Movies play a prodigal part in our lives. But, apart from educating us for good and the bad, the only thing that remains constant is perception. For some, it’s just an act to let tiredness out of the hectic schedule; for some, that’s the way the world should be its informative, and for some, just a way to kill time. But whatever the reason might be, the movie’s purpose is served when the viewers leave the seat with a smile on their face and thought about ‘what if’ that sets them thinking about the adverse.
Movies help us to understand the culture, history, traditions and so on. We live in a rather small world where we know only what’s shown to us. Everyone describes the world on their terms. But every individual is a story. We know very little. Movies help you to know the unknown. It surprises us, amazes us, nurtures us, and reveals to us the facts that have been discovered.
But there’s a negative side to it too. Some movies impart knowledge that could be harmful. However, the intention would be rather different from what it’s supposed to mean. Some movies have instigated fear, threat, and bad habits too. But what one should remember is that movies are for entertainment, and upbringing matters too.
Nothing can spoil you if you have control over your thoughts and actions. Time travel movies do showcase the adverse side too, but whenever history has been meddled with, its impact has been dangerous throughout. There’s nothing real about it, but just a human wish to make things better in the present. What we have is now.
After a hectic day, movies might cheer you up, not put you in a dilemma that you wake thinking that you’re still in some other world that runs according to your plan. Inventions were great and commendable, but this world would be a different place if we knew what entertainment means and what it means to live in reality.
What are Time Travel Movies?
Time travel movies urge the ‘the what if’ factor in all of us. The basic idea of such movies is to alter things in the past for a desirable present or future. But hey, I hope you know that ‘now’ is what you have and need to make the most of them. To keep the entertainment on, we have the movies to serve the purpose. So, let’s live the ‘what if’ factor too.
Here are 35 best time travel movies of all time:
35. Happy Death Day
- Directed by: Christopher Landon
- Written by: Scott Lobdell
- Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine
- IMDb: 6.6/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
Happy Death Day is the kind of movie whose high-concept premise both supports and restrains it; you know within moments that it was pitched in a boardroom as “Groundhog Day meets Scream,” and that a group of middle-aged white executives nodded assertively and started allocating funds and looking at headshots of attractive young women.
Even so, it has a few advantages. Jessica Rothe is endearing as the lead character “Tree,” the movie is generally a little funnier than it needs to be, and it does a fantastic job of luring viewers in with the promise of an anticipated resolution before shocking them in the final few minutes.
34. Safety Not Guaranteed
- Directed by: Colin Trevorrow
- Written by: Derek Connolly
- Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson
- IMDb: 7.0/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
Granted, time travel doesn’t actually appear until the very end of the movie (spoiler alert). However, director Colin Trevorrow deftly creates an ode to the desires that make time travel such a significant part of popular culture by following the strange courtship of a magazine intern (Aubrey Plaza) and the possibly delusional teddy bear (Mark Duplass).
Each character confesses their deep failures, failures that are accompanied by the stark pain of knowing there is no way to go back in time and try again. This happens as Plaza’s intern gets closer and closer to Duplass’s sad-sack misfit. Later, an editor (Jake Johnson) and another fellow intern (Karan Soni) join the conversation. It’s likely that the movie’s conclusion is too to make you think twice.
33. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Directed by: Jay Roach
- Written by: Mike Myers and Michael McCullers
- Cast: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Verne Troyer
- IMDb: 6.6/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
The second installment of the Austin Powers series follows the titular Powers (Mike Myers), a man who is akin to most foreign spies in popular culture in that he engages in a lot of sex, as he follows Dr. Evil (also played by Myers) back in time to stop his arch-enemy from stealing his “mojo.”
Other than its box office success, the most impressive thing about this sequel is how it was able to answer the question of how Austin Powers, a silly-looking man with little regard for women, would ever be able to pork every bipedal creature he sets his sights upon. It turned out to be a purple syrup-like goop! When Austin Powers’s sexual conquesting in the antecedent to this movie is attributed to him.
32. Hot Tub Time Machine
- Directed by: Steve Pink
- Written by: Josh Heald, Sean Anders, and John Morris
- Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson
- IMDb: 6.4/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
To remember what life was like before everything went wrong, three friends who are tired with their lives—joined by one geeky nephew—go on a weekend excursion to their former vacation spot. Up to the addition of a hot tub that can also serve as a time machine if you get drunk enough, the premise seems typical.
