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Hidden Figures(2016)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 7min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 4,514 votes)

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

A Beautiful Mind(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Good Will Hunting(1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 5,452 votes)

Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.

Gifted(2017)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 41min | Drama, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 2,399 votes)

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Jerry & Marge Go Large(2022)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 102 votes)

The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge, wins $27 million dollars and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town.

Proof(2005)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Primer(2004)

3.4/5 (with 918 votes)

Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

X+Y(2014)

1h 51min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 246 votes)

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

UFO(2018)

3.5/5 (with 183 votes)

A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.

Cube(1997)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 30min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 2,054 votes)

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

Cube 2: Hypercube(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 34min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 609 votes)

The sequel to the low budget first film Cube. This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.

Pi(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

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Riders of Justice(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 298 votes)

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

The Oxford Murders(2008)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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.

Stand and Deliver(1988)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 143 votes)

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Cube Zero(2004)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 37min | Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 440 votes)

Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd can’t stand to see a woman suffer he himself enters the cube to try and save her.

Fermat's Room(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 28min | Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 170 votes)

Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.

Terror by Night(1946)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 47 votes)

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

Antonia's Line(1995)

1h 42min | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

The Professor and His Beloved Equation(2006)

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.

Directed by Takashi Koizumi - With Akira Terao

Aarakshan(2011)

2h 44min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 17 votes)

The decision by India's supreme court to establish caste-based reservations for jobs in education causes conflict between a teacher and his mentor.

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

The Other Me(2017)

1h 41min | Mystery, Crime
4.0/5 (with 34 votes)

A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics(1965)

3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

A cartoon detailing the unrequited love that the line has for the dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for the lively squiggle.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Travelling Salesman(2012)

1h 20min | Drama, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

Four mathematicians are gathered and meet with a top official of the United States Department of Defense. After some discussion, the group agrees that they must be wary with whom to trust and control their solution. The official offers them a reward of $10 million in exchange for their portion of the algorithm, swaying them by attempting to address their concerns. Only one of the four speaks out against the sale, and in doing so is forced to reveal a dark truth about his portion of the solution. Before they sign a license to the government, however, they wrestle with the ethical consequences of their discovery. -- Wikipedia.

Directed by Timothy Lanzone - With Steve West, Eric Bloom

Alternative Math(2017)

9min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

Escher's Infinite Perspective(2007)

52min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?

The Joy of Winning(2018)

53min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

How to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths, in this witty, mind-expanding guide to the science of success with Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four's award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats and The Joy of Data, this latest gleefully nerdy adventure sees mathematician Dr Hannah Fry unlock the essential strategies you'll need to get what you want - to win - more of the time. From how to bag a bargain dinner to how best to stop the kids arguing on a long car journey, maths can give you a winning strategy. And the same rules apply to the world's biggest problems - whether it's avoiding nuclear annihilation or tackling climate change.

The Joy of Data(2016)

59min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.

Directed by Catherine Gale

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös(1993)

57min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

In an age when genius is a mere commodity, it is useful to look at a person who led a rich life without the traditional trappings of success. A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in 1913, Erdös wrote and co-authored over 1,500 papers and pioneered several fields in theoretical mathematics. At the age of 83 he still spent most of his time on the road, going from math meeting to math meeting, continually working on problems. He died on September 20, 1996 while attending such a meeting in Warsaw, Poland.

Directed by George Paul Csicsery - With Paul Erdős
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