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Math @ the Movies

A socially awkward math prodigy finds confidence when he earns a spot on the British team at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.

The true story of a troubled Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.

Based on the life of Jaime Escalante at Garfield High School, an East Los Angeles math teacher inspires his eighteen students to excel at the subject and do well on the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam.

The story of how Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.

An Oxford logic professor and graduate student, who meet for the first time when they discover the body of a young woman, join forces to solve the series of murders that follow, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols.

A young woman must come to terms with her deceased father's mental illness while she also deals with her estranged sister and one of her father's former students.

A young mechanic falls in love with Albert Einstein's mathematician niece, and the scientist schemes to make her fall in love with the mechanic.

A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market.

The true story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in rural West Virginia, who seemed destined to repeat his father's harsh life in the coal mines - until he turned his attention to the skies. Based on the memoir Rocket Boys.

Base on the life of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science.

Mona Gray has lived in a hidden world of numbers since her father became ill when she was a child, now at age 20 she helps children discover the joys of math when she finds herself teaching an elementary school math class.

The true-life story of physicist Richard Feynman, who, as a young man fell madly in love with a beautiful young woman, Arline Greenbaum with whom he shared a very special bond. In 1941, when the United States plunged into World War II, Feynman was recruited to work at Los Alamos on the top-secret government project that was to develop the first atomic bomb.

After his girlfriend disappears, code breaker Tom Jericho is summoned by the British government to crack the Nazi's infamous Enigma code, and with the help of fellow code breakers he tries to find out what happened to his missing girlfriend.

Members of a high-tech security firm find themselves blackmailed into helping a government department steal a "black box.".