The Absent Minded Professor (1961), You're Telling Me (1934), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1994), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Science of Sleep (2006), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Jerk (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Inventions movies.
Storyline: The professor's (Fred MacMurray) latest lab explosion creates "flubber," glop that makes things bounce sky-high.
Plot Keywords: professor, girlfriend, basketball player, criminal, amusing, lighthearted, laboratory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sam Bisbee (W.C. Fields) is an eccentric optometrist who moonlights as an amateur inventor. Unfortunately his inventions are largely useless and have, along with his own various gaffes, made him the laughingstock of the town. Only his daughter Pauline (Joan Marsh) has any confidence in him. When Bisbee's one shot at fame ends up backfiring spectacularly, it takes the fortuitous intervention of a princess (Adrienne Ames) to set things right and show the world that Sam Bisbee means business.
Plot Keywords: princess, inventor, police officer, daughter, company president, playful, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood movie star who was hailed as the most beautiful and glamorous in the world. However, that was only the surface that tragically obscured her astounding true talents. Foremost of them was her inventive genius that a world blinded by her beauty could not recognize as far back as her youth in Austria with her homemade gadgets. This film explores Lamarr's life which included escaping a loveless marriage on the eve of Nazi Germany's conquest of her nation to a new career in Hollywood. However, her intellectual contributions were denied their due even when she offered them in the service of her new home during World War II. Only after years of career and personal decline in her troubled life would Lamarr learn that her staggering aptitude created brilliant engineering concepts that revolutionized telecommunications, which forced the world to realize the hidden abilities of a woman it had so unfairly underestimated.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: actress, producer, inventor, howard hughes, fascinating, inspiring, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary about the amazing life of Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin, the electronic musical instrument so beloved of 50s sci-fi movie music. Theremin amazed America with his instrument until his kidnapping by Soviet agents in the mid-30s. Upon his release from a labor camp, he worked on surveillance devices for the KGB. Almost 60 years later , he is brought back to America for a touching reunion with his friends and colleagues.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: inventor, musician, scientist, performer, fascinating, creative, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, cameraman, doctor, athlete, ex-wife, investigator, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stéphane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stéphanie. But conquering her is no bed of roses for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world...
Plot Keywords: designer, neighbor, coworker, boss, creative, crafty, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way; they try to suppress it.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: scientist, inventor, researcher, amusing, cheeky, engaging, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a fortune.
Plot Keywords: adopted son, killer, gas station owner, filmmaker, carnival worker, woman, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.
Plot Keywords: executive, naïve person, janitor, concierge, board member, lighthearted, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of Diana's twin brothers (Tom Hollander) and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville), Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together - raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients.
Plot Keywords: paraplegic, wife, brother, inventor, patient, doctor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Details the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth, a psychologist and inventor in her own right, and Olive Byrne, a former student who became an academic. This relationship was key to the creation of Wonder Woman, as Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals were ingrained in the character from her creation. Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive remained a couple and raised their and Marston's children together. The film is said to focus on how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding Wonder Woman's creation.
Plot Keywords: professor, writer, inventor, lover, wife, emotional, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman, 89 year old Thomas Alva Edison reflects back on his long career, which includes such achievements as the stock market ticker, the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: inventor, businessperson, friend, wife, creative, fiery, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, and father of a future tennis champion, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec, in the town of Sainte-Cécile, and given up for adoption shortly afterward. In the summer of 2000, Michel goes there and finds a sleepy village that soon makes him want to run back home. There, he meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. On their way back to Montréal, an accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. Welcome to "Congorama."—Philippe Falardeau
Plot Keywords: engineer, inventor, writer, son, father, wife, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Professor Wong has invented a television and invites everyone to see it at China's International House Hotel. Every time Tommy Nash attempts to wed his fiancée Carol Fortescue, he comes down with an illness, and when he breaks out in a rash, the hotel is quarantined. Into this hotel flies Professor Quail in his auto-gyro.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: inventor, professor, fiancé, cheeky, hilarious, madcap, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Engineers Aaron, Abe, Robert and Phillip are working on an invention, the prototype being built in Aaron's garage. This project is beyond their day jobs. The project truly does belong to Aaron and Abe, as they use all their free time working on it, primarily trying to overcome the many engineering related problems they've encountered. It is during one of his tests with the invention running that Abe discovers that a protein inside the main unit has multiplied much more rapidly than it could in nature. Rather than the invention being a protein super incubator, Abe, using himself as a guinea pig, and a very meticulous one at that, discovers that the invention can be used as a time machine. In his self experiment, Abe was especially careful not to interfere with his own self in that time warp. Abe passes along this discovery to Aaron, who he expects will tell his wife Kara in what is the sanctity of their marriage, but he doesn't want to tell either Robert or Phillip. Much to Abe's ...
Plot Keywords: engineer, friend, girlfriend, father, dense, intricate, thrilling ...
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