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15 Movies Like Good Will Hunting (1997)

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) poster

1 The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) ★ 7.2

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In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Forced to leave his young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World War One. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India's greatest modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds.
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2 Peaceful Warrior (2006) ★ 7.2

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Dan Millman has it all: good grades, a shot at the Olympic team on the rings and girls lining up for the handsome Berkely college athlete all teams mates look up to with envy. Only one man shakes his confidence, an anonymous night gas station attendant, who like Socrates, keeps questioning every assumption in his life. Then a traffic crash shatters Dan's legs, and his bright future. Now Socrates's life coaching is to make or break Dan's revised ambition.
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3 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) ★ 9.3

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Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
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4 Gifted (2017) ★ 7.6

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Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
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5 The Theory of Everything (2014) ★ 7.7

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A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
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6 Antwone Fisher (2002) ★ 7.3

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Antwone Fisher is a security guard for Sony Pictures who rose to fame by becoming a famous screenwriter. However, he used to be a sailor, decommissioned because of his overly aggressive behavior.

Here, Fisher decides to make a drastic change in his life and find his parents, who abandoned him when he was still an infant. But in the course of his search, he begins to realize that his life is not changing for the better.

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7 Finding Forrester (2000) ★ 7.3

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Because of scoring exceptionally high on a statewide standardized exam, and being an exceptionally good basketball player, Jamal Wallace is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester.
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8 Forrest Gump (1994) ★ 8.8

The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
As Good as It Gets (1997) poster

9 As Good as It Gets (1997) ★ 7.7

A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

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10 The Social Network (2010) ★ 7.7

The film tells the story of the creation of Facebook, one of the most popular social networks on the Internet. The network's resounding success among users around the world changed the lives of Harvard University classmates who founded it in 2004 and became the youngest multimillionaires in the United States in a few years.
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11 Moneyball (2011) ★ 7.6

A film based on the 2003 book by Michael M. Lewis about the Oakland baseball team and its general manager, Billy Beane. His goal is to build a competitive baseball team despite financial difficulties.
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12 American Beauty (1999) ★ 8.4

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
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13 Scent of a Woman (1992) ★ 8.0

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
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14 Dead Poets Society (1989) ★ 8.1

Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
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15 A Beautiful Mind (2001) ★ 8.2

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From world fame to sinful depths, John Forbes Nash, Jr. A mathematical genius, at the dawn of his career he did titanic work in game theory that turned that branch of mathematics upside down and practically brought him international fame.

However, literally at the same time, the arrogant and successful with women Nash receives a stroke of fate that turns his own life upside down.

A Beautiful Mind (2001) is on #15 spot of movies related to Good Will Hunting (1997). A Beautiful Mind (2001) was released in 2001, made by Ron Howard and has average rating 8.2 in 2022. Main stars of the A Beautiful Mind (2001) film are: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly.

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