Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Dec 17, 1968

2h 24m

★ 6.8

The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything!

Overview

A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

Genres

Family

Adventure

Fantasy

Comedy

Production Companies

United Artists

Dramatic Features

Warfield

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Cast

Caractacus Potts

Dick Van Dyke

Truly Scrumptious

Sally Ann Howes

Grandpa Potts

Lionel Jeffries

Baron Bomburst

Gert Fröbe

Baroness Bomburst

Anna Quayle

Toymaker

Benny Hill

Lord Scrumptious

James Robertson Justice

Child Catcher

Robert Helpmann

Blonde

Barbara Windsor

Admiral

Davy Kaye

First Spy

Alexander Doré

Second Spy

Bernard Spear

Nobumasa Tsuboi (Yo Oizumi) runs a small factory in a small town. He has a daughter Yoshimi Tsuboi (Riko Fukumoto) who suffers from a congenital heart disease. A doctor tells Nobumasa Tsuboi that his daughter will only live for about 10 more years. Nobumasa Tsuboi is devastated that his daughter won't live past the ago of 20. Nobumasa Tsuboi and his wife Yoko Tsuboi (Miho Kanno) cannot accept the diagnosis. Even though he has no medical knowledge or experience, Nobumasa Tsuboi begins to study about artificial hearts.

7.2

The Contract

Aug 2, 1978

Struggling actor Chih-Wen (Michael Hui) got a raw deal from his company, MTV Studios. He signed a binding 8-year contract with the studio and was only given one opportunity to perform live thus far. Soon, he received a better deal with a rival company, who promised a 5-year contract and better opportunities to perform and make money. Since he cannot start working for the new company because of his current 8-year contract with MTV, he and his scientist-aspiring brother (Ricky Hui), with the help of magician Shih-Chieh (Sam Hui), attempt to steal the contract from his ruthless manager.

6.2

Abigail

Aug 22, 2019

A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going against the authorities to find his father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic. And she discovers in herself extraordinary magical abilities.

6.9

The Amazing Screw-On Head

Aug 20, 2006

Based on the award-winning comic book by Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), The Amazing Screw-On Head chronicles the adventures of a Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power who serves under president Abraham Lincoln.

6.0

Mr. Prokouk, The Inventor

Jul 23, 1949

After a hard day at work, Mr. Prokouk decides to invent a machine to ease his labor. But inventing is work too, and Mr. Prokouk spends more time dreaming about inventions than actually inventing anything. Can he find an easy solution?

7.3

Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

Oct 15, 2002

Wallace and Gromit try out ten of their latest inventions—which rarely work as planned.

4.4

Little Old New York

Feb 9, 1940

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

0.0

Is Benny Hill Still Funny?

Dec 28, 2006

A documentary looking at the life of Benny Hill and with the use of an audience reaction test finding out if he is still funny to contemporary audiences.

0.0

The Tomboy

Dec 26, 1924

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.

5.7

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

Dec 5, 2013

Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artefact that grants limitless wealth—but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box.

5.9

The Mercy

Feb 9, 2018

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

0.0

Claire

Jun 16, 2015

In a castle full of hedgehogs, an engineer is trying to satisfy her king, who wants her to create an unusual machine. After being thrown away for her failure, she finds an hedgehog on her head which gives a brilliant idea. She presents her new invention to the king, astonished : she reveals a pinscreen made out of hedgehogs and their spines.

6.8

Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine

Nov 8, 2013

The small town of Pinchcliffe is experiencing a great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However, things do not go as planned.

5.4

The Dwarves of Demrel

Sep 14, 2018

In this steampunk fantasy adventure, a collapse imprisons three dwarven miners who must now work collectively to combat starvation, despair, and a mysterious creature.

2.2

Quartz Vein

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A prospector in the year 2047 must rescue a girl enslaved by a mutant race of gold-injecting vampires.

0.0

Red Razor On Soft Skin

Mar 15, 2026

A giallo horror film about Benny Lazar, a timid son forced by his mother Moira to get a shave and a haircut from a mysterious barber. What ensues is a Technicolor nightmare of love, hate, betrayal, and self-destruction.

6.4

Living It Up

Aug 4, 1954

Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

6.0

The Big Noise

Sep 22, 1944

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

6.0

Professor Shanku O El Dorado

Dec 20, 2019

Based on Satyajit Rayʼs iconic character, this film portrays the story of Trilokeshwar Shanku - a respected scientist and inventor who travels to Brazil for a science convention. But once he`s there Shanku gets involved in an adventure, a quest for the mythical city of El Dorado. Through the journey, he encounters native tribesmen and anacondas, but will Shanku and his friends ever find El Dorado?

6.5

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Mar 13, 1936

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.