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51. Adventures of a Mathematician (2020)
102 min | Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Thor Klein | Stars: Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel, Sam Keeley, Joel Basman
Votes: 1,783
52. Baar Baar Dekho (2016)
Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The highs and lows of a romantic relationship are examined through flashbacks and flash-forwards.
Director: Nitya Mehra | Stars: Sidharth Malhotra, Katrina Kaif, Sayani Gupta, Kirti Adarkar
Votes: 7,720 | Gross: $0.61M
53. The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010)
118 min | Drama
Non-linearly follows two kids, rejected by their peers, who become friends. They separate later in life and dedicate to their careers. Still, they feel as if something is missing.
Director: Saverio Costanzo | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Marinelli, Arianna Nastro, Vittorio Lomartire
Votes: 3,780
54. Shakuntala Devi (2020)
127 min | Biography, Drama
Shakuntala Devi, a mathematician's journey to become 'The Human Computer' and her relationship with her daughter.
Director: Anu Menon | Stars: Vidya Balan, Adi Chugh, Sanya Malhotra, Jisshu Sengupta
Votes: 9,740
55. Tangent Room (2017)
64 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Trapped in a mysterious room with no escape, four brilliant minds race against time to prevent a cosmic collapse of the universe. They must learn to work together and solve the puzzle before it's too late.
Director: Björn Engström | Stars: Lisa Bearpark, Daniel Epstein, Håkan Julander, Jennifer Lila
Votes: 465
56. The Bank (2001)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers
Votes: 2,996
57. Dangerous Moves (1984)
100 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Director: Richard Dembo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron
Votes: 1,495
58. Domain (2009)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the relationship between a teenager, Pierre, and Nadia, a woman in her thirties.
Director: Patric Chiha | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Isaïe Sultan, Alain Libolt, Raphaël Bouvet
Votes: 196
59. The Invisible Boy (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite.
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Harold J. Stone
Votes: 1,637
60. Sebastian (1968)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker accused of Communist affiliations from the wrath of the security branch.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud
Votes: 703
61. Codebreaker (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The 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... See full summary »
Directors: Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey | Stars: Ed Stoppard, Henry Goodman, Paul McGann, Asa Briggs
Votes: 1,137
62. Wordplay (2006)
PG | 94 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at The New York Times' long-time crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and his loyal fan base.
Director: Patrick Creadon | Stars: Will Shortz, Ken Burns, Jon Stewart, Merl Reagle
Votes: 3,784 | Gross: $3.12M
63. Crash Canyon (2011–2013)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
While driving to their vacation, a family falls into a canyon and must learn to get on with their fellow stranded neighbours and, mostly, one another.
Stars: Patrick McKenna, Jennifer Irwin, Bryn McAuley, Joanne Vannicola
Votes: 817
64. Donovan's Echo (2011)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Director: Jim Cliffe | Stars: Danny Glover, Kyarra Willis, Karen Holness, Bruce Greenwood
Votes: 1,955
65. Cobra (2022)
183 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A mathematician genius, Mathi, has another identity, Cobra, who commits intelligent crimes using maths.
Director: R. Ajay Gnanamuthu | Stars: Vikram, Irfan Pathan, Srinidhi Shetty, K.S. Ravikumar
Votes: 9,711
66. Travelling Salesman (2012)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Four mathematicians are hired by the US government to solve the most powerful problem in computer science history.
Director: Timothy Lanzone | Stars: Danny Barclay, Eric Bloom, David John Cole, Malek Houlihan
Votes: 1,371
67. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Kamran is a 12-year-old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is 11th-century mathematician, astronomer, and poet of Persia Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in ... See full summary »
Director: Kayvan Mashayekh | Stars: Adam Echahly, Bruno Lastra, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 807 | Gross: $0.22M
68. The Secret Number (2012)
15 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.
Director: Colin Levy | Stars: Daniel Jones, Tom Nowicki, Tom Carleglio, James Troutman
Votes: 567
69. Homage (1995)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In New Mexico, the widow and former teacher Katherine Samuel reluctantly hires the lonely mathematician and genius Archie Landrum to be her gardener and soon they become good friends. When ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Kagan Marks | Stars: Blythe Danner, Frank Whaley, Sheryl Lee, Danny Nucci
Votes: 237
70. Hakase no aishita sûshiki (2006)
117 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The story of a single mother housekeeper and a mathematics professor, who has a brain damage.
