English movies about scientists

List of the best English movies about brilliant scientists selected by visitors to our site: Annihilation, The Theory of Everything, A Sound of Thunder, Oppenheimer, The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, Victor Frankenstein, Murder on the Home Front, The Professor and the Madman, The Aeronauts.

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

Country
Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:45

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

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: 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: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:40

      Ray Winstone heads a cast of acclaimed actors in four H. G. Wells stories

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:28

      The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate of the Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist, but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:52

        Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:31

        At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
        Duration02:04

        Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
        CountryAustria, United Kingdom, Germany, France

        A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredocumentary, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Discover the meteoric rise of Elon Musk, the man who is transforming the way we think about travel technology through electric cars, the Hyperloop, and revolutionary ideas on how we live through artificial intelligence and colonizing Mars.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredocumentary
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:30

        Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
        Duration02:10

        A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom
        Duration02:22

        Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan
        Duration01:25

        In England, a group of space scientists, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredocumentary, history
        CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
        Duration02:20

        The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, thriller, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:08

        Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
        Duration02:49

          Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:53

          Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:29

          James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genreaction, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy
          Duration01:55

          Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredocumentary
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:30

          In this one-off documentary, Space Dive tells the behind-the-scenes story of Felix Baumgartner's historic, record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth. The world watched with bated breath when Felix became the first person to freefall through the sound barrier on 15 October 2012, after jumping from 128,100ft (24 miles) from the edge of space.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India

          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, G.H. Hardy.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genremilitary, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to extract a rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom
          Duration01:30

          Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Republic of Ireland
          Duration01:28

          Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around them seems to be falling apart. A life-affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in turbulent times.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:36

          Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:30

          Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

          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: 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: 6.7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
          CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:13

          The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:40

          A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:34

          A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantastic, action
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia, China
          Duration02:01

          A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Republic of Ireland, USA

          After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genredrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:33

          An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates
          Duration02:33

          A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:13

            In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
            Duration02:07

            In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genreaction, thriller
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
            Duration02:29

              In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

              Markimdb: 5.5
              Genredrama, crime
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration00:30

              Three different deaths. Three unique stories. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genrethriller
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration02:23

              After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.

              Markimdb: 5.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action
              CountryUSA, Canada, Indonesia, United Kingdom, China, Singapore
              Duration02:09

              Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration01:43

              As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredocumentary, music, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration02:05

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              Markimdb: 4.6
              Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration02:37

              The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.




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