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1. 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: 1,067,095 | Gross: $138.43M
2. Gifted (2017)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer
Votes: 130,222 | Gross: $24.80M
3. A Serious Man (2009)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Votes: 149,841 | Gross: $9.19M
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
Votes: 178,501 | Gross: $79.37M
5. The Endless (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington
Votes: 49,350 | Gross: $0.27M
6. 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: 186,378 | Gross: $3.22M
7. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi
Votes: 62,086 | Gross: $3.87M
8. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling
Votes: 47,773 | Gross: $100.48M
9. Torn Curtain (1966)
PG | 128 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy
Votes: 29,236
10. Alphaville (1965)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Valérie Boisgel
Votes: 27,587 | Gross: $0.05M
11. The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An employee who develops a lucrative secret process for his corporation is tempted to betray the company when higher ups attempt to take the process from him. Dastardly intrigue ensues.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Steve Martin, Ben Gazzara, Campbell Scott, Ricky Jay
Votes: 25,835 | Gross: $10.20M
12. 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: 22,803
13. Another Time (2018)
TV-MA | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.
Director: Thomas Hennessy | Stars: Justin Hartley, Chrishell Stause, James Kyson, Alan Pietruszewski
Votes: 1,126
14. 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
15. Ferocious Planet (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A groundbreaking device is designed to glimpse alternate universes. But when the machine malfunctions and transports a group of observers into a nightmarish dimension of alien terrors, the travelers must use ingenuity to survive.
Director: Billy O'Brien | Stars: Joe Flanigan, Sam O'Mahony, John Rhys-Davies, Catherine Walker
Votes: 2,163
16. 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: 1,132
17. Christmas in the Air (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Struggling with his work-life balance, a widowed father-of-two enlists the help of a professional organizer for the holiday season.
Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Catherine Bell, Eric Close, Ken Tremblett, Malcolm Stewart
Votes: 1,503
18. 1+2 = Paradise (1990 Video)
TV-MA | 60 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
Yuusuke is a boy who has a pathological fear of women. One day, his father (a gynecologist) decides to bring two sexy twin sisters into the house to help his son overcome his fear. However, the situation will only become more chaotic.
Stars: Kappei Yamaguchi, Riyako Nagao, Chieko Honda, Takashi Tomiyama
Votes: 103
19. Stump the Guesser (2020)
19 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
He works at the fairground as "Stump the Guesser", who can guess anything for a fee. But suddenly his tricks stop working. And then he unwittingly falls in love with his sister whom he ... See full summary »
Directors: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin | Stars: Adam Brooks, Brent Neale, Stephanie Berrington, Werner Thaller
Votes: 539
20. Oh My Goddess! (1993–1994)
Not Rated | 160 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A college student receives an unexpected wish from a goddess and asks her to stay with him forever, but that brings complications.
Stars: Yumi Tôma, Aya Hisakawa, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kiyoyuki Yanada
Votes: 1,269
21. Raising Genius (2004)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Directors: Linda Voorhees, Bess Wiley | Stars: Justin Long, Wendie Malick, Ed Begley Jr., Stephen Root
Votes: 470
22. Singularity Principle (2013)
Not Rated | 87 min | Sci-Fi
Singularity Principle is a feature length science-fiction film about the consequences of renegade experiments into Parallel Universes with attention to scientific detail that delivers a story to both illuminate and entertain.
Directors: David Robert Deranian, Austin Robert Hines | Stars: William B. Davis, John Diehl, Michael Patrick Denis, Adam Formanek
Votes: 215
23. 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: 565
24. I Ellinida kai o erotas (1962)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?
Director: Nestoras Matsas | Stars: Kakia Analyti, Vasilis Avlonitis, Antigoni Valakou, Katerina Vasilakou
Votes: 24
25. Little Boy Boo (1954)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short
Foghorn Leghorn is cold as winter approaches and decides to court Miss Prissy so he can live in her in warm house. She agrees as long as Foggy will be a good father to her kid Junior, who outsmarts the rooster in every game they play.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Elvia Allman, Gladys Holland
Votes: 463
26. Qui perd gagne! (2003)
92 min | Mystery, Comedy
Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Bénégui | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Elsa Zylberstein, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Malo
Votes: 400
27. Yesterday Last Year (2017)
76 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A love triangle gets even more complicated once a time machine enters the picture.
Director: Jeffrey Hanley | Stars: Adam Bradley, Amelia Mathews, Scott Walker
Votes: 24
28. Non ho tempo (1973)
105 min | Biography, History
Director: Ansano Giannarelli | Stars: Mario Garriba, Franco Agostini, Bruno Alessandro, Pier Giovanni Anchisi
Votes: 17
29. Mondomanila: Institute of Poets (2004)
15 min | Short, Action, Crime
Director: Khavn | Stars: Marvin Agustin, Dave Kahn, Anna Bernaldo, Noel Sto. Domingo
Votes: 13
30. Phantasmagoria (1989)
Short, Fantasy
Inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem. Oxford 1860. Lewis Carroll is visited by a Ghost who stays for dinner.
