Movies and TV-series about TIME TRAVEL
by Natasha266 | created - 01 Sep 2020 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicMany time-travel movies and TV-series. Strange how re-watching a movie at different ages of your life can conjure up different meanings, emotions and conclusions. When someone dear to you dies or after a break-up, maybe you’ll believe that time-travel could help fix things. If only…
I didn't include "Idiocracry" because hibernating oneself and waking up in the future doesn't count in my opinion. However if you travel to a parallel universe which is set in the past or the future, then I bend the rule but strictly speaking this is not time travel. I didn't include "Dr Who" because I never liked this series.... too insulting to one’s intellect.
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1. Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
While drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum.
Director: Gareth Carrivick | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly, Anna Faris
Votes: 36,578
I really liked this British movie. Its time travelling method is the most credible way anyone could time travel - by pure chance. A simple way to time travel which doesn't require any fancy machine, just walk inside an invisible time-holes ("time leaks"), a stable wormhole. For example, in the men's toilet of a pub. But if you go in the ladies, then the time jump is much worse.
Look up "grandfather paradox" after watching this.
2. Donnie Darko (2001)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
Votes: 850,329 | Gross: $1.48M
I was a fresher at university when this came out. Needed to watch it a few times before understanding the “time portal.” Very interesting and well-made movie. No amount of spoliers could stop me from re-watching Jake Gyllenhaal’s first time-travel movie. Don't bother with its sequel "S. Darko."
3. The Butterfly Effect (2004)
R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.
Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson
Votes: 521,326 | Gross: $57.94M
This is a scary version of time-travel but definitely a must watch. The father passes on a time-travel gene to his son. This super-power works in the following way: You stare intently at a note from your childhood diary or a childhood photos and your mind uses it as a marker to send you back to that point in time. However it is not a whole body time travel, just your current mind and all its data.
It kinda makes sense on an energetic level to only time-travel your consciousness. The “John Carter" movie uses a similar-ish teleportation philosophy - The teleportation device sends a copy of you on Mars while your original body hibernates on earth. In Butterfly Effect, only your brain is needed and maybe this is where movie “Synchronic” got its idea.
The ending will surprise you, It is very sad but an original ending.
4. Project Almanac (2015)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of teens discovers secret plans for a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Director: Dean Israelite | Stars: Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Virginia Gardner, Jonny Weston
Votes: 84,258 | Gross: $22.35M
A lot of good nerdy and interesting things happen at the beginning of this movie. But when it gets to the actual time travelling part, you may start losing interest. It is not as impressive as the intro. This is when you realise that Americans can only build up to the crux of the movie, and then they falter.
Good watch though, just don't make it a Sunday afternoon movie. Americans simply don't know how to make a worthy ending. Great start. Boring middle. Predictable time-travel ending.
5. Source Code (2011)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 549,929 | Gross: $54.71M
Jake Gyllenhaal’s third time travel movie. An amazing piece of military hardware is used to time-travel a software version of your consciousness to a point in time that your memory remembers before you died. The inventor thinks that your mind is a Matrix and his machine can rewind the data and place you some time before you died so you can start investigating.
Virtual-You never dies so the rewind process can be repeated over and over again until the mission is accomplished. The mission in this case is to prevent a terrorist attack on a train and a bigger one on an American city. Major cliffhanger at the end because virtual-you can indeed change things beyond the parameters of the software time-travel.
Can you imagine if instead of a stupid train, the author adapted the movie to 9/11? And instead of Jake Gyllenhaal they hired Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis, proper action/scifi guys who acted in such time-travel movies as Edge Of Tomorrow and 12 Monkeys respectively.
6. Deja Vu (2006)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer
Votes: 327,728 | Gross: $64.04M
I hope that one day they will make a prequel to this. The days when the team of scientists invented the time-viewing machinery and caused a power black out over a significant part of America. If Cloverfield can have “Cloverfield Paradox” prequel, then why not a “Deja Vu” prequel.
I really loved this movie especially the bits with Adam Goldberg (he has an interesting twitter page and i follow him). Great CSI detective movie wrapped inside time-travel cocoon or maybe the other way round?
7. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 737,271 | Gross: $100.21M
A time-travel goo which resets time as soon as you die. Much like losing a life in a video game and you re-appear because of the "3 Lives” rule. However in this movie you can come back to life, in the past and for as long as the time-travel substance stays in your blood. The alien Omega creature thinks you are an alien Alpha and does the time resetting for you. Will Tom Cruise become the Omega in the end? You damn know he will.
8. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,307,422 | Gross: $210.61M
Classic even though filled with time-travel paradoxes (errors). Shame on you Spielberg. Haha. Great Sunday movie. Very relaxing with a happy ending.
9. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson
Votes: 572,818 | Gross: $118.50M
Make money sequel…
10. Back to the Future Part III (1990)
PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Wilson
Votes: 481,021 | Gross: $87.73M
Make money sequel…
11. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Votes: 1,174,549 | Gross: $204.84M
The son is his own father?
12. Next (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 166,445 | Gross: $18.21M
Nicolas Cage has a special power where he can see 2 minutes into the future. The plot of the movie is an FBI female agent needs his help to stop a nuclear terrorist attack. As a bonus, you get to see Columbo (Peter Falk) in a cameo role. He died 4 years after this movie.
13. The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Henry DeTamble, a librarian, possesses a unique gene that lets him involuntarily travel through time. His wife, Claire Abshire, finds it difficult to cope with it.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Michelle Nolden
Votes: 157,938 | Gross: $63.41M
Cheesy. Good Sunday movie to wind down the wk-end.
14. Time Lapse (2014)
Not Rated | 104 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Director: Bradley King | Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 49,154
A camera which takes pictures of what will happen in the future and the 3 friends who discovered it use it to become rich. Doesn’t end well. Good movie plot though.
Watch "Deja Vu" afterwards.
15. Looper (2012)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano
Votes: 603,100 | Gross: $66.49M
Should I include "Time Cop" because I made allowance for this?
16. Time Bandits (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 68,377 | Gross: $42.37M
Just remember it was made 1981.
17. Future Man (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Josh Futturman, a janitor by day and a gamer by night, is recruited by mysterious visitors to travel through time to prevent the extinction of humanity.
Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Eliza Coupe, Derek Wilson, Haley Joel Osment
Votes: 28,705
It's very binge worthy tv-series. From Canada With Love.
18. Zapped (2016–2018)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy
James Buckley is transported to a parallel world featuring "psychopathic Fairies, Shell Men, seductive Demi-Fins and vicious Throcks".
Stars: Paul Kaye, Sharon Rooney, James Buckley, Kenneth Collard
Votes: 1,597
British comedy with the kid from The Inbetweeners (UK) Tv-series. A magic amulet takes the kid to a parallel universe but it seems to be set around Stonehenge era. Basically time-travel to me.
I am sad that season 3 was the last ever.
19. Frequency (2000)
PG-13 | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell
Votes: 115,779 | Gross: $45.01M
Son is able to speak to his dad in the past over CB-radio during a solar phenomenon. Not sure if they recently made a tv-series out of it…
20. Time Trap (2017)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A professor enters a cave and goes missing. Some of his students come looking for him and get trapped in the cave as well.
Directors: Mark Dennis, Ben Foster | Stars: Reiley McClendon, Cassidy Gifford, Brianne Howey, Olivia Draguicevich
Votes: 43,543
Bunch of people trapped in a cave outside which time fast-forwards. Most likely the cave is a time pocket (some kind of stable worm hole). Great Sunday afternoon movie.
21. The Time Machine (2002)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Simon Wells | Stars: Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
Votes: 130,439 | Gross: $56.68M
22. Interstellar (2014)
PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
Votes: 2,101,574 | Gross: $188.02M
Towards the end, astronaut gets inside a black hole where he becomes a 5-dimensional being thanks to invisible aliens guiding him. Then he is able to view all past & future times happening in his daughter's room (4-Dimensions). Using gravity, he communicates with her by sending binary messages to her analog watch, which she then decodes to save a dying earth.
23. Shifter (2020)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young woman experiences painful and gruesome side effects after an experiment with time travel goes wrong.
