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10 Best Movies Like Picture a Scientist

If you loved Picture a Scientist, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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2018★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picture a Scientist for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called ...

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Dumb and Dumber

Dumb and Dumber

1994★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picture a Scientist for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two frien...

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Eva's Man

Eva's Man

1976★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picture a Scientist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A short film, based on a novel by Gayl Jones. The film treats a black woman, Eva, who kills her lover. She refuses to speak to a white psychiatrist who questions her about her moti...

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Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picture a Scientist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picture a Scientist for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

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Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picture a Scientist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...