Movies About Mathematicians

  • 10. Enigma

  • 5.2
      • MPAA
      • R
  • As World War II rages on, the young genius scientist Tom Jericho races against time to decipher the Enigma Code used by the enemy, while trying to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of...Read more the woman he loves.


  • 9. Stand and Deliver

  • 5.2
      • MPAA
      • PG
  • The true story of how high school teacher Jaime Escalante fought to transform the lives of his disenfranchised students, using innovative teaching methods to get a class full of resistant students to...Read more the point where they managed to ace an advanced calculus test in California.


  • 8. Moneyball

  • 7.3
  • A true story for the Oakland baseball coach who used his continuous calculations to analyze the team players and make maximum profit.


  • 7. Cube

  • 5.5
      • MPAA
      • R
  • A group of people wakes up inside a huge metal cube that contains thousands of rooms, not remembering how they arrived. Policeman Quentin volunteers to lead the group based on his experiences, but one...Read more of the group members opposes him. Government worker Worth remembers the government's association with this secret project and Mathematics student Leaven helps him discover the digital codes of the cubes, and a thief with his expertise helps them escape, and everyone realizes that using their different abilities is the only way to survive.


  • 6. The Imitation Game

  • 7.7
      • MPAA
      • PG-13
  • The true story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing who along with his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School attempt to crack the German Enigma...Read more code during World War II.

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  • 5. Hidden Figures

  • 6.3
      • MPAA
      • PG
  • The true story of three remarkable African-American mathematicians who took part in NASA's Space Race and played a pivotal role in sending astronaut John Glenn into space, all while battle race and...Read more gender discrimination within NASA's space program.

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  • 4. Proof

  • 5.6
      • MPAA
      • PG-13
  • A daughter tries to embrace the death of her mathematically brilliant father whose genius was chiefly hindered by his insanity. The daughter tries to come to grips with the fact that she might have...Read more inherited her father's insanity along with his brilliance.


  • 3. A Beautiful Mind

  • 7.8
  • The biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Russell Crowe) since he was a university student, through his academic work and research achievements, his love story with his student Alicia...Read more (Jennifer Connelly) who became his wife and his bitter struggle with paranoid schizophrenia.


  • 2. Pi

  • 5.9
      • MPAA
      • R
  • As the recluse math genius Max works on his super-advanced computer, he comes across a mysterious number that could unlock the universal patterns found in nature, while he becomes pursued by Wall...Read more Street agents who want to get their hands on it.

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  • 1. Good Will Hunting

  • 6.4
  • An MIT professor discovers the mathematical genius of the school's janitor who is being sued for assaulting a police officer. He arranges for the janitor, Will, to forgo jail time if he agrees to...Read more undergo therapy and study mathematics under his tutelage.