Movies about mathematics/mathematicians I would like to watch a movie about mathematics/mathematicians (english/french language is OK, italian would be the best! Both real and invented stories are OK, maybe I would prefer something based on a real story). Well, I know maybe just the most famous ones:


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*A beatiful mind (who doesn't know it?!)

*The proof (by the way, do you know whether or not it is based on a real story?)

*Will Hunting 

*"Morte di un matematico napoletano" (I am sorry, I don't know the english name. It's the story of the Italian mathematician Renato Caccioppoli)

*"Pi"
Are there any other? Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance
 A: Alex Kasman has a section of math-themed movies in his excellent "Mathematical Fiction" website, 
http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
One of my favorites is the Tina Fey movie "Mean Girls," which culminates in Lindsay Lohan taking part in a high school math competition.
A: N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös
This is a documentary film. 
It is a while since I last saw it if I rememeber right many interviews with well-known mathematicians (cf. Cast on the linked site), some video snippets from lectures and so on.
If one is interested in information on and around Paul Erdős I definitely recommend it, 
if not, maybe rather not. 
A: I am surprised no-one has mentioned the sexy movie by Ed Frenkel, "Rites of Love and Math"
http://ritesofloveandmath.com/ 
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/04/erotic-equations-love-meets-mathematics-on-film.html
A: Two of the Roberto Rosselini bio-pics have mathematician as subject ...
Cartesius http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382
Blaise Pascal http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839 
A: In connection with the Knill list, certainly "Straw Dogs" is as much about mathematicians as 5/6th of the movies on his list.
A: BBC's documentary 'Dangerous Knowledge' 

Documentary about four of the most
  brilliant mathematicians of all time,
  Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt
  Gödel and Alan Turing, their genius,
  their tragic madness and their
  ultimate suicides.

EDIT: It is free to watch actually: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dangerous-knowledge/
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*The Oxford murders (2008) with a PhD student in mathematics at Oxford.

*Gifted (2017) with a 7 years old gifted girl and containing the Navier–Stokes problem.   
There is a Wikipedia page dedicated to the movies about mathematics or mathematicians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_mathematicians
A: Oliver Knill at Harvard seems to have compiled a nice list here:
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/
Not all the links are solely about math though. Some of them are just clips that have to do with math. However, one of the films listed, Fermat's Room, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/, has got to have the weirdest premise ever:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
Let's just say that I couldn't stop laughing for about a minute after I read this.
A: Now that it's CW: there is the famous "It's my turn", where Jill Clayburgh proves the snake lemma.
A: It's not a movie, but the creator of the show Futurama is a computer scientist and one of the writers is a mathematician.  It has quite a bit of mathematics in it, and a new combinatorics 
result was even proven to resolve the plot of the episode "The Prisoner of Benda"! 
http://gizmodo.com/5618502/futurama-writer-invented-a-new-math-theorem-just-to-use-in-the-show
Here is a website devoted to the mathematics of Futurama:
http://www.futuramamath.com/
In case you can't tell, I like Futurama.
A: Not exactly "about mathematics", but a romance with a mathematician hero (working on the twin prime conjecture, if I recall):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_Has_Two_Faces
A: Not exactly "about mathematics" either, but it features a discussion of Lagrange multipliers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constant_Factor
The Constant Factor (Polish: Constans) is a 1980 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.(At least the last name of the director is Italian...) Since it won some prizes, there may be an Italian or English version around, but I do not know where to find it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080561/ 
A: There is also a Russian movie Sofia Kovalevskaya.
A: Agora (2009) starring Rachel Weisz as Hypatia.
Directed by Alejandro Amenabar, this film contains the best depiction of what it is like to do mathematics that I have seen in a movie. It's also beautifully filmed.
Spoiler alert! Stop reading now if you plan to see the movie.
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The writers chose to (very likely!) bend facts by suggesting that Hypatia deduced that planets orbit in ellipses just before she was stoned to death. Her struggle, however, to solve this problem is given in vignettes stretching over a significant period of time culminating in a great Aha! moment.
