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It’s Time Travel month here at Saw and we thought we’d try something a little different by ranking the best movies with the word “time” in the title. It’s always interesting when you focus on a word like this and see how many movies have it in the title along with it being in some really great movies.
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was listed the most showing up on five lists followed by Timecrimes and Once Upon a Time in the West on four lists with Good Time and Time Bandits at three apiece. What are some of your favorite movies with the word “time” in the title? Let us know down in the comments.
Vincent Kane:
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
- Good Time (2017)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- Nick of Time (1995)
DryButSoupy:
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
- A Time to Kill (1996)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Marmaduke Karlston:
- About Time (2013)
- Time Trap (2017)
- Time Lapse (2014)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Sailor Monsoon:
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Jacob Holmes:
- Time Lapse (2014)
- About Time (2013)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- The Land Before Time (1988)
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
King Alvarez:
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
- Good Time (2017)
Lee McCutcheon:
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Good Time (2017)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
- The Land Before Time (1988)
Bob Cram Jr.:
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Time After Time (1979)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- Modern Times (1936)
A list of movies that have a word relating to time in the title, such as second, minute, hour, week, morning, year or time itself. Excluded are the titles with just the word day or night in the title. See my other list for that.
avg. score: 11 of 141 (8%)
required scores: 1, 2, 3, 4, 24
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A Time for Dancing (2002)
A Time to Kill (1996)
About Time (2013)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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The First Time (2012)
From Time to Time (2009)
Hard Times (1975)
Harsh Times (2005)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
In Time (2011)
Kill Me Three Times (2015)
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
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The Land Before Time (1988)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Modern Times (1936)
Nick of Time (1995)
No Time for Love (1943)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of Time (2003)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Swing Time (1936)
Time After Time (2011)
Time Bandits (1981)
Time Lapse (2014)
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The Time Machine (1960)
The Time Machine (2002)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
8 Seconds (1994)
15 Minutes (2001)
30 Minutes or Less (2011)
88 Minutes (2007)
90 Minutes in Heaven (2015)
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
New York Minute (2004)
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
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If You like movies about time-travel and playing with the conception of time and time loops then this is the list!
12+
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116 min
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Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
87
Metascore
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
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Stars:
Michael J. Fox,
Christopher Lloyd,
Lea Thompson,
Crispin Glover
Votes:
1,229,131
| Gross:
$210.61M
Classics!
PG-13
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118 min
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Crime, Drama, Mystery
67
Metascore
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
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Stars:
Dennis Quaid,
Jim Caviezel,
Shawn Doyle,
Elizabeth Mitchell
Votes:
111,064
| Gross:
$45.01M
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.
12+
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96 min
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
42
Metascore
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 80,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Director:
Simon Wells
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Stars:
Guy Pearce,
Yancey Arias,
Mark Addy,
Phyllida Law
Votes:
126,687
| Gross:
$56.68M
In my opinion one of the best time-travel movies.
16+
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113 min
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
30
Metascore
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
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Stars:
Ashton Kutcher,
Amy Smart,
Melora Walters,
Elden Henson
Votes:
499,053
| Gross:
$57.94M
Playing with the idea of butterfly effect..everything you do can cause a chain of upcoming events that change or create your and other people’s life.
90 min
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A woman’s boyfriend dies in a fire after a fight over the couple’s unborn child. After the woman is involved in a drowning accident a few years later, she wakes up on-shore to find that … See full summary »
Director:
Jeffrey Reiner
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Stars:
Shannen Doherty,
Max Martini,
Julian McMahon,
Courtney Kidd
Votes:
794
Definetely highly underrated story about love and one more change. I really liked it. Good actors, too!
14+
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94 min
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Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
81
Metascore
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée’s family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Director:
Woody Allen
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Stars:
Owen Wilson,
Rachel McAdams,
Kathy Bates,
Kurt Fuller
Votes:
432,692
| Gross:
$56.82M
Really enjoyable movie if you like to take time and just enjoy playing with idea of meeting with famous people in the past.
R
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123 min
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Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
55
Metascore
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
Director:
Richard Curtis
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Stars:
Domhnall Gleeson,
Rachel McAdams,
Bill Nighy,
Lydia Wilson
Votes:
361,829
| Gross:
$15.32M
When You would have a ability to go whenever You like in Your own life then what would You change or do?
