Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "invention", "television"

1. E.T. (1982)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

7.9

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92 Metascore

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace

Votes: 437,841 | Gross: $435.11M

2. Futurama (1999– )

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

8.5

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Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out on New Year's Eve 2999.

Stars: Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille

Votes: 261,151

3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

6.7

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72 Metascore

Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 529,610 | Gross: $206.46M

4. Robots (2005)

PG | 91 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

6.4

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64 Metascore

In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspiration's company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management.

Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams

Votes: 162,068 | Gross: $128.20M

5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

6.9

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66 Metascore

A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know that things are about to take a turn for the worst.

Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | Stars: Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, James Caan

Votes: 258,163 | Gross: $124.87M

6. Godzilla (1954)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

7.5

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79 Metascore

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Votes: 39,777 | Gross: $2.42M

7. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

G | 82 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

6.1

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65 Metascore

An eight-year-old boy genius and his friends must rescue their parents after the adults are abducted by aliens.

Director: John A. Davis | Stars: Debi Derryberry, Rob Paulsen, Megan Cavanagh, Mark DeCarlo

Votes: 38,054 | Gross: $80.94M

8. Igor (2008)

PG | 87 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

5.9

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40 Metascore

Animated fable about a cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant who aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.

Director: Tony Leondis | Stars: John Cusack, Molly Shannon, Steve Buscemi, Myleene Klass

Votes: 24,342 | Gross: $19.53M

9. Chairman of the Board (1997)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy

2.3

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A surfer becomes the head of a major company.

Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller, Raquel Welch

Votes: 6,489 | Gross: $0.31M

10. The Science of Sleep (2006)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

7.2

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70 Metascore

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou, Alain Chabat

Votes: 70,905 | Gross: $4.66M

11. Populaire (2012)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

6.8

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58 Metascore

1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.

Director: Régis Roinsard | Stars: Romain Duris, Féodor Atkine, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo

Votes: 12,718 | Gross: $0.18M

12. Trafic (1971)

G | 96 min | Comedy

7.0

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Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.

Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel, François Maisongrosse

Votes: 7,524

13. Malcolm (1986)

PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

7.1

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A socially awkward and mechanically gifted man becomes involved in a quirky and unconventional crime.

Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Lindy Davies, Chris Haywood

Votes: 2,845 | Gross: $0.54M

14. The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)

97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

7.2

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In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Vlastimil Brodský, Milos Kopecký

Votes: 1,420

15. The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

5.6

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The Stooges must battle alien spies to safeguard a goofy scientist's revolutionary new vehicle.

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Carol Christensen

Votes: 1,025

16. International House (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

6.9

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Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,469

17. L'inhumaine (1924)

Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

7.2

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Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.

Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat, Fred Kellerman

Votes: 1,040

18. The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

97 min | Comedy, Musical

5.6

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Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Lyda Roberti

Votes: 347

19. Kamikaze (1986)

90 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

5.9

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A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.

Director: Didier Grousset | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Romane Bohringer

Votes: 725

20. Post War Inventions (1945)

7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

7.3

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Sourpuss the Cat and Gandy Goose share a dream about the post-war world with its crazy, and even dangerous, modern inventions.

Director: Connie Rasinski | Star: Tom Morrison

Votes: 42

21. Magic in the Air (1942)

Documentary, Short

5.6

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Star: Vincent Pelletier

Votes: 5

22. Zvorykin-Muromets (2010)

70 min | History

7.7

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Biopic about Russian engineer Vladimir Zvorykin, the inventor of television.

Director: Leonid Parfyonov | Stars: Leonid Parfyonov, Anatoliy Prosalov, Maksim Radugin, Sergey Shakurov

Votes: 78

23. The First Television Picture with a Greyscale Image (1925)

Comedy, Reality-TV

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The first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist dummy, followed by that of a human being, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.

Director: John Logie Baird | Stars: Stooky Bill, John Logie Baird, William Edward Taynton

24. Moving Silhouette Images Broadcast (1924)

Animation, Reality-TV

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A television broadcast of the moving silhouette images, one of the first known.

Director: John Logie Baird

25. The Televisor Broadcast (1926)

Short, Reality-TV

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First public television broadcast ever (as well as first known of a human being), conducted by John Logie Baird.

Director: John Logie Baird | Star: Oliver Hutchinson

26. Åsa-Nisse i full fart (1957)

98 min | Comedy

3.9

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Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 on the biggest game show on Swedish TV.

Director: Ragnar Frisk | Stars: John Elfström, Artur Rolén, Helga Brofeldt, Mona Geijer-Falkner

Votes: 148

27. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode: Swamp Diamonds (1993)

TV-PG | 93 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

7.7

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Today's experiment: the educational short, What to Do on a Date (1951), and the Roger Corman flick, Swamp Women (1956)

Director: Joel Hodgson | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy

Votes: 548

28. Inventions That Shook the World (2011– )
Episode: 1920's (2011)

TV-G | 46 min | History

8.3

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Mobsters, jazz, and turbulent economic times mark the 1920s. Silent film makes the transition to the talkies as sound comes to the silver screen. The refrigerator gets a makeover from the ... See full summary »

Stars: Christopher O'Neill, Ken Alder, Ron Basch, Adam Bradley

Votes: 13

29. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Metal-Eating Mice/Bullwinkle Bites Back! or Nothing But the Tooth (1961)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

7.7

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The story of Metal-Eating Mice begins when the citizens of Frostbite Falls get the shock of their lives when every single roof TV antenna in town mysteriously disappears.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad