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Favorite Movie Based on a Novel by H.G. Wells

by jalapenoman • Created 11 years ago • Modified 11 years ago
What is your favorite movie based upon a novel by H.G. Wells? (Note: this list does not include loose adaptations like all of the various movies with invisible men.)

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  • Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux in The Time Machine (1960)

    1. The Time Machine

    19601h 43mG67Metascore
    7.5 (47K)
    A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
    DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette Mimieux
  • Guy Pearce and Samantha Mumba in The Time Machine (2002)

    2. The Time Machine

    20021h 36mPG-1342Metascore
    6.0 (133K)
    Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
    DirectorSimon WellsStarsGuy PearceYancey AriasMark Addy
  • The War of the Worlds (1953)

    3. The War of the Worlds

    19531h 27mG78Metascore
    7.0 (40K)
    A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
    DirectorByron HaskinStarsGene BarryAnn RobinsonLes Tremayne
  • Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, Michael Kevin Walker, Ed Vassallo, Michael Arthur, Becky Ann Baker, Gene Barry, David Alan Basche, John Michael Bolger, Justin Chatwin, Robert Cicchini, Vito D'Ambrosio, Marianne Ebert, John Eddins, Dakota Fanning, Daniel Franzese, Peter Gerety, Stephen Gevedon, Rick Gonzalez, Jim Hanna, Danny Hoch, Amy Hohn, Tracy Howe, Omar Jermaine, Erika LaVonn, Adam Lazarre-White, Mark Manley, Mariann Mayberry, Sharrieff Pugh, Ana Maria Quintana, Zoe Quist, Ann Robinson, Amy Ryan, Camillia Monet, John Scurti, Yul Vazquez, Lenny Venito, Jerry Walsh, Lisa Ann Walter, Christopher Evan Welch, Julie White, Marlon Young, Dan Ziskie, David Harbour, Michael Stanton, Lisa Waters, Michael Brownlee, GoGo Toucette, Rafael Sardina, Stacy Ann Wilkins, Patrick Tierney, Ty Simpkins, Ed Schiff, Channing Tatum, David Conley, Tommy Guiffre, Michael Waldron, Athena Stamos, January LaVoy, Miguel Antonio Ferrer, Mark Valinsky, Lorelei Llee, Daniel Eric Gold, Ellen Barry, Roz Abrams, Kenneth Wright, Nicole Signore, Tasciotti, Johnny Torres, Rochelle Warner, Joseph Benjamin Stewart, Terry Ward, Tracy Lee Staton, Jessica Anne Taylor, Mike Yedwab, and William G. Stowell in War of the Worlds (2005)

    4. War of the Worlds

    20051h 57mPG-1373Metascore
    6.5 (490K)
    An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom CruiseDakota FanningTim Robbins
  • Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, and Henry Travers in The Invisible Man (1933)

    5. The Invisible Man

    19331h 11mApproved87Metascore
    7.6 (42K)
    A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsClaude RainsGloria StuartWilliam Harrigan
  • Kathleen Burke in Island of Lost Souls (1932)

    6. Island of Lost Souls

    19321h 10mPassed
    7.3 (12K)
    A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
    DirectorErle C. KentonStarsCharles LaughtonBela LugosiRichard Arlen
  • Richard Derr, Francis Lederer, and Greta Thyssen in Terror Is a Man (1959)

    7. Terror Is a Man

    19591h 30mApproved
    5.3 (898)
    A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.
    DirectorsGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsFrancis LedererGreta ThyssenRichard Derr
  • The Twilight People (1972)

    8. The Twilight People

    19721h 21mPG
    4.1 (784)
    A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
    DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyPat WoodellJan Merlin
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

    9. The Island of Dr. Moreau

    19771h 39mPG
    5.9 (7.6K)
    A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
    DirectorDon TaylorStarsBurt LancasterMichael YorkNigel Davenport
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

    10. The Island of Dr. Moreau

    19961h 36mPG-1337Metascore
    4.6 (37K)
    After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
    DirectorsJohn FrankenheimerRichard StanleyStarsDavid ThewlisMarlon BrandoVal Kilmer
  • The Food of the Gods (1976)