104 min
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
50
Metascore
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
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Stars:
Danielle Panabaker,
Matt O’Leary,
George Finn,
John Rhys-Davies
Votes:
47,036
Quite thrilling movie about friends who find a machine that makes pictures 24h into the future.
99 min
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Fantasy, Romance
20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
Director:
Dan Curtis
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Stars:
Campbell Scott,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
David Dukes,
Estelle Parsons
Votes:
2,235
20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
18+
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141 min
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Drama, Fantasy, Romance
63
Metascore
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn’t choose, anything is possible.
Director:
Jaco Van Dormael
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Stars:
Jared Leto,
Sarah Polley,
Diane Kruger,
Linh-Dan Pham
Votes:
237,978
| Gross:
$0.00M
Strongly philosophical play with the idea of time, of making decisions and the results of these decisions. Not so much of time travel but understanding your own life in many dimensions.
16+
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97 min
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Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
69
Metascore
For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.
Directors:
Michael Spierig,
Peter Spierig
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Stars:
Ethan Hawke,
Sarah Snook,
Noah Taylor,
Madeleine West
Votes:
289,623
| Gross:
$0.07M
More like sci-fi action with time-travel element. Ending is quite good though.
PG-13
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106 min
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Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
47
Metascore
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
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Stars:
Amy Landecker,
Sofia Black-D’Elia,
Virginia Gardner,
Jonny Weston
Votes:
81,739
| Gross:
$22.35M
Teens build a time-travel machine and need to deal with consequences.
16+
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101 min
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Comedy, Sci-Fi
63
Metascore
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Director:
Steve Pink
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Stars:
John Cusack,
Rob Corddry,
Craig Robinson,
Clark Duke
Votes:
179,249
| Gross:
$50.29M
Friends travel back in time with hot tub.
12+
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101 min
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Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
72
Metascore
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day, and the day keeps repeating until he gets it right.
Director:
Harold Ramis
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Stars:
Bill Murray,
Andie MacDowell,
Chris Elliott,
Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes:
646,647
| Gross:
$70.91M
Playing with the idea of repeating the same situation over and over again.
12+
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113 min
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
71
Metascore
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
Director:
Doug Liman
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Stars:
Tom Cruise,
Emily Blunt,
Bill Paxton,
Brendan Gleeson
Votes:
694,888
| Gross:
$100.21M
Playing with the idea of repeating the same situation over and over again.
16+
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110 min
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Action, Adventure, Horror
24
Metascore
A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.
Director:
Peter Hyams
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Stars:
Edward Burns,
Ben Kingsley,
Catherine McCormack,
Armin Rohde
Votes:
20,072
| Gross:
$1.89M
Underrated movie about butterfly effect on a large scale.
18+
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119 min
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Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
84
Metascore
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
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Stars:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Bruce Willis,
Emily Blunt,
Paul Dano
Votes:
584,925
| Gross:
$66.49M
16+
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150 min
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
69
Metascore
Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Director:
Christopher Nolan
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Stars:
John David Washington,
Robert Pattinson,
Elizabeth Debicki,
Juhan Ulfsak
Votes:
524,558
| Gross:
$58.46M
Sci-Fi At Its Best: 45 Movies About Time Travel
September 18 2016 — 03:19pm
The theme of time travel has always had a special place in Sci-Fi cinema and literature, and it is now living its golden age. Especially after Christopher Nolan’s Inception was released in 2014, time travel has become a very popular topic again for science fiction authors, directors and for the audiences. So, we listed 45 of the best time travel movies for you to enjoy!
Storylines are from IMDb, and the ranking is done according to IMDb ratings.
45. Black Knight (2001) | IMDb 4.7
t.hdviet.com This is the story an amusement park employee named Jamal Walker who is magically transported back to medieval times in 14th-century England. There, Jamal meets Sir Knolte, a dissolute knight, before he stumbles into the court of the usurper King Leo. Jamal is impressed by what he thinks is the realism of the theme park; only after witnessing a gory beheading does he realize, with horror, where he really is. Jamal encounters the beautiful Victoria who is scheming to return the queen to the throne, and falls afoul of the evil Sir Percival.
