American movies about scientists

List of the best American movies about brilliant scientists selected by visitors to our site: Dragon Wasps, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Steve Jobs, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Crooked House, Zoe, Oppenheimer, Proximity, Contagion, The Theory of Everything.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:31

    Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:11

    A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.

    Markimdb: 9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA

    A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration01:46

    As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
    Duration02:03

      The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:41

        When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration01:36

        Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

          Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA

          A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:15

          At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he turns to teaching, becoming romantically involved with his student Alicia. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great mathematician we know him as today..

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:41

            An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrefantastic, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            14,000 year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially destroying the world's most popular religion.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:08

            WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrethriller, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

            Markimdb: 4.7
            Genrefantastic, action
            CountryNetherlands, Germany, USA
            Duration02:17

            A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:48

            An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.

            Markimdb: 4.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, musical
            CountryUSA
            Duration00:30

            A straitlaced, square couple, seeking shelter from a storm, find themselves in the castle of a transsexual alien mad scientist intent on creating a buff bodybuilder.

            Markimdb: 2.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrefantastic, action
            CountryUSA, China
            Duration02:07

            Ageing assassin, Henry Brogen tries to get out of the business but finds himself in the ultimate battle—fighting his own clone who is 25 years younger than him, and at the peak of his abilities.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration02:08

              Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
              CountryIceland, Luxembourg, USA
              Duration02:28

              In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.

              Markimdb: 5.3
              Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
              CountryUSA, Canada
              Duration01:29

              Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these monsters who are out for revenge.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, military, history
              CountryUSA

              Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA, China, Japan
              Duration02:03

              Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genredocumentary, biography, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:27

              Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:22

              When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

              Markimdb: 4.2
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
              CountryUSA, Spain
              Duration01:21

              V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

              Markimdb: 5.6
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration02:01

              A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

              Markimdb: 4.3
              Genrefantastic, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:39

              Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

              Markimdb: 4.2
              Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:25

              After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

              Markimdb: 4.1
              Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA, Germany, Belgium
              Duration01:45

              When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.

              Markimdb: 4.8
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
              CountryCanada, USA
              Duration02:16

              In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:04

                Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

                Markimdb: 3.8
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:34

                When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.

                Markimdb: 8
                Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:32

                  Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.

                  Markimdb: 5.2
                  Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:42

                    A comedy about a zookeeper who might be great with animals, but he doesn't know anything about the birds and the bees. The man can't find love, so he decides to quit his job at the zoo, but his animal friends try to stop him and teach him that Mother Nature knows best when it comes to love.

                    Markimdb: 2.9
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
                    CountryUSA

                    A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.

                    Markimdb: 2.4
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:28

                    When the prehistoric warm-water beast the Crocosaurus crosses paths with that cold-water monster the Mega Shark, all hell breaks loose in the oceans as the world's top scientists explore every option to halt the aquatic frenzy. Swallowing everything in their paths -- including a submarine or two -- Croc and Mega lead an explorer and an oceanographer on a wild chase. Eventually, the desperate men turn to a volcano for aid.

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
                    Duration02:09

                    Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:29

                    A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genredocumentary
                    CountryLuxembourg, China, Russia, South Korea, USA
                    Duration02:33

                    A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.

                    Markimdb: 6.8
                    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:44

                    The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA

                    A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genredocumentary, biography
                    CountryUSA

                    Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:16

                    During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies, led by the brash Vidia, launch a daring rescue in the middle of a fierce storm, Tink develops a special bond with the lonely, little girl.




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