Mathematician movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mathematician movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, psychological, clever, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with mathematician, mathematics, genius, scientist, science, teacher, prodigy, physics, professor and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mathematician: In Our Prime (2022), Travelling Salesman (2012), The Imitation Game (2014), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), Pi (1998), Numb3rs (2005), Good Will Hunting (1997), Melancholia (2021), 21 Grams (2003).

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 6.7
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In Our Prime (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ji-woo, an outcast in a prestigious private high school, does not fit in due to different social backgrounds than his well-to-do classmates. One day, he meets Hak-sung, the school’s security guard who is actually a mathematical genius defected ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mathematician, mathematics, math teacher, school, teacher, unlikely friendships, secret past, schoolboy, problem, piano, friendship between men, inter-korean relations ...
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Travelling Salesman (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, cerebral ...
Plot: mathematics, mathematician, genius, conspiracy, mysterious man, science, fictional war, hacking, government, espionage, professor, top secret ...
Time: year 1956
Place: china
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The Imitation Game (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: inspirational, clever, intellectual, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, code breaking, prodigy, mathematician, invention, computer, ambition ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, scientist, mathematician, imaginary friend, nobel prize, obsession, prodigy ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, harvard university, new jersey, persia, detroit ...
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The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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.
Style: inspirational, intellectual, philosophical, motivational, clever ...
Audience: family friendly, kids
Plot: mathematics, genius, scientist, mathematician, discovery, university student, biopic, self discovery, culture clash, cambridge university, mentor, philosophy ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 1914, post world war one, pre world war one ...
Place: england, india, bombay india
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 7.3
 186K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, obsession, computer, surrealism, paranoia, alienation, cyberpunk, psychology, schizophrenia, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.9
 45K
Numb3rs (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a ...
Style: tense, suspense, detective, thrilling, realistic ...
Plot: mathematics, genius, prodigy, fbi, murder investigation, police detective, partners against crime, workplace, brother brother relationship, federal bureau of investigation, police, law enforcement ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: psychological, emotional, philosophical, sentimental, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mathematics, professor, genius, prodigy, philosophy, psychology, life philosophy, life, university, psychotherapy, mentor, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, 2010s
Place: boston, harvard university, massachusetts, america, persia ...
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 7.3
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Melancholia (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ended in tragedy. 4 years later they meet again, now as adults, to reveal the corruptions in school and to regain one's reputation as a teacher.
Style: romantic, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: mathematician, teacher, high school, genius, student, school, couple relations, school teacher, love and romance, social problems, couples, relationships ...
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 7.6
 245K
21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
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 7.6
 129K
Gifted (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sweet, light ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: mathematics, genius, child prodigy, childhood, school, friendship, happiness, teacher, girl, children, child custody, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 1998
Place: persia, boston, florida
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 6.2
 27K
I.Q. (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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.
Style: feel good, entertaining, sweet, romantic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: happy ending, mathematics, genius, mathematician, betrayal, honest, family relations, couples, opposites attract, parents and children, mechanic, hidden identity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1950s, year 1994, 50s ...
Place: usa, new jersey
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 6.6
 23K
Fermat's Room (2007)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surprise ending, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mathematics, riddles and clues, locked in a room, mind game, isolation, game of death, science, trapped, puzzle, mathematician, room, survival ...
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An Invisible Sign (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, teen ...
Plot: mathematics, prodigy, mathematician, elementary school, power relations, emotionless, teachers and students, scientist, family problems, family in crisis, lifestyle, coming of age ...
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 6.5
 3K
The Bank (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, cynical, clever ...
Plot: business, stock exchange, mathematician, greed, mathematics, finance, economics, computer genius, workplace, ambition, rise to the top, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: australia
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 7.2
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Ramanujan (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India, UK
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A prodigious Indian mathematician has to overcome poverty and prejudices and make a mark with the help of his British mentor.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: mathematician, mathematics, prodigy, love interest, relationships, male protagonist, genius, aspiration, lifestyle, historical figure, love affair, biopic
Time: 20th century
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Naples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having become a stranger to his own party colleagues of ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: alcoholism, scientist, communism, mathematician, biopic, math teacher, college professor, suicidal thoughts, suicide by gun, yuppie, weirdo, eccentricity ...
Time: 1950s
Place: naples italy, italy
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 6.4
 22K
Enigma (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Style: factual, tricky, clever, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, code breaking, espionage, submarine, wartime, war, mathematics, conspiracy, secret service, cryptography, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: poland, scotland, europe, big ben london, london
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 97K
Young Sheldon (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
Style: humorous, witty, clever, sitcom, saga ...
Audience: kids
Plot: child prodigy, prodigy, genius, adolescence, boy, childhood, school, scientist, child protagonist, society, parents and children, kids and family ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s, year 1989
Place: texas, usa
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, epic ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mathematics, social relations, medieval, philosopher, friends, power relations, religions or cults, love and romance, friendship, poet, tradition, mathematician ...
Time: year 2005, medieval times, middle ages
Place: iran, persia
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 8.4
 660K
Oppenheimer (2023)
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: epic, dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nuclear, world war two, atomic bomb, scientist, american politics, historical event, mastermind, top secret, physics, moral dilemma, guilt, arizona desert ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1943, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: new mexico, netherlands, germany
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 7.5
 24
Decoded (2016)
Genre: Mystery
Country: China
TV show
Story: A math genius gets recruited by Chinese spy agency to crack a complex coded message in the early republican era.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, independent film
Plot: spy, mathematician, espionage, secret agent, workplace situations, mission, teamwork, autism, agent, special agent, autistic
Place: china
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 7.5
 47
Lion Pride (2017)
Genre: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 78 min.
TV show
Story: Two teachers hold polar opposite viewpoints about teaching and life. Wang Qiang-Da is a genius Professor of Mathematics who approaches everything in front of him with logic and reasoning. Wang Qiang-Wei is a history teacher, art appraiser and ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, light, captivating
Plot: bromance, mathematician, prosecutor, tragic past, teacher, job, high school teacher, investigation, school teacher, private investigation, female teacher, crime investigation ...
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 46K
Proof (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mathematics, insanity, prodigy, university, paranoia, schizophrenia, illness, older woman younger man relationship, grief, life, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin
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 7.8
 253K
Hidden Figures (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, motivational, touching, factual ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night, teens ...
Plot: racism, mathematics, nasa, space program, african american, stereotypes, prejudice, sexism, strong female character, scientist, genius, racial segregation ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, year 2016, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: persia, indiana, virginia, usa, langley virginia
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 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
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Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, futuristic, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: claustrophobia, survival, locked in a room, maze, group of strangers, mathematics, time travel, virtual reality, survival horror, trap, parallel universe, captive ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
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 7.1
 62K
Sneakers (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, light, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hacker, computer, mathematics, computer hacker, hacking, conspiracy, spy, betrayal, espionage, manipulation, mathematician, cyberpunk ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: san francisco, russia, bay area, palo alto california
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 6.1
 2K
Infinity (1996)
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, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: mathematics, couples, world war two, love, scientist, life philosophy, storytelling, science, love and romance, catastrophe, death, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1996, 1920s
Place: new mexico, new york, new orleans, usa, albuquerque new mexico
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