academia movies

Rope (1948)
7.959 / 10

Thriller, Crime, Drama

Two men murder a man in cold blood for the thrill and invite his parents over for a celebration to prove they have committed the perfect crime, but...

Quanta (2020)
4 / 10

Science Fiction, Drama

A physicist's life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego divides them when they receive an...

Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse) (2022)
7.2 / 10

Comedy, Drama

A quantum physicist is about to have the breakthrough of the century, but as he closes in on his goal, versions of him from parallel realities force...

Odyssey (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical,...

Publish or Perish (2023)
9.8 / 10

Comedy, Thriller

A tenure-obsessed English professor accidentally takes a student's life. Desperate to protect his career, he makes a fateful decision, sending his...

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)
8.1 / 10

Documentary

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have...

Sisyphus Unbound (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

Virgil, a college writing student, hopes to have his latest story published, but he must first get over one major hurdle before his work gets out to...

The Paradigm Shift (2008)
0 / 10

Comedy, Drama

The repercussions are immediate when activist history professor Arthur Collins - out of frustration - assigns his class to design a plan to...

Juvenilia (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

Staying is a choice.

Let Her Speak (2019)
6 / 10

Drama

A merited female scientist is at an international conference and realises that a male moderator is explaining her own theory back at her, until a...

Rosehill (2015)
0 / 10

Comedy, Drama

After receiving some bad news, a New York escapes to Southern Indiana to visit her old friend, a frustrated sex researcher. The two women embark on a...

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)
10 / 10

Documentary

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale...

The Argument (with annotations) (2017)
0 / 10

What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is,...