Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.

Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge

2016

French

5.6

♡ 6

65%

Marie Noëlle Director

Sabin Tambrea as August Gyldenstople

Daniel Olbrychski as Emile Amagat

Christian Harting as Journalist

Anna Thalbach as Woman in the crowd

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

2015

French

7.7

♡ 5

David Korn-Brzoza Director

Charles Chaplin as Self

Harry S. Truman as Self

Sarah Churchill as Self

Diana Churchill as Self

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.

Radioactive

2019

English

6.3

♡ 46

63%

42%

Action

based on novel or book

Marjane Satrapi Director

Jonathan Aris as Hetreed

Anya Taylor-Joy as Irene

Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie

Balázs Veres as Paris Gentleman / Ocultism Man

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

The Prize

1963

English

6.8

♡ 9

50%

66%

Action

author

based on novel or book

Mark Robson Director

Ron Nyman as Burly Swede

Noel Drayton as Constable Ströhm

Kevin McCarthy as Dr. John Garrett

Gregg Palmer as Swedish Commentator

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.

Young Einstein

1988

English

5.2

♡ 12

36%

Yahoo Serious Director

Adam Bowen as Marconi

Max Meldrum as Mr. Curie

John Howard as Preston Preston

Kaarin Fairfax as The Brunette

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.

This Island Earth

1955

English

5.9

♡ 10

75%

45%

Action

extraterrestrial technology

Jack Arnold Director

Jeff Morrow as Exeter

Jack Byron as Photographer

Edward Hearn as Reporter

Douglas Spencer as The Monitor

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

The Wife

2017

English

7.2

♡ 53

85%

77%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

Björn Runge Director

Elizabeth McGovern as Elaine Mozell

Jonathan Pryce as Joe Castleman

Christian Slater as Nathaniel Bone

Ossian Skarsgård as Young David Voice

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Colette

2018

English

6.7

♡ 60

87%

Wash Westmoreland Director

Keira Knightley as Colette

Eleanor Tomlinson as Georgie Raoul-Duval

Robert Pugh as Jules

Dominic West as Willy

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

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