Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "nobel-prize"

1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 986,948 | Gross: $170.74M

2. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt

Votes: 523,506 | Gross: $134.52M

3. Morbius (2022)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.

Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris

Votes: 153,398 | Gross: $73.87M

4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith

Votes: 178,541 | Gross: $79.37M

5. Selma (2014)

PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 95,470 | Gross: $52.08M

6. Radioactive (2019)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.

Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin

Votes: 21,726

7. Orange County (2002)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.

Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison

Votes: 51,939 | Gross: $41.03M

8. The Mother and the Whore (1973)

210 min | Drama, Romance

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten

Votes: 6,691

9. Guardians of the Formula (2023)

120 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Director: Dragan Bjelogrlic | Stars: Alexis Manenti, Radivoje Bukvic, Lionel Abelanski, Jérémie Laheurte

Votes: 3,057

10. The Prize (1963)

Approved | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker

Votes: 5,279 | Gross: $7.70M

11. The Distinguished Citizen (2016)

118 min | Comedy, Drama

A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.

Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas

Votes: 13,338

12. The Lady (2011)

R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse

Votes: 11,290 | Gross: $0.36M

13. Henry Fool (1997)

R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama

An introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter

Votes: 7,878 | Gross: $1.34M

14. Breakfast of Champions (1999)

R | 110 min | Comedy

A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney, Barbara Hershey

Votes: 8,247 | Gross: $0.18M

15. Dark Matter (I) (2007)

R | 88 min | Drama

Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.

Director: Shi-Zheng Chen | Stars: Ye Liu, Aidan Quinn, Meryl Streep, Peng Chi

Votes: 3,658 | Gross: $0.03M

16. The Chairman (1969)

M/PG | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie

Votes: 1,414

17. Nobel Son (2007)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A professor of chemistry wins the Nobel Prize. His wife joins him to Stockholm but his PhD. working son gets kidnapped. The kidnapper demands $2,000,000 = prize sum.

Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 6,142 | Gross: $0.54M

18. Desire Under the Elms (1958)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton

Votes: 1,448

19. El-Rahinah (2006)

96 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Mostafa, is a young man travelled to Ukraine seeking work opportunity with Egyptian community there. Accidentally he became engaged in a kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist.

Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Yasmin Abdulaziz, Nour, Maged El-Kidwani

Votes: 1,736

20. Nobel's Last Will (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Reporter Annika is at the Nobel prize awards, when shooting kills a woman and wounds an Israeli stem cell scientist. Annika is silenced as witness, so she investigates the killed woman while the press writes about the Israeli.

Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Malin Crépin, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée, Kajsa Ernst

Votes: 2,904

21. Bedlam (2015)

R | 102 min | Horror, Thriller

George is a haunted man. He enters Bedlam Hospital for a guaranteed recovery, but it is a world darker than even his demons could conjure. Once, he fought for sanity, now he fights to survive. Welcome to Bedlam.

Director: Chew Barker | Stars: Guy Edmonds, John Boxer, Peter McAllum, Cassandra Swaby

Votes: 287

22. The Statue (1971)

R | 84 min | Comedy

A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell

Votes: 313 | Gross: $0.22M

23. Glory Enough for All (1988 TV Movie)

192 min | Drama

A dramatised account of the Nobel Prize winning discovery of Insulin by Fred Banting, Charles Best, J. J. R. Macleod & James Collip at the University of Toronto 1921-22.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Robert Wisden, John Woodvine, Michael Zelniker

Votes: 74

24. Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001)

312 min | Biography, Drama

Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.

Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Monica Bleibtreu, Jürgen Hentsch, Veronica Ferres

Votes: 714

25. José and Pilar (2010)

117 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.

Director: Miguel Gonçalves Mendes | Stars: João Afonso, Àngels Barceló, Pilar del Río, Juan Echanove

Votes: 2,489

26. Jim Allison: Breakthrough (2019)

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary

Renegade Texan scientist Jim Allison devotes his life work to find a cure for cancer after the disease takes the life of his mother.

Director: Bill Haney | Stars: Jim Allison, Sharon Belvin, Eric Benson, Woody Harrelson

Votes: 229

27. The End of Poverty? (2008)

Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary

A phenomenal discourse on why poverty exists when there is so much wealth in the world. A must see for anyone wanting to understand not only the US economic system but the foundations of today's global economy.

Director: Philippe Diaz | Stars: Martin Sheen, Amartya Sen, John Perkins, Eric Toussaint

Votes: 468 | Gross: $0.06M

28. The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 58 min | Documentary

Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms and reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem solvers came from, how they work, and what they have achieved.

Director: David Briggs | Stars: Marcus du Sautoy, Björn Bringert, Patrick Prosser, Leslie Ann Goldberg

Votes: 945

29. Ardiente paciencia (1983)

80 min | Drama, Romance

A poor postman in Isla Negra, Chile, befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help in writing poems to the woman of his dreams.

Director: Antonio Skármeta | Stars: Óscar Castro, Roberto Parada, Marcela Osorio, Naldy Hernandez

Votes: 149

30. The Red Wolf (2012 Video)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tabloid crime reporter Annika investigates a murder in Luleå. Is it related to an F21 jet fighter bombed 40 years ago? Annika has relationship problems.

