Movies like Running Against Time
If you like "Running Against Time" you are looking for psychotronic, exciting and serious movies about / with time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family and history teacher themes of Sci-Fi genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Running Against Time (1990)
387
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family, history teacher, tv reporter, heroes, college, chases and races, imaginary, assassination, race against time, state affairs, destiny, kennedy assassination, u.s. president, john f. kennedy, false accusation, on the run, back in time, combat casualty, vice president, fugitive ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, dallas texas
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Running Against Time
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and futuristic films with plots about time travel, danger, imaginary, chases and races, changing the past or future, heroes and escapades mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Running Against Time: 12:01 (1993), Timequest (2000), Time Chasers (1994), 11.22.63 (2016), Prometheus Trap (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
6K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the ...
Style:
action thriller, action adventure, entertaining, detective, mind bending ...
Plot:
time loop, time travel, groundhog day, time, dying repeatedly, back in time, travel, memory, murder, experiment gone awry, prank, disorder ...
Similarity:
100%
756
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, head of state, heroic mission, political conspiracy, race against time, dishonesty, assassination, on the run, state affairs, politics, government agency ...
Time:
60s, future, 20th century
Place:
texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, sent to the past, aviation, supermarket, evil corporation, plane crash, sent to the future, master criminal, chase, heroes, danger ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 1950s, 2040s ...
Place:
vermont, usa
Similarity:
66%
120K
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:
exciting, stylized, period piece, tense, intense ...
Plot:
time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, kennedy assassination, changing the past or future, altering history, time traveler, love, surveillance, conspiracy theory, sent to the past ...
Time:
60s, future, 2010s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place:
usa, dallas texas
Similarity:
57%
Movie in collections
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, bleak ...
Plot:
space travel, survival, changing the past or future, heroes, terrorism, escapades, time travel, chaos, spacecraft, danger, space wars, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, ...
Style:
apocalyptic, surprise ending, classic horror, grindhouse, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, post apocalypse, time loop, mutant, time portal, apocalypse, time, dystopia, group, post thermonuclear war, portal, distopia ...
Time:
60s, distant future, future
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or ...
Style:
apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, teenager, bare breasts, time travel, dystopian future, apocalypse, time machine, backpacking, secret experiment, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, erotica ...
Time:
future
Place:
idaho, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dinosaur, time loop, apocalypse, epidemic, time machine, disorder, heroic mission, inventions and discoveries, space travel, alien encounter, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
year 1967, prehistory, future
Similarity:
43%
Movie in collections
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant ...
Style:
futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
Plot:
time travel, post apocalypse, robot, cyborgs, terminator, apocalypse, androids and robots, dystopian future, wasteland, time portal, distopia, alien ...
Time:
future, year 1973
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, terrorism, danger, heroic mission, special agent, travel, foreknowledge, twists and turns, investigation, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, heroes, martial arts, chase, superhero, heroic mission, undercover, danger, psychopath, changing the past or future ...
Time:
year 1988, 19th century, 80s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, europe, california, texas, new jersey ...
Similarity:
38%
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, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
time travel, bisexuality, haunted by the past, imaginary, gays and lesbians, journalism, writer's life, writers, soul, flashback, past, bisexual ...
Time:
future, 90s, 50s
Place:
nevada, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
Style:
sinister, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic, bizarre ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, travel, mad scientist, evil genius, secret laboratory, alternate history, paradox, wartime, underground bunker, holocaust, nazi occultism ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, race against time, good versus evil, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, superhuman powers, imaginary, woman in danger, travel, science ...
Time:
future, year 2003
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Zambia, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, changing the past or future, time loop, back in time, on the run, heroic mission, destiny, hostage, heroes, rivalry, race against time ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, epic, stylized, suspenseful
Plot:
flash gordon, alien invasion, space opera, space and aliens, superhero, plague, outer space, dystopian future, dystopia, escapades, save the world, imaginary ...
Time:
60s, 1930s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. ...
Style:
cyber, serious, suspenseful, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, cyberpunk, coma, clone, biopunk, distopia, chaos, on the run, danger, escapades, heroes, chases and races ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe, holland
Similarity:
36%
708
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ...
Style:
exciting, serious, psychological, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
mind power, psychic power, cyberpunk, exploitation, psychokinesis, brain, spy, double agent, secret agent, dystopian future, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Place:
asia
Similarity:
35%
Movie in collections
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, psychotronic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time machine, time traveler, salem witch trial, cave, aftermath, social commentary, cannibal, dystopian future, chaos, mutant, disorder, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future
Place:
salem massachusetts
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A medieval cult travels to the 20th centrury and kills people, in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman Michael Nostrand must stop them, but what does his fate truly hold?
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, reluctant partners, police investigation, supernatural, police detective, danger, serial killer, murder, oracle, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
medieval times, 20th century, 90s
Place:
minnesota, france
Similarity:
34%
385
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Doorways is a proposed science fiction series from writer George R. R. Martin. A pilot was shot in May 1992, starring George Newbern, Anne Le Guernec, Robert Knepper, Kurtwood Smith, Max Grodenchik and Carrie-Anne Moss,[1] but was not picked up, and ...
Style:
suspense, tense, grim, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
parallel world, chase, alternate reality, time travel, fbi, pursuit, escape, portal, fugitive, female protagonist, artifact, mystery woman ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
Style:
anthology, psychological, tense, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time, changing the past or future, time paradox, time jump, time warp, travel, sent to the past, changing lives, time portal, lifestyle change, problem, multiple storylines ...
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
32%
13K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, time paradox, climate change, deforestation, parallel world, changing the past or future, discovery, time machine, research, apocalypse, disaster, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
32%
Movie in collections
869
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After four years, Jake Cardigan is prematurely awoken from his fifteen year cryogenic punishment to a world very different than the one he knew. Much more than before 'Tek', the highly-addictive electronic designer narcotic of the 21st ...
Style:
cyber, tech noir, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, false accusation, technology gone awry, missing person, righting the wronged, police detective, injustice, law enforcement, society, chases and races, dishonesty ...
Time:
2040s, future, 21st century
Similarity:
31%
483
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. ...
Style:
uplifting, exciting, serious, futuristic, bleak ...
Plot:
space station, spacewalk, space travel, distopia, outer space, space colony, nuclear threat, danger, race against time, escapades, chases and races, save the day ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
At the end of mankind's greatest battle, empires will crumble, alliances will form, enemies will rise and heroes will fall. World's will end, and a new journey will begin.
Style:
psychotronic, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, humorous
Plot:
space opera, intergalactic, space travel, time travel, star trek, space wars, teamwork, imaginary, captain, space mission, team, spacecraft ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
bounty hunter, heroes, rivalry, danger, escapades, chases and races, government agency, evil alien, disorder, space and aliens, alien, invasion ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time machine, changing the past or future, time travel, paradox, alternate history, time loop, covert operation, super powers, struggle for survival, spy, time, top secret ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
26%
599
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dystopia, survival, rivalry, dystopian future, life is a bitch, chaos, escapades, androids and robots, soldier, man versus machine, society, space travel ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to ...
Style:
semi serious, offbeat, humorous, fast, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, school, science, mutant, teenager, extraterrestrial, high school, coming of age, technology gone awry, student, hippie ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
vietnam, california
Similarity:
26%
Related movie lists
