#time travel movies

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine replica - Universal Studios (1985)

[fallensapphires]

Movies: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Be excellent to each other.

Party on, dude!

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Are there any time travel stories in which a person travels back in time and therefore into an alternate time line and realizes they can't get back into their original time- like even if they tried to go back into the future, it would just be another time timeline. and the person just has to live with that? The closest I can think of is Casey Jones Jr. from ROTTMNT the movie. Are there any other stories like that?

[halloweenhundreds]

Totally Killer is the “Back to the Future slasher” you might have heard about and I was expecting it to be really annoying or on the nose but I don’t think it was, for my speed at least. A similar film and vibe to The Final Girls.

[queengranola]

The Time Travel Mystique

"People think time is fragile. Precious. Beautiful. Sand in an hourglass, all that. But it's not. Time is savage. It always wins." (Dr. Burnham, DIS: "Perpetual Infinity")

Time Travel in:

Star Trek: Discovery (DIS)

Outlander

Somewhere In Time

Looper

Also, give it a read for Time Travel Paradoxes

[writing-desk-rae]

I get so frustrated my time travel films. They never seam to follow their own rules (a la endgame captain america bullshit) or they get all paradoxy and over complicated.

But I love time travel fanfictions. Especially time travel fix its.

You guys are so much better at it, for starters, but I think the truth is that when you take away the need for the main character to return to their own time, time travel just works better

[harrison-abbott]

Back to the Future (1985) was recently voted the greatest time travel movie of all time by a poll in The Guardian. 

Damn right. 

[julez-fiction]

Top 10 Movies : Stuck in Time with You.

This list is made up of those movies that have two people(sometimes more) usually romantic interests, but could be friends or family, that are stuck in an extraordinary time travel or time loop situation together. Movie night just got better. Read on below for this interesting top ten 10 list.

1. Passengers, 2016

Sci-Fi / Romance

IMDb: 7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 30%

Director: Morten Tyldum

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis:

On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim and Aurora face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5,000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all.

2. Palm Springs, 2020

Sci-Fi / Fantasy

IMDb: 7.4 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 94%

Director: Max Barbakow

Starring: Andy Samberg, Christin Milotti,Camila Mendes, J. k. Simmons

Synopsis:

Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.

3. The Fare, 2019

Romance / Thriller

IMDb: 6.2 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Director: D.C. Hamilton

Starring: Brinna Kelly, Gino Anthony Pesi

Synopsis:

When a charming woman climbs into his taxi, a taxi driver finds himself entranced until she disappears without a trace. When he resets his meter, he is brought back to the moment she first climbed into his cab, starting an endlessly repeating loop.

4. 6:45, 2021

Psychological Thriller / Thriller

IMDb: 3.9 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Director: Craig Singer

Starring: Augie Duke, Thomas G. Waites, Shasha K. Gordon, Ray Mancini

Synopsis:

A romantic weekend getaway turns into a demented cycle of terror when a couple find themselves living the same horrific day over and over again.

5. Enter Nowhere, 2011

Mystery / Thriller

IMDb: 6.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: -

Director: Jack Heller

Starring: Scott Eastwood, Sara Paxton, Katherine Waterston

Synopsis:

Three strangers arrive one at a time in a remote cabin, and learn they have been brought together for a reason.

6. Edge of Tomorrow, 2014

Sci-Fi / Action

IMDb: 7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

Director: Doug Liman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton

Synopsis:

When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to beat them. Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise), an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide mission. Killed within moments, Cage finds himself thrown into a time loop, in which he relives the same brutal fight -- and his death -- over and over again. However, Cage's fighting skills improve with each encore, bringing him and a comrade (Emily Blunt) ever closer to defeating the aliens.

7. Source Code, 2011

Sci-Fi / Action

IMDb: 7.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Duncan Jones

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis:

Helicopter pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a top-secret military operation that enables him to experience the last few minutes in the life of Sean Fentress, a man who died in a commuter-train explosion. The purpose of Colter's mission is to learn the identity of the bomber and prevent a similar catastrophe. As Colter lives Sean's final moments, he becomes more certain that he can prevent the first tragedy from occurring -- as long as he doesn't run out of time.

8. The Endless, 2017

Horror/Thriller

IMDb: 6.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson

Starring: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington

Synopsis: Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't find as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

9. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, 2021

Romance / Fantasy

IMDb: 6.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Director: Ian Samuels

Starring: Kyle Allen, Kathryn Newton

Synopsis:

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a 2021 American science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Ian Samuels, from a screenplay by Lev Grossman, based on his 2016 short story of the same name. It stars Kathryn Newton and Kyle Allen as two teenagers stuck in a time loop.

10. Repeaters, 2010

Thriller / Sci-Fi

IMDb: 5.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 20%

Director: Carl Bessai

Starring: Amanda Crew, Dustin Milligan, Richard de Klerk, Benjamin Ratner

Synopsis:

Three people find themselves in an impossibly confusing time labyrinth, where each day they wake up to face the same horrors as the day before.

[supernightboy08]

My Favorite Time Travel Movies:

1. Back To The Future (1985)

2. Back To The Future 2 (1989)

3. Back To The Future 3 (1990)

4. Meet The Robinsons (2007)

5. Terminator 2 Judgement Day (1991)

6. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

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Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill

Movies watched in 2024

Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill (2023, Japan)

Director: Yoichi Narita

Writers: Masahiro Yamaura & Yoichi Narita (based on the novel by Natsue Shiomi)

Mini-review:

I had been curious about Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill for a while, since I like the two leads quite a bit and it became one of the most successful romance movies of the decade in Japan. Unfortunately, I found it disappointing. The romance didn't make me feel much at all, and the story is thematically muddled and indecisive. It clearly has a anti-war message, and tries to criticize the whole kamikaze program through the main character. However, at the same time, it seems to glorify and justify the same things it wants to condemn. The cast does a great job and makes the movie watchable, but not even the acting can stop it from being underwhelming.

[bearfoottruck]

If anyone's looking for a great book to read/movie to watch, check out Time After Time from 1979. Written by Karl Alexander (novel) and directed by Nicholas Meyer (film), it stars Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells, who has invented a time machine. Unfortunately for him, his close friend Dr. John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner) is really Jack the Ripper and steals the machine, so Wells pursues him to 1979 San Francisco and must not only bring him to justice, but try to get by in a future he could never have imagined. Also starring Mary Steenburgen as Amy Robbins, the film is largely faithful to the book, barring some extremely minor changes. TRIVIA: Supposedly, the movie inspired the Cyndi Lauper song of the same name.

MORE TRIVIA: The club used in the disco scene is the famous Trocadero Transfer, now known as The Grand.

[busylazy]

Durante la Tormenta (2018) or Mirage (English title)

The English translation seems more adventurous, IMO. Good job to whoever thought of that. I'm glad they didn't say "during the storm" or something.

And most importantly, it's a good time-travel arc movie.

[afabstract]

The Greatest Hits Review - Loss Through the Lens of Music

"The Greatest Hits" dwells into the power of music in healing wounds of the past. Read our spoiler-free review of the romance movie starring Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet & Justin H. Min.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) The 2024 romance movie “The Greatest Hits” has an eerily similar plot to the 2022 film “Press Play” – in both stories, the female protagonists are able to travel back in time while listening to certain music, which gives them a chance to save their dead boyfriends. So, even though it’s not wholly original, the plot is still quite…

[shaneplays]

2004's Primer by Shane Carruth is a rare example of a time travel movie that doesn't dumb things down for its audience, presenting the concept in a realistic and down-to-earth manner influenced by Feynman diagrams and that has inspired multiple fan-created posts to try to document the movie's flow. At times it's almost like watching a documentary or eavesdropping on moments and dialogue that the viewer doesn't always have the larger context for. Carruth made Primer on a budget of $7,000 (making over $800K in box office) and had a crew of 5. Time to catch it if you haven't already… on Sci-Fi Saturday!!

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Black Easter (2021, Dir. Jim Carroll)

This movie is basically Primer meets Passion of the Christ--with disastrous results. It makes "D-Railed" look like "The Great Train Robbery."

It's offensive, incomprehensible, pretentious, and overly long. Any interesting ideas about the intersection of time travel and theology are thrown out the window in favor of logic copied from other, better movies (that execute the logic better) for apparently intended comedic effect.

It's not even amusing as a bad movie. It just sort of goes on and on and on without making any meaningful points about anything. I guess it's supposed to have heart and a message, but whatever that message is, it gets lost in the mess that is the "Jesus assassination via time travel" plot.

Go watch The Last Temptation of Christ or Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity if you don't want your time wasted.