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Back to the Future(1985)

4.2/5 (with 9,327 votes)

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Back to the Future Part II(1989)

PG
| 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.9/5 (with 5,973 votes)

Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

The Inventor(2023)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and study the human body. There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question – "What is the meaning of it all?".

Robots(2005)

3.2/5 (with 2,011 votes)

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Big Weld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

Tomorrowland(2015)

3.1/5 (with 3,237 votes)

Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland.".

Edward Scissorhands(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Fantasy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 5,825 votes)

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2(2013)

PG
| 1h 35min | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 1,382 votes)

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

Back to the Future Part III(1990)

PG
| 1h 59min | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 4,892 votes)

The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs(2009)

PG
| 1h 30min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 2,626 votes)

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?

Directed by Chris Miller, Phil Lord

Joy(2015)

PG-13
| 2h 4min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1,898 votes)

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

Ballerina(2016)

3.6/5 (with 862 votes)

Set in 1879 Paris. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

Directed by Éric Summer, Éric Warin

Spies in Disguise(2019)

3.8/5 (with 1,302 votes)

Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way.

Directed by Nick Bruno, Troy Quane
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Star Trek: First Contact(1996)

3.7/5 (with 756 votes)

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

Flubber(1997)

2.8/5 (with 1,072 votes)

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids(1989)

3.1/5 (with 1,333 votes)

The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves(1997)

2.7/5 (with 295 votes)

The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've completely disappeared. Of course, this gives the kids free rein to do anything they want, unaware that their parents are watching every move.

Wedding Daze(2006)

R
| 1h 30min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 120 votes)

After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(1968)

3.4/5 (with 268 votes)

A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

The Time Machine(1960)

3.7/5 (with 373 votes)

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid(1992)

2.6/5 (with 511 votes)

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.

Fly Away Home(1996)

PG
| 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 197 votes)

Amy is only 13-years-old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest is torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South….

The Guilt Trip(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 316 votes)

An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

Steamboy(2004)

3.4/5 (with 165 votes)

After receiving a package from his grandfather, Ray, a young inventor who lives in England during the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict related to a revolutionary advance in steam power.

The Wrong Trousers(1993)

3.9/5 (with 409 votes)

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

Directed by Nick Park

The Little Bather(1968)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 148 votes)

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

A Grand Day Out(1990)

3.7/5 (with 358 votes)

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.

Directed by Nick Park

Envy(2004)

PG-13
| 1h 39min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 219 votes)

A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.

A Close Shave(1995)

3.8/5 (with 335 votes)

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Directed by Nick Park

The Great Race(1965)

3.6/5 (with 127 votes)

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

The Hudsucker Proxy(1994)

PG
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 431 votes)

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

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