Movies like The Butterfly Effect 2

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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
 4.5
 37K
The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mind bending, thought provoking, absurd, psychological thriller, psychedelic, dark ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: time travel, destiny, changing the past or future, sent to the past, supernatural ability, time loop, suicide, childhood, supernatural, haunted by the past, profanity, hopes, memory, time, time machine, death, butterfly effect, teenager, puzzle, wing chun, paradox, mission, babies and infants, waking up, paranoia ...
Time: future, 21st century, contemporary

Most similar movies to The Butterfly Effect 2

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out mind bending, serious, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about time travel, alternate timeline, time loop, time, twists and turns, supernatural and time jump mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Butterfly Effect 2: Primer (2004), Source Code (2011), Timecrimes (2007), Frequency (2016), Frequency (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, independent film, confusing, mind bending ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, parallel universe, time machine, changing the past or future, changing the future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a ...
Style: mind bending, suspense, mindfuck, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, investigation, supernatural, serial killer, twists and turns, sent to the past, police investigation, violence, storytelling, alternate reality, profanity ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 68K
Timecrimes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style: twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, twists and turns, plot twist, problem solving, mysterious character, surrealism, distopia, memory, insanity, puzzle ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 14K
Frequency (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, investigation, destiny, danger, police detective, redemption, father daughter relationship, murder, serial killer, twists and turns, time ...
Time: 2010s, year 1996
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 115K
Frequency (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style: psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, time, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, rescue ...
Time: future, year 1969, year 1999, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 6K
The Door (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, tense ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time paradox, dealing with death, life turned upside down, couples, family relations, supernatural, father daughter relationship, time, paradox, bereavement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.7
 7K
Repeaters (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.
Style: psychological, mind bending, surreal, tense, clever ...
Plot: time loop, time travel, addiction, time warp, introspection, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, youth, redemption, time, imaginary ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 5K
Riley Rewind (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A high school girl named Riley has the ability to travel back in time and uses this power to save her friend who commits suicide.
Style: suspenseful, serious, disturbing, captivating, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, high school, supernatural ability, supernatural, life risking, youth, teenage life, friendship, teenager, alternate timeline, superpower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 11K
Synchronicity (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, stylized, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Plot: time travel, parallel universe, time loop, alternate reality, travel, science, time machine, life & death, twists and turns, love story, violence, corruption ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 303K
Predestination (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.6
 2K
Timestalkers (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Scott, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph. One of the time travelers is determined to change the course of history, the other to stop him. Scott's ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious
Plot: time travel, time loop, new world, mad scientist, old west, time machine, terminator, disorder, danger, changing the past or future, chases and races, imaginary ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 42K
ARQ (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
Style: tense, psychological, twist ending, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time loop, time travel, twists and turns, survival, post apocalypse, life & death, distopia, creativity, memory, dystopia, parallel universe, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 62K
Flashforward (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to ...
Style: suspenseful, mind bending, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: investigation, time loop, destiny, direction and purpose, uncover truth, supernatural, foreknowledge, time traveler, premonition, special agent, team, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.0
 64K
Travelers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: time travel, time traveler, artificial intelligence, time machine, consciousness, police detective, time paradox, changing the future, sent to the past, post apocalypse, teamwork, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 49K
Time Lapse (2014)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Style: twist ending, psychological, tense, cerebral, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, parallel universe, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, time loop, paranoia, twists and turns, blackmail, murder, brutality, death threat ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A 1950s author (Terumi Matthews) is transported to 1990s Brooklyn, where she meets a woman (Nicole Zaray) who reads about her life.
Style: sexy, stylized, independent film, contemplative, non-linear ...
Plot: time travel, bisexuality, haunted by the past, journalism, imaginary, writer's life, gays and lesbians, soul, writers, past, bisexual, flashback ...
Time: future, 50s, 90s
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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Looper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style: futuristic, clever, mind bending, exciting, thought provoking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, hitman, distopia, organized crime, cyberpunk, time paradox, assassin, shooting, self sacrifice, changing the past or future, parallel universe ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 2040s, near future ...
Place: seattle, kansas, shanghai, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Sound of My Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Style: thought provoking, surreal, tense, cerebral, suspenseful ...
Plot: manipulation, cult leader, sect, religions or cults, brainwashing, amnesia, investigation, journalist, twists and turns, time travel, uncover truth, exploitation ...
Time: year 2011, distant future, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 7K
Retroactive (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Style: suspense, tense, road movie, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, changing the past or future, serial killer, time, alternate reality, alternate timeline, witnessing a crime, destiny, twists and turns, changing the future ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: texas, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Time After Time (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper ...
Style: suspenseful, clever, psychotronic, tech noir, offbeat ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, serial killer, jack the ripper, culture clash, murder, altering history, bank, writers, alternate history, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 70s, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place: san francisco, london, california, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 8.1
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11.22.63 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: stylized, exciting, period piece, tense, light ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, time traveler, changing the past or future, altering history, kennedy assassination, murder, love, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s ...
Place: usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: virginia, america, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 3.6
 14K
S. Darko (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha ...
Style: surreal, psychological, serious, stylized, slasher ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: time travel, surrealism, life philosophy, clone, creativity, storytelling, dream, small town, imaginary, best friend, time loop, drinking alcohol ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 81K
Premonition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: time travel, destiny, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, life & death, foreknowledge, deja vu, death, family problems ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.2
 144K
Coherence (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style: mind bending, psychological, suspenseful, mind blowing, confusing ...
Plot: alternate reality, twists and turns, parallel universe, parallel world, time loop, quantum physics, disorder, paranoia, dinner party, comet, couples, asteroids and comets ...
Time: 2010s, near future, distant future, year 2013, future ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.7
 48K
12 Monkeys (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time travel, epidemic, survival, changing the past or future, time machine, existence paradox, post apocalypse, sent to the past, plague, virus, save the world, apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 12K
Extracted (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction causes his ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, confusing, melancholic ...
Plot: time loop, repeated event, murder, disorder, experiment gone awry, danger, inventions and discoveries, supernatural, alternate reality, scientist, time travel, virtual reality ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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