Best movies with scientists

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Discover the best movies with scientists, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie Chain Reaction, starring Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman, came in first as the best movie with scientists, followed by Darkman and Frankenstein (2025) from 2025. Scroll down for the top 10 movies with scientists, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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Chain Reaction

1996 - Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel WeiszThriller, Action

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At the University of Chicago, a research team achieves a stable form of fusion that could provide energy without waste. A private company wants the technology for itself, so machinist •••

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Darkman

1990 - Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin FrielsAction, Science Fiction, Thriller

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Dr. Peyton Westlake is close to a breakthrough in synthetic skin when gangsters destroy his laboratory. Burned beyond recognition, he becomes Darkman and takes on other identities to get •••

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Frankenstein (2025)

2025 - Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance...

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Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and arrogant scientist, brings a creature to life through an experiment that will change them both forever. Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's •••

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Junior

1994 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma ThompsonComedy, Science Fiction

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To test a drug he and a colleague designed for pregnant women, a research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man. He has an embryo implanted, believing he will carry the baby for •••

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Kinsey

2004 - Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'DonnellDrama

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A professor at Indiana University, researcher Alfred Kinsey sets out to study Americans' sexual lives through interviews. What starts as a scientific project soon becomes deeply personal •••

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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

2000 - Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry MillerComedy, Science Fiction

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Professor Sherman Klump falls for his colleague Denise Gaines, a DNA specialist, and discovers a formula that reverses aging. The trouble is that Buddy Love, his thin and obnoxious alter •••

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Off the Grid

2025 - Josh Duhamel, Greg Kinnear, María Elisa Camargo, Peter Stormare, Ricky Russert, Michael...

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A brilliant scientist disappears from the world to defend his invention from a company that wants to turn it into a weapon. The company sends a team after him, but makes a big mistake. •••

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Project Hail Mary

2026 - Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, Lionel Boyce, Milana Vayntrub, Ken Leung...

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Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he regains his memories, he discovers that he must find out why the Sun is •••

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Replicas

2018 - Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas MiddleditchScience Fiction, Thriller, Drama

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Neuroscientist Will Foster is working on transferring human consciousness into a computer when his family dies in a car crash. Desperate, he persuades his colleague Ed Whittle to help him •••

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Sphere

1998 - Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. JacksonScience Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

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A spacecraft at least 300 years old, believed to be of alien origin, is found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A team of scientists goes down to investigate and discovers a giant •••

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This list includes, for example, Project Hail Mary, The Bride!, Frankenstein (2025).

What are the most recent movies in this list?

Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: Project Hail Mary (2026), The Bride! (2026), Zip Wire (2026).

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Titles released in this period include Sphere (1998), Chain Reaction (1996), Junior (1994).

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