Director: Agneta Fagerström-Olsson | Stars: Malin Crépin, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée, Kajsa Ernst

Votes: 1,702

31. Selma (2008 TV Movie)

120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Drama about Swedish world renowned novelist Selma Lagerlöf's life. In the first part, Selma is in Sicily with her lover Sophie Elkan. The second part is years later, when Selma receives the Nobel Price.

Director: Erik Leijonborg | Stars: Helena Bergström, Alexandra Rapaport, Nina Zanjani, Ola Rapace

Votes: 205

32. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)

PG | 125 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Lillian Carter, Elizabeth Hayes

Votes: 956 | Gross: $0.11M

33. Crimes of Passion: Dangerous Dreams (2013 TV Movie)

92 min | Crime, Thriller

Puck has managed to get a job working for the eccentric Nobel Literature Prize laureate Andreas Hallman. Hallman is charming and genial, but also a neurotic tyrant. He forces his wife, his ... See full summary »

Director: Molly Hartleb | Stars: Tuva Novotny, Linus Wahlgren, Ola Rapace, Björn Andersson

Votes: 693

34. Eine Liebe für den Frieden - Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel (2014 TV Movie)

88 min | Biography, Drama, History

An unusual woman, a dramatic life: Bertha von Suttner never had it easy. Although she was born as Countess Kinsky and was highly educated, she and her family do not enjoy a good reputation.... See full summary »

Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Sebastian Koch, Philipp Hochmair, Sona MacDonald

Votes: 144

35. Laboratory Greece (2019)

165 min | Documentary

A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos

Votes: 32

36. Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)

52 min | Documentary

KURU: THE SCIENCE AND THE SORCERY follows Australian scientist, Michael Alpers, deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea; into a mysterious world of sorcery, cannibalism and tribal conflict.

Director: Rob Bygott | Stars: Russ Harris, Michael Alpers, Pako Ombeya, Atenamu Bavasa

Votes: 46

37. Alfred (1995)

118 min | Biography, Drama

The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel-Prize.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Sven Wollter, Rita Russek, Judit Danyi, Féodor Atkine

Votes: 142

38. Swedenhielms (1935)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an ... See full summary »

Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Björn Berglund, Håkan Westergren, Tutta Rolf

Votes: 362

39. Dubbelstötarna (1980)

172 min | Comedy, Crime

A school principal and a doctor plan to rob a bank.

Stars: Björn Gustafson, Frej Lindqvist, Dan Ekborg, Gunilla Olsson

Votes: 185

40. Valley of the Eagles (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen ... See full summary »

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Jack Warner, Nadia Gray, John McCallum, Anthony Dawson

Votes: 247

41. Große Momente - Bilder, die Österreich bewegten (2023)

98 min | Documentary, History

The two-part ORF III production "Great Moments - Pictures that Moved Austria" celebrates iconic photographs capturing decisive moments of the 1970s and 1980s, creating a fascinating ... See full summary »

Directors: Josef Pallwein-Prettner, Norman Vaughan | Stars: Kristian Bissuti, Peter Coeln, Toni Faber, Peter Filzmaier

42. Chasing Einstein (2019)

82 min | Documentary

Nobody has managed to topple Einstein's theory of relativity, even though it leads to the shocking conclusion that most of the universe must be made of a mysterious form of invisible matter... See full summary »

Directors: Steve Brown, Timothy Wheeler | Stars: Elena Aprile, Barry Barish, Laura Baudis, James Beacham

Votes: 45

43. Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy (1980 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

"Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy" is a portrait of the eminent Nobel Prize winning physicist who greatly advanced our knowledge of the atom. Bethe discusses the milestones of his career: his ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Blackwood | Stars: Hans Bethe, Jon Bird

44. Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite (1983 TV Movie)

35 min | Documentary, Biography

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Directors: Olle Häger, Hans Villius | Stars: John Zacharias, Pernilla August, Margreth Weivers, Hans Villius

Votes: 12

45. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 TV Movie)

84 min | Biography, History

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.

Director: Alain Brunard | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Bateau, Patrick Descamps

Votes: 47

46. Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007)

75 min | Drama

Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist cinema, Sophisticated Acquaintance tells the story of a tormented individual whose short life and long death were... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Kremer | Stars: John Gross, Ernst Hohmann, Katya Quinn-Judge, Kris Caltagirone

Votes: 12

47. Detective Lovelorn und die Rache des Pharao (2002)

87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A 3469 years old Pharaoh wants to destroy the world. Find him and blow him away. Childs play, one may think...

Director: Thomas Frick | Stars: Misel Maticevic, Eva Haßmann, Reiner Schöne, Horst Buchholz

Votes: 103

48. Vladimir Ilyushin: The Real First Man in Space (2000 Video)

Documentary

Profiling the real first man in space, who could not be presented to the world by the former Soviet Union as the returning, conquering hero, due to the fact that he crash landed and was ... See full summary »

Director: Elliott Haimoff

49. The Innocence of the Spider (2011)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two girls fall in love with their new Biology teacher. As their obsession grows to insane levels, the young man shows interest in a female colleague, so the girls plot to separate the couple.

Director: Sebastián Caulier | Stars: Juan Gil Navarro, Gabriela Pastor, Lourdes Rodas, Renata Mussano

Votes: 54

50. The Story of Alfred Nobel (1939)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography, Drama

This short explains why Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, founded the prizes named after him.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: John Nesbitt, Gene Coogan, Lalo Encinas, Paul Guilfoyle

Votes: 113