Originally posted by CP5670
One thing I really don't like about the movies that they mentioned there is that, at least from what I have heard, they make almost no mention of the actual math that these people discovered. I do not care much about their lives; I want to know of their work! 
Figures, I guess...
Unfortunately for you, other people don't share the fascination - and in many cases, the mere ability - to understand all these mathematical geniuses. IIRC, the guy in A Beautiful Mind came up with Game Theory, which is economics. But people are more interested in his emotions and so on being emotional themselves.
Oh, and an Indie film is a film that is either produced and/or distributed by those outside the mainstream film-publishing world - ie. not through Sony, 20th Century Fox. Usually these films have a lower budget than big releases, but this means they must sacrifice special effects for storytelling (*ahem* Attack of the Clones *ahem*). They also sometimes take on themes and ideas that major publishers will not because they are not highly profitable, straightforward blockbusters.
However, this also means that some of the time you get muddy, dull-as-death foreign-language films about the hardships of an Iranian goatherd boy, or something.
