of betrayal, especially emotionally and having a lesson learned about safety online serves in telling the importance it is being heard by other parents in speaking openly with their children.
We Live in Public (2009)
Director: Ondi Timoner
Synopsis: A documentary detailing internet entrepreneur Josh Harris and his models of online privacy, one where subjects lived under constant surveillance. It minces few words about the long-term personal and social psychopathologies created by life in an interconnected world, or the Faustian bargain between privacy and publicity.
Men, Women & Children (2014)
Director: Jason Reitman
Synopsis: An ensemble drama about how the internet has influenced human relationships and communication The film covers topics such as Internet addiction, cyber-bullying and online infidelity to show how technology brings people together while driving them apart in their personal lives.
Chef (2014)
Director: Jon Favreau
Synopsis: Bearing in mind that this is a review of Hall Pass, not Chef or No Reservations, it’s still troubling to note how much time the film wastes with Rick being sad and zippadee-do-dah once more. This fun, fast-talking film is a celebration of the potential for good that can be done through online channels when engaging with your community and creating absolutely anything as long as you are able to reach people.
Mainstream (2020)
Director: Gia Coppola
Synopsis: A satirical drama centered on Frankie, a young woman who loses things in the real world and then sets up random people to cheer them by spreading everything as fast as possible over Link – an eccentric internet dead man walking with half of his brain missing. It raises interesting question whether the passion of famelessness is still a healthy one. Is Internet cheating in virtue ethics?
#RealityHigh (2017)
Director: Fernando Lebrija
Synopsis: A high school teen wins social media fame after becoming popular with her older sister Dani Barnes influencer. The movie delves into the shallow world of social media clout, and how it not only influences our real life relationships but also illuminates in a humorous way why remaining authentic to oneself is key in this new digital age.
Black Mirror: Nosedive (2016)
Director: Joe Wright
Synopsis: Well, it’s not a movie, but this “Black Mirror” episode takes place Dystopian future in which people are rated via social media scores that can affect their socioeconomic visas. The film clearly makes a commentary on the overwikming need we have for digital validation and maintaining an aesthetically driven online presence, while making us look at what these continual half truths can ultimately lead to due in part of our social media/consumer society.
The American Meme (2018)
Director: Bert Marcus
Synopsis: Follows three of social media’s stars Kids say stuff online challenge/bash, practicing coachella glimmers.Sector:Theatre.Translation Stage:U.S RATINGS.LANGUAGETV14S-B,D,LThe information age´s decade has been under way long enough for movie producers to be cobbling together documentaries about Web. Starring the likes of Paris Hilton and Josh Ostrovsky, Paramount+ will explore blurring personal versus public life as well as social media’s effect on one’s mental health/identity.
Swiped (2018)
Director: Ann Deborah Fishman
Synopsis: A comedy about two college students that develop the next great hookup app; but who begin to get in their own way as they explore dating and friendships with millennialism culture. The movie riffs on the blatant transactionality of all internet relationships and how hard it is to actually meaningfully connect when you can swipe your way through everyone.
Like (2018)
Director: Scilla Andreen
Synopsis: This is a documentary that takes an in-depth look at how online social media uses the psyche to control actions and decisions of today’s world. By shining a light on its detrimental influence on self-worth, The Social Dilemma warns viewers about the unfavorable aspects of social media and encourages them to reevaluate their technological ties.
Cyberbully (2011)
Director: Charles Binamé
Synopsis: A drama centered on a teenage girl who becomes target of bullying after she joins Facebook. The movie celebrates the victory of courage over fear and mystery in a society that thinks otherwise, showcasing how implementable love from family and friends can determine defeats or successes at whatever we do online.
Ratter (2015)
Director: Branden Kramer
Synopsis: A thriller about Emma who is targeted by someone stalking her through the digital world, to learn from our connected life how easily we can be prey of stalkig and many other things. Surveillance, technology: Control obviously builds tension by way of the surveillance and security technologies at its narrative center stage serves to foreground our concerns about privacy in an era when they are too often being trampled on socio-politically.
The Hater (2020)
Director: Jan Komasa
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Joe Hill and adapted for TV by showrunner Jami O’Brien with Hill onboard as an EP; The Watch managed to turn Terry Pratchett’s seemingly unadaptable Discworld novels into a cheap Doctor Who rip-off. The crew further investigates issues of fake news, social media manipulation and the impact that online platforms have on society’s behavior.
Cuckoo (2023)
Director: Tilman Singer
Synopsis: Gretchen is a modern-day horror film that combines Facebook gameplay, online social media, emojis and pictures. It is a film that ruminates upon the machinations of paranoia in this digitally advanced age where virtual versions replace reality and online connections weave between actuality and enigma.
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