Movies by Lists - Movies About Hollywood (27 [30]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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23 [23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint]When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB. | 1998 | Hans-Christian Schmid | Thriller, Drama | 7.2 (7.2K votes) | 99 | 20231101 |
Beautiful Mind, AAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. | 2001 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama | 8.2 (897.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
Brief History of Time, AA film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time. | 1991 | Errol Morris (*) | Documentary, Biography | 7.3 (5.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Brilliant Young Mind, AA 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. | 2014 | Morgan Matthews | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (28.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Calculus of Love, TheMathematics Professor AG Bowers is obsessed with solving the fabled 250 year old Goldbach Conjecture. When a series of mystery letters arrive hinting at a solution, Bowers believes his lifelong dream may at last be within reach. | 2011 | Dan Clifton | Short, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (45 votes) | 15 | 20211228 |
CodebreakerThe highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Franz G | 2011 | Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey | Documentary, Biography, Drama | 7.1 (1.1K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
CubeSix complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps. | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (224.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Fermat's Room4 mathematicians are invited to solve an enigma. Once there, they're locked in a mechanically shrinking room and given 1 minute to solve each puzzle via cellphone while also figuring out why they're there. | 2007 | Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña | Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (21.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Fountian, TheAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (238.1K votes) | 97 | 20220723 |
Good Will HuntingWill Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. | 1997 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.3 (922.1K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Imitation Game, TheDuring World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life. | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | Biography, Drama, Thriller, War | 8.0 (734.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
InfinityStory of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. | 1996 | Matthew Broderick | Biography, Drama | 6.2 (1.8K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
Invisible Sign, AnMona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who turned to math for salvation as a child after her father became ill. As an adult she now teaches the subject and helps her students through their own crises. | 2010 | Marilyn Agrelo | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 5.3 (4.4K votes) | 96 | 20240316 |
Man Who Knew Infinity, TheThe story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy. | 2015 | Matt Brown | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (55.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
MoebiusA train on the Buenos Aires subway system suddenly vanishes. | 1996 | Gustavo Mosquera R. | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.8 (2K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Mr. NobodyA boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible. | 2009 | Jaco Van Dormael | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (227.6K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
N is a Number - A Portrait of Paul ErdosN Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery. | 1993 | George Paul Csicsery | Documentary, Biography | 7.5 (230 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
Number 23, TheWalter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise. | 2007 | Joel Schumacher | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (199.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Oxford Murders, TheAt Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. | 2008 | Álex de la Iglesia | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (28.8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
PiA paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.4 (175.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
PolytechniqueA dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist. | 2009 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Crime, Drama, History | 7.2 (15.9K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
ProofThe daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search th | 2005 | John Madden | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (44.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Ramanujan'Ramanujan' is a historical biopic set in early 20th century British India and England, and revolves around the life and times of the mathematical prodigy, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Directed by the award-winning filmmaker Gnana Rajasekara | 2014 | Gnana Rajasekaran | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (211 votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
Stand and DeliverThe story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus. | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (19.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Theory of Everything, TheA look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. | 2014 | James Marsh | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (433.1K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
Transcendent ManRay Kurzweil is on a journey to bring his ideas to the world. | 2009 | Robert Barry Ptolemy | Documentary | 7.2 (1.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Travelling SalesmanFour mathematicians are hired by the US government to solve the most powerful problem in computer science history. | 2012 | Timothy Lanzone | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (1.3K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
The Turing Enigma | 2011 | Pete Wild | Thriller | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Code Conspiracy | 2002 | Hank Whetstone | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Dimensions | 2011 | Sloane U'Ren | Drama, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |