The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

Spies in Disguise

2019

English

6.8

♡ 321

77%

inspired by short film

Nick Bruno Director

Reba McEntire as Joyless

Will Smith as Lance

Tom Holland as Walter

Rachel Brosnahan as Wendy

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.

SlingShot

2014

English

7.6

♡ 1

50%

Paul Lazarus Director

Dean Kamen as

An intimate and inspirational portrait of Segway inventor, Dean Kamen, and his 15-year quest to solve the world's safe water crisis. SlingShot focuses on noted Segway inventor Dean Kamen and his work to solve the world's water crisis. An eccentric genius with a provocative world view, Kamen is an inspiration for future scientists. His inventions help people in need and ease suffering.

Robots

2005

English

6.4

♡ 85

64%

Chris Wedge Director

Dann Fink as Additional Voices

Terry Bradshaw as Broken Arm Bot

Halle Berry as Cappy

Jackie Hoffman as Water Cooler

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

You're Telling Me!

1934

English

7.4

♡ 1

Erle C. Kenton Director

Buster Crabbe as Bob Murchison

George MacQuarrie as Crabbe

Adrienne Ames as Princess Lescaboura

W.C. Fields as Sam Bisbee

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.

Saturday's Children

1940

English

6.4

♡ 2

Vincent Sherman Director

Frank Faylen as Cab Driver

Sam Flint as City Hospital Doctor

Lee Patrick as Florrie Sands

Dennie Moore as Gertrude Mills

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

The Guilt Trip

2012

English

5.8

♡ 41

35%

parent child relationship

road trip

woman director

Anne Fletcher Director

Nora Dunn as Amy

Yvonne Strahovski as Jessica

Robert Curtis Brown as kmart Executive

Colin Hanks as Rob

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

Buzzin' Around

1933

English

6.2

♡ 3

Alfred J. Goulding Director

Harry Ward as Bit Part

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Cornelius - the Farm Boy

Gertrude Mudge as Matron in Car

Donald MacBride as Policeman

Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of moonshine instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck . . .

Leap!

2016

English

6.8

♡ 242

52%

Eric Summer Director

Maddie Ziegler as Camille Le Haut

Elle Fanning as Félicie Milliner

Sheb Wooley as Luteau's Scream

Dane DeHaan as Victor

In 1879 Paris, a young orphan 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.

Envy

2004

English

4.8

♡ 22

7%

Barry Levinson Director

Tara Karsian as Lab Assistant

Kent Shocknek as Newscaster

Jack Black as Nick Vanderpark

Ben Stiller as Tim Dingman

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

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

1992

English

4.9

♡ 47

38%

Randal Kleiser Director

John Shea as Hendrickson

Keri Russell as Mandy

Ron Canada as Marshall Brooks

Julia Sweeney as Nosey Neighbor

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.

The Mercy

2018

English

6.0

♡ 32

73%

based on a true story

James Marsh Director

Rachel Weisz as

Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst

David Thewlis as Rodney Hallworth

Tim Downie as Style Editor

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

The Dancing Masters

1943

English

6.1

♡ 8

40%

Malcolm St. Clair Director

Edward Earle as Clerk at Airport

Robert Mitchum as Mickey Halligan

Nestor Paiva as Silvio - Ringleader

William Haade as Truck Driver

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

The Big Noise

1944

English

6.3

♡ 4

56%

Malcolm St. Clair Director

Arthur Space as Alva P. Hartley

Robert Blake as Egbert Hartley

Edgar Dearing as Motor Policeman

Ken Christy as Train Passenger

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

Tito and the Birds

2018

Portuguese

6.7

♡ 1

84%

Gabriel Bitar Director

Mateus Solano as Alaor Souza

Matheus Nachtergaele as Dr. Rufos

Denise Fraga as Rosa

Nicolas Roye as Téo Souza

Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito’s search for the antidote becomes a quest for his missing father and for his own identity.

Minghags

2009

English

5.1

♡ 5

Joseph Frantz Director

Bam Margera as Lenny

Joseph Frantz as Professor Nefer / Scotty Ledouche's Cohort

Brandon DiCamillo as Rut Ru / Ponce / Scotty Ledouche / Hook Bar Hessian / Ramblood / Ambulance Dispatcher / Sweet Seat Commercial VO

Ryan Dunn as Tucker

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 so the guy spends the whole time trying to dick the businessman over.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

2009

English

6.9

♡ 169

Action

Adventure

Animation

based on children's book

Phil Lord Director

Danny Mann as

Andy Samberg as 'Baby' Brent

Michael Bell as Man #12

Anna Faris as Sam Sparks

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?

Night Train to Munich

1940

English

7.2

♡ 4

89%

72%

Action

based on novel or book

concentration camp prisoner

prague, czech republic

Romance

Thriller

War

Carol Reed Director

Austin Trevor as Capt. Prada

Basil Radford as Charters

Roland Culver as Roberts

Howard Marion-Crawford as SS Officer Checking Passes

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

Night Key

1937

English

6.3

♡ 6

34%

Lloyd Corrigan Director

Ward Bond as Fingers

Frank Hagney as Henchman

Edwin Maxwell as Kruger

Samuel S. Hinds as Stephen Ranger

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

Becoming Cousteau

2021

English

7.1

♡ 9

98%

reference to jacques cousteau

Liz Garbus Director

Louis Malle as Self

David L. Wolper as Self

Carol Burnett as Self

Vincent Cassel as Self - Narrator

Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decades, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his explorations under the ocean became synonymous with a love of science and the natural world. As he learned to protect the environment, he brought the whole world with him, sounding alarms more than 50 years ago about the warming seas and our planet’s vulnerability. In BECOMING COUSTEAU, from National Geographic Documentary Films, two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus takes an inside look at Cousteau and his life, his iconic films and inventions, and the experiences that made him the 20th century’s most unique and renowned environmental voice — and the man who inspired generations to protect the Earth.

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Spies in Disguise

SlingShot

Robots

You're Telling Me!

Saturday's Children

The Guilt Trip

Buzzin' Around

Leap!

Envy

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

The Mercy

The Dancing Masters

The Big Noise

Tito and the Birds

Minghags

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Night Train to Munich

Night Key

Becoming Cousteau