When a mathematician insists on building a machine to break an unbreakable code, he must survive the men funding him.

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When the war office recruits a brilliant, unbearable mathematician to break a cipher that resets every midnight, in a world where his colleagues want him removed and his own government would jail him for who he loves, a man who would rather build a machine than talk to anyone must prove it works before the money runs out, and then decide which convoys to let sink so the enemy never learns he succeeded.

Film: The Imitation Game · Writer(s): Graham Moore · Director: Morten Tyldum · Year: 2014