Director: Jacob Leighton Burns | Stars: Nicole Fancher, Ashley Mandanas, Jamie Brewster, Leesa Neidel
Votes: 404
Not such a great movie but ok. A farm girl creates a very sketchy boiler-pot device which she tries on her cat and then herself. The time travel happens each time she convulses.
24. Time Loop (2019)
TV-14 | 83 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young Londoner scientist, running experiments with his father in a quiet Italian village, has to face consequences for choices he hasn't made yet.
Director: Ciro Sorrentino | Stars: Sam Gittins, Mino Sferra, Ellie Poussot, Eliana Manvati
Votes: 665
Looks a bit like a budget movie wih B-actors.
25. Continuum (I) (2012–2015)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present-day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future.
Stars: Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Stephen Lobo
Votes: 63,546
A sci-fi TV-series with minor time-travel elements for originality. But it is a same old cop series with a sci-fi appendix.
26. Land of the Lost (2009)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A space-time vortex sucks scientist Rick Marshall, his assistant Holly and a survivalist Will into a world populated by dinosaurs and painfully slow creatures called Sleestaks.
Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone
Votes: 75,313 | Gross: $49.44M
A great comedy. Instead of forward or backwards, this movie is about traveling side-ways through time. I didn't quite get it. Some point in time where all times co-exist. A good wk-end watch. Get drunk beforehand.
27. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner
Votes: 248,917 | Gross: $206.04M
A bit of a goof.
28. 12 Monkeys (1995)
R | 129 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
Votes: 646,859 | Gross: $57.14M
Bruce Willis is sent to the past from a future earth which has been so ravaged by a deadly virus, everybody lives underground.
Bruce has to find who invented the virus and leave messages on an answer phone so the future scientists can send a kill team based on information left.
29. Primer (2004)
PG-13 | 77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Votes: 114,210 | Gross: $0.42M
Haven't seen it.
30. Paycheck (2003)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 113,292 | Gross: $53.79M
Ben Affleck is a reverse engineer who eventually stumbles on a big life-changing contract. As per contract his memory is wiped but when his employer tried to get him arrested and killed, he tries to remember and retrace what job he was on.
It should be no spoiler that if this movie is listed here, then the job was to do with time-travel - a time-viewing machine to see future events. Besides this, the movie is a big puzzle solving story with a cheesy love story to boot. Fortunately it is mostly action scifi so no worries here.
31. Intersect (I) (2020)
Not Rated | 119 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
Director: Gus Holwerda | Stars: James Morrison, Richard Dawkins, Jason Spisak, Abe Ruthless
Votes: 3,952
Time travel machine produces something else entirely. Not seen yet.
32. Tenet (2020)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Juhan Ulfsak
Votes: 593,007 | Gross: $58.46M
Time Inversion. I didn't like it. Too complex for its own good. Not really a good time travel movie, just a lot of action and shooting while you try to figure out what the heck is going on. I like complex movies with cliffhangers à la Inception but this was a bit much.
33. Predestination (I) (2014)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
Votes: 304,814 | Gross: $0.07M
You have to bear with first half of the movie being a terrible emotional blablabla introduction to real time travel bit. So stupid.
34. Curvature (2017)
90 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An engineer travels back in time to stop herself from committing a murder.
Director: Diego Hallivis | Stars: Lyndsy Fonseca, Glenn Morshower, Alex Lanipekun, Noah Bean
Votes: 3,079
A B-movie on time travel.
35. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
Votes: 304,028 | Gross: $90.76M
Jake Gyllenhaal's second time-travel movie. Donnie Darko being the first. In PoP, a dagger which contains magical sand for time travel. His third time travel movie is Source Code.
36. Coherence (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
Director: James Ward Byrkit | Stars: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen
Votes: 146,171 | Gross: $0.07M
Time travel phenomenon while a comet passes. I personally found it very intriguing and wasn't bored once. It is not some fancy CGI time-travel movie but has all the elements of a well tied up & credible plot. They even devise tests to check who is from their timeline and who is someone from the other timelines (could have easily been a parallel universe movie with copies intermingling). I am pretty sure the movie ends with a cliffhanger after comet's gone and everything is back to normal.
37. Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving
Votes: 53,060
Not seen yet. Time traveling musician dads.