Director: Tiziana Caminada | Stars: Anna Pernicci, Alexandre Reverend, Raymond Sawyer
Votes: 10
31. Get a Clue: The Math Game (1996– )
Crime, Family, Mystery
An educational mystery math series included on the VHS tapes of the 'Get a Clue: The Math Game' Box set.
32. 20:15 (2015)
13 min | Short, Sci-Fi
20:15 is a drama-mystery, sci-fi thriller in which we follow the lives of a mysterious man and a loving couple. Their lives will forever be changed once their two worlds collide.
Director: Marc-André Morissette | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cloutier, Olivia Dandurand
Votes: 6
34. Booty Dance (2004)
4 min | Animation, Short
Chaos theory meets computer simulation in this "investigation" into the mathematics behind what happens when "boys who like boys" and "girls who like girls" dance within the same dance floor domain.
Director: Paula Durette
36.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode:
Bright Boy
(2002)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor.
Director: Frank Prinzi | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance
Votes: 402
37.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode:
Inert Dwarf
(2004)
TV-14 | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Goren and Eames are investigating the death of a genius mathematician's assistant.
Director: Alex Chapple | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance
Votes: 342
38.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
Silent Night
(2006)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A teenage girl is killed, and the only potential witness is her deaf mother. The case also brings back some haunting memories for Lindsey. Meanwhile, CSI also investigates the murder of a star figure skater.
Director: Rob Bailey | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap
Votes: 373
39.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Trillion Dollar Bet
(2000)
TV-PG | Documentary
For over a hundred years economists had dreamed of a way of reducing risk in the stock market. Two Nobel Prize winning economists found a formula which it seemed did exactly that- only for ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm Clark | Stars: Stan Jonas, Robert C. Merton, Merton Miller, Paul Samuelson
Votes: 48
40.
The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
Episode:
The Hamburger Postulate
(2007)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Romance
Leslie seduces Leonard, but afterwards tells him that she is only interested in a one-night stand.
Director: Andrew D. Weyman | Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Votes: 4,980
41.
Young Sheldon (2017–2024)
Episode:
Hobbitses, Physicses and a Ball With Zip
(2019)
TV-PG | 18 min | Comedy
Sheldon is forced to take a break from science when his new obsession with "The Lord of the Rings" leads to an unhealthy habit. Also, Missy asks George Sr. to teach her how to play catch.
Director: Jaffar Mahmood | Stars: Iain Armitage, Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan
Votes: 1,165
42.
Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode:
The Equation
(2008)
TV-14 | 47 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young musical genius is kidnapped and Walter recalls a patient at St Clair's who might have been kidnapped by the same people and forced to try and figure out the solution to an equation.
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo
Votes: 2,668
43.
Vsauce (2010– )
Episode:
The Napkin Ring Problem
(2017)
TV-PG | 11 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
If you core any two spheres so the remaining rings are the same height the rings will have the same volume. Try it using an orange and the Earth.
Star: Michael Stevens
Votes: 8
44.
Veritasium (2010– )
Episode:
The Discovery That Transformed Pi
(2021)
19 min | Talk-Show
For centuries mathematicians committed large portions of their lives to calculating the value of Pi and only managed to get to thirty-five digits. Then along came Isaac Newton with five ... See full summary »
Directors: Derek Muller, Raquel Nuno | Stars: Derek Muller, Alex Kontorovich
Votes: 6
45.
Veritasium (2010– )
Episode:
There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math
(2021)
34 min | Talk-Show
Self referential statements run a great risk of creating a paradox. So you can imagine the trouble that resulted when mathematicians started trying to use mathematics to answer questions ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Muller | Star: Derek Muller
Votes: 10
46.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Game Theory: The Science of Decision-Making
(2016)
10 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Game theory is a field of mathematics conceived by John Nash that deals with how people handle situations where they are effected by other people's decisions. Hank reviews what game theory ... See full summary »
Star: Hank Green
47.
Arvin Ash (2018– )
Episode:
Why is the speed of light what it is? Maxwell equations visualized
(2020)
13 min | Documentary
After a brief introduction to magnetism and electricity Arvin shows how to calculate the speed of light using Maxwell's equations. He also shares why Maxwell modified the equations ... See full summary »
Star: Arvin Ash
48.
DoS - Domain of Science (2010– )
Episode:
If You Don't Understand Quantum Physics, Try This!
(2019)
13 min | Documentary
The problem with reality at the atomic level is matter behaves like a particle and a wave. Matter travels as a wave but we tend to experience it as particles. Quantum mechanics handle this ... See full summary »
Star: Dominic Walliman
49.
DoS - Domain of Science (2010– )
Episode:
The Map of Mathematics
(2017)
11 min | Documentary
Mathematics is huge area study since it underpins all the fields of science as well as being a field, or rather many fields, of it's own. Dominic provides an overview of the various fields ... See full summary »
Star: Dominic Walliman
50.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Why Scientists Keep Trying to Break This 18th Century Law
(2020)
6 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Coulomb's law states that the force between two electrical changes varies with the square of their distances - exactly the square of their distances. Newton thought the same was true for ... See full summary »
Star: Stefan Chin