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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
Kate & Leopold
2001 film directed by James Mangold
Madame Curie
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
Radioactive
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
Three Plus Two
1963 film by Genrikh Oganessian
Insignificance
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
Day One
1989 film by Joseph Sargent
The Day After Trinity
1980 film by Jon H. Else
Mindwalk
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.