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33 films tagged time travel
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2025 · Science fiction
A man walks into a Los Angeles diner saying he comes from a future where artificial intelligence wiped out humanity, and that the people eating there can stop it. It is his hundred and seventeenth try.
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2025 · Science fiction
A wrongly jailed inventor forces the time machine back on and takes mercenaries with modern guns two thousand years into the past, meaning to crown himself China's first emperor. Loud, busy action.
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2025 · Family
A girl fed up with her family's constant phone use wishes the phones away, and the whole family lands in the Middle Ages instead. A comedy for all ages about modern people with no signal.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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1993 · Comedy
A sour television weatherman covering a small-town festival wakes up to find it is the same day again, and again. He works through boredom, then mischief, then something else.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
Two Toronto friends have spent seventeen years failing to book a gig at one club, and their latest scheme accidentally sends them back to 2008. Silly and fast, built out of one bad plan after another.
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2026 · Comedy
A hitman who wants out of the mob does one last job for a loan shark whose wife he is sleeping with, and finds a second copy of that loan shark waiting for him. A crime comedy that turns into a time travel problem.
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2026 · Musical
Red and Chloe hide a magic pocket watch in Wonderland's royal vault and start finding out what their trip to the past changed, including a sister Red never had. Songs throughout, made for kids.
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1985 · Science fiction
A teenager is thrown thirty years into the past by his friend's homemade time machine, and gets in the way of his own parents meeting. He has a week to fix it and a lightning strike to catch.
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2026 · Comedy
A Malayalam comedy running in three times at once: an Earth ruled by one regime in 2370, a broke little kingdom facing invasion in 1790, and the present day. Nearly three hours, and it keeps cutting between them.
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2001 · Science fiction
A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.
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2014 · Science fiction
An officer with no combat experience is dropped into a losing war against aliens and wakes up at the start of the same day every time he is killed. Most of it is him getting better at it, and it is funnier than it sounds.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a near future where the mob sends people back thirty years to be shot on arrival, a young hitman is sent a target he recognises. Fast to begin with, then it stops somewhere quiet for a long while.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Comedy
Two guests at a wedding in the desert find themselves living the same day over and over, with no way out and no reason to behave. Fast, silly, and it explains itself early.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Science fiction
A time-travelling agent working his last case sits down in a 1970s bar and listens to a stranger tell the story of their life. Small, talky, and it asks you to keep track.
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2011 · Science fiction
A soldier wakes in a stranger's body on a commuter train with eight minutes to find the bomber, and when the train blows up he starts again. The same carriage over and over, a little more known each time.
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2020 · Science fiction
An agent is recruited into an operation involving objects and people moving backwards through time, and told not to try to understand it. Loud and fast, and it explains itself while running.
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2007 · Science fiction
A man spots something through binoculars behind his new house, walks into the woods to look, and ends up somewhere he cannot easily explain. Almost all of it happens on one hillside over a single afternoon.
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2014 · Action
With mutants hunted to near extinction in the future, one of them is sent back to 1973 to stop the thing that started it. Two time periods running at once, and a lot of faces from the earlier films.
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1995 · Science fiction
A convict is sent back from a ruined future to find the source of the plague that emptied the surface, and wakes up in a psychiatric ward instead. It jumps between times and asks you to keep track.
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2014 · Science fiction
With the crops failing on Earth, a former pilot leaves his daughter behind and flies through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to live. Long stretches of orbital mechanics, and a clock that runs at different speeds for different people.
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2006 · Comedy
An army librarian of exactly average intelligence is frozen for a botched experiment and wakes five hundred years later as the cleverest man alive. Broad, cheap and endlessly quoted.
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2018 · Animation
A four-year-old furious about his new baby sister meets people from his family's past and future in the garden. Small, domestic, and told at his height.
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2004 · Science fiction
Two engineers building something in a garage on evenings and weekends realise the box does something they were not aiming for. Made for almost nothing, and it explains nothing.
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2009 · Science fiction
A young Kirk and a young Spock are thrown together on the Enterprise when a Romulan mining ship arrives from the future. Fast, bright, and built on the rivalry.
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2019 · Science fiction
Two New Orleans paramedics keep finding people injured in impossible ways near the same designer drug, and one of them starts testing it. Grim, and the rules are strict.
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1991 · Science fiction
Two machines arrive from a future war, one to kill a boy and one to protect him, and his mother is locked in an institution. Chases and effects almost the whole way.
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2022 · Science fiction
A pilot from 2050 crashes in his own back garden in 2022 and has to work with his twelve-year-old self. Light, quick, and mostly about his father.
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2017 · Science fiction
Two brothers go back for a day to the camp they escaped as teenagers, where nobody has aged and something is wrong with the sky. Made cheaply, and the rules take a while.
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2006 · Animation
A schoolgirl finds she can jump back a few minutes and starts using it for lunch queues and awkward conversations. Light for a long time, then not.
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1984 · Science fiction
A machine and a soldier both arrive from a future war looking for the same waitress in Los Angeles. Cheap, mean, and it does not stop.
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2013 · Romance
A young man learns from his father that the men in the family can travel back to moments in their own lives, and starts by using it to get a girlfriend. Gentle and mostly about family, with the time travel kept small.
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2009 · Mystery
A group sailing off Florida are capsized by a squall and climb aboard an empty liner, where things start repeating. A puzzle box, and it plays fair.
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