The thriller movie stars John Hurt and Elijah Wood as a professor and a graduate student who become involved in solving a series of gruesome murders at the Oxford University. Through the course of their investigations, they discover that the murderer is committing his crimes on principles of mathematical theories. The only way to stop the murders is to decipher the mathematical code before the killer strikes again. "The Oxford Murders" is based on the novel of the same name by Argentinian author Guillermo Martinez. Published in 2003, the book was a best-seller that went on to be published into over fifteen languages.