The movie version of Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House follows MIT student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) as he and a team of card-counting classmates clean up at Las Vegas blackjack tables, under the tutelage of their math professor (Kevin Spacey).

Read more about the context of Iron Man and MIT in this MIT Technology Review Article by Jade Durham '25 from October 2023: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1081048/superhero-u/

The 2001 Academy Award winner for Best Picture is based on Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Forbes Nash, a onetime MIT math instructor whose promising career was disrupted by mental illness, but who went on to win the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly star.

Read more about the context of Wakanda Forever and MIT in this MIT Technology Review Article by Jade Durham '25 from October 2023: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1081048/superhero-u/

Boston Bomb Squad officer Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges) defuses a bomb in an MIT computer lab in this thriller, where Dove is pitted against an escaped Irish terrorist (Tommy Lee Jones).

Astronomer and MIT alum Ellie Arroway picks up a signal, apparently from intelligent life outside our solar system.

In a movie remake of the 1986 BBC miniseries, Mel Gibson plays a Boston cop investigating the mysterious murder of his daughter, Emma, an MIT graduate.

MIT janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is a discovered to be a mathematical genius by a professor (Stellan Skarsgård), and after a run-in with the law, he's forced into therapy to avoid jail time. He learns important life lessons under the guidance of therapist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams).

The Fab Four turn to mad scientist Professor Foot to help Ringo remove a ring stuck on his finger and thus avoid being sacrificed by a cult (yeah, it's complicated). “MIT was after me, you know,” says Foot. “Wanted me to rule the world for them.”

The alien invaders' nefarious transmissions are first detected by David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), an MIT alum, cable technician, former scientist, and soon-to-be hero.

Technical whiz/superhero Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), a.k.a. Iron Man, is an MIT alum, as is Tony's friend and military associate James Rhodes (Terrence Howard). Read more about the context of Iron Man and MIT in this MIT Technology Review Article by Jade Durham '25 from October 2023: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1081048/superhero-u/

Iron Man battles Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) in this sequel. Read more about the context of Iron Man and MIT in this MIT Technology Review Article by Jade Durham '25 from October 2023: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1081048/superhero-u/

John Koestler (Nicholas Cage), MIT astrophysicist, opens a time capsule unearthed at his son's school that includes a list of numbers that seem to predict world disasters.

A comedy about a Los Angeles physician and MIT alum, Emma (Natalie Portman), who tries to keep her physical relationship with Adam (Ashton Kutcher) from becoming a romantic one.

MIT programmer James Clayton (Colin Farrell) is recruited into the CIA by Walter Burke (Al Pacino), and James soon doesn't know whom to trust.

The character Tom Collins was fired from MIT "for [his] theory of actual reality."

A con man (Will Smith) insinuates himself into the lives and home of the Kittredges, a well-to-do Upper East Side family. MIT student Trent Conway, who is one of their set, is the link between the fraudster and the Kittredges.

Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) has just graduated from MIT (class of 1988), but he's working at a video store. He comes up with a scheme to win over his high school crush when she invites him to a big party.

Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is a stuntman/extreme sportsman-turned-National Security Agency spy. His colleague, NSA agent Toby Lee Shavers (Michael Roof), a weapons technology and gadget expert, graduated from MIT.