List of films about mathematicians

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This is a list of feature films that include a mathematician (or scientist who uses a lot of math) as one of the main characters.

To Sir, with Love (1967) - Engineer Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) becomes a teacher.
Straw Dogs (1971) - David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is an American mathematical physicist who moves to England, where he and his wife are violently harassed by locals.
It's My Turn (1980) - A mathematics professor (Jill Clayburgh) falls in love with her father's bride's son (Michael Douglas).
Stand and Deliver (1988) - Based on the true story of math teacher Jaime Escalante, who inspired the students in a school in a Hispanic neighborhood.
Sneakers (1992) - An eclectic team is assembled to steal a code-breaking box developed by a rogue mathematician.
I.Q. (1994) - Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) helps a young man (Tim Robbins) pretend to be a physicist in order to catch the attention of Einstein's niece (Meg Ryan).
Antonia's Line (1995) - A genealogical "line" of five generations of women includes a child prodigy, Thérèse, who grows up to be a mathematician.
Infinity (1996) - A story about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick).
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) - A math professor (Jeff Bridges) marries a literature professor (Barbra Streisand), but they want different things from the relationship.
Good Will Hunting (1997) - Janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) begins to turn his life around with the help of a psychologist (Robin Williams) and a Fields Medal-winning professor (Stellan Skarsgård).
Pi (1998) - A mathematician searches for the number that underlies all of nature.
A Beautiful Mind (2001) - An account of mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe), who makes a breakthrough that will win him the Nobel Prize in economics.
21 Grams (2003) - An accident changes many lives, including that of a critically ill mathematics professor (Sean Penn).
Proof (2005) - The daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) of a brilliant mathematician (Anthony Hopkins) worries that she may be going insane, as her father did. Meanwhile, she argues with one of her father's students (Jake Gyllenhaal) about whether they should publish a theorem that was found among her father's notebooks.