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Adventures of a Mathematician (2020)
2K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Style:
suspense, sentimental, suspenseful
Plot:
autobiography, world war two, scientist, friendship, nuclear, college professor, family relations, war, vengeance, mathematician, desert, cancer, hiking, cold war, hospital, card playing, marriage proposal, propaganda, flashback, blackboard, harvard, card game
Time:
1940s
Place:
harvard university, new mexico
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Most similar movies to Adventures of a Mathematician
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about biopic, world war two, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, autobiography and childhood mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Adventures of a Mathematician: Oppenheimer (2023), Choice of Purpose (1975), Breaking the Code (1996), Infinity (1996), The Last Days of Patton (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR.
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, serious, political, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, nuclear, cold war, atomic bomb, realism, moral dilemma, biopic, espionage, physicist, nuclear bomb, nuclear threat, post war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, ussr, germany, soviet union
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40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mathematics, world war two, gay, lgbt, computer, programmer, cryptography, mathematician, scientist, programming, world war, computer program ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Style:
enigmatic, sincere, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mathematics, couples, world war two, young lovers, love, scientist, science, storytelling, life philosophy, love and romance, catastrophe, death ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1996, 1920s
Place:
new mexico, new york, new orleans, usa, albuquerque new mexico
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The Last Days of Patton is a 1986 made-for-television film sequel to the 1970 film Patton, which portrays the last few months of the general's life. George C. Scott reprises the role of General George S. Patton, and Eva Marie Saint portrays ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, world war, world war one, u.s. military, hospital, power relations, battles, retiring, leadership, military, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s, post world war two
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years is told for the first time in a major drama for BBC Two.It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, emotional, motivational, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
physicist, science, genius, scientist, disability, storytelling, self discovery, biopic, life is a bitch, family relations, hospital, marriage proposal ...
Time:
60s, year 2004
Place:
england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A hate crime triggers disturbing flashbacks for a young veteran, finding herself reluctantly joining a PTSD support group. The eclectic group of women veterans encourages her to peel away her families' lies and confront her mother who holds the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot:
childhood sexual abuse, lesbian, military, family relations, post traumatic stress disorder, friendship, love, violence, mother daughter relationship, veteran, hate crime, biopic ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who (together with his mischievous brother Tristan) already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war two, medical, doctor, veterinarian, small town, bittersweet, biopic, animal life, love and romance, society, small town life, culture clash ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe, britain
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
Style:
art house, black and white, masterpiece, banned
Plot:
communism, communist, women, totalitarian regime, woman, orphan, biopic, parents, crush, male female relationship, death of father, flashback ...
Time:
1940s, year 1984, 1950s, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, moscow russia, budapest
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is ...
Style:
bleak, inspirational, art house, depressing, contemplative ...
Plot:
youth, children, boy, labor, adolescence, little boy, childhood, love letter, union, strike, child neglect, autobiography ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1972
Place:
scotland, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style:
period piece, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, judaism, ethics, boy strangling, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Style:
historical drama, postmodern
Plot:
president, usa president, u.s. president, incest, american politics, usa history, biopic, winston churchill, family relations, hostess, remorse, first lady ...
Time:
1940s, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., california, pearl harbor
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, father daughter relationship, director, life is a bitch, political unrest, family problems, relationship problems, father and daughter, family relations, hollywood, propaganda, movie business ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six daughters to grow up to be doctors.
Plot:
blaxploitation, black, teenager, interracial relations, family relations, education, patriarch, racism, african american, father daughter relationship, flashback, funeral ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 1940s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship ...
Style:
bleak, art house, depressing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, youth, orphanage, poor, poverty, adoption, rich, child neglect, autobiography, gay subtext, neglect, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1978, 50s, 1950s
Place:
scotland, egypt, africa, europe, middle east ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Style:
period piece, grim, bleak, tragic
Plot:
world war two, firing squad, execution, desertion, death sentence, biopic, social commentary, court martial, world war, military, soldier, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Year 1947. Commander of UPA Danylo Chervonyi gets into the terrible slaughter of Stalin's camps, where he must go through hell and inhumane prison conditions, prosecution of criminal leaders, meanness, betrayal and despair. Danylo finds the ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, touching, rough, suspense
Plot:
criminal, life is a bitch, concentration camp, runaway, brutality, society, violence, danger, friendship, vengeance, murder, confined ...
Place:
ukraine, soviet union
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, UK, Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, uplifting, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
pope, renaissance, church, biopic, vatican, bible, saint, rebellion, politics, world war two, hopes, idealism ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, germany, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, journalism, political unrest, life is a bitch, fascism, idealism, wartime life, rebelliousness, righting the wronged, hopes, media, against the odds ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, semi autobiographical, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
poverty, painter, isolation, autobiography, world war two, biopic, hiding place, alienation, painting, loneliness, character study, identity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school, Milton Academy in 2004-05 school year.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
preparatory school, high school, scandal, teenage life, social relations, high school life, youth, friendship, family relations, love and romance, couples, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
fascism, concentration camp, italian history, princess, world war two, nazism, courage, imprisonment, oppression, persecution, biopic, injustice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on writer Maya Angelou's childhood, this story is about a young girl in the South who is sent to live with her grandmother after her parents divorce.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
rape, black, sexual abuse, black lives matter, blaxploitation, poverty, homeless, writers, sexualized violence, trauma, racism, childhood ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
southern usa, arkansas, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland, Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Style:
realistic, serious, factual, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
catholic, saint, faith, christian, vatican, world war two, clergy, religion, bishop, pope, catholic church, politics ...
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style:
sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, depressing
Plot:
family tragedy, bereavement, biopic, marriage, child illness, family problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship, illness, terminal illness, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and ...
Style:
bleak, art house, depressing, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, children, childhood, autobiography, neglect, biopic, realism, family problems, family relations, kids in trouble, boarding school, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
scotland, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Geoff'/'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot. After an intense training, he soon bonds with the flying men of his ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling
Plot:
world war two, aviation, aerial combat, fighter pilot, world war, luftwaffe, royal air force, autobiography, pilot, military aviation, wartime life, military officer ...
Similarity:
20%
175K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, cerebral, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
hospital, mental illness, mental institution, illness, doctors and patients, medical, fighting illness, doctor, medicine, catatonia, disability, patient ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, america, usa
Similarity:
20%
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