A Beautiful Mind -   video source from youtube A Beautiful Mindis a 2001 American drama film based on the life of John Nash , a Nobel Laureate in Economics . The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman . It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize -nominated 1998 book of the same n A Better Life -   video source from youtube A Better Lifeis a film in which an illegal immigrant gardener in East Los Angeles struggles to keep his son away from gangs while avoiding immigration enforcement agents and searching for a stolen truck. The screenplay forA Better Life, originally known asThe Gardener,