44. Freejack (1992) | IMDb 5.3
s21.photobucket.com Auto racer Alex Furlong is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vasendak’s 21st-century team of techies, who plan to sell his healthy body to an ailing rich man at McCandless Corporation, for a mind transfer. He escapes, but has no rights in this nightmare future of violence and sleaze. The story concerns his survival, and his attempt to revive his relationship with his fiancée Julie, now 15 years older and an executive at McCandless.
43. Timeline (2003) | IMDb 5.6
onedio.com In this case, a group of archaeologists and combat experts led by Paul Walker and Frances O’Connor use a ‘3-D fax machine’ (so much for technobabble!) to time-travel back to France in 1357, in hopes of retrieving Walker’s father and returning safely to the present. No such luck! Fending for themselves against marauding hordes of medieval French warriors at war with the invading British, these semi-intrepid travelers find their body count rising, and the deadline for their return home is rapidly approaching.
42. Timecop (1994) | IMDb 5.8
portaldecinema.com.br When the ability to travel through time is perfected, a new type of law enforcement agency is formed. It’s called Time Enforcement Commission or TEC. A cop, Max Walker, is assigned to the group. On the day he was chosen, some men attack him and kill his wife. Ten years later Max is still grieving but has become a good agent for the TEC. He tracks down a former co-worker who went into the past to make money. Max brings him back for sentencing but not after telling Max that Senator McComb, the man in charge of TEC, sent him. Max has his eye on McComb…
41. Just Visiting (2001) | IMDb 5.8
image.tmdb.org A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard.
40. The Time Machine (2002) | IMDb 5.9
image.tmdb.org Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers that mankind has divided into the hunter — and the hunted.
39. 13 Going on 30 (2004) | IMDb 6.1
image.tmdb.org After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she’s thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna’s prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can’t be a better life. Unfortunately, Jenna realizes that this is not what she wanted. The only one that she needs is her childhood best friend, Matt, a boy that she thought destroyed her party. But when she finds him, he’s a grown up, and not the same person that she knew.
38. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) | IMDb 6.3
themotionpictures.files.wordpress.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091738/ A 43-year-old mother and housewife who’s facing divorce is thrust back in time when she attends her high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life, she finds herself making many of the same choices.
37. Kate & Leopold (2001) | IMDb 6.3
sovirtuallyyours.files.wordpress.com Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, lives above her apartment. Stuart finds a space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the 19th Century and takes pictures of the place. Leopold — a man living in the 1870s — is puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera, follows him back through the gap, and they both ended up in the present day. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insight from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.
36. John Dies at the End (2012) | IMDb 6.5
www.theaureview.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783732/ It’s a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can’t.
35. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) | IMDb 6.5
static.giantbomb.com Three friends on losing streaks: Adam, whose girlfriend dumped him, Nick, with a dead-end job and a cheating wife, and Lou, a suicidal alcoholic. To help Lou recover from car-exhaust poisoning, Adam and Nick, with Adam’s nephew Jacob, go to a winter resort that was their old party place. It’s now a dump, but the lads rally for a night of drinking in the hot tub. Somehow, the hot tub takes them back to 1986, on a fateful night for each of them. Maybe if they do everything the same way they did that night, they’ll get back to the future so Jacob can be born. There are serious temptations to do things differently. Will they make it back to their sorry lives? And what about Jacob?
34. The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) | IMDb 6.6
images2.fanpop.com An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
33. The Final Countdown (1980) | IMDb 6.7
www.horrordvds.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/ In 1980, the assistant of the Department of Defense Warren Lasky is assigned by his mysterious chief Richard Tideman to visit the aircraft carrier USS Nimtz commanded by Capt. Matthew Yelland as an observer of the routines. Lasky finds that Wing Commander Richard T. Owens has a great knowledge of history. Out of the blue, the vessel faces a weird storm and they find that they have traveled back in time to the eve of the attack of Pearl Harbor on 06 December 1941. When the two Japanese Zeros attack the motorboat of Senator Samuel Chapman, the crew of the Nimitz rescues the senator and his assistant Laurel Scott. But sooner Lasky learns that the senator had disappeared on that day and Capt. Matthew Yelland is planning to attack the Japanese. Will these actions create a time paradox?
32. The Family Man (2000) | IMDb 6.7
image.tmdb.org A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn’t leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He’s married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He’s president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed’s. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn’t wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he’s more confident in his new life and starts to see what he’s been missing. Turns out money’s good to have but that’s not everything.
