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    Barbarella (1968)

    Barbarella (Jane Fonda) roams 41st-century space with her blind guardian angel, Pygar (John Phillip...

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    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

    Pest controllers Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit must save the day when a vegetable-munching beast...

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    Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

    About a small town where food rains from the clouds.

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    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

    An inventor (Dick Van Dyke) takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter (Sally Ann Howes) for a...

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    Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)

    The Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) does a government job, about murder and missing plans.

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    Time Machine (2002)

    A scientist (Guy Pearce) travels into the future and meets a race of people who fear hideous...

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    Edward Scissorhands (1990)

    A deceased inventor's unfinished creation (Johnny Depp) becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery...

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    At the Earth's Core (1976)

    Victorian explorers (Doug McClure, Peter Cushing) burrow to Pellucidar, where mutant Sagoths rule...

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    Gremlins (1984)

    An inventor (Hoyt Axton) gives his son (Zach Galligan) an odd little creature which multiplies into...

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    Chomps (1979)

    A teenage genius (Wesley Eure) invents a robot watchdog to bail out his girlfriend's (Valerie...

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    The Jerk (1979)

    A simpleton (Steve Martin) leaves his foster family, acquires a girlfriend (Bernadette Peters) and...

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    Toys (1992)

    Childish toy-factory heirs (Robin Williams, Joan Cusack) oppose their Army-general uncle's (Michael...

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    Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

    With help from his two sidekicks (Jackie Chan, Cécile de France), an eccentric inventor (Steve...

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    The Nutty Professor (1963)

    Goofy professor Kelp's (Jerry Lewis) potion turns him into Buddy Love, a lounge singer at ease with...

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    Cottage to Let

    A British agent (Alastair Sim) foils a Nazi plot to steal an inventor's (Leslie Banks) design for a...

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    The Demi-Paradise

    The Russian inventor (Laurence Olivier) of a new marine propeller falls in love with a woman...

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    My Life So Far (1999)

    An adventurous boy and his family (Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris) learn about life and love when his...

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    Driving Me Crazy (1991)

    A German car engineer develops a fool-proof car which can run over 200 mph and uses no gasoline....

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    The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

    The Venetian traveler (Gary Cooper) meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter (Basil Rathbone) with...

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    Chain Reaction (1996)

    Industrial mercenaries sabotage a project that converts water into safe energy, then frame two...

  • Honey, I Blew Up the Kid picture
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    Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)

    The wacky inventor (Rick Moranis) who shrunk the kids makes his 2-year-old boy the size of a Las...

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    Charlie's Angels (2000)

    Three private detectives (Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu) try to rescue a kidnapped computer...

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    Spymate

    A former agent (Chris Potter) and his onetime chimpanzee partner reunite for a final mission to save...

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    Cyclone (1987)

    An inventor's (Jeffrey Combs) girlfriend (Heather Thomas) keeps his high-tech motorcycle away from...

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    Primer (2004)

    Four young men (Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden) experiment with a device that allows...

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    Orgazmo (1998)

    A filmmaker persuades a straight-laced Mormon (Trey Parker) to star in his porno flick, to huge...

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    Where Is Parsifal? (1984)

    Where Is Parsifal? -- he (Tony Curtis) is in a castle surrounded by nutcakes, himself a...

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    The Avengers (1998)

    British agents John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) confront a villain (Sean...

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    The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)

    Insanely jealous Sigerson Holmes (Gene Wilder) and his zany friends (Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman)...

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    Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

    Picard (Patrick Stewart), Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and the others set off to stop the half-robot Borg...

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    The Mosquito Coast (1986)

    A brilliant but unstable inventor and his family create what they hope will be their Utopia in...

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    Flubber (1997)

    Enemies try to steal an absent-minded inventor's (Robin Williams) flying rubber creation and his...

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    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    A visitor (David Bowie) from an arid planet creates a global corporation to make billions to get...

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    The Thin Man (1934)

    Sophisticated Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) solve a murder mystery with their...

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    Flash of Genius (2008)

    Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) fights the auto industry, claiming that the intermittent windshield...

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    The Great Moment (1944)

    After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired...

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    The Big Noise

    An inventor hires two private detectives (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) to guard his newfangled bomb.

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    The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)

    Moe, Larry and Curly Joe (The Three Stooges) foil martians out to steal a professor's (Emil Sitka)...

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    Under the Hula Moon (1995)

    The story of Buzzard and Betty Wall, two dreamers who live in a desert trailer and envision a better...

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    Unstrung Heroes (1995)

    A 12-year-old striving to cope with the impending death of his mother (Andie MacDowell) must leave...

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    Blankman (1994)

    An inventive oddball takes matters into his own hands when crime overruns the Illinois city he calls...

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    Death Machine

    A 21st-century genius seeks revenge on the woman who fired him, with a killing machine that senses...

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    Dream a Little Dream 2 (1994)

    Two pairs of magic sunglasses cause problems for two pals (Corey Feldman, Corey Haim) from Cleveland...

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    Mastermind (1975)

    A Charlie Chan-like inspector (Zero Mostel) outwits spies to protect a robotic invention.

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    Return of the Fly

    An inventor's son (Brett Halsey) becomes part fly like his father after messing with a molecular...

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    Safe Passage (1994)

    An estranged couple (Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard) await news of their Marine son, the possible...

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    Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

    Lightning turns a student's (Kurt Russell) experiment into a liquid which, in spray form, makes...

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    The Rocketeer (1991)

    A test pilot (Bill Campbell) turns superhero in 1938 Hollywood with a Nazi-coveted rocket backpack...

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    Tintin et le lac aux requins

    This animated feature stars the French cartoon hero "Tintin," a cheerful can-do young man who...

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    Chairman of the Board (1998)

    A wealthy tycoon names an orange-haired surfer/inventor (Carrot Top) as chairman of his Fortune 500...