Question

Recommend me a good math movie that is not the superb "A Beautiful Mind" nor that one of the boy who shoots up rockets. Also, I don't like psychological thrillers (\(\pi\), anyone?).\[\]:3

Answer 1

I wouldn't call "A Beautiful Mind" superb, but okay.

Answer 2

You can't deny the music was amazing, though. :3

Answer 3

"Good Will Hunting"

Answer 4

I haven't heard of that one before. I'll give it a look!

Answer 5

Moneyball if you want most recent.

Answer 6

Batman is a classic.

Answer 7

futurama

Answer 8

She said math movies

Answer 9

"Moneyball" sounds interesting... maybe i'll learn something... :P

Answer 10

How have you not heard of Good Will Hunting across?

Answer 11

21 is awesome I think

Answer 12

AMG you hadn't heard of Good Will Hunting? SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. Also has amazing music (some of the best work of the late Elliott Smith, in my opinion). Better, I think, than both A Beautiful Mind (which I love) and October Sky, which I think is the other one you're talking about.

Moneyball is not really that mathematical, though there's a bit of brief mention.

While it isn't a film, if you can find a production of Arcadia being put on near you (a play by Tom Stoppard), it is very much based around math (it's about a girl in the early 1800s who is essentially a mathematical genius) and deeper concepts (past/future and a few other things).

In a similar vein, Proof is a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and was also excellent. A movie was made in 2005 starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal; I haven't seen it, but it's a solid story and again rooted in math.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is not purely based on math, but it has intellect as a central theme, since it's about one of the greatest chess players of all time.

Contact has a mathematical core with astronomical and sci-fi spokes, it is also a fantastic fantastic movie (one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time).

Stand and Deliver, with Edward James Olmos, is a great movie about a bunch of inner city kids whose teacher elevates them from being terrible students in an AP calculus class to performing quite well on the eventual AP exam. Worth a watch.

Answer 13

I saw that movie searching for bobby fischer ;D a good movie for chess lovers like me

Answer 14

I liked Stand and Deliver.

Answer 15

i saw that as well