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The Imitation Game(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 53min | History, Drama, Thriller, War
4.0/5 (with 7,736 votes)

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Sneakers(1992)

PG-13
| 2h 6min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 377 votes)

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

A Beautiful Mind(2001)

PG-13
| 2h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 4,571 votes)

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

The Man Who Knew Infinity(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 620 votes)

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Directed by Matt Brown - With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, ...

Pi(1998)

R
| 1h 24min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 986 votes)

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

The Oxford Murders(2008)

1h 47min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 284 votes)

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

A Trip to Infinity(2022)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the world's most cutting-edge scientists and mathematicians go in search of the infinite and its mind-bending implications for the universe. Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.

Super 30(2019)

2h 33min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 38 votes)

Based on life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for IIT aspirants in Patna.

Proof(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 40min | Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 292 votes)

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

The Warning(2018)

1h 33min | Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 174 votes)

Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.

I.Q.(1994)

PG
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 190 votes)

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

An Invisible Sign(2010)

2.6/5 (with 46 votes)

Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.

Directed by Marilyn Agrelo - With Jessica Alba, Chris Messina, J. K. Simmons, Sônia Braga, John Shea, Bailee Madison, ...
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Measuring the World(2012)

2h 7min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.

In Our Prime(2022)

1h 57min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 18 votes)

Ji-woo, an outcast at a prestigious private school, meets Hak-sung, the school janitor who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea.

Directed by Park Dong-hoon - With Choi Min-sik, Kim Dong-hwi, Park Byeong-eun, Park Hae-joon, Jo Yun-seo

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician(1992)

1h 43min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

Comment j'ai détesté les maths(2013)

1h 43min | Documentary, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

What is striking when you talk with mathematicians is that sparkle in their eyes, and their sudden joyful voice trying to share with you a concept, a theory. They continuously use words such as invention, beauty, freedom. You then ask yourself : how such a rich language, this quasi-philosophical proposition about the world becomes rejected by a majority, 'the only discipline where one prides itself to be bad at it'!

Directed by Olivier Peyon - With Cédric Villani, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Jean Dhombres

The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms(2015)

3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to satnavs and credit card data security - they even help us travel the world, find love and save lives. Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. By showing us some of the algorithms most essential to our lives, he reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem solvers came from, how they work, what they have achieved and how they are now so advanced they can even programme themselves.

Sebastian(1968)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.

Ramanujan(2014)

2h 50min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A prodigious Indian mathematician has to overcome poverty and prejudices and make a mark with the help of his British mentor.

Directed by Gnana Rajasekaran

The Genius of George Boole(2015)

3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and industry leaders from across the globe to explore the life and importance of one of the world’s greatest unsung heroes.

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem(2008)

55min | Documentary

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem features a heroine driven by the quest to solve one of the central problems of modern mathematics. She rises above formidable obstacles to assume a leading role in her field. Julia Robinson was the first woman elected to the mathematical section of the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to become president of the American Mathematical Society. While tracing Robinson's contribution to the solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, the film illuminates how her work led to an unusual friendship between Russian and American colleagues at the height of the Cold War.

No More Time(1973)

3h | History

This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois (Mario Barriba), a brilliant student mathematician whose republican politics and hot-bloodedness resulted in his death; it is unclear whether he died by political assassination or as a result of a duel.

Directed by Ansano Giannarelli - With Fernando Birri, Lucio Lombardo-Radice, Marisa Fabbri, Paolo Modugno, Ludovica Modugno, Enzo Robutti, ...

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture(2015)

57min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation, had made an important breakthrough toward solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. Yitang Zhang's techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group, and a further innovation by James Maynard.

The Art of Life(2019)

39min | Documentary

As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and pattern where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. He went on a grand adventure to unify his Buddhism with his ability to see an expanded view of reality. He created beauty in a place where nobody else would, and made his friends amongst dolphins.

Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen(2020)

25min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Ten years ago, Tetsuya Miyamoto had a dream to change the world through puzzles. In his classroom in Yokohama, KenKen was born. Enter a world where puzzles matter. From Tokyo to New York, from the classroom to the puzzle page to the tournament floor, Miyamoto and the Machine takes you into the brain of the inventor and the players, all while the machines of business and technology crash into artistry and humanity. Miyamoto believes each handcrafted puzzle tells a story, and if you look hard enough between the rows, columns, and cages of KenKen, you can find the story of the sensei who started a global phenomenon.

American Experience: A Brilliant Madness(2002)

54min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for the feature film A Beautiful Mind — is a powerful exploration of how genius and madness can become intertwined.

Eliyahu Rips: The Burning(2016)

55min | Documentary

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel. Now he is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. At the same time, for most people familiar with his name, Rips is first of all associated with the development of the so called Bible Code – a mathematical program allegedly helping to decipher hidden messages encoded in Torah – the Five Books of Moses. He is attacked by both the scientific and religious community, yet his research continues.

The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan(2013)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.