The tub transports them back to 1986, a crucial year for the crew, after a night of wild partying filled with illegal Russian energy drinks, bear costumed men, and Chevy Chase. The lads go out to replicate their favourite memories in an effort to maintain the status quo and avoid drastically changing their “present.”
Along the way, they create new ones and steal at least one Black Eyed Peas song (humanity is cool with this).
31. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
- Directed by: Don Taylor
- Written by: Paul Dehn
- Cast: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman
- IMDb: 6.3/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
However, it wasn’t until the third film in the original Apes series that the fabric of space-time was completely torn in two. It is understandable that some people could mistake the perplexing passage of time in the first Planet of the Apes for true time travel.
Escape is mostly an opportunity for anthropomorphic apes to dress in the “highest” fashion of the early ’70s, following Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and Zira’s (Kim Hunter) dramatic departure from the nuclear destruction of Future Earth in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. A monkey sporting a lewd kerchief, tee hee! However, the eventual treatment of Cornelius and Zira by a fearful human species is eerily similar to how Dr. Zaius treated Charlton Heston’s astronaut.
30. Déjà Vu
- Directed by: Tony Scott
- Written by: Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio
- Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer
- IMDb: 7.0/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
Denzel Washington and Tony Scott have worked together on numerous occasions, but Déjà Vu is possibly their greatest. Washington plays Doug Carlin, a gruff ATF agent who has spent his whole career attempting to apprehend criminals after they have already committed crimes but who, like any good police officer, would love to one day apprehend these same criminals.
Right, to save some government funds Carlin accidentally uses “Snow White,” a program that enables “present” people to view 4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds, and 14.5 nanoseconds into the past. Of course, this technology is far more complex than it first appears to be in order to stop a bomber. Multiple parallel universes, Jim Caviezel being mean-spirited, and a crazy car chase straight.
29. Peggy Sue Got Married
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
- Written by: Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner
- Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller
- IMDb: 6.3/10
- Available on: Streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime
Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner), who had just gone through a painful breakup with her high school sweetheart Charlie (Nicolas Cage), passes out at her reunion and awakens in 1960, having apparently been transported back to the year that changed her life the most.
Later, Peggy Sue gradually comes to terms with the fact that she has actually been back in time through a sequence of creative events that straddle science fiction and fantasy. She views this aberration as the ideal opportunity to start over, but she soon realizes that her future—er, present—may not always be a bargain.
Coppola surpasses Zemeckis’ almost impenetrable film by perfectly capturing the bittersweet quality that makes nostalgia so alluring. Whether Peggy Sue could have significantly altered her future or not is irrelevant; what matters is that she chooses not to.
28. 12 Monkeys
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
Terry Gilliam’s 1995 American science fiction film 12 Monkeys, starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles, was influenced by Chris Marker’s 1962 short film La Jetée. The script for La Jetée was written by David and Janet Peoples after Universal Studios purchased the rights to remake the movie.
The $29.5 million budget was approved by Universal at Gilliam’s direction, and filming took place from February to May 1995. The majority of the movie was filmed in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where the action takes place.
27. The Butterfly Effect
American science fiction thriller Butterfly Effect was produced in 2004 and written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Logan Lerman, Ethan Suplee, and Melora Walters are among the actors who appear in the film. The butterfly effect is alluded to in the title.
26. Quantum Leap
- Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt, Dennis Wolfberg
Donald P. Bellisario is the creator of the American science fiction television program Quantum Leap, which debuted on NBC and ran for five seasons from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993.
Scott Bakula plays Dr. Sam Beckett in the series, a physicist who accidentally jumps through spacetime while conducting time travel experiments in order to fix what he repeatedly finds to be historical errors.
A scientist gets stuck in the past during a government experiment into time travel and ends up “leaping” into the lives of various people to solve their problems and alter history in an effort to return to the present.
25. Interstellar
- Directed By: Christopher Nolan
- Written By: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
- Cast: Matthew Mc Conaughey as Joseph Cooper; Anne Hathaway as Dr. Amelia Brand; Jessica Chastian as Murphy Cooper
- IMDB Rating: 8.6/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
The Earth is failing to produce fertile crops, resulting in a shortage of food and the only hope is a black hole created by the future and find a new home for the humans.
The mission is to use the black hole to search for life on other planets. The first mission saved a lot of resources, but now that scientist is a farmer. He leaves his daughter with a promise to return only after discovering a substitute planet.
