Movies and TvShows featuring "perpetual-motion" theme.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet follows the story of a young boy named T.S. Spivet who lives on a ranch in Montana and has a passion for invention. When he creates a perpetual motion machine, he receives a call from the Smithsonian inviting him to Washington D.C. to receive an award. T.S. embarks on a secret cross-country journey to deliver his invention, encountering various adventures and challenges along the way.

In Southland Tales, set in the year 2008, the United States is on the brink of a nuclear war with the Middle East. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action star with amnesia, becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving doppelgangers, time travel, and a mysterious energy source. As chaos erupts and the line between reality and fiction blurs, characters fight against a corrupt government, navigate through an alternate timeline, and grapple with their own destiny.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Sylvain, an engineer come vigilante inventor, has constructed a device. It is close to functional, but something isn't right. His wife, Mary Anne, is running out of patience. She loathes the woods in which they live and yearns for a return to the city. Problems arise when their already tense situation is exasperated by the appearance of shadow beings, which torment them during the night. Sylvain slowly comes to realize that this is not a localized event and some greater scheme might be at work. From the meth producing hillbillies on the mountain top to the corrupt lawman, Sheriff Donnelly, no one can escape the reach of the shadow people. Sylvain starts to suspect his device has something to do with it, but cannot bring himself to destroy the machine he has worked so hard to create.