| Tesla (2020) | 5.1 | |
| Garth & Bev (2009) | 8.8 | |
| Hysteria (2011) | 6.7 | |
| Man, Moment, Machine (2005) | 7.7 | |
| Carl & Bertha (2011) | 6.8 |
Invention movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant invention movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out entertaining, captivating, realistic, inspirational, suspenseful and suspense films and TV shows about / with invention, inventor, inventions and discoveries, technology, science, storytelling, mentor, friendship, destiny and rivalry plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as invention: Tesla (2020), The Current War (2017), Pure Genius (2016), The Imitation Game (2014), Carl & Bertha (2011), Primer (2004), Pad Man (2018), Rememory (2017), Listening (2014), The Spanish Prisoner (1997).
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11K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
Style:
serious, stylized, factual, inspirational, freeze frame ...
Plot:
inventor, invention, inventions and discoveries, electricity, scientific experiment, rivalry, progress, genius, electrician, scientist, storytelling, science ...
Time:
19th century, 2020s, future, year 1943, 1890s ...
Place:
new york, colorado, pittsburgh, berlin germany, chicago
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Style:
clever, realistic, suspense, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
inventor, technology, electricity, science and technology, genius, rivalry, science, invention, physics, discovery, storytelling, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2019, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
brighton, chicago, north dakota, pittsburgh, massachusetts ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A young Silicon Valley tech-titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, new school approach to medicine.
Style:
medical drama, captivating, disturbing, touching, exciting ...
Plot:
genius, billionaire, invention, hospital, doctor, medicine, computer genius, medical, silicon valley, fate of humanity, chance, treatment ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley ...
Style:
inspirational, clever, intellectual, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, prodigy, code breaking, invention, mathematician, gay interest, computer ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, year 1939 ...
Place:
england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Carl & Bertha tells the story of Carl and Bertha Benz. Carl Benz invented the first patented motor car but he did not get much recognition until his wife undertook the historic first road trip by car from Mannheim to Pforzheim with the Benz ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, inspirational, factual
Plot:
inventor, invention, husband wife relationship, car, love, wedding, son, rivalry, society, victorian england, woman, employer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
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121K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style:
philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
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32K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Concerned about his wife Gayatri's menstrual hygiene, Lakshmikant Chauhan urges her to ditch the cloth and opt for sanitary napkins. Gayatri is reluctant to go for disposable pads as they are expensive. Lakshmi obsessing over a 'ladies ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, rough, compassionate, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
taboo, menstruation, village, invention, superhero, entrepreneurship, life is a bitch, life philosophy, street life, survival, ambition, society ...
Place:
india
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19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, melancholic, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot:
widow, private investigation, investigation, murder, invention, empathy, professor, existentialism, flashback sequence, guilty conscience, murder investigation, repressed memory ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Cambodia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
For years, we have tried to harness the power of the human mind… and failed. Now, one breakthrough will change everything. Beyond technology. Beyond humanity. Beyond control. David, Ryan, and Jordan hope the telepathy invention will solve all ...
Style:
captivating, intense, disturbing, exciting, mind bending ...
Plot:
telepathy, invention, mind control, scientist, experiment, friendship, brainwashing, government, hacker, computer program, secret, danger ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, witty ...
Plot:
con game, twists and turns, heist, secrets, invention, investigation, intrigue, conspiracy, manipulation, police investigation, stranger, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
venezuela, caribbean, usa, manhattan new york city, boston ...
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765
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A guy who invented this thing called the garbage juicer. You can take garbage and mash it into the trash can, and it has three spouts. You can choose delicious root beer, grapefruit juice or kerosene. This businessman steals the invention from him ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot:
jackass, invention, revenge, satire, billionaire, escapades, vulgar language, irreverent, underdog, gross out humor, punk rock, counterculture ...
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Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Taiwan, South Korea
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Each day, two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation embark on some grand new project, which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust them. Meanwhile, their pet platypus plots against evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Style:
feel good, exciting, humorous, adult animation, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
secret agent, invention, experimenting, siblings relations, rivals, young heroes, secret identity, mischievous children, rivalry, chaos and mayhem, brother sister relationship, scientist ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
With dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur just like his beloved Richard Branson, Lemon bids farewell to his hometown of Leeds and heads for the capital. When he becomes an overnight billionaire, it seems everything is going his way, but ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, sentimental, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot:
overnight success, ambition, silly humor, lifestyle, rise and fall, blind ambition, hopes, celebrity culture, invention, delusion, bare breasts, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.