But the mission was to find such a planet and live there with no signs of returning… But the scientist had left behind an unsolved formula to save the world from extinction. Will his daughter be able to complete her father’s task?
24. The Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Directed By: James Cameron
- Written By: James Cameron, William Wisher
- Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator; Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor
- IMDb Rating: 8.6/ 10
- Available On: HBO Max, Netflix
Years had passed when Terminator, a machine, was sent to kill Sarah Connor and the baby within her. The baby was extraordinary as he would have resistance against machines and would be a future leader. But as of now, he was just a normal kid.
A terminator, T-1000, is sent back through time to kill Sarah and her son while he’s still young to prevent any future threats. But there’s another Terminator sent through time, who resembles T-1000. But this Terminator is sent to protect the mother and the child.
23. Back to the Future
- Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
- Written By: Robert Zemeckis
- Cast: Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly; Christopher Lloyd as Emmett Brown; Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines-McFly.
- IMDb Rating: 8.5/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
Marty McFly, a simple teenager, wishes not to turn out to be like his parents shortly. His father is a simple man who is easily bullied, and his mother is addicted to alcohol like no other. His only hope is his girlfriend, who knows about his fear of turning into a replica of his parents, regardless of his talents.
He meets his scientist friend, Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown, who reveals his time travel machine, which derives its power from plutonium that the scientist stole from Libyan terrorists.
Marty dives back in time using the machine but realizes that there’s no plutonium for him to return to the present. He meets his teenage father, who is still a target of Bluff, who is his boss now but continues to bully him.
Geoge, Marty’s father, comes in front of a car, eyeing his future wife, Lorraine, mother of Marty. Marty saves his dad but ends up being wounded. He’s attended by a nurse who is no other than his mother, Lorraine. She develops a crush on Marty. Finally, he realizes that he needs to get back in time to save everything, but then only one person could help him out now.
To get back, he needs to find the young Doc and convince him that he invents the time machine in the future. But Doc refused to understand his invention. So finally, after seeing Marty engrossed in problems one after another, he realizes that only his help could save him.
22. Avengers Endgame
- Directed By: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
- Written By: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
- Cast: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark; Chris Evans as Captain America; Chris Hemsworth as Thor.
- IMDb Rating: 8.4/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Instant Video, YouTube
After the infinity war, the world is left in ruins when Thanos uses the stones to destroy the Earth, and he destroys the stones too. Thanos was already planning to wipe out half the population, and according to him, it was right. He was ruthless, and he even sacrificed his daughter to get the soul stone.
Everybody lost someone close to them and that too, mysteriously. Things aren’t the way they were before, and so with absolutely no hopes of restoring their loved ones, the remaining Avengers sit back in silence.
That silence does not prolong for a long time as they soon get back to work. Well… Avengers assemble to fight back. They need to go back in time and take the risk of restoring the stones and using them against Thanos himself.
Thanos does get to know about the plan in the end, but before he could snap his fingers, someone else does… But the cost of that snap could be felt throughout time. Forever. For it was a sacrifice to remember.
21. Groundhog Day
- Directed By: Harold Ramis
- Written By: Danny Rubin
- Cast: Bill Murray as Phil Connors; Andie Mc Dowell as Rita Hanson.
- IMDb Rating: 8.1/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Instant Video
A weather reporter is doing his duty of covering a story about weather forecasting. Since he’s already covered four stories by now, he’s on the verge of getting extremely frustrated with his work. He thinks it’s a waste of his talent to be here amongst those who refuse to understand his talent.
But he realizes that he’s covering Groundhog Day again and again. So, he spends the night there and wakes up to the same location, time and situation again. He then realizes that he’s caught here in time, and so it’s replaying again. He’s doomed for life, for he’s caught up here and will see the same things again and again, and he’s already frustrated.
We all have our own stories, including traveling back in time to change certain scenes and situations to make our present better. Practically it’s not possible because what we have is now, and that should be sufficient. But is that sufficient?
No, we do hope for a handy time machine to change the course of events. We know that sometimes it’s devastating to even think of certain situations that cannot be controlled. And who doesn’t wish to control their actions, if only one could save themselves shortly by altering things in the past… it would be a boon in disguise.
The ‘what if’ factor is kept alive in us by just watching these movies that stop us from giving up on our visions and thoughts as we face this rather cruel world without justified thinking of what it should contain to keep us happy.
