Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "perpetual-motion"

1. Snowpiercer (2013)

R | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris

Votes: 390,105 | Gross: $4.56M

2. Southland Tales (2006)

R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua

Votes: 40,703 | Gross: $0.28M

3. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett

Votes: 20,024 | Gross: $0.10M

4. Luminous Motion (1998)

95 min | Drama

A mom and her 10 year son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes up with a hardware store owner until she ... See full summary »

Director: Bette Gordon | Stars: Patrick Fitzgerald, Conn Horgan, Martin Alvin, P.J. Brown

Votes: 356 | Gross: $0.05M

5. Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)

99 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.

Director: Hans Werckmeister | Stars: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph

Votes: 278

6. Grizzly Flats (2011)

90 min | Sci-Fi

A recluse and his wife are tormented by shadow creatures.

Director: Anthony Fankhauser | Stars: Judd Nelson, Ryan Karloff, Maggie VandenBerghe, Edgar Allan Poe IV

Votes: 130

7. Iqbal & superchippen (2016)

80 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Iqbal and Sille are best friends and have always lived next door to each other. Their street must undergo urban regeneration and Easelman and The Swine will unluckily be in charge of the ... See full summary »

Director: Oliver Zahle | Stars: Hircano Soares, Liv Leman Brandorf, Arien Takiar, Rasmus Bjerg

Votes: 121

8. A Machine to Die For (2003 TV Movie)

55 min | Documentary

Although conventional science has long since deemed it to be scientifically impossible, generations of inventors, dating back to the Middle Ages, have been fascinated by the promise of an ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Eliot | Stars: Harold Aspden, William Beaty, Aldo Costa, Dan Davidson

Votes: 33

9. Perpetual Motion (1920)

5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Max and his colleague play a trick on an eccentric inventor by stealing the magnet from his perpetual motion machine. The Inkwell Clown has his own trouble with the magnet, and later helps power the inventor's device.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Stars: Roland Crandall, Max Fleischer

Votes: 55

10. Perpetuum Mobile (2006)

11 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Florence, 15th Century. An Alchemist obsessed with discovering the secrets of the Perpetual Motion will change the life of Leo, a sensitive and curious young Italian boy, forever.

Directors: Raquel Ajofrin, Enrique García

Votes: 37

11. Why Don't Perpetual Motion Machines Ever Work? (2017)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Jeremiah Dickey | Star: Addison Anderson

12. The Collector (2004–2006)
Episode: The Watchmaker (2006)

42 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A man who sold his soul three centuries ago tracks Morgan down in hopes of saving himself.

Stars: Chris Kramer, Sonya Salomaa, Christine Chatelain, Aidan Drummond

Votes: 17

13. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: The PTA Disbands (1995)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Bart manipulates Mrs. Krabappel into leading a teachers' strike against Principal Skinner, but is perturbed when Marge becomes his substitute.

Director: Swinton O. Scott III | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 2,969

14. The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode: Pay the Piper (2020)

TV-PG | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Team Flash battle Godspeed, and turned to an unexpected ally for help.

Director: Amanda Tapping | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes

Votes: 1,695

15. Seeker (2012– )
Episode: Google Made a Time Crystal That Defies Physics (2021)

4 min

Google Sycamore quantum computer was a prototype that demonstrated superior performance relative to super computers for certain types of calculations. Now obsolete it gained new life as a ... See full summary »

Star: Julian Huguet