Director: Takashi Koizumi | Stars: Akira Terao, Eri Fukatsu, Takanari Saito, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Votes: 881
71. Anthony, Warrior of God (2006)
110 min | Biography
The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's ... See full summary »
Director: Antonello Belluco | Stars: Jordi Mollà, Paolo De Vita, Matt Patresi, Andrea Ascolese
Votes: 205
72. Sentinels of Silence (1971)
G | 18 min | Documentary, Short
An 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archaeological ruins in Mexico.
Director: Robert Amram | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Orson Welles
Votes: 182
73. Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)
108 min | Biography, Drama
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,... See full summary »
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Carpentieri, Toni Servillo
Votes: 405
74. Illusions (II) (2017)
92 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
It's London, 1892 and Defendant 47 is on trial but can't remember who he is. He only can remember a few details, where he's been lately and glimpses of the past. Defendant 47 slowly starts ... See full summary »
Director: Emiliano Galigani | Stars: Douglas Dean, Manuela Parodi, James Lee Butterfield, Micky Ray Martin
Votes: 523
75. N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, Biography
N 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.
Director: George Paul Csicsery | Stars: Paul Erdös, Ronald Graham, Joel Spencer, J.W.S. Cassels
Votes: 243
76. Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (1994)
44 min | Documentary, Short
Deborah Hoffman records and recounts the toll of Alzheimer's disease on her mother, Doris. Hoffman traces the gradual course of the disease and all that she learned as she cared for her mother.
Director: Deborah Hoffmann | Stars: Deborah Hoffmann, Doris Hoffmann
Votes: 126
77. Drawing Down the Moon (1997)
84 min | Crime, Drama
Gwynyth McBride moves to a small town where she can practice her Wiccan faith in peace, but when she tries to set up a homeless shelter on the land that a greedy corporation wants, their evil-genius fixer and his gang target her.
Director: Steven Patterson | Stars: Walter Koenig, Karina Krepp, Lynda Merritt, Bruce Bearman
Votes: 56
78. Sekret Enigmy (1979)
158 min | Biography, Drama, History
Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Wionczek | Stars: Tadeusz Borowski, Piotr Fronczewski, Piotr Garlicki, Tadeusz Plucinski
Votes: 77
79. Butterfly Dreaming (2008)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story ... See full summary »
Director: Rufus Williams | Stars: Andrew Bowen, Ken Michelman, Toan Le, Kristen Michelle Donovan
Votes: 136
80. 30 panen a Pythagoras (1977)
68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Thirty female students in a second-year grammar school are resisting the efforts of old professor Machacek to teach them Pythagoras' theorem. But then, via a collective classroom vision, ... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Hobl | Stars: Milena Asmanová, Vlastimil Brodský, Petr Brukner, Marie Drahokoupilová
Votes: 87
81. Ted (1998)
85 min | Comedy
Satrical life story of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynsky (played by Daniel Passer), is done as a pseudo-documentary and narrated by his "brother" (Paul Provenza). It follows his life from ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Ellenberg | Stars: Daniel Passer, Edie McClurg, Richard Fancy, Jeff Corey
Votes: 41
82. Comment j'ai détesté les maths (2013)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary, Mystery
What is striking when you talk with mathematicians is that sparkle in their eyes, and their sudden joyful voice trying to share with you a concept, a theory. They continuously use words ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Peyon | Stars: Eitan Grinspun, Cédric Villani
Votes: 191
83. The Midsummer Wreath (2015 TV Movie)
96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Princess Verunka's marriage is to save the kingdom, impoverished as a result of its ruler's crazy ideas. She's not hard up for suitors: there's a talented poet, twins - one a general, the ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Jirí Mádl, Eliska Jansová, Ivan Trojan, Bolek Polívka
Votes: 114
84. Mattemorden (2015)
228 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A woman is found executed by hanging at the cinema of a small town in the Swedish forests. The only clue is a math problem, and the town's only commissioner has dyscalculia. The only one ... See full summary »
Stars: Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson, EvaMaria Oria, Robert Hannouch, Elsa Granzow