38. Boss Level (2020)
TV-MA | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Trapped in a time loop that constantly repeats the day of his murder, a former special forces agent must unlock the mystery behind his untimely demise.
Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 79,226
A bit like” Source Code” type of time travel. They call this time-loop but this one feels a lot like a video game.
39. Tripped (2015)
50 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Best friends Milo and Danny embark on a series of bizarre adventures across multiple, parallel universes.
Stars: Richard Gadd, Georgina Campbell, Jamie Demetriou, Blake Harrison
Votes: 1,342
Not technically time travel but parallel universe travels. I figured out that since I erroneously included Zapped, why not this British series too.
40. Synchronic (2019)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, Ally Ioannides
Votes: 40,226
An original time travel movie with a somewhat credible plot. A drug accesses a part of your brain which enables you to decouple from your current timeline onto another random timeline.
The jump is always backwards in time and is unpredictable as to when you’ll land. So for example, your apartment may disappear and be replaced by a swamp or an ice-age location of it. However you’ll only stay in that environment for 7 minutes. It is important that you return to exact location of the transfer otherwise you’ll be stuck in the past and require another pill to forward travel in time. The location of the transfer is important.
This movie falls in the domain of super powers I reckon (much like Limitless movie). In Synchronic, a drug uses your own energy to physically move you to another timeline. Apparently time travel is impossible because it requires a lot of energy so authors constantly figure out a way around this obstacle.
41. Norman (IV) (2019)
TV-14 | 105 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A time traveler and his A.I. companion. Norman becomes trapped and isolated in the past, jeopardizing life in both the past and the future. He must invent a way back to the future before ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Guelzo | Stars: Stephen Birge, Aric Burkert, Debbie Carlson, Jon Carlson
Votes: 431
It is not a boring movie for sure but it may feel like a cheaply made B-movie. The main actor looks and sound very credible. The female A.I has an annoying voice.
The time travel happens by opening some kind of field between 2 metal poles and you walk through it. I believe the kid wants to save his parents from a car accident. I have reached 3/4 of the movie. The A.I couldn't answer the question "ANI what date is it today?" But prior to that scene, it could tell the kid where the time-travel lab was using GPS. GPS maths gives you local time as well as coordinates you dumb A.I. (or ignorant author). At that point, i gave up on the movie.
42. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
R | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement seeking a companion for time travel.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni
Votes: 130,866 | Gross: $4.01M
*Spoiler* He time-travels at the end.
43. The Jacket (2005)
R | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 119,309 | Gross: $6.30M
Not sure.
44. Star Trek (2009)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 620,364 | Gross: $257.73M
Time travel wormhole.
45. The Tomorrow War (2021)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.
Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin
Votes: 227,921
Army of kids from the future finds a way to build a time machine to go backwards in time 30 years, gather new recruits and ship them forward in time 30 years. For this to happen, you need to wear an electronic arm bracelet. In the apocalyptic future, the recruits are given tasks but most die against an alien animal enemy which shoots darts at you and eat you up.
The main worry about modern sci-fi is how bad is its woke factor going to be. An army of teenagers with a female teen leader, really?? So pretty bad.
While the woke dialogues have been removed, you will feel it in terms of feminist agenda and quotas for female in roles where they shouldn't be. Worst, it is an army of Greta Thunberg children because adults are useless somehow.
The ending part (after the time machine breaks) is the best part of this movie - determining how the alien arrived, etc.
46. ARQ (2016)
TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.
Director: Tony Elliott | Stars: Robbie Amell, Rachael Taylor, Shaun Benson, Gray Powell
Votes: 41,877
Couple stuck in a time loop protecting an ARQ infinite energy source. The story is that this new energy source got short-circuited at some time in the morning and using its own fuel cells, it created a time tangent which loops on itself when fuel-cell run out. This goes on until or if the main protagonists decide to shut it down before loop begins. Not boring movie at all. The ending didn't have a feel good factor to it though.
47. In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
TV-MA | 115 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A Philadelphia police officer struggles with a lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer whose crimes defy explanation.
Director: Jim Mickle | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 61,201
Every 9 years during blood moon, the gravitational force exerted on earth interferes with pockets of electromagnetism thus allowing someone to come back from the future using some kind of pod-shaped device.