20. Arrival
- Directed By: Dennis Villeneuve
- Written By: Eric Heisserer
- Cast: Amy Adams as Louise Banks; Jeremy Renner as Ian Donnelly
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/ 10
- Available On: Hulu Plus
The movie is about aliens landing on Earth in 12 different locations. A language professor, Lousie, meets the US Army at one of the locations in Montana. Her purpose is to learn the aliens’ language so that she can communicate with them to know their purpose of arrival here. But the major question is… Is the arrival a threat or a sign of friendship?
Other nations perceive this as a threat, creating an unusual race against time to initiate a war with the aliens. And this war could begin any moment.
19. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
- Directed By: Alfonso Cuaron
- Written By: Steve Kloves
- Cast: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter; Emma Watson as Hermione Granger; Rupert Grint as Ron Weaseley.
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
Harry has a tough time with his relatives and that’s nothing new, but this time he has used magic to inflate his uncle’s sister, who spoke ill about Harry’s parents. Of course, he’s overjoyed to know that this act of his has no consequences, and he won’t be punished too… But what’s the threat here?
Well, he learns about Voldemort and Sirius Black, a criminal who fled to fulfil Voldemort’s wish of killing Harry. He encounters Dementors on the way too.
Harry had to turn the embedded hourglass once for each hour, particularly for the hour they wanted to go back to, and he would be transported to that time. Another instance of time travel in this movie could be seen when Hermione Granger uses this appropriate means to attend all those classes which she could not physically attend.
It was smart of her to have used this because her knowledge throughout the movie had been helpful to her and her friends. But little did he know that the past will be filled up now he would be exposed to future events to understand things better.
18. Edge of Tomorrow
- Directed By: Doug Liman
- Written By: Christopher Mc Quarrie
- Cast: Tom Cruise as Major William Cage; Emily Blunt as Sergeant Rita Vrataski.
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
Yet another alien race is imposing a threat to our very own universe. Well, it’s hard to understand why the Earth seems so attractive to them. Here we see that the aliens have discovered the weak points and have come to the Earth prepared so that no military or any other force could stop them.
Major William unceremoniously dropped in a suicidal act. Moments later, he’s killed, but he finds himself in a time loop – forcing him to relive the combat by fighting and dying again and again. But each time he fights back and dies, he discovers the skills and techniques required to stop the aliens.
17. About Time
- Directed By: Richard Curtis
- Written By: Richard Curtis
- Cast: Domhnall Gleeson as Tim Lake; Bill Nighy as James Lake
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Prime Video
Tim Lake discovers a time travelling that had been part of his family for a very long time. After a not-so-eventful new year party, his father reveals the time travel incidents that prevailed in his family. It could not change things in the past, but changes regarding his life could be made. So, he decides to get a girlfriend.
He does find his lady love, Mary, due to the time travel. But he needs to make many cunning revisits to ensure his love and the birth of his daughter. He does everything to keep his family protected. But this time travel advantage cannot keep him from facing the joys and sorrows of human life. Like everyone else, he too faces his family problems.
16. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Directed By: Mamoru Hosoda
- Written By: Satoko Okudera
- Cast: Makoto Konno voiced by Riisa Naka; Chiaki Mamiya voiced by Takuya Ishida.
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
This movie is a Japanese animation movie. Mokoto Konno faces a hard time managing things. Well, the future is unpredictable, and like every other person, she fears it too. Although we don’t know what it holds for us, the pressure to make it happy lies within our reach.
As a student, she faces the pressure of her teachers and the time being wasted by her on her friends and still not knowing what she would like to do shortly. So naturally, she’s scared and frustrated too. But only then does she discover her superpower of leaping through time.
But as they say, every action has a consequence, and facing them is the reality. She’s unknown to them because the superpower amazes her, and she’s using it for her benefit regardless of the consequences.
15. Deadpool 2
- Directed By: David Leitch
- Written By: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds
- Cast: Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson; Josh Brolin as Cable
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/ 10
- Available On: Disney Plus
In this sequel we see Wade “The mercenary with a big mouth” also known as Deadpool meets with a furious teenage mutant, Russell who happens to be an orphan. The young boy is targeted by Cable a genetically modified super soldier from the future.