31. A Christmas Carol (2009) | IMDb 6.8
hebus.org Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
30. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) | IMDb 6.9
2.bp.blogspot.com In the small town of San Dimas, a few miles away from Los Angeles, there are two nearly brain dead teenage boys going by the names of Bill S, Preston ESQ. and Ted Theodore Logan, they have a dream together of starting their own rock and roll band called the ‘Wyld Stallyns’. Unfortunately, they are still in high school and on the verge of failing out of their school as well, and if they do not pass their upcoming history report, they will be separated as a result of Ted’s father sending him to military school. But, what Bill and Ted do not know is that they must stay together to save the future. So, a man from the future named Rufus came to help them pass their report. So, both Bill and Ted decided to gather up historical figures which they need for their report. They are hoping that this will help them pass their report so they can stay together.
29. Flight of the Navigator (1986) | IMDb 6.9
www.telluridelibrary.org http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/ A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn’t aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he ‘comes back’, a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.
28. Meet the Robinsons (2007) | IMDb 6.9
www.moviepdb.net Lewis an orphan wants to see what his mother looked like. So he invents a machine that looks through your brain so you can see your memories. But this weird kid says he’s from the future and warns him about a guy in a bowler hat. The bowler hat guy messes with his invention and it fails. He decides that he’s a failure and no one wants him. But the kid that warned him about the guy is here on a mission to find the bowler hat guy that wants to destroy Lewis. To prove he’s from the future he takes Lewis to the future. But the time machine breaks and he’s stuck in the future until he fixes it. In the meantime he spends quality time with the family. But the bowler hat guy is about to alter time and it’s up to Lewis to save the future.
27. Men in Black 3 (2012) | IMDb 6.9
widedscreen.com After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him — Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he’s there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.
26. Primer (2004) | IMDb 7.0
stuffpoint.com At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can’t have, what do you want when you can have anything?
25. Deja Vu (2006) | IMDb 7.0
www.virginmedia.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/ A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly look back a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?
24. We Are from the Future (2008) | IMDb 7.1
www.molodist.com My iz budushchego, or We Are from the Future, is a movie about time travel. Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battle in Russia. The movie’s genres are action, drama, fantasy, and romance. The movie will leave you captivated.
23. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | IMDb 7.1
reelbrief.com Darius is a young intern at a Seattle-based magazine and jumps at the chance to investigate the author of a classified ad seeking someone to travel back in time with. Along with Jeff, the staff writer, and Arnau, a fellow intern, the three go on a road trip to a coastal town. While Jeff just wants to chase after his high school crush and Arnau wants some kind of life experience, Darius spends her time with Kenneth, a man who believes that he has built a time machine. The closer they become and the more they understand about each other, the less clear it becomes if Kenneth is just crazy or if he actually is going to successfully travel back in time.
22. The Jacket (2005) | IMDb 7.1
www.filmey.com The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn’t know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.
21. Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) | IMDb 7.1
s128.photobucket.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/ The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts — two geeks and a cynic — as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.
20. The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) | IMDb 7.1
www.hokum.hu When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavoidable absences while time traveling — and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future — makes things ever more difficult for Clare.
19. Time After Time (1979) | IMDb 7.2
image.tmdb.org It’s 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine.
18. Timecrimes (2007) | IMDb 7.2
www.criticsremote.com Hector is an ordinary man who’s moving to a new house with his wife. One evening, while he’s looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm with scissors…
17. Happy Accidents (2000) | IMDb 7.3
fantasticticket.files.wordpress.com Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she’s stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he’s sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. But, as Ruby tells her therapist about Sam, in flashbacks we see someone not quite of this world. In fact, Sam informs Ruby that he’s from the future, 2470 to be exact. Ruby’s sure he’s delusional, but most of the time she wants to keep him — and maybe fix him. Although he seems sane, maybe Sam hasn’t told her the real story: what’s he up to, and who is Chrystie Delancey?
16. Somewhere in Time (1980) | IMDb 7.3
3.bp.blogspot.com Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to ‘Come back to me’. Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their ‘time’ difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?
15. Looper (2012) | IMDb 7.5
www.cineyear.com 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.
