Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Directed by Robert Connolly

Produced by Film Victoria, Screen Australia

201289 min6.3 / 10

A tense, idea-driven biographical drama about idealistic hackers challenging state power, caught between youthful conviction and the paranoid machinery of government surveillance.

In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.

Questions people ask

  • Is Underground: The Julian Assange Story violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Is Underground: The Julian Assange Story sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does Underground: The Julian Assange Story end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Underground: The Julian Assange Story easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Underground: The Julian Assange Story scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

43/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

You have seen this shape before.

Rarity84

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise22

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love35

How much audiences actually like it

The highest scores in the catalogue →

Ensemble

Like Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Underground: The Julian Assange Story, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Underground: The Julian Assange Story, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Underground: The Julian Assange Story, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

Share thisXBlueskyReddit