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Films about physicists

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Oppenheimer (film)

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

The Theory of Everything

2014 film directed by James Marsh

2001 film directed by James Mangold

1943 American film by Mervyn LeRoy

Haunted Mansion

2023 film directed by Justin Simien

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984 film by W. D. Richter

2019 film directed by Marjane Satrapi

Nine Days in One Year

1962 film by Mikhail Romm

Cloak and Dagger

1946 film by Fritz Lang

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989 film by Roland Joffé

1963 film by Genrikh Oganessian

1985 film by Nicolas Roeg

A Brief History of Time

1991 American documentary film directed by Errol Morris

The Universal Theory

2023 film by Timm Kröger

The Atomic City

1952 film by Jerry Hopper

Ulagam Sutrum Valiban

1973 Tamil film directed by M. G. Ramachandran

1989 film by Joseph Sargent

The Day After Trinity

1980 film by Jon H. Else

Mindwalk is a 1990 feature film directed by Bernt Capra, adapted from his short story based on The Turning Point, a nonfiction book by physicist Fritjof Capra, his brother.