In this case the person traveling to the past and because thanks to wokeness, it is a BAME woman with more power and martial-art skill than male cops. There goes my ability to take this movie seriously.
48. The X-Files (1993–2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 249,963
Episode 4x19 (S04E19) - Synchrony. (Scientist travels to the past to kill his younger self and others so time-travel can't happen).
Episode 6x03 (S06E03) - Triangle. (Mulder time travels to the past world-war era thanks to time wormhole in the Bermuda Triangle).
Episode 6x14 (S06E14) - Mondays. (Mulder and Scully die due to a bomb in a bank robbery gone bad. Time loops while female accomplice to bank robber figures out what needs to be done to end the looping).
49. La Brea (2021–2024)
TV-14 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A massive sinkhole mysteriously opens up in Los Angeles, separating part of a family in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a desperate group of strangers.
Stars: Eoin Macken, Chiké Okonkwo, Zyra Gorecki, Rohan Mirchandaney
Votes: 16,887
Sinkholes at the bottom of which is a green-coloured breach in space time continuum. A time-hole (wormhole) taking you to LA 10,000BC. I thought I wouldn't because a woman seems to be self-appointed leader of this group but it is ok so far (ep 4). No woke poison or very little of it.
50. The Orville (2017–2022)
TV-14 | 44 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Set 400 years in the future, the crew of the U.S.S. Orville continue their mission of exploration, navigating both the mysteries of the universe, and the complexities of their own interpersonal relationships.
Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes
Votes: 99,813
Episode 1x05 (S01E05) - Pria. (An arts dealer time travels to the past via a wormhole to save the Orville from sure destruction in a dark matter field. But her intention is to bring it back to the future to sell it at auction).
Episode 2x13 (S02E13) - Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. (A.I. Robot Isaac has made progress on Doctor Aronov's temporal device but when the Orville hits a gravitational wave, Kelly from 7 years ago appears in the ship. The episode is about interaction of young and old Kelly on the ship and ending with Isaac finding a way to send her back in time.).
Episode 2x14 (S02E14) - The Road Not Taken. (The memory wipe on 7 years younger Kelly didn't work due to lack of a protein in her brain. When she is returned to her timeline, she refuses a second date with Ed and messes the future. Ed is not captain of the Orville and humanity loses against the Kaylons. The final episode is devoted to Kelly resetting her mistake. Stupid women.)
Episode 3x06 (S03E06) - Twice In A Lifetime
51. Debris (2021)
TV-PG | 557 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two agents from two different continents and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele, Norbert Leo Butz, Scroobius Pip
Votes: 9,152
Time loop is caused when a teenage kid swims inside part of the wreckage (debris) of the alien ship. The 2 investigators get trapped into the temporal sphere of the time loop and must find a way to end it. But each loop causes a fracture in the timeline which later becomes visible due thinning of dimensions between the timelines. So they must act fast before time-space continuum rips apart. Something like that... Was glad to see “Walter Bishop” from Fringe in the very last episode’s cliffhanger ending.
Episode 1x09 (S01E09) - Do you know Icarus?
Episode 1x10 (S01E10) - I am Icarus?
52. The History of Time Travel (2014)
PG-13 | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
Director: Ricky Kennedy | Stars: Stephen Adami, Krista Ales, Valerie Black, Ryan Blackburn
Votes: 1,649
Fictional documentary about the days leading to discovery of time-travel. Haven't seen it yet.
53. Timeless (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An unlikely trio travels through time to battle unknown criminals and protect history as we know it.
Stars: Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Paterson Joseph
Votes: 47,128
They use a UFO-shaped time machine to get to when they want. After one of the machines is stolen from the research facility, a team consisting of a white Special Forces man, a white History professor lady and a black technical guy are tasked by DHS to use the back-up time machine to chase the “time bandits.”
The plot is very basic and linear: Criminals time travel to crucial moments of American history. The good guys arrive a few moments after them and their female historian has to guess what the baddies are up to and how to foil their plan. It is very easy going movie. Nothing cerebral. 2016 was beginning of woke-ism so this tv-series isn't as toxic as modern tv-series.
