Top 10 Movies About Geniuses of All Time

Amadeus is a historical drama film released in 1984, directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer, adapted from his own play of the same name. The story is set in Vienna, Austria, in the latter half of the 18th century and is a fictionalized account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is prominently featured throughout the film. The plot revolves around the jealousy of the Italian composer Antonio Salieri towards Mozart during the reign of Emperor Joseph II.

Amadeus received a total of 53 nominations and won 40 awards, including eight Oscars (including Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and one Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award. As of 2017, it is the most recent film to win more than one nomination in the Academy Award category for Best Actor. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the film 53rd on its list of 100 greatest films.

The film portrays the lives of two Austrian musical geniuses, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, who both serve the emperor of their nation. Due to Mozart's superior talent, Salieri harbors envy, leading to a soul-changing experience. His growing intent to harm the musical prodigy becomes more apparent.

The Social Network (2010) narrates the birth and evolution of the creators of the social network Facebook – the world's largest social media platform today. In the fall of 2003 at Harvard University, computer prodigy Mark Zuckerberg (portrayed by actor Jesse Eisenberg) returns to his room unexpectedly, sits at his computer, and initiates his groundbreaking ideas. Thus, Facebook comes into existence. From this point, his mission becomes intertwined with Facebook's journey through numerous ups and downs, both on the social media stage and in his private life. Six years later, with 500 million friends, Facebook becomes the world's largest social network.

The Social Network is not just the story of Facebook, but also a deep and authentic tale of Mark Zuckerberg's relationships, emotions, friendships, and betrayals. True to the film's poster: 'You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.' The movie, featuring a star-studded cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and the charismatic singer Justin Timberlake, has attracted the interest of many viewers, especially the younger audience and the online community.

A Beautiful Mind portrays the life of mathematician John Nash. As a math student, John Nash lived a solitary life, passionately immersed in research, and struggled with delusional episodes; he was once mockingly dubbed 'Great John Nash' after losing a chess game.

Discovering a new theorem earned him a crucial position and later a professorship, but his delusions intensified. Haunted by the obligation to work for a secretive organization in the interest of national security, John Nash quietly prepared documents for a non-existent purpose.

The love of a fellow student, later his life companion, helped him overcome his delusions. Nash went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics, and his mathematical contributions impacted global commerce. John Nash, a remarkable individual, devoted his life to mathematics, facing bitter challenges that ordinary people could hardly overcome, fulfilling his divine mission in the world of mathematics where great minds endure hardships beyond the grasp of many.

Da Vinci's Demons is an American-British television series depicting the young life of the brilliant artist, inventor, and polymath Leonardo Da Vinci. It aired on Fox and Starz channels. Created and written by David S. Goyer, produced by BBC's Adjacent Productions, the series was filmed at Bay Studios in Neath, Port Talbot, and Swansea, Wales.

Presented in a historical drama style, the show explores untold stories of Da Vinci, who made groundbreaking 'inventions' at the age of 25, a time in history when 'thought and faith are controlled... he's a fighter against it to steer intellectual freedom.'

The secret history of Leonardo Da Vinci's fascinating life unfolds, depicting a young man tormented by the extraordinary gifts of genius: a nonconformist wanting to expose the deceit of religion, a rebel seeking to overthrow an elitist society, and a wild child yearning for recognition from his father. Leonardo is caught in the whirlwind of a storm formed centuries ago: a conflict between truth and deception, religion and reason, past, and future. The mysterious forces' desires compel him to engage in a 'seductive game,' featuring discovery and intellectual tension more than its eventual outcome.

Facing an unpredictable future, the quest for creativity becomes a game transcending the supreme limits of reason. Da Vinci, later shrouded in his genius, emerges as an unstoppable force of darkness that took a considerable time to illuminate.

Jobs is an American biographical television film from 2013 based on the life of Steve Jobs, covering the period from 1974 as a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, written by Matt Whiteley, and produced by Stern and Mark Hulme.

Jobs recounts the youthful story of Steve Jobs from 1971 to 1991. The student expelled from Reed College, Steve Jobs, once struggled to find direction in his life. He decided to go to India for enlightenment and experience, like many young people of that era.

