Movies with Math
by rantzak | created - 30 Jun 2011 | updated - 01 May 2016 | PublicI'm not saying these movies are any good, but there's a good amount of math, mathematicians, or math teachers.
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1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 986,672 | Gross: $170.74M
2. I.Q. (1994)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi
Votes: 26,634 | Gross: $26.37M
3. The Number 23 (2007)
R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Walter 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.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston
Votes: 212,594 | Gross: $35.19M
4. It's My Turn (1980)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Weill | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland
Votes: 1,121 | Gross: $11.00M
5. Proof (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
The 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 through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Hope Davis, Jake Gyllenhaal
Votes: 46,304 | Gross: $7.52M
6. Good Will Hunting (1997)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 1,067,434 | Gross: $138.43M
7. Pi (1998)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart
Votes: 186,397 | Gross: $3.22M
8. Contact (1997)
PG | 150 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Votes: 293,025 | Gross: $100.92M
9. Infinity (1996)
PG | 119 min | Biography, Drama
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Director: Matthew Broderick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Force, Peter Riegert
Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.20M
10. Straw Dogs (1971)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 64,486
11. Sphere (1998)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote
Votes: 112,494 | Gross: $37.02M
12. Stand and Deliver (1988)
PG | 103 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
Director: Ramón Menéndez | Stars: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris
Votes: 22,324 | Gross: $13.99M
13. 21 (2008)
PG-13 | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Inspired by real events and people, 21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
Director: Robert Luketic | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Aaron Yoo
Votes: 266,450 | Gross: $81.16M
14. The 4th Dimension (2006)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Jack is a loner confined to a workbench in the back of an antique shop. When a mysterious woman presents him with a broken antique clock that is not to be fixed, unexplainable events begin ... See full summary »
Directors: Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni | Stars: Louis Morabito, Miles Williams, Karen Peakes, Kate LaRoss
Votes: 200
15. After Midnight (2004)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to... See full summary »
Director: Davide Ferrario | Stars: Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi, Fabio Troiano, Francesca Picozza
Votes: 1,586 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Are You with It? (1948)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company after he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival.... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Olga San Juan, Martha Stewart, Lew Parker
Votes: 130
17. 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: 2,991
18. Beautiful Ohio (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
Director: Chad Lowe | Stars: William Hurt, Rita Wilson, Brett Davern, David Call
Votes: 538
19. Bianca (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi, Remo Remotti
Votes: 3,587
20. Breaking the Code (1996 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Blake Ritson, William Mannering
Votes: 671
21. Cube (1997)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.
Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller
Votes: 247,579 | Gross: $0.50M
22. The Favor (1994)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
With 15 year reunion coming up, Kathy has sexual fantasies of her high school sweetheart. She's married, so she sends her BFF to check him out and report back. Things get complicated.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt
Votes: 3,157 | Gross: $3.13M
23. Fermat's Last Tango (2001 Video)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Fermat's Last Tango was inspired by the achievements of Princeton University Mathematics Professor Andrew Wiles, who in June 1993 presented a proof to the theorem first set forth by French ... See full summary »
Director: David Stern | Stars: Christianne Tisdale, Gilles Chiasson, Edwardyne Cowan, Mitchell Kantor
Votes: 37
24. Fermat's Room (2007)
Not Rated | 89 min | Mystery, Thriller
4 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.
Directors: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña | Stars: Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Lluís Homar, Santi Millán
Votes: 22,806
25. Hotel Hilbert (1996 TV Movie)
Drama
A brilliant bringing to life of David Hilbert's idea of an infinite hotel. Packed full of references to properties and paradoxes of the infinite, all done with great atmosphere and a great sense of fun
Director: Caroline Ross-Pirie | Stars: Patrick Barlow, Susannah Doyle, Nicholas Gecks, Pat Keen
Votes: 21
26. Imperative (1982)
96 min | Drama
Augustin is a 30-year-old university professor. He does not believe in religion. His only belief is in maths, to which he devotes all his time. Then suddenly a series of pressing existential questions start looming in his mind.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Sigfrit Steiner, Matthias Habich
Votes: 162
27. 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: 805 | Gross: $0.22M
28. Lambada (I) (1990)
PG | 104 min | Drama
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: J. Eddie Peck, Melora Hardin, Adolfo Quinones, Leticia Vasquez
Votes: 1,182 | Gross: $4.26M
29. Little Man Tate (1991)
PG | 99 min | Drama
A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.
Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Alex Lee
Votes: 16,024 | Gross: $25.01M
30. Merry Andrew (1958)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).
Director: Michael Kidd | Stars: Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli, Salvatore Baccaloni, Noel Purcell
Votes: 931
31. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.
Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, George Segal
Votes: 22,401 | Gross: $41.25M
32. Mozart and the Whale (2005)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Director: Petter Næss | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley
Votes: 9,294 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Solid Geometry (2002 TV Movie)
24 min | Drama, Mystery
Solid Geometry is about Phil whose life is changed when he receives 41 volumes of his great grandfather's diaries. The diaries becomes an obsession and alienates himself away from his wife ... See full summary »
Director: Denis Lawson | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ruth Millar, Peter Capaldi, Jonathan Watson
Votes: 266
34. X+Y=0 (1985 TV Movie)
53 min | Drama
Director: Zdravko Sotra | Stars: Svetlana Bojkovic, Petar Kralj
Votes: 11
35. The Imitation Game (2014)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
During 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.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech
Votes: 824,771 | Gross: $91.13M
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