    11. The Food of the Gods

    19761h 28mPG20Metascore
    4.6 (5.1K)
    A group of friends travel to a remote Canadian island to hunt, only to be attacked by giant killer animals which have populated the place.
    DirectorBert I. GordonStarsMarjoe GortnerPamela FranklinRalph Meeker
  • Village of the Giants (1965)

    12. Village of the Giants

    19651h 21mNot Rated
    3.7 (2.8K)
    Delinquent teen-agers ingest a substance and grow thirty feet tall, then proceed to take over a small town.
    DirectorBert I. GordonStarsTommy KirkJohnny CrawfordBeau Bridges
  • Things to Come (1936)

    13. Things to Come

    19361h 40mNot Rated
    6.6 (9.6K)
    The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
    DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRaymond MasseyEdward ChapmanRalph Richardson
  • The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

    14. The Shape of Things to Come

    19791h 38mPG
    3.2 (1.5K)
    Some time in the future, man has set up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable. A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships, and only three people and their robot can stop him.
    DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsJack PalanceCarol LynleyBarry Morse
  • A Trip to the Moon (1902)

    15. A Trip to the Moon

    190213mTV-YShort
    8.1 (59K)
    A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
    DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette Bernon
  • Freddie Young in The First Men in the Moon (1919)

    16. The First Men in the Moon

    191950m
    7.2 (65)
    The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.
    DirectorsBruce GordonJ.L.V. LeighStarsBruce GordonHeather ThatcherHector Abbas
  • Martha Hyer and Edward Judd in First Men in the Moon (1964)

    17. First Men in the Moon

    19641h 43mApproved
    6.5 (6.8K)
    When a contemporary spaceship lands on the moon, it's hailed as a new accomplishment before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the trek in 1899. This leads investigators to the earlier mission's last surviving crew member.
    DirectorNathan JuranStarsEdward JuddMartha HyerLionel Jeffries
  • The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)

    18. The Man Who Could Work Miracles

    19361h 22mUnrated
    6.9 (1.7K)
    An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
    DirectorsLothar MendesAlexander KordaStarsRoland YoungRalph RichardsonEdward Chapman
  • 19. The Wheels of Chance

    1922
    6.6 (18)
    A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
    DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsGeorge K. ArthurOlwen RooseGordon Parker
  • Finlay Currie and John Mills in The History of Mr. Polly (1949)

    20. The History of Mr. Polly

    19491h 35mApproved
    6.7 (712)
    With an inheritance after his father's death, Alfred Polly finds love in the arms of a schoolgirl but marries an unattractive cousin and opens a shop, which leading him to unhappiness, arson, suicide attempts, and escape.
    DirectorAnthony PelissierStarsJohn MillsSally Ann HowesBetty Ann Davies
  • Joan Collins, John David Carson, Robert Lansing, Robert Pine, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, and Pamela Susan Shoop in Empire of the Ants (1977)

    21. Empire of the Ants

    19771h 29mPG26Metascore
    4.3 (5.8K)
    Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.
    DirectorBert I. GordonStarsJoan CollinsRobert LansingJohn David Carson
  • Michael Redgrave and Diana Wynyard in The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941)

    22. The Remarkable Mr. Kipps

    19411h 22mApproved
    6.5 (555)
    Kipps, the draper's apprentice, falls in love with a girl above his station. After he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants.
    DirectorCarol ReedStarsMichael RedgravePhyllis CalvertPhilip Frost
  • Julia Foster and Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence (1967)

    23. Half a Sixpence

    19672h 23mNot Rated
    6.4 (934)
    Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile, has a sudden abrupt change of life when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a pile of money.
    DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsTommy SteeleJulia FosterCyril Ritchard
  • The Passionate Friends (1922)

    24. The Passionate Friends

    19221h 10m
    6.0 (7)
    An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
    DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMilton RosmerValiaFred Raynham
  • The Passionate Friends (1949)

    25. The Passionate Friends

    19491h 35mApproved
    7.2 (3.3K)
    A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsAnn ToddTrevor HowardClaude Rains

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