However, some time later, he realized he was still a technician for a financially struggling game manufacturing company. He decided to switch to marketing for a computer motherboard manufacturing company founded by his childhood friend, Steve “Woz” Wozniak (played by Josh Gad), the co-founder.

With innate advertising skills and extensive knowledge of information technology, Steve Jobs persuaded the owner of a local electronics company to place a large order. It was during the process of rallying friends to collaborate on making products to sell in his parents' garage that the Apple computer company was born.

With the financial backing of investor Mike Markkula (played by Dermot Mulroney), Woz's prototype developed into the world's first personal computer. Led by Steve Jobs' determination to pursue great achievements, Apple changed the face of the computer industry, forcing large companies like IBM to change course to keep up. As Apple's scale expanded to that of a global corporation, Steve Jobs' perfectionism and uncompromising attitude came back to haunt him.

Set against World War II, when Nazi Germany was rampant, committing atrocities everywhere. The main character in the film is the British mathematician Alan Turing and his team, who are researching and trying to create a machine that can decipher the German Enigma cipher system to anticipate the movements of the German army. When Britain officially declared war on Nazi Germany, the British government was extremely troubled finding someone who could decode the Enigma machine. Of course, Alan Turing's team caught their attention and was recruited shortly thereafter.

Although it is a historical war film, it takes a different tone when discussing the 'Intelligence Front.' The film not only stops there but also criticizes the social norms of Britain at that time, considering homosexuality a grave offense, and mathematician Alan Turing himself is a victim of that norm.

Bringing viewers multiple facets of the war in World War II, the film has been highly praised and received much acclaim from critics. Invite you to watch. The Imitation Game is a historical film, adapted from the documentary Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, directed by Morten Tyldum with the participation of Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong.

The film tells the story of the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and his efforts to decode the Enigma code of Nazi Germany. This saved thousands of innocent lives in World War II against Nazi Germany.

A film about Stephen Hawking, the greatest physicist of the 21st century, with the title of the film being a physical hypothesis about cosmology, but the film is classified as a romantic biography, and the content is touching and somewhat understandable.

This is a fairy tale about a man who changed the world and the love that changed him. A scientific genius afflicted with a debilitating illness, unable to eat and speak since childhood and predicted to live only a few years, is now nearly 80 years old and has made significant contributions to the field of physics; a beautiful and intelligent literature student determined to marry her love when he is sick and has been taking care of him and their three children for over 30 years.

'The Theory of Everything' has told a true fairy tale of the 21st century, and this will be a great movie for those who want to find faith in both their career and love.

Based on the memoir 'Max Perkins: Editor of Genius' by award-winning author A. Scott Berg, 'Genius' revolves around the authentic relationship between the literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and the renowned editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth). Gaining fame and critical acclaim from a very young age, Wolfe is a brilliant talent but comes with a flamboyant personality.

In contrast, Perkins is one of the most famous and respected literary editors of all time, who discovered great novelists like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Between Wolfe and Perkins develops a friendship that is both serene and complex, a friendship that will forever change the lives of these two great but contrasting men.

The Man Who Knew Infinity is a biographical drama film based on the book of the same name by author Robert Kanigel - published in 1991. The film revolves around the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan (portrayed by Dev Patel - the lead in the movie Slumdog Millionaire).

Born into a poor family in Madras, India, he rose above his circumstances and earned a scholarship to the prestigious Cambridge University during World War I. Here, under the guidance of Professor G. H. Hardy (played by Jeremy Irons), he formulated numerous mathematical theories. The movie is based on true events about the mathematician Srinivasa. The story of this mathematical prodigy became known to both Indian and British societies. Enjoy watching!

In the race to send humans into space, America competing against Russia, NASA discovered untapped talent from a group of mathematicians, African-American women, serving as the brilliant minds behind one of the greatest organizations in the history of the United States. Based on the incredible true stories of three of these women, known as 'living computers.'

They quickly rose through the ranks of NASA alongside some of the greatest minds in history and were assigned the special task of calculating the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, ensuring his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson overcame all boundaries of gender, race, and profession with their excellence and determination to dream. Achieving anything with their capabilities in the race of humanity, contributing to etching their names in the history of the United States as true American heroes.