Movies about scientists

Movies about scientists
List of the best movies about brilliant scientists selected by visitors to our site: Proximity, Oppenheimer, A Sound of Thunder, The Man Who Knew Infinity, The Time Machine, Radioactive, Life, The Fly, Interstellar, World War Z.

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

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Country
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: 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: 4.2
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: 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: 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: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China, Hungary

    The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:29

      The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Canada
      Duration01:36

      When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

      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
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

          Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantastic, action, adventure
          CountryUSA, Hungary
          Duration01:59

            A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.

            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: 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: 7.6
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountrySpain, USA
            Duration02:00

            A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

            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: 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: 5.3
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
              CountryGermany, Luxembourg

              In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.

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              Genredrama, biography
              CountryRussia

              Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb, someone as an outstanding public figure and human rights activist. All his life Andrei Sakharov lived between two fires - science and humanism - and this dualism formed the basis of the film. The picture will show the scientist as he saw himself, through his dialogues with the Conscience.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrefantastic, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA

              2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

              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: 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: 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: 6.4
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryRussia

                At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genredrama, crime, detective, biography
                CountryUSA

                Based on real life transcripts culled from conversations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy that took place between 1984 and 1989, No Man of God details the complicated relationship that formed between the two men during Bundy’s final years on death row.

                Markimdb: 4.2
                Genrethriller
                CountryGermany, France, Mexico, Bolivia, USA

                A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrefantastic, action, adventure
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration02:05

                With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

                Markimdb: 4.1
                Genrefantastic, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:50

                In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.

                Markimdb: 3.8
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
                CountryUSA

                A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.

                Markimdb: 3.7
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration00:30

                Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.

                Markimdb: 4.7
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action
                CountryUSA, Mexico

                Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.

                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: 5.7
                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: 5.4
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
                Duration02:35

                While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrefantastic
                CountryCanada, USA
                Duration02:00

                An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.

                Markimdb: 5.2
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:00

                Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.

                Markimdb: 5.8
                Genrefantastic, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:49

                The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.

                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: 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: 6.8
                  Genredrama, family
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:53

                  A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

                  Markimdb: 3.5
                  Genrefantastic, action
                  CountryUSA

                  A storm is coming. No one could predict it. No one can measure it. Now one family must survive it. You can't come in from the cold.

                  Markimdb: 6.1
                  Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:34

                  Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on the isla Nublar, so Claire Dearing, the former park manager, recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genrefantastic, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:45

                  A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists, as a 35-year-old with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.

                  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: 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: 5.8
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:23

                  A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.

                  Markimdb: 5.4
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
                  CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
                  Duration01:36

                    The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

                    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
                    CountryUSA

                    Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
                    CountryUSA, Japan, Canada
                    Duration02:28

                    When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

                    Markimdb: 5.3
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
                    Duration02:06

                    When a kid accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled female scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

                    Markimdb: 4.5
                    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure
                    CountryUSA

                    Just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.




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