Style:
gloomy, detective, suspenseful, captivating, minimal cast ...
Plot:
eye, robot, artificial intelligence, invention, bait, memory, consciousness, human android relationship, existentialism, hunting, special agent, computer program ...
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Man, Moment, Machine was a television series which aired on The History Channel and was hosted by Hunter Ellis. It documented an important event in history and went into detail about, as the title suggests, the man and his background, the machine ...
Style:
informative, educational, non fiction, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
invention, technology, scientific discovery, science and technology, inventions and discoveries, discovery, historical event, nanotechnology, advanced technology, hi-tech, science, legacy ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century
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1.6M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
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340
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story:
The story of a young girl inventor who is way ahead of her time. Utilizing creative out-of-the-box thinking, she designs inventions and contraptions in the hopes of making the world a better place and moving her prehistoric community into a more ...
Style:
3d animation, entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
inventor, invention, education, elephant, teenager, curiosity, children, creativity, girl power, problem solving, inventions and discoveries, prehistoric man ...
Time:
prehistoric times, stone age
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
Style:
feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, inventor, rivalry, invention, inventions and discoveries, contests and competitions, found footage, rivals, multiple contestants, humour, gadget, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A studious and ambitious youngster tries to set up a device to solve the frequent power crisis in his village despite constant discouragement from the public
Style:
inspirational, psychological, thrilling, captivating, motivational ...
Plot:
science, electricity, invention, determination, village, innovation, hopes, perseverance, problem, science and technology, social problems, inventor ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The Monarch is literally out for Dr Venture's blood. An imposing evil from the past reemerges to wreak havoc on the Ventures, The Guild, and even ...
Style:
adult animation, dark comedy, black comedy, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
invention, supernatural power, supernatural ability, super powers, inventor, superhuman powers, superpower, inventions and discoveries, father son relationship, manhunt, revenge, anti hero ...
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324K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, retro ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, childhood, treasure map, pirate, treasure, friendship, pirate ship, small town, children, teenage girl, mischievous children, child ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, woods, stoner, murder, psychopath, running, psycho killer, woman in danger, teenage life, danger, youth, gory ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
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34K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hysteria is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones and Rupert Everett, that tells an untold tale of discovery - the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
hospital, hysteria, doctor, trial, masturbation, sexuality, happy ending, orgasm, sexual pleasure, invention, ex prostitute, court ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, east end london, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Style:
exciting, clever, suspense, futuristic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time, time loop, teenager, alternate timeline, time paradox, time machine, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, butterfly effect, teleportation ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, distant future ...
Place:
usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
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73
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Senya, the creator of the Lucy smart column, experiments with algorithms, discussing personal topics, family, and people around with Lucy, and tries to make her as human as possible. Lucy quickly becomes something much more than just a column - she ...
Style:
entertaining, dramatic, light, sweet, reflective ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, programmer, invention, husband and wife, creator creation relationship, relationships, spouse, male female relationship, wife, love and romance, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dexter Reed is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back. With a new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get back on his feet but ...
Style:
buddy comedy, satirical, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
businessman, food, invention, job, loss of job, fast food, fast food restaurant, cooking, restaurant, workplace, workplace situations, satire ...
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36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, creepy, scary, cult classic ...
Plot:
immortality, vampire, addiction, death, goth, invention, aging, blood, danger, haunted by the past, race against time, body horror ...
Time:
16th century, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place:
south america, mexico, los angeles, usa, latin america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil ...
Style:
period piece, suspense, suspenseful, grim, political thriller ...
Plot:
invention, corporate conspiracy, moral dilemma, depression era, paranoia, ambition, law, whistleblower, biopic, isolation, cat and mouse, world's fair ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Cyberchase is an American/Canadian television series for children ages 7-13. The series takes place in Cyberspace, a virtual world, and chronicles the adventures of three children, Jackie, Inez, and Matt, as they use math and problem solving skills ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, multicultural, exciting, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
mathematics, problem solving, heroes, cyberspace, cyborgs, computer virus, young heroes, artificial intelligence, imaginary, youth, escapades, master villain ...
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane ...
Style:
claymation, feel good, humorous, witty, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot:
stop motion, dog, cartoon rabbit, cartoon dog, competition, garden, experiment gone awry, wallace and gromit, halloween, rabbit, eccentricity, monster ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
europe, northern england, yorkshire, england
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