The Time Machine. Classic sci-fi based on the fiction of HG Wells. As Rod Taylor has to carry the film for large segments, he does a really good job. He plays your stereotypical Victorian inventor type that happens to create a machine that travels through time. The film is bookended by the largely humdrum dinners with his friends - firstly to display his miniature prototype, and then when he tries to convince them the story he has narrated during the film was true. The meat of the tale is his gradual progress into the future until he flings himself into the 80th century (or is it 800th? Not sure) where he intervenes in the (one-sided) battle between the passive Eloi, who are basically human livestock bred by the subterranean Morlocks. Roddy boy, like any good humanist, teaches the Eloi violence and they defeat the Morlocks. At the end he returns to rebuild the future and make little Eloi with his squeeze, Weena - despite the difference in age that he is self-aware enough to note more than once during the film.
I expect that the effects were state of the art for the time and they are certainly not disgraced by the blu-ray treatment.