Deadpool tries to stop Cable on his own, but he gets destroyed by him. After getting humiliated, Deadpool realizes that he would be needing the help of the X-Men to stop this menace from the future. Along with Bedlam, Shatterstar, Domino, and other mutants he defeats Cable to protect Russell.
The first film of Deadpool made everyone believe that he is mercenary out for revenge his face. But in this sequel, we see that he is an anti-hero who would go to any extent to protect a kid. This film is hilarious and entertaining to watch. Needless to say, Deadpool 2 is a must watch for a Marvel fan.
14. The Star Trek: First Contact
- Directed By: Jonathan Frakes
- Written By: Brannon Brage
- Cast: Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard; Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker.
- IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
- Available On: Netflix
It’s the 24th century, and the USS Enterprise has been handed over the responsibility of patrolling the Roman neutral zone to avoid interference of Borg (cybernetic lifeforms). But he does interfere with a purpose to conquer all races.
So, under their queen’s command, Borg heads towards the Earth with an evil plan involving time travel to change history. Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise follow Borg to battle with their seductive queen to save mankind.
13. Predestination
- Directed By: The Spierig Brothers
- Written By: The Spierig Brothers
- Cast: Ethan Hawke as Agent Doe; Sarah Snook as Jane; Noah Taylor as Mr. Robertson.
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix
In this movie, a man goes to diffuse a bomb but is intervened by the bomber itself. In this meeting, the bomb blast results in spoiling his face forever. He gets back in time to get his treatment done, but his face changes after those surgeries.
He wishes to kill the bomber on recovering, so he goes back in time and keeps his identity hidden. One day a man in the bar tells him a story about a baby left at the doorstep of an orphanage. She was extraordinary. She wished to be an astronaut, but she fell in love with a man whose identity is unknown and bore a baby, then transformed into a man. Going from Jane to John.
Will John be able to take his revenge?
12. Doctor Strange
- Directed By: Scott Derrickson
- Written By: Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill
- Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange; Chiwetel Ejiofor as Karl Mordo; Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer.
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/ 10
- Available On: Disney+
Dr. Stephen Strange is an exceptionally talented neurosurgeon, but with great responsibility comes great pride. Things change in his life after a car accident, which makes his magical hands lose control, and he’s unable to use his hands anymore.
After All the expensive treatments went to vain, he heard about Jonathan Pangborn from his therapist. He was a man who was healed by almost the same situation in Kamar – Taj.
So, Stephen heads to Nepal to seek help. There he is taught to use his mind to heal himself. Strange soon learns the skills and spells used in mystic arts, but he then learns that even his teacher has kept a secret.
11. Army of Darkness
- Directed By: Sam Raimi
- Written By: Sam Raimi
- Cast: Bruce Campbell as Ashley J. Williams; Embeth Davidtz as Sheila.
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/ 10
- Available On: Hulu
Ash, a hardware store clerk, is accidentally transported to 1300 A. D. Here, Ash is held as a captive by Lord Arthur and soon is forced to serve him. He’s thrown into a pit, where he fights two dangerous monsters and wins the affection of Arthur.
According to the learned men, Ash is the chosen one. Only he could get the Necronomicon, but he’s only interested in returning to his present time and staying home.
He knows that he needs to get the Necronomicon if he needs to go home, so he agrees to go to the unholy land. The learned men ask him to learn a few words so that he could fetch the book. But unfortunately, Ash forgets the last words and ends up resurrecting the dead. They attack Arthur and his men. Will Ash be able to go back in time, or will he be able to save Arthur?
10. STAR TREK-IV
- Directed By: Leonard Nimoy
- Written By: Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes
- Cast: William Shatner as James T. Kirk; Catherine Hicks as Dr. Gillian Taylor.
- IMDb Rating: 7.3/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Instant Video
The most adventurous Star Trek adventure of all time but this time with an important motive. The 23rd century and aliens are here to destroy mankind by evaporating the water bodies, disturbing the atmosphere and screwing up the balance.
To maintain stability and save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew dive back in time to find everything that had been destroyed on Earth so that they could save them from extinction and bring back the past to the present to save the Earth.
9. Tenet
- Directed By: Christopher Nolan
- Written By: Christopher Nolan
- Cast: John David Washington as Protagonist; Robert Pattinson as Neil.
- IMDb Rating: 7.3/ 10
- Available On: Netflix, Hulu
The plot of the film revolves around a CIA operative whose team collected an artefact, but he got captured by mercenaries and tortures him. He got recruited by a secret organisation called Tenet, tells him about “inverts” bullets that move backward through time.
