Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre (2002), Trekkies (1997), Batman Begins (2005), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2011), Tim's Vermeer (2013), You're Telling Me (1934), Iron Man (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Inventor movies.
Storyline: The superheros of 50 B.C., Asterix (Christian Clavier) and Obelix (Gérard Depardieu), are called to Egypt to help an architect, Edifis (Jamel Debbouze), win a bet for Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci). Defending the greatness of her people, Cleopatra has told Julius Caesar that she will erect a great palace for him within three months. Then she tells her architect that, if he does not make the schedule, he is going to be fed to the crocodiles. Asterix and Obelix do their best to keep him alive.
Plot Keywords: cleopatra, julius caesar, sculptor, warrior, architect, inventor, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Actress Denise Crosby journeys into the "Star Trek" subculture and examines the sci-fi phenomenon's impact on fans.
Plot Keywords: dentist, nerd, obsessed fan, actress, inventor, amusing, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When his parents are killed, billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne relocates to Asia, where he is mentored by Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in how to fight evil. When learning about the plan to wipe out evil in Gotham City by Ducard, Bruce prevents this plan from getting any further and heads back to his home. Back in his original surroundings, Bruce adopts the image of a bat to strike fear into the criminals and the corrupt as the icon known as "Batman". But it doesn't stay quiet for long.
Plot Keywords: batman, mobster, police officer, butler, villain, inventor, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rodent supersleuth Basil and his bumbling partner must thwart evil Ratigan's plot to depose the Mouse Queen.
Plot Keywords: mouse, rat, detective, sherlock holmes, professor, inventor, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.
Plot Keywords: inventor, fascinating, inspiring, interview room, rise, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
Plot Keywords: painter, inventor, sidekick, engaging, inspiring, united states, art studio ...
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: Tony Stark. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Son of legendary inventor and weapons contractor Howard Stark. When Tony Stark is assigned to give a weapons presentation to an Iraqi unit led by Lt. Col. James Rhodes, he's given a ride on enemy lines. That ride ends badly when Stark's Humvee that he's riding in is attacked by enemy combatants. He survives - barely - with a chest full of shrapnel and a car battery attached to his heart. In order to survive he comes up with a way to miniaturize the battery and figures out that the battery can power something else. Thus Iron Man is born. He uses the primitive device to escape from the cave in Iraq. Once back home, he then begins work on perfecting the Iron Man suit. But the man who was put in charge of Stark Industries has plans of his own to take over Tony's technology for other matters.
Plot Keywords: superhero, friend, assistant, inventor, billionaire, spy, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. Marty's job in the future is to pose as his own son to prevent him from being thrown in prison. Unfortunately, things get worse when the future changes the present.
Plot Keywords: inventor, nemesis, mother, girlfriend, son, father, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the twenty-fourth century, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E has been ordered to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone by the Federation to avoid interference with their battle against the insidious Borg. Witnessing the loss of the battle, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ignores orders and takes command of the fleet engaging the Borg. But the Borg plan to travel back into the twenty-first century through a vortex with the intention to stop Earth's first contact with an alien race (the Vulcans). Following the Borg sphere, Picard and his crew realize that they have taken over the Enterprise in order to carry out their mission. Their only chance to do away with the Borg and their seductive Queen is to make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his famous faster-than-light travel to the stars.
Plot Keywords: captain jean-luc picard, alien, friend, crew member, inventor, cyborg, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A brilliant but unstable inventor and his family create what they hope will be their Utopia in Central America.
Plot Keywords: inventor, wife, twin, daughter, preacher, native, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend's aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afoul of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future.
Plot Keywords: inventor, bandit, schoolteacher, love interest, campy, hilarious, thrilling ...
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: 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!