54. Volition (2019)
TV-MA | 91 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
Director: Tony Dean Smith | Stars: Adrian Glynn McMorran, Magda Apanowicz, John Cassini, Frank Cassini
Votes: 2,298
Sees the future (like the movie "Next") and acts accordingly. But to spice things up, a scientist gives him a shot of a serum which activates part of the brain that supposedly allows you to time travel (like in the movie Synchronic). This is why people describe this time travel movie as a mishmash of other time travel movies.
55. The Adam Project (2022)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner
Votes: 231,672
Time travel using an air/space craft which can fire a missile that creates a wormhole in space. Pilot flies to his past to destroy time-travel R&D facility co-owned by his dad (the researcher) and an evil woman (the investor). Pilot meets his young self and they team up.
56. Outer Range (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A rancher fighting for his land and family discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming's wilderness.
Stars: Lewis Pullman, Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor
Votes: 33,491
A time travel hole in the ground located on a farmer's West pasture ground. Unlike "La Brea" TV-series, this hole stays open because it is made of a time travel liquid which looks like crude oil. But the liquid can sink, disappear and come back later. From episode 2, the main actor is thrown in the pit, he travels to the future and is able to come back to his timeline by jumping back in the pit.
57. The Lazarus Project (2022–2023)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Is a top secret organization dedicated to preventing mass extinction events and with the ability to make time go backwards.
Stars: Paapa Essiedu, Anjli Mohindra, Rudi Dharmalingam, Caroline Quentin
Votes: 8,372
You may be put off by the lefty theme that Sky tries to shove down your throat right from the start such as Biden’s need to subject us to interracial couples or women in position of power. But bare with it as this series is quite interesting.
This is a “Time Loop” series. Earth G5 multinationals or the Brits have somehow managed to create a wormhole in space (checkpoint) which can reset time to 6 months ago. The people working for this agency called “The Lazarus Project” are either injected with a serum or are mutants who can remember all past timelines (which get erased when checkpoint is activated). Everyone else on earth will have their memory reset like NPCs in a game. This ability to remember helps the Lazarus agents accomplish mission (save earth from a virus or nuclear annihilation).
58. The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Tells the intricate love story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem... time travel.
Stars: Rose Leslie, Theo James, Everleigh McDonell, Gui Agustini
Votes: 17,624
I have no intention of watching this but i am listing it here for others who may want to see the TV-series version of the old movie.
59. Fringe (2008–2013)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An F.B.I. agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.
Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole
Votes: 257,561
Episode 2x18 (S02E18) - White Tulip
An MIT professor wants to save his wife from a road accident and develops a time travel “thingy” but fails to achieve the correct time-jump distance to save his wife. While he figures out how to solve the problem (9th degree polynomial), Fringe team gets caught inside his time loops but slowly and surely gets closer to arresting him.
Episode 4x06 (S04E06) - And Those We Left Behind
An electrical engineer follows his physicist wife’s equation and builds a time travel device in his basement. Due to a sudden illness, her equations are incomplete and his device can only jump back in time to 2007 for a short time before returning back to 2011. Each time he turns on the “time chambre” device, he hopes his wife will be able to complete her equations. However outside the time bubble surrounding his home, time anomalies are affecting daily lives of individuals and drags Fringe team in to investigate.
Episode 5x05 (S05E05) - An Origin Story
Peter Bishop tries to collapse a shipping lane (stable time wormhole) created by the Observers from the future (2936) to now (2036). Walter Bishop’s explanation on how it works is quite fascinating. Sadly Peter’s attempt to use an antimatter bomb to collapse his end of the wormhole so the future’s end turns into a blackhole doesn’t work.
60. Quantum Leap (2022–2024)
TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new team that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator.
Stars: Raymond Lee, Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Nanrisa Lee
Votes: 12,036
They bombard you with woke tropes right from the start. Women, ethnic and LGBT actors everywhere. You know you will see Biden’s inter-racial couples just round the corner. I have poor first impression and I’ve only watched 4min45s. The woman with a weird chin has really put me off watching this.
61. Lost (2004–2010)
TV-14 | 5,445 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.
