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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: 989,965 | Gross: $170.74M
2. Morbius (2022)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris
Votes: 154,272 | Gross: $73.87M
3. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.
Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt
Votes: 524,814 | Gross: $134.52M
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: 178,893 | Gross: $79.37M
5. Selma (2014)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 95,625 | Gross: $52.08M
6. The Prize (1963)
Approved | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker
Votes: 5,330 | Gross: $7.70M
7. Radioactive (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin
Votes: 21,864
8. Orange County (2002)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.
Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison
Votes: 52,019 | Gross: $41.03M
9. Guardians of the Formula (2023)
120 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.
Director: Dragan Bjelogrlic | Stars: Alexis Manenti, Radivoje Bukvic, Lionel Abelanski, Jérémie Laheurte
Votes: 3,166
10. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
210 min | Drama, Romance
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten
Votes: 6,747
11. Dark Matter (I) (2007)
R | 88 min | Drama
Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen | Stars: Ye Liu, Aidan Quinn, Meryl Streep, Peng Chi
Votes: 3,666 | Gross: $0.03M
12. Henry Fool (1997)
R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama
An introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter
Votes: 7,910 | Gross: $1.34M
13. The Lady (2011)
R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse
Votes: 11,308 | Gross: $0.36M
14. The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas
Votes: 13,397
15. Breakfast of Champions (1999)
R | 110 min | Comedy
A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 8,253 | Gross: $0.18M
16. Nobel Son (2007)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A professor of chemistry wins the Nobel Prize. His wife joins him to Stockholm but his PhD. working son gets kidnapped. The kidnapper demands $2,000,000 = prize sum.
Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen
Votes: 6,147 | Gross: $0.54M
17. The Chairman (1969)
M/PG | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie
Votes: 1,417
18. Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton
Votes: 1,456
19. The Statue (1971)
R | 84 min | Comedy
A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.
Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell
Votes: 313 | Gross: $0.22M
20. Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Reporter Annika is at the Nobel prize awards, when shooting kills a woman and wounds an Israeli stem cell scientist. Annika is silenced as witness, so she investigates the killed woman while the press writes about the Israeli.
Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Malin Crépin, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée, Kajsa Ernst
Votes: 2,907
21. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)
PG | 125 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Lillian Carter, Elizabeth Hayes
Votes: 958 | Gross: $0.11M
22. El-Rahinah (2006)
96 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Mostafa, is a young man travelled to Ukraine seeking work opportunity with Egyptian community there. Accidentally he became engaged in a kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist.
Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Yasmin Abdulaziz, Nour, Maged El-Kidwani
Votes: 1,749
23. Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001)
312 min | Biography, Drama
Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Monica Bleibtreu, Jürgen Hentsch, Veronica Ferres
Votes: 714
24. Jim Allison: Breakthrough (2019)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Renegade Texan scientist Jim Allison devotes his life work to find a cure for cancer after the disease takes the life of his mother.
Director: Bill Haney | Stars: Jim Allison, Sharon Belvin, Eric Benson, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 231
25. The Red Wolf (2012 Video)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tabloid crime reporter Annika investigates a murder in Luleå. Is it related to an F21 jet fighter bombed 40 years ago? Annika has relationship problems.
Director: Agneta Fagerström-Olsson | Stars: Malin Crépin, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée, Kajsa Ernst
Votes: 1,707
26. Crimes of Passion: Dangerous Dreams (2013 TV Movie)
92 min | Crime, Thriller
Puck has managed to get a job working for the eccentric Nobel Literature Prize laureate Andreas Hallman. Hallman is charming and genial, but also a neurotic tyrant. He forces his wife, his ... See full summary »
Director: Molly Hartleb | Stars: Tuva Novotny, Linus Wahlgren, Ola Rapace, Björn Andersson
Votes: 696
27. Bedlam (2015)
R | 102 min | Horror, Thriller
George is a haunted man. He enters Bedlam Hospital for a guaranteed recovery, but it is a world darker than even his demons could conjure. Once, he fought for sanity, now he fights to survive. Welcome to Bedlam.
Director: Chew Barker | Stars: Guy Edmonds, John Boxer, Peter McAllum, Cassandra Swaby
Votes: 286
28. Swedenhielms (1935)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an ... See full summary »
Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Björn Berglund, Håkan Westergren, Tutta Rolf
Votes: 362
29. The End of Poverty? (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary
A phenomenal discourse on why poverty exists when there is so much wealth in the world. A must see for anyone wanting to understand not only the US economic system but the foundations of today's global economy.
Director: Philippe Diaz | Stars: Martin Sheen, Amartya Sen, John Perkins, Eric Toussaint
Votes: 469 | Gross: $0.06M
30. Glory Enough for All (1988 TV Movie)
192 min | Drama
A dramatised account of the Nobel Prize winning discovery of Insulin by Fred Banting, Charles Best, J. J. R. Macleod & James Collip at the University of Toronto 1921-22.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Robert Wisden, John Woodvine, Michael Zelniker
Votes: 74
31. Laboratory Greece (2019)
165 min | Documentary
A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.
Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos
Votes: 32
32. Ardiente paciencia (1983)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor postman in Isla Negra, Chile, befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help in writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Director: Antonio Skármeta | Stars: Óscar Castro, Roberto Parada, Marcela Osorio, Naldy Hernandez
Votes: 149
33. José and Pilar (2010)
117 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
Director: Miguel Gonçalves Mendes | Stars: João Afonso, Àngels Barceló, Pilar del Río, Juan Echanove
Votes: 2,491
34. The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 58 min | Documentary
Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms and reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem solvers came from, how they work, and what they have achieved.
Director: David Briggs | Stars: Marcus du Sautoy, Björn Bringert, Patrick Prosser, Leslie Ann Goldberg
Votes: 945
35. Alfred (1995)
118 min | Biography, Drama
The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel-Prize.
Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Sven Wollter, Rita Russek, Judit Danyi, Féodor Atkine
Votes: 142
36. Eine Liebe für den Frieden - Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel (2014 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama, History
An unusual woman, a dramatic life: Bertha von Suttner never had it easy. Although she was born as Countess Kinsky and was highly educated, she and her family do not enjoy a good reputation.... See full summary »
Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Sebastian Koch, Philipp Hochmair, Sona MacDonald
Votes: 145
37. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 TV Movie)
84 min | Biography, History
A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.
Director: Alain Brunard | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Bateau, Patrick Descamps
Votes: 47
38. Selma (2008 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Drama about Swedish world renowned novelist Selma Lagerlöf's life. In the first part, Selma is in Sicily with her lover Sophie Elkan. The second part is years later, when Selma receives the Nobel Price.
Director: Erik Leijonborg | Stars: Helena Bergström, Alexandra Rapaport, Nina Zanjani, Ola Rapace
Votes: 205
39. In Search of Memory (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
A documentary biopic about Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most important neural scientists of the 20th century.
Director: Petra Seeger | Stars: Eric Kandel, Josh Dudman, Heinz Fischer, Markus Giefing
Votes: 158
40. Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)
52 min | Documentary
KURU: THE SCIENCE AND THE SORCERY follows Australian scientist, Michael Alpers, deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea; into a mysterious world of sorcery, cannibalism and tribal conflict.
Director: Rob Bygott | Stars: Russ Harris, Michael Alpers, Pako Ombeya, Atenamu Bavasa
Votes: 46
41. The Innocence of the Spider (2011)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two girls fall in love with their new Biology teacher. As their obsession grows to insane levels, the young man shows interest in a female colleague, so the girls plot to separate the couple.
Director: Sebastián Caulier | Stars: Juan Gil Navarro, Gabriela Pastor, Lourdes Rodas, Renata Mussano
Votes: 54
42. Detective Lovelorn und die Rache des Pharao (2002)
87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A 3469 years old Pharaoh wants to destroy the world. Find him and blow him away. Childs play, one may think...
Director: Thomas Frick | Stars: Misel Maticevic, Eva Haßmann, Reiner Schöne, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 103
43. Dubbelstötarna (1980)
172 min | Comedy, Crime
A school principal and a doctor plan to rob a bank.
Stars: Björn Gustafson, Frej Lindqvist, Dan Ekborg, Gunilla Olsson
Votes: 185
44. Chasing Einstein (2019)
82 min | Documentary
Nobody has managed to topple Einstein's theory of relativity, even though it leads to the shocking conclusion that most of the universe must be made of a mysterious form of invisible matter... See full summary »
Directors: Steve Brown, Timothy Wheeler | Stars: Elena Aprile, Barry Barish, Laura Baudis, James Beacham
Votes: 45
45. The Story of Alfred Nobel (1939)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography, Drama
This short explains why Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, founded the prizes named after him.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: John Nesbitt, Gene Coogan, Lalo Encinas, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 113
46. Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite (1983 TV Movie)
35 min | Documentary, Biography
Directors: Olle Häger, Hans Villius | Stars: John Zacharias, Pernilla August, Margreth Weivers, Hans Villius
Votes: 12
47. Valley of the Eagles (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Jack Warner, Nadia Gray, John McCallum, Anthony Dawson
Votes: 247
48. Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy: Fallen Idol (2009 Video)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history in space may not have happened at all?
Directors: Denny Hooten, Samuel Oldham | Stars: Gordon Feller, Yuri Gagarin, Elliott Gould, Elliott Haimoff
Votes: 24
49. The Real Doctor Zhivago (2017 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary
The story behind the novel "Doctor Zhivago", written by Boris Pasternak who won the Nobel Prize for Literature shortly after the novel's publication in the West.
Director: George Cathro | Stars: Stephen Smith, Boris Pasternak, Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis, Ann Pasternak Slater
Votes: 8
50. Vladimir Ilyushin: The Real First Man in Space (2000 Video)
Documentary
Profiling the real first man in space, who could not be presented to the world by the former Soviet Union as the returning, conquering hero, due to the fact that he crash landed and was ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Haimoff