They trace the buyers through an arms manufacturer and the bullets were purchased by Andrei Sator, a Russian Oligarch who plans to start World War III. He must travel through time and bend the laws of nature to successfully carry out his mission.
Christopher Nolan is the director of the movie and that makes it clear about how amazing the movie would be. This movie is a masterpiece because in this movie he creates a new ground of reality and the jargons they use makes it a little difficult to understand.
However, that does not stop this film from being a great watch. Nolan tends to use real props and he does not prefer CGI as a result the end result is a treat to the eyes.
8. Somewhere in Time
- Directed By: Jeannot Szwarc
- Written By: Richard Matheson
- Cast: Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier; Jane Seymour as Elise McKenna; Christopher Plummer as William Fawett Robinson.
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
Richard Collier, a theatre student, meets an old lady while celebrating the debut of his new play. She slips in a pocket watch in his hand and urges him to return to her. Strangely she passed away that same night.
Years later, the successful man, Richard, goes to the Grand Hotel to take a break from work. He then discovers some pictures in the hall of a beautiful actress, Elise.
To his surprise, she’s the same woman who gave him the pocket watch. On further research, he finds a time travel book in possession of Elise, written by Richard’s old professor. He wants to take a risk and travel back in time to test his luck over this lady. Richard travels back in time to meet her.
He realizes that he was in love with her… but will this time travel help him unite with his love? Because she did urge him to come back to her… But in which way… How could he hold her back forever? But isn’t it lucky to have seen your love as they age away?
And getting the moment to live your love in the past. The movie does set the viewers to believe that little is enough… Richard’s meeting with his lady love was the only thing he asked for. But love is surprisingly addictive… You can’t stop when you’ve had the hold of it. Though his only wish was to meet her, he ended up wishing for her to stay.
7. Time Traveler’s Wife
- Directed By: Robert Schwentke
- Written By: Bruce Joel Rubin
- Cast: Rachel Mc Adams as Clare Abshire; Eric Bana as Henry De Tamble; Arliss Howard as Richard De Tamble
- IMDb Rating: 7.1/ 10
- Available On: Netflix, can rented on Amazon Instant Video
Henry DeTamble engages in a car accident and loses his mother, but to his surprise, he’s alive, and that too he’s travelling back in time by two weeks. Henry is rendered help by his future self, who has also traveled back in time.
It’s a state of utter chaos for him, but he tries to understand. Then, finally, he meets Clare (his would-be wife) in a library. He does not know her well, nor does he know about those places, but Clare knows them all, and she assures him that even he does. But it’s hard for him to believe.
He has traveled back and forth in time so much that it’s confusing for him now. But he has not seen her before, but she remembers that Henry had promised to meet her as a child when they grow up, and now he’s keeping his promise.
Henry suffers from a rare genetic disorder that makes him time travel. He gets married to Clare, but his problems multiply as he finds it difficult to remain in one time and place.
Because of his constant time travelling, he’s exposed to the future, and knowledge of the future is dangerous. What if you knew there is trouble, but you cannot rule it out because you were just called to view it and not solve it.
Problems faced by families tend to break the person emotionally. Because you cannot escape from the situation, neither can you alter it. Henry faces the same dilemma, and he wants to save, but how? He has seen others go through it. But pain is felt only when the pinch is real.
6. Passengers
- Directed By: Morten Tyldum
- Written By: Jon Spaiths
- Cast: Chris Pratt as Jim Preston; Jennifer Lawrence as Aurora Lane; Michael Sheen as Arthur.
- IMDb Rating: 7.0/ 10
- Available On: Hulu, Disney+
Dr. Claire, a therapist, is living a simple life ignoring all the risks, but his mentor wishes to pull her out of her comfort zone. So, he sends her on a mission to treat five extremely lucky passengers who survived a horrific plane crash. Unable to communicate well after the trauma, the passengers are sent to Dr. Claire. Amongst them, Eric, one of the passengers, is very secretive.
Soon the passengers go missing one by one. And according to Claire, only Eric knew the unknown and had the answers to the questions that didn’t belong here at this time.
5. The Lake House
- Directed By: Alejandro Agresti
- Written By: David Auburn
- Cast: Keanu Reeves as Alex Wyler; Sandra Bullock as Dr. Kate Forster; Christopher Plummer as Simon Wyler.
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
Sandra Bullock lives in a house situated near a lake. Before leaving the house, she leaves a note in the mailbox for the next tenant. The next tenant does receive the note and replies to it. But nobody lived in that house before him. So, he writes back to know about the mystery.
Soon the mystery turns into this undefined romance. From two different time zones. But the movie does let the viewers think for a while about what it would be like for our better halves to know the things that have happened before or are going to happen.
It’s hard to know who came to live in that house first. Whether it was Sandra or the tenant, both of them are perplexed as well… Because according to the tenant… Nobody lived here before him, but Sandra finds it hard to believe because if she didn’t live here in the first place, how could she leave behind the note for him?
But Sandra denies the fact because she did live there. Soon they start talking through those replies. Sandra believes that it’s 2006, but according to him, it’s 2004. So, both of them are in two different timelines… Will they be able to discover the mystery and save their love?
4. The House At The End of Time
- Directed By: Alejandro Hidalgo
- Written By: Alejandro Hidalgo
- Cast: Ruddy Rodriguez as Dulce; Gonzalo Cubero as Juan Jose.
- IMDb Rating: 6.7/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Instant Video
The House At The End of Time is originally a Venezuelan film titled “La Casa Del Fin Del Los Tiempos” which was released back in 2017. The plot of the film is set back in 1981, where Dulce lived in an old house with her sons Leopoldo and Rodrigo, and with her spouse, Juan Jose.
One day, there was a supernatural phenomenon where her family was attacked and Dulce’s husband died from stabbing, Dulce was knocked out, and upon coming back to her senses she finds Leopoldo, her son disappearing into thin air after pulled through the doorway.
Upon Investigation it was found that the Dulce’s fingerprints were on the weapon, and she was sent away to jail. After she returns from serving her period she goes back to her house and one fine day she finds herself 30 years in the past, moments before Rodrigo’s death.
This film is one of the best time travel movies that will keep its audience on the edge of their seats, that makes it a perfect thriller movie. Moreover, in time travel movies the screenplay and direction is extremely important and this movie does so amazingly.
3. The Tomorrow War
- Directed By: Chris Mc Kay
- Written By: Zach Dean
- Cast: Chris Pratt as James Daniel; J. K. Simmons as James Daniel Forester Sr.
- IMDb Rating: 6.5/ 10
- Available On: Amazon Prime Video
Another amazing time travel movie, the plot of the movie is set in the present time where a group of time travellers travel back to the Earth to warn its population about a war that is to be fought in the future against deadly alien creatures and they are on the brink of defeat. They want to give this message so that the future of humankind would be changed.
This is an interesting film that beautifully displays action, emotions, and thrill. The film also displays a lot of family values which is absent in many movies. Chris Pratt has done an amazing acting in the film which makes it more fun to watch.
2. Tomorrowland: A World Beyond
- Directed By: Brad Bird
- Written By: Damon Lindelof
- Cast: George Clooney as Frank Walker; Hugh Laurie as David Nix.
- IMDb Rating: 6.4/ 10
- Available On: Hulu, Disney Plus
The film revolves around Casey Newton, who happens to possess a lapel pin that would transport her to the magical world of Tomorrowland, a city that is set in the future and it is filled with huge robots and skyscrapers. She seeks help from Frank Walker, a scientist and he has had visited this mysterious city, he made a startling discovery about the future.
The two acquaintances travel around the mysterious city to uncover the dark secrets of the land. Tomorrowland is a fantastic movie and the amount of thought and imagination used to create this movie is ridiculous. The film carries a beautiful message to its viewers, that is forward thinking can change our future for good.
The characters of this movie were great, and the scenery displayed in this movie is stunning, the movie would remind you of your childhood and you would find yourself returning to this movie after intervals of time.
1. The Time Machine
- Directed By: Simon Wells
- Written By: John Logan
- Cast: Guy Pearce as Dr. Alexander Hartdegen; Samantha Mumba as Mara.
- IMDb Rating: 5.9/ 10
- Available On: Netflix
A young physics professor decides to build a time machine after the murder of his fiancé to go back in time and save her life. He finds himself in 2037, where he acknowledges that technology has advanced rather very strangely, and the moon has been destroyed due to colonization.
He accidentally goes ahead in time to find the Earth in a state of utter disgust. But he makes up his mind to use his time machine to restore the world in shape.