Stars: Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly
Votes: 595,488
Season 5 - …I got the DVDs out but the graphics card of that laptop decided to fail on me. I have to buy a new laptop and a USBtoSATA cable.
62. Plan B (2023– )
Drama, Sci-Fi
A controlling husband who wants a successful family goes back in time to try to change the course of events and the outcome of his failing marriage.
Stars: Patrick J. Adams, Karine Vanasse, François Arnaud, Victoria Sanchez
Votes: 791
The main actor phones the Plan B company. They bill his credit card and kidnap him the next morning. Afterwards he wakes up in the time coordinate he specified. If his credit card has insufficient funds, nothing will happen.
By episode 2, i was filled with pure boredom hoping that there was an actual storyline or plot. It’s as if they strapped time travel to a boring work-life drama. All i could hear in episode 2 was constant bickering of his wife, a female lawyer he was forced to hire and 2 women from a mining company. Listening to constant bickering and a monotonous soundtrack is just unpleasant and uninteresting. Maybe one for the £1 bin…
63. The Tomorrow Job (2023)
105 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A team of thieves use a drug that allows them to trade consciousnesses with their future-selves in order to steal tomorrow's secrets.
Director: Bruce Wemple | Stars: Grant Schumacher, Caitlin Duffy, Ariella Mastroianni, Chris Cimperman
Votes: 1,290
They take a pill so their consciousness can time travel to the future. When they return to their present bodies, they use the gathered information to influence their present financial decisions. However another team tries to catch the trio. Very B-movie but watchable.
I think the writer and producer must have thought that Synchronic was a cool time-travel movie.
64. Lola (2022)
79 min | Sci-Fi, War
1940, Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. Unknown to them sharing these broadcasts the devastating changes it will have on the future of world but to them also.
Director: Andrew Legge | Stars: Emma Appleton, Stefanie Martini, Theodora Brabazon Legge, Francesca Brabazon Legge
Votes: 2,483
Device made by 2 women and which can intercept radio/tv broadcasts from the future and….… It is utter garbage. No wonder it went under my radar.
I was unable to watch more than 9 minutes. I simply can’t take any tech/science movie seriously when there are gimmicky feminist women in it. Get woke go broke.
65. The Flash (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon
Votes: 210,615
Some comic book scifi kid runs so fast he goes back in time and screws everything up. 2h20min runtime.
66. 57 Seconds (2023)
R | 99 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
Director: Rusty Cundieff | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Morgan Freeman, Greg Germann, Lovie Simone
Votes: 7,640
A time travel ring. Same actor that played in 2017 “Future Man” tv-series.
67. Totally Killer (2023)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Horror
When the infamous "Sweet Sixteen Killer" returns 35 years after his first murder spree to claim another victim, 17-year-old Jamie accidentally travels back in time to 1987, determined to stop the killer before he can start.
Director: Nahnatchka Khan | Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro
Votes: 50,885
Accidental time travel to 1987? Not sure. TBC.
68. Aporia (2023)
R | 104 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
Director: Jared Moshe | Stars: Judy Greer, Edi Gathegi, Payman Maadi, Faithe Herman
Votes: 1,580
Biden’s interracial couple and a Middle-eastern scientist. So far so woke.
They use a GPS-enabled time-machine to kill bad actors in the past. For instance, for the wife in the Biden interracial couple to bring back her African-American husband, she has to get a drunk driver killed. The accident never happens and her husband doesn’t die. But just like most crazy Karens, she has to force her truly stupid ideas on the scientists (husband and middle-eastern man).
There is no actual time travel. They just send a particle inside the brain of a bad actor which causes a melt down and death. It is a really cringeworthy movie due to the female actress. In the end, they mess up just like most time-travel movies do, e.g. Project Almanac, Butterfly Effect. I asked ChatGPT about various time-travel methods and it said that time-travel was pure scifi nonsense.
69. Time Addicts (2023)
92 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Denise and Johnny, two drug-dependent best friends, heist a bag of time-travelling crystal in order to pay off their debt to a volatile dealer.
Director: Sam Odlum | Stars: Freya Tingley, Charles Grounds, Joshua Morton, Elise Jansen
Votes: 207
They find time travelling crystal meth. The CGI looked good in the trailer. Will watch it later.
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