Movies about inventors

List of the best movies about inventors selected by visitors to our site: I Origins, Kalashnikov AK-47, Tesla, Temple Grandin, Michael Mil, Steve Jobs, I, Leonardo, Eternals, Annihilation, The Current War.

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Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrebiography, history
CountryRussia

Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.

Markimdb: 5
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA

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.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.

Mark
Genremilitary, history
CountryRussia

A story about Russian aerospace engineer and scientist, creator of well-known Soviet helicopter Mi-1 and the founder of Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:31

    Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrebiography
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:21

    Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA

    The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows, they are forced to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Russia, United Kingdom
    Duration02:30

    Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, biography
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:30

    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 problem' makes her cringe but he insists on bringing upon a change by addressing the taboo topic. Subjected to hostility for ruffling the religious and age-old beliefs of people around, can the man brave the resistance and get his point across?

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:54

      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 Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA

      2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
      Duration02:03

        The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:37

        Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUSA

        On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryNorway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden

        When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:05

          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.

          Markimdb: 8.3
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime
          CountrySoviet Union
          Duration01:28

          Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:30

          Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

          When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits – but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:17

          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 seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

            On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

            Markimdb: 8.6
            Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:56

            Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrefantastic, thriller
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

            In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA

            A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryCanada, USA
            Duration01:59

            In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventing intermittent windshield wipers. Kearns doggedly pursues recognition for his invention, as well as the much-deserved financial rewards for the sake of his wife (Lauren Graham) and six kids.

            Markimdb: 4.4
            Genrecomedy, adventure, family
            CountryUSA

            A teenage coding genius has just 30 days to create the world's greatest video game or his family loses everything. No pressure.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India

            Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy, western
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA, Luxembourg
            Duration02:02

            The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, short
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:40

            Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, musical, family
            CountryUSA

            An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
            CountryCanada, France
            Duration01:50

            Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genredrama, biography, sport
            CountryNew Zealand, Japan, USA
            Duration02:07

            The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
            Duration01:59

              Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

              Markimdb: 3.8
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
              CountryUSA

              A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
              Duration01:39

                Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:35

                This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genredrama, sport
                CountryGermany, United Kingdom
                Duration01:36

                Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.

                Markimdb: 3
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA

                A PhD student ties unusual tremors in Los Angeles to rogue scientists, who will weaponize Nikola Tesla's secrets and cause massive earthquakes, if they can only find his lost notebook

                Markimdb: 5.2
                Genrehorror, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:20

                  Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.

                  Markimdb: 6.6
                  Genredrama, biography, history
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:10

                    Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:55

                      A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

                      Markimdb: 8.6
                      Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
                      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
                      Duration02:49

                        Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

                        Markimdb: 6.2
                        Genredrama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:31

                        The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.

                        Markimdb: 7.3
                        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:24

                        The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.




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