In our list of movies about geniuses, we have collected great films about gifted, talented, and often very lonely people. The selection will include brilliant mathematicians and a story about great inventors, engineers, and scientists.
Movies About Geniuses
1. The Imitation Game
Release year: 2014
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Military, Biography
Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Knock on the computer and introduce him to dad – Alan Turing, who in 1936 built the prototype model of a modern device. Turing also saved thousands of lives by developing a machine that helped break the German Enigma, a cipher machine used by Hitler’s navy.
2. Good Will Hunting
Release year: 1997
Genre: Drama, Melodrama
Actors: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
Will Hunting could have tea conversations with Perelman, or even beat Sheldon Cooper in 3D chess and get his seat on the couch. But instead, a guy with an incredible memory and a huge mathematical gift work as a janitor lives in a squalid apartment and refuses to admit that anything is going wrong.
3. Gifted
Release year: 2017
Genre: Drama
Actors: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan
The local genius is the girl Mary, whose mother, also a genius, committed suicide when Mary was only six months old. The film raises an obvious question: do superintelligent children have the right to be children or are they obliged to devote their whole lives to the realization of their gift for the benefit of science and humanity?
4. The Social Network
Release year: 2010
Genre: Drama, Biography
Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Andrew Garfield
The fall of Clubhouse and the hunt for Telegram are small things, the real drama about the social network is played out in this film. More precisely, it played out in life and then moved to the book and on the screen. And the essence of the drama is simple: the genius, who created an excellent platform for communication and finding friends, lost all his real friends and was left alone with his creation.
5. Hawking
Release year: 2004
Genre: Drama, Biography
Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins
Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous physicists of our time. The number of medals and awards from Hawking on Wikipedia had to be divided into two columns so as not to stretch into an endless canvas.
6. Hitchcock
Release year: 2012
Genre: Drama, Biography, History
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson
“Hitchcock” not only tells the story of the creation of “Psycho”, but also attempts to tell about the director’s personality, the women around him, about the ineradicable irony and black humor that followed the master of suspense on a dense train. By the way, how do you like the idea of giving a five-year-old child a doll with his mother’s face in a toy coffin? Hitchcock thought it was witty.
7. Pi
Release year: 1998
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Actors: Sean Gullet, Mark Margolis, Ben Shankman
A creepy thriller in which stock clerks, religious fanatics, and a suspicious girl with a calculator hunt for one very long number. This number was revealed to the mathematician Max, and this guy had enough problems even without close attention from the side.
8. Einstein and Eddington
Release year: 2008
Genre: Drama, Biography, History
Actors: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy
Eve of the First World War. The German physicist Einstein is a pacifist and devotes all his genius to the development of theories, not practical military solutions.
9. Proof
Release year: 2005
Genre: Drama, Detective
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal
The ingenious mathematics professor Robert achieved recognition in the scientific community by the age of twenty: he spawned progressive theories, discovered new vectors of study, and infected students with his fanaticism.
It presented a sad story about a child prodigy, and a film about how high IQ scores are not always more important than a test of humanity, a stylish thriller for those who like to look for the secret signs of the universe in random numbers, and a movie about what a great gift, as well as large living space, huge bills come.