Best Movies About Geniuses

Will Hunting, a genius in mathematics, solves all the difficult mathematical problems. When he faces an emotional crisis, he takes help from psychiatrist Dr. Sean Maguireto, who helps him recover.

John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematical genius, finds himself in pain when he encounters a cruel disorder. He ultimately overcomes his struggles and emerges free of any trauma.

Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr Watson have managed to incarcerate Lord Blackwood, a dreaded serial killer who is later executed. However, Blackwood seems to have come back from the dead.

Numbers whiz Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is stunted by psychological delusions of paranoia and debilitating headaches. He lives in a messy Chinatown apartment, where he tinkers with equations and his homemade, super-advanced computer. One day, however, Cohen encounters a mysterious number. Soon after reporting his discovery to his mentor (Mark Margolis) and to a religious friend (Ben Shenkman), he finds himself the target of ill-intentioned Wall Street agents bent on using the number for profit.

In 1913, brilliant South Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) travels to Trinity College in England to work with professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons).

British mathematician Alan Turing joins the cryptography team to help decrypt the Enigma code but builds his own machine that is a prototype of the modern computer to decipher German codes.

LA-based automobile dealer Charlie is a selfish man. When his estranged father leaves the bulk of his fortunes to someone else, Charlie learns that the person is none other than his reclusive brother.

A family man, who is on the verge of financial and marital ruin, embarks on a journey to find his biological father.

Mark Watney is stranded on the planet of Mars after his crew leaves him behind, presuming him to be dead due to a storm. With minimum supply, Mark struggles to keep himself alive.

Eddie, dismayed by his bleak future, is urged to try a drug that gives him a razor-sharp mind. As he rises in the corporate world, he also attracts the attention of a few negative elements.

Antonio Salieri envies Mozart whom he believes to be a great musician. Having come to the conclusion that Mozart receives divine assistance in his compositions, Salieri turns against God.

Mark Zuckerberg creates a social networking site, Facebook, with the help of his friend Eduardo Saverin. But soon, a string of lies tears their relationship apart even as Facebook connects people.

Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a brilliant student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, needs some quick cash to pay his tuition bills. He joins a group of students who, under the leadership of unorthodox professor Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey), use their math skills to win big in Las Vegas. Seduced by a beautiful teammate (Kate Bosworth) and loads of money, Ben learns that the stakes are higher than he ever imagined when he crosses paths with casino enforcer Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne).

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love but are soon forced to separate. Lyla gives up her newborn to an orphanage. Unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.

When a simple mechanic turns into a genius overnight after a strange incident, he decides to put his brains to good use. But everyone around him suddenly starts growing weary of him.