Movies by Lists - Scientist Biopics (44 [53]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| AwakeningsThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. | 1990 | Penny Marshall (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.8 (135.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith. | 1972 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 7.1 (550 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| CartesiusThis made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) | 1974 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 6.8 (406 votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| CopenhagenA television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the young Heisenberg was leading a faltering Ge | 2002 | Howard Davies | Drama, History, War | 7.3 (999 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| CreationTorn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife. | 2009 | Jon Amiel | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (14.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Current War, TheThe dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world. | 2017 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (25.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous Method, AA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. | 2011 | David Cronenberg (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (102K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Ehrlich's Magic BulletTrue story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis. | 1940 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (1.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Edison, The Man82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement. | 1940 | Clarence Brown | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Einstein and EddingtonDrama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas. | 2008 | Philip Martin | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Embrace of the Serpent [El abrazo de la serpiente]The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant. | 2015 | Ciro Guerra | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 7.9 (22.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| ExperimenterIn 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authority. | 2015 | Michael Almereyda | Biography, Drama, History | 6.6 (18.4K votes) | 98 | 20220415 |
| Flash of GeniusRobert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. | 2008 | Marc Abraham | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (17K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| GalileoA humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. He has few supporters and many enemies. When Giordano Bruno dies a martyr's death, Galileo exclaims: "Science needs scientist | 1968 | Liliana Cavani | Drama, History | 6.6 (255 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| GalileoThis biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' | 1975 | Joseph Losey (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (546 votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Gods [Bogowie]The early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite the harsh reality of 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country's first human heart transplantation. | 2014 | Lukasz Palkowski | Biography, Drama | 7.6 (7.7K votes) | 120 | 20240323 |
| Gorillas In The MistThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. | 1988 | Michael Apted | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (25.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| HawkingTheoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6). | 2004 | Philip Martin | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Hidden FiguresThe story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. | 2016 | Theodore Melfi | Biography, Drama, History | 7.9 (217.2K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| I Aim at the StarsThe story of rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun's career, from the 1920s until the late 1950s. | 1960 | J. Lee Thompson | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (207 votes) | 107 | 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 |
| Insider, TheA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. | 1999 | Michael Mann (*) | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (167.8K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| KinseyA look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior. | 2004 | Bill Condon | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (48.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Madame CurieDespite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium. | 1943 | Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (2.9K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Marie CurieFollows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France. | 2016 | Marie Noëlle | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (1.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| MesmerA biography of the 18-century Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of ""animal magnetism."" | 1994 | Roger Spottiswoode | Biography, Drama | 5.9 (1.1K votes) | 107 | 20240222 |
| Mikhaylo LomonosovA biographical epic about the legendary Russian scientist, historian, linguist and writer Mikhailo Lomonosov and his lifelong search for truth. | 1986 | Aleksandr Proshkin | Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (337 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Newton - A Tale of Two IsaacsAs Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe, Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart. | 1997 | Don McBrearty | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.0 (38 votes) | 51 | 20240803 |
| October SkyThe true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes. | 1999 | Joe Johnston | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.8 (88.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Odyssey, The [L'odyssée]The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life. | 2016 | Jérôme Salle | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 6.6 (5.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| RadioactiveThe incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world. | 2019 | Marjane Satrapi | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (16.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| SakharovBiography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Sakharov's actions first caused him to lose a senior party position, then half | 1984 | Jack Gold | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (128 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Sister KennyAn Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims. | 1946 | Dudley Nichols | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (1.1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Something the Lord MadeA dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. | 2004 | Joseph Sargent | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (13.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Story of Alexander Graham Bell, TheThe story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. | 1939 | Irving Cummings | Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Story of Louis Pasteur, TheThe biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine. | 1936 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (2.7K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Temple GrandinA biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. | 2010 | Mick Jackson | Biography, Drama | 8.3 (29.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| TeslaA freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light. | 2020 | Michael Almereyda | Biography, Drama | 5.0 (8.3K votes) | 102 | 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 |
| You Dont Know JackA look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian. | 2010 | Barry Levinson (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.6 (29.7K votes) | 134 | 20230728 |
| Young Tom EdisonInventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a str | 1940 | Norman Taurog | Biography, Drama, Family | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Biography: Alexander Fleming | 1970 | John Glenister | Biography | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Einstein Revealed | 1996 | Peter Jones | Documentary, Biography | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Albert Einstein | 1990 | nan | Biography | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Albert Einstein | 1972 | Gérard Chouchan | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| E=mc² | 2005 | Gary Johnstone | Documentary, Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kopernik | 1973 | Czeslaw Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mikhaylo Lomonosov | 1955 | Aleksandr Ivanov | Biography | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sofya Kovalevskaya | 1985 | Ayan Shakhmaliyeva | Biography, Drama, History | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Jane | 2017 | Brett Morgen | Documentary, Biography | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |