Topic: Mathematics

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Mathematics. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


6.6

492 votes

Marguerite's Theorem

2023 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Anne Novion

Cast Ella Rumpf · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Julien Frison

Plot A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes up all the certainty in her planned-out life,...

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Comment j'ai détesté les maths

2013 · Documentary · 103 min. · France

Direction Olivier Peyon

Plot Les maths vous ont toujours barbé, vous avez toujours pensé qu’être nul en maths était une fatalité, bref vous les avez toujours détestées! On aurait pu se contenter d’en rire...

6.6

27 votes

6.6

27 votes

Ágora

2009 · Movie · 126 min. · Spain

Direction Alejandro Amenábar

Cast Rachel Weisz · Max Minghella · Ashraf Barhom · Oscar Isaac

Plot A long-awaited film from Alejandro Amenabar (Sea Inside, The Others) set in the ancient Egypt. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising...

6.5

65K votes

6.5

65K votes

After Midnight

2004 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Davide Ferrario

Cast Giorgio Pasotti · Francesca Inaudi · Fabio Troiano · Francesca Picozza

Plot 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...

6.5

641 votes

6.5

641 votes

Hawking

2013 · Documentary · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Finnigan

Cast Stephen Hawking · Buzz Aldrin · Gordon Berry · Richard Branson

Plot Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet's most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique...

6.5

95 votes

6.5

95 votes

Stand and Deliver

1988 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Ramón Menéndez

Cast Edward James Olmos · Lou Diamond Phillips · Andy García · Rosana De Soto

Plot Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and...

6.5

590 votes

6.5

590 votes

Flatland

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Ladd Ehlinger Jr.

Plot Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds himself in the middle of two upheavals: the rise...

6.4

63 votes

6.4

63 votes

The Dot and the Line (S)

1965 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot A straight line is in love with a dot; however, the dot finds the line too plain, unimaginative, and rigid. She would rather spend her time with an undisciplined squiggle...

6.4

531 votes

6.4

531 votes

Moebius

1996 · Movie · 88 min. · Argentina

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Gifted

2017 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Marc Webb

Cast Chris Evans · Jenny Slate · Octavia Spencer · Lindsay Duncan

Plot Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a...

6.4

6K votes

6.4

6K votes

21

2008 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Robert Luketic

Cast Jim Sturgess · Kate Bosworth · Laurence Fishburne · Kevin Spacey

Plot "21," based on Ben Mezrich's best-selling nonfiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions", revolves around a group of young...

6.3

37K votes

6.3

37K votes

The Professor and His Beloved Equation

2006 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Eri Fukatsu · Takanari Saito · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Plot This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor, who has a brain damage.

6.2

43 votes

6.2

43 votes

The Man Who Knew Infinity

2015 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Matt Brown

Cast Dev Patel · Jeremy Irons · Toby Jones · Stephen Fry

Plot Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor,...

6.2

5K votes

6.2

5K votes

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Eric Braeden · William Schallert · Susan Clark · Gordon Pinsent

Plot Dr Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) activates his creation, the super-computer Colossus, which has been designed to take control of all US military installations. Once activated it is sealed into an...

6.2

625 votes

6.2

625 votes

Breaking the Code (TV)

1996 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Alun Armstrong · Blake Ritson · William Mannering

Plot 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...

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

Travelling Salesman

2012 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Timothy Lanzone

Cast Danny Barclay · Eric Bloom · David John Cole · Malek Houlihan

Plot Travelling Salesman is an intellectual thriller about four of the world's smartest mathematicians hired by the U.S. government to solve the most elusive problem in computer science history -- P...

6.1

52 votes

6.1

52 votes

Primer

2004 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Shane Carruth

Cast David Sullivan · Shane Carruth · Casey Gooden · Carrie Crawford

Plot Made with a small budget of 7,000 US dollars, “PRIMER" follows four suburbia inventors who by accident discover a mechanism with the ability to time-travel.

6.1

29K votes

6.1

29K votes

Mozart and the Whale

2005 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Petter Naess

Cast Josh Hartnett · Radha Mitchell · Christa Campbell · Gary Cole

Plot A dramatic, romantic comedy, "Mozart and the Whale" is inspired by the lives of two people with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, whose emotional dysfunctions threaten to sabotage their...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes