Movies like A Beautiful Mind
24 films close to A Beautiful Mind (2001) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
genius, cryptography, code breaking · Drama
based on real person, based on true story · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book, nobel prize, based on true story · Romance, Drama
based on true story · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama · Universal Pictures
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama
based on real person, based on true story · Romance, Drama
mathematician, mathematics, paranoia · Drama
genius, math genius, math professor · Drama
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
based on true story, based on novel or book, biographical drama · Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
paranoia, mathematician, mathematics · Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
mathematician, based on true story, mathematics · Drama
based on true story, based on novel or book · Drama · Universal Pictures
cryptography · Romance, Drama
genius, based on novel or book, love of one's life · Drama
professor, love of one's life · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama · with Christopher Plummer
genius · Romance, Drama
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.