20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Rating: ★★★★
Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
Rating: ★★
Giant Woman Comedy
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Rating: ★
Jules Verne Modernisation
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Rating: ★★★★
Anti-Gravity Rubber/Disney Comedy
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
Rating: ★★
Funky Inventor Hero vs Alien Invaders
The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)
Rating: ★★
Captain Nemo’s Modern Day Adventures
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Animation/Steampunk Alternate History Adventure
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Rating: ★
Jules Verne Comedy Adaptation
Back to the Future (1985)
Rating: ★★★★
Time Travel
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Time Travel
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Rating: ★★★½
Time Travel
Big Meat Eater (1982)
Rating: ★★★½
Bad SF Movie Parody
Deadly Friend (1986)
Rating: ★
Teenager Resurrects Girlfriend
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Rating: ★★★★
Alienated Artificial Boy
Explorers (1985)
Rating: ★★★½
Teenagers Build Spaceship
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jules Verne Adaptation/Steampunk
The Fantastic Four (1994)
Rating: ★★
Comic-Book Superheroes
Fantastic Four (2005)
Rating: ★★★
Comic-Book Superheroes
Fantastic Four (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Comic-Book Superheroes
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Rating: ★★
Comic-Book Superheroes
The First Men in the Moon (1964)
Rating: ★★
Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation
The First Men in the Moon (2010)
Rating: ★★★½
Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation
Flash Gordon (1936)
Rating: ★★★★
Serial/Space Opera
Flash Gordon (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Campy Space Opera
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Rating: ★★★
Serial/Space Opera
Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938)
Rating: ★★★★
Serial/Space Opera
Flubber (1997)
Rating: ★★
Absent-Minded Professor Remake
Help! I’m a Fish (2000)
Rating: ★★½
Animation/Children Transformed Into Talking Fish
Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Rating: ★★
Giant Baby
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Miniaturised Backyard Adventures
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! (1997)
Rating: ★★
Miniaturised Adventures
Hugo (2011)
Rating: ★★★★
Children’s Film/Georges Melies Tribute
Injustice (2021)
Rating: ★★½
Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
International House (1933)
Rating: ★★★
Screwball Comedy/TV Invention
The Invisible Boy (1957)
Rating: ★★★
Robbie the Robot Film
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Rating: ★★
Eccentric Scientist Becomes a Baseball Star
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (2001)
Rating: ★★
Animation/Juvenile Scientific Genius
Justice League vs the Fatal Five (2019)
Rating: ★★
Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
The Monkey’s Uncle (1965)
Rating: ★★
Teenage Inventor/Disney Comedy
Mysterious Island (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals
Mysterious Island (2005)
Rating: ★
Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals
The Mysterious Island (2012)
Rating: ★★
Desert Island Survival/Time Warp
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)
Rating: ★★
Invisible Teen/Disney Comedy
The Phantom Treehouse (1984)
Rating: ★★
Animation/Boy’s Adventure on a Magic Island
Project Almanac (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Found Footage Time Travel Film
Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish (1998)
Rating: ★★
Comic-Book Rich Kid/Alternate Timeline
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Possible Time Machine
Santa and Sons & Daughter! (2005)
Rating: ★
Christmas Film
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
Rating: ★
Sword and Sorcery
Sleight (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Street Magician
Son of Flubber (1963)
Rating: ★★
Absent-Minded Professor Sequel
The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Rating: ★
Super-Strength Cereal/Disney Comedy
Thunderpants (2002)
Rating: ★★★
Kid with Super-Powerful Farts
The Time Machine (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
Time Travel/H.G. Wells Adaptation
The Time Machine (1978)
Rating: ★
Time Travel/H.G. Wells Adaptation
The Time Machine (2002)
Rating: ★★
Time Travel/H.G. Wells Adaptation
Tin Man (1983)
Rating: ★★
Deaf Inventor Builds an A.I.
Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1965)
Rating: ★★½
Comic-Book Character
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)
Rating: ★★½
Comic-Book Character/Animation
Tomorrowland (2015)
Rating: ★★
The Fight to Create a Utopian Future
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Rating: ★★★½
Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
Viy (2014)
Rating: ★★
Russian Gothic
Young Einstein (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo Comedy/Alternate Albert Einstein