Votes: 40
85. The Gold Cup (2000)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Los Angeles at the end of the century.
Director: Lucas Reiner | Stars: Wood Harris, Jim Haynie, Sarah Lassez, O-Lan Jones
Votes: 32
86. Gödel (2007)
25 min | Short, Drama
The last days of life of the logical mathematician Kurt Godel, in the house of Princeton where he lives with his wife Adele in the last months of 1977. Suffering from a severe form of ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Kramer | Stars: Robert Stuc, Andrea Nürnberger, André Waardenburg, Naomi Dorré
Votes: 25
87. Heineken 'Tomorrow Never Dies' Television Commercial (1997 Video)
1 min | Short, Comedy
Short commercial for Heineken beer and the Heineken 007 Gift Collection in which several real-life private persons named James Bond are shown before the real James Bond, then played by Pierce Brosnan, introduces himself.
Star: Pierce Brosnan
Votes: 25
88. I Archimedes (2017)
50 min | Documentary
The story of the Archimedes Palimpsest told by the team of scholars that restored it.
Director: Vittorio Muscia | Stars: Leslie La Penna, Felix De Marez Oyens, Francis J. Wahlgren, Roger Easton
Votes: 12
89. The Discrete Charm of Geometry (2015)
66 min | Documentary
A team of mathematicians is working together on a big project. Excitement of discovery, hope and disappointment, competition and recognition are shown from an infinitely close distance. ... See full summary »
Director: Ekaterina Eremenko
Votes: 206
90. Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit (1979)
87 min | Comedy
A scientist creates a fully grown test tube baby from the cells of a mathematician, and the two are frequently mistaken for each other by gangsters, private investigators, the police, and the baby's creator himself.
Director: Spede Pasanen | Stars: Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Tapio Hämäläinen
Votes: 626
91. Alice and Lewis (2019)
16 min | Short, Drama, History
When Alice Liddell encounters Charles Dodgson, reality takes a curious turn and hastily becomes a wonderland.
Director: Elina Street | Stars: Andrew Hawley, Alison McKenna, Lollie McKenzie, Paul Fienga
Votes: 8
92. Alice: A look into Alice's adventures in Wonderland and at the curious relationship between Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll (2010)
Documentary
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published in 1865, and revolutionized children's writing. It made a mockery of much that had preceded it; the cautionary tales where young mischievous... See full summary »
Director: Gerry Malir
93. The Seven Sages of Antiquity (2010 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Seven Wisest Men of Ancient Greece did not include Socrates, Plato or Aristotle. However, even the Seven Sages would choose only One as the Wisest of All.
Director: Giorgos Petritsis | Stars: Robert MacLean, Iren Theotokatou, Telis Zotos
Votes: 11
94. Epicac (2008)
21 min | Short, Drama
Director: Will Tully | Stars: Heather Long, Jack Serino, Bradley Upton
Votes: 7
95. The Life of Lewis Carroll (2009)
76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was an English writer, logician, mathematician, Anglican deacon and photographer. He excelled in two of these fields, photography and writing. As a photographer, he ... See full summary »
Star: Lewis Carroll
96. Global Social Awards 2019 (2019 Video)
97 min | Reality-TV
Director: Vojtech Nouzák | Stars: Alma, Paola Antonini, Rawaa Beauty, Marcus Butler
97. Great Genius and Profound Stupidity (2008)
27 min | Documentary, Short
This experimental documentary, which includes interviews with Avital Ronnell, Oliver Sacks, and Merce Cunningham, explores pilgrim mathematician Paul Erdos, Hellen Keller, and the philosophical ideas of genius and stupidity.
Director: Benita Raphan | Stars: Merce Cunningham, Ian Garrison, Andrew Granville, Avital Ronell
Votes: 16
98. Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern (2010)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern (2010) examines the life of a remarkable mathematician whose formidable mathematical contributions were matched by an approach and vision... See full summary »
Director: George Paul Csicsery
99. An Anomaly of the Theory (2010)
R | 15 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Hugh and Erwin were strangers when a chance encounter changed both of their lives over the course of 10 minutes. Hugh's skeptical sarcasm toward Erwin's peculiar fascination with quantum ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Profe | Stars: Corey Wright, Walter Vincent
Votes: 24
100. Dernières nouvelles du cosmos (2016)
89 min | Documentary
Director: Julie Bertuccelli | Stars: Hélène 'Babouillec' Nicolas, Véronique Truffert, Pierre Meunier, Marguerite Bordat
Votes: 75