Stand and Deliver (1988) - This brilliant drama's based on the true story of Jaime Escalante, a high-school teacher, who successfully inspires his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
21 (2008) - A group of MIT current and former students, mostly mathematicians, and a mathematics professor devise a card counting scheme for success at Las Vegas Strip blackjack tables.X+Y / A brilliant young mind (2014) - A teenage mathematical prodigy has difficulty understanding people, but finds comfort in numbers.An Invisible Sign (2011) - Mona (Jessica Alba) gives up everything important to her in life, except maths, as part of a 'deal with the universe' to help restore her father (a mathematician) to health.Cube (1997) – Six people, including Leaven, a maths student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principlesThe Bank (2001) – A mathematician discovers a formula to predict fluctuations in the stock market.Code Breaker (2011) - A well-crafted biopic on Alan Turing, the British math genius, who cracked the enigma code, and wrote a paper laying out the original plan for computers.Fermat's Room (2007) - Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great enigma, and trapped in a room. They must solve puzzles given by the host.Moebius (1996) - Topologists including a young girl make contributions to the subway system and other facets of reality in Argentina in this math film with a science fiction and surreal feel.Gifted (2017) - The intriguing film follows an intellectually gifted 7-year-old with crazy math-skills, who becomes the subject of a custody battle between her uncle and grandmother.Moneyball (2011) - Oakland Athletics baseball team's general manager Billy Beane attempts to assemble a competitive team using statistics.Enigma (2001) - A story of romantic and psychological intrigue set during the WW II, detailing the efforts to crack the German Enigma machine, an encryption device used in military communication.The Oxford Murders (2008) - A student finds out about mysterious killings in Oxford and helped by a professor, they reveal the math patterns used by the killer.Pi (1998) - A mathematician searches for the number that underlies all of nature.The Theory of Everything (2014) : This Cambridge University-set film details the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.Proof (2005) - A former student of a recently deceased, brilliant mathematician finds a note in his office containing a proof of an important theorem but the mathematician's daughter claims it is hersRaising Genius (2004) – The film is about a boy, who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall.Sneakers (1992) – An eclectic team is assembled to steal a code-breaking box developed by a rogue mathematician.Travelling Salesman (2012) – The US government hires four mathematicians to solve the most powerful problem ever to plague computer science (P vs NP problem).Agora (2009) - The biopic of Hypatia, the female mathematician and astronomer in late 4th-century Rome, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model.A Brief History of Time (1991) – A biographical documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris.Infinity (1996) – A rivetting story about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, played by Matthew Broderick.I.Q. (1994) – Albert Einstein helps a young man pretend to be a physicist in order to catch the attention of Einstein's niece.N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős (1993) – A documentary bout the life of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who was known for his eccentric lifestyle.The Imitation Game (2014) – British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer in digital computing and AI, is tasked with cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code that would help the Allies win WW II.The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) – The story of Indian math-wizard, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who develops numerous properties of infinite series as a clerk in India.Good Will Hunting (1997) – Janitor and super-genius Will Hunting (Matt Damon) begins to turn his life around with the help of psychologist (Robin Williams) and a Fields Medal-winning professor.Hidden Figures (2016) – African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are featured in this film about the early years of the NASA Project Mercury.A Beautiful Mind (2001) – A brilliant account based on the life of mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe), who wins the Nobel Memorial, battling schizophrenia all the way.Special mention 1: 90 to Win (2017) Short film - An Indian man quits a stable job to create an alternative to the Duckworth Lewis Method used in Cricket.Special mention 2: Ramanujan (2014) – A biographical film in Tamil by Gnana Rajasekaran, based on the life of Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan.Special mention 3: Super 30 (2019) - This Hindi film tells the real-life story of mathematician Anand Kumar, who trains students for IIT-JEE in Bihar.