# The best movies about scientists and mathematicians

From Alan Turing and John Nash to Marie Curie and Oppenheimer: the films about great scientific minds recommended by Leader Magazin and Showmetech.

- 16 votes · 14 items
- May 16, 2025 · Thorsten Klein
- https://even.best/en/l/4244/the-best-movies-about-scientists-and-mathematicians

## Top 12

1. **The Imitation Game (2014)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, cracking Enigma.
2. **Oppenheimer (2023)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Christopher Nolan on the father of the atomic bomb.
3. **Radioactive (2019)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie.
4. **A Beautiful Mind (2001)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Russell Crowe as mathematician John Nash.
5. **The Theory of Everything (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking.
6. **Hidden Figures (2016)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Three African American mathematicians at NASA.
7. **Good Will Hunting (1997)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A young janitor turns out to be a maths genius.
8. **Agora (2009)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rachel Weisz as Hypatia of Alexandria.
9. **Einstein and Eddington (2008)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — David Tennant and Andy Serkis: confirming the theory of relativity.
10. **Gorillas in the Mist (1988)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Sigourney Weaver as primatologist Dian Fossey.
11. **The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan at Cambridge.
12. **The Current War (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Edison versus Westinghouse and Tesla in the war of the currents.
13. **Temple Grandin (2010)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Claire Danes as the autistic animal scientist.
14. **The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Paul Muni won the Oscar as Louis Pasteur.

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