14. Source Code (2011) | IMDb 7.5
www.entertainmentbuddha.com Colter Stevens, a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. However, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin, who tells him he has to go back and find out who the bomber is. He is sent back to go through the whole thing again and attempts to find who the bomber is but fails. The bomb goes off and Stevens finds himself in the pod again. He is sent back another time, yet still cannot find out anything. When he returns, he asks what is going on. Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge, tell him that he is part of a project that can put someone in another person’s consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens then asks why he cannot just stop the bomb.
13. The Time Machine (1960) | IMDb 7.6
gorillafilmmagazineblog.files.wordpress.com On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells — George to his friends — arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work. George knew that his machine was stationary in geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over time to that location. He also learns that the machine is not impervious and he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine’s purpose. George tells his friends that he did not find the Utopian society he so wished had developed. He mentions specifically a civilization several thousand years into the future which consists of the subterranean morlocks and the surface dwelling eloi, who on first glance lead a carefree life. Despite all these issues, love can still bloom over the spread of millennia.
12. Army of Darkness (1992) | IMDb 7.6
movieboozer.com Ash is transported with his car to 1,300 A.D., where he is captured by Lord Arthur and turned slave with Duke Henry the Red and a couple of his men. When Ash is thrown into a pit, he defeats two monsters and wins respect of Arthur’s army and vassals. The Wiseman points Ash as The Chosen One that will retrieve the Necronomicon but Ash is only interested in returning home. When he learns that the only way to return to his time is using the Necronomicon, Ash decides to travel to the unholy land of the Deadites. The Wiseman advises that he must say the words ‘Klaatu Barada Nikto’ to safely get the evil book. However, Ash forgets the last word and an army of the dead resurrects to attack Arthur fortress and recover the Necronomicon. The battle between the living and the dead is about to start and the support of Henry the Red is the only way to help Ash and Arthur to defeat the army of darkness.
11. Midnight in Paris (2011) | IMDb 7.7
moviestorrents.net Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents’ business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks they should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions of the city or the idea that the 1920s was the golden age. When Inez goes off dancing with her friends, Gil takes a walk at midnight and discovers what could be the ultimate source of inspiration for writing. Gil’s daily walks at midnight in Paris could take him closer to the heart of the city but further from the woman he’s about to marry.
10. The Butterfly Effect (2004) | IMDb 7.7
wallpapers.wallpapersdepo.net Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan’s friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!
9. About Time (2013) | IMDb 7.8
i.ytimg.com At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time… The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim’s father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can’t change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place…by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he’s never met her at all.
8. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) | IMDb 7.9
aestheticsofthemind.files.wordpress.com A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.
7. Planet of the Apes (1968) | IMDb 8.0
collider.com Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.
6. Star Trek (2009) | IMDb 8.0
www.flickeringmyth.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/ On the day of James Kirk’s birth, his father dies on his damaged starship in a last stand against a Romulan time-traveling mining vessel looking for Ambassador Spock, who is also a child on Vulcan, in this time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human heritage. 25 years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. Challenged by Captain Christopher Pike to realize his potential in Starfleet, he comes to annoy instructors like young Commander Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan and the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself, thanks to Leonard McCoy’s medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever as a new version of the legend begins.
5. Twelve Monkeys (1995) | IMDb 8.1
cdn.denofgeek.us An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious ‘Army of the Twelve Monkeys’) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
4. The Terminator (1984) | IMDb 8.1
schmoesknow.com A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector — Kyle Reese — also sent from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and strength to find Sarah, but is there any way to stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg?
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) | IMDb 8.2
onlinemovies.pro Sentinels, robots that were created for the purpose of hunting down mutants were released in 1973. 50 years later the Sentinels would also hunt humans who aid mutants. Charles Xavier and his X-Men try their best to deal with the Sentinels but they are able to adapt and deal with all mutant abilities. Charles decides to go back in time and change things. He asks Kitty Pryde who can send a person’s consciousness into the person’s past to send him but she can only send someone back a few weeks because if she sends someone back further it could harm them. So Logan decides to go back himself because he might be able to withstand it. So Charles tells him that it’s Mystique who’s responsible because when she learned about the Sentinels she sought out Bolivar Trask the man who created them and killed him.
2. Back to the Future (1985) | IMDb 8.5
www.welikemovies.com Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean ‘time machine’ invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love — so he can get back to the future.
1. Interstellar (2014) | IMDb 8.6
Interstellar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/
Earth’s future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind’s survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the right environment to sustain human life.