Physicist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant physicist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, realistic and psychological films and TV shows about / with physicist, scientist, science, danger, catastrophe, investigation, physics, death, genius and storytelling plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as physicist: Genius (2017), Galileo (2007), Einstein and Eddington (2008), Hawking (2004), Einstein's God Model (2016), Project Blue Book (2019), 5ive Days to Midnight (2004), Radioactive (2019), Mosharafa: A Man of this Era (2011), Chernobyl (2019).
Best films
New films
| Gifted (2017) | 7.6 | |
| The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) | 6.3 | |
| The Gateway (2018) | 5.4 | |
| Blood Red Sky (2021) | 6.1 | |
| Balloon (2018) | 7.5 |
List of physicist movies
21K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Anthology series about famous geniuses with the first season charting how Albert Einstein unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe, and the second exploring the passionate nature and relentless creative drive of Pablo Picasso.
Style:
anthology, historical drama, inspirational, saga, costume drama ...
Plot:
genius, physicist, painting, painter, adolescence vs adulthood, biopic, life, real life, scientist, intelligence, discovery, scientific discovery ...
Time:
1930s, 1950s, 60s, 1910s, 1900s ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Galileo is a Japanese television drama based on Detective Galileo, a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino. It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, ...
Style:
detective, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
female detective, physicist, unsolved crime, female police detective, police, genius, police officer, crime investigation, secret revealed, fighting crime, police investigation, murder mystery ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
science, world war one, astronomer, campus, workaholic, workplace situations, wartime life, workplace, mathematics, university, physicist, research ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
germany, europe, england
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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
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For thousands of years, evidence of life after death has eluded mankind. Science is about to change that. With the help of a physicist, a blind medium, and Thomas Edison’s final experiment, Brayden Taylor embarks on a quest to contact his deceased ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
quantum physics, religion versus science, afterlife, paranormal activity, physicist, medium, investigation, science, riddles and clues, uncover truth, physics, cosmos ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
ufo, physicist, political conspiracy, alien, state affairs, alien abduction, investigation, alien conspiracy, government agency, paranormal activity, alien contact, space and aliens ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A physicist discovers a briefcase containing postdated documents and evidence which indicate he will die five days in the future.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, thinking
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, destiny, murder, investigation, law enforcement, danger, race against time, physicist, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, widower ...
Time:
future, year 2004, year 1994
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
poignant, captivating, serious, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
nobel prize, chemistry, scientist, radioactivity, scientific research, nuclear, radiation, physics, science, physicist, genius, nobel prize winner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, stockholm sweden, paris france, poland ...
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Genre: Biography
Country: Egypt
TV show
Story:
A biographical exploration of the life of the late Egyptian scientist Ali Moustafa Mosharafa, the first Egyptian to achieve a degree in atomic science, and the hardships he faced in his line of work.
Style:
serious, realistic, political, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
biopic, physicist, scientist, training, politics, physics, political unrest, politician, phd, teaching, science, determination ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
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1.0M
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style:
dark, atmospheric, harsh, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
radiation, nuclear power plant, nuclear holocaust, nuclear reactor, disaster, radiation poisoning, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, abandoned city, evacuation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, europe ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, dark, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, nudity, sex, jack the ripper, erotica, brutality, violence against women, female victim, sex worker, sexual cruelty, sex scene, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
nerd, scientist, roommate, friends, science, genius, sarcasm, best friend, group of friends, geek, friendship, neighbor ...
Time:
y2k, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pasadena california, california, hawaii, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style:
factual, intense, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, politics, military, scientific research, biopic, idealism, nuclear, moral dilemma, ego clash ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new mexico, bay area, germany, russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found. A suspect was arrested for her ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, serious, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, genius, physicist, mysterious death, suspect, police procedural, investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, true crime, victim, criminal ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where ...
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, physicist, murder, summer, whodunit, coastal town, crime solving, uncover truth, murderer, murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, gothic, spooky, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, haunting, haunted, psychic, psychic power, isolation, occult, afterlife, macabre, ghost, danger, legends and myths ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 1920s, 1950s
Place:
england
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261K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, supernatural, catastrophe, cataclysm, prophecy, foreknowledge, metaphysics, professor, prediction, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, poignant, meditative, existential ...
Plot:
physicist, grief, post war, loss, memory, character study, war trauma, memories, nostalgia, mourning, loneliness, introspection ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, moscow russia, russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Short, Action, Adventure, History, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow Catherine Langford, the young woman who witnessed her father uncover the Stargate in Giza in 1928, as she embarks on an unexpected adventure to unlock the mystery of what lies beyond the Stargate in order to save Earth from unimaginable ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
alien planet, stargate, alien civilization, space opera, teleportation, changing the past or future, save the world, save the planet, rescue mission, space, physicist, mission ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
15 years ago the sea at the coast of Windholm just vanished. Now two young physicists try to find out, why it happened...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dystopia, trauma, missing child, disappearance, distopia, dystopic future, physics, colleague, troubled past, community, past, haunted by the past ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
This Russian series is based on the book of the same name, once considered a serious danger to the future of the Soviet Union. "Life and Fate" is an epic tale of World War II and a reckoning with dark forces emerging. It juxtaposes ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, political repression, wartime, repression, political oppression, soldier, physicist, society, political persecution, science, hunted, military ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Style:
romantic drama, romantic, sentimental, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, love story, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, love, relationships, relationship problems, female artist, fall in love, female protagonist, physicist ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As they quickly approach their thirtieth birthdays, academic physicist Siobhan and her photographer boyfriend Sean realize they failed to answer key questions about themselves and their relationship. Their devotion to each other is further tested ...
Style:
romantic drama, romantic, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
breakup, self discovery, personal growth, relationship problems, couples, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, family crisis, love and romance, relationships, love affair ...
Place:
geneva switzerland
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After losing contact with a clandestine energy-research facility, a powerful venture capitalist contracts an elite team of operatives to retrieve the physicist who holds the key to an unprecedented alternate energy source.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, tense, thrilling, fast paced ...
Plot:
military, rescue mission, physicist, covert operation, black ops, corporate conspiracy, special forces, dangerous mission, survival, espionage, wartime, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Paradox is a 2009 British science fiction police drama, starring Tamzin Outhwaite as Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint. Written by Lizzie Mickery and produced by Clerkenwell Films for the BBC, it was filmed and set in Manchester, England.
Flint ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
police detective, changing the past or future, save the day, police investigation, foreknowledge, danger, twists and turns, law enforcement, evidence, physicist, rescue, policewoman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, northern england, europe
Is relevant?
77K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell. Templar ...
Style:
romantic, action packed, breathtaking, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
love, conspiracy, on the run, thief, one last job, espionage, master thief, orphan, disguise, career criminal, coup d'etat, knights templar ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
russia, scotland yard, moscow russia, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, frame up, chase, fugitive, murder, disaster, conspiracy theory, fbi, on the run, hacking, cia, paranoia ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa, wisconsin, langley virginia, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, inventions and discoveries, resistance, chemistry, atomic bomb, danger, heroic mission, moral dilemma, military, soldier, nazi, mountain ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
europe, germany, scotland, england
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychedelic, mysterious, depressing, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, human experiment, apocalypse, computer expert, brother murders brother, nuclear holocaust, stock exchange, dystopia, death of father, murder, brother brother relationship, fortune teller ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe, london, england, amsterdam
Is relevant?
310K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style:
inspirational, philosophical, cerebral, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
science, nasa, space travel, scientist, alien encounter, astronomy, first contact, religion, space and aliens, intelligence, alien contact, research ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, distant future
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, florida, washington d.c., usa ...
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