Movies like 12:01

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12:01 (1993)
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12:01 (1993)
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 life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
Style: retro, mind bending, entertaining, detective, action thriller, action adventure, psychological, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
Plot: time loop, time travel, groundhog day, time, travel, memory, back in time, murder, experiment gone awry, prank, heroes, misfit, rescue, chases and races, danger, disorder, race against time, female nudity, experiment, science, computer, accident, repeated event, rehearsal, paperboy ...
Keyword: oldies

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Most similar movies to 12:01

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, mind bending and psychological films with plots about time travel, time loop, time, alternate timeline, time jump, time machine and changing the past or future mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like 12:01: Retroactive (1997), Time Lapse (2014), Happy Death Day 2U (2019), Extracted (2012), Running Against Time (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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 ⇓
100%
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tree Gelbman learns that dying over and over again was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
Style: horror comedy, slasher, captivating, scary, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: time loop, university, repeated event, paradox, suicide, time travel, mystery killer, deja vu, masked killer, murder, serial killer, friends ...
Time: year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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Running Against Time (1990)
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 ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family, race against time, imaginary, chases and races, heroes, assassination, state affairs ...
Place: vietnam, asia, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
95ers: Time Runners (2013)
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, law enforcement, danger, imaginary, superhuman powers, rivalry, woman in danger, repeated scene, travel ...
Time: future, year 2003
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.5
 3K
Slipstream (2005)
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, suspense, tense, grindhouse
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, time, back in time, heist, time loop, hostage, rivalry, heroes, on the run, crime gone awry, danger ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future
Style: humorous, tricky, funny, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, sent to the future, alternate reality, time, friendship, existence paradox, space, underdog, pub, disorder ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 3.8
 273
Bombshell (1997)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: laboratory, experiment gone awry, danger, inventions and discoveries, technology gone awry, life is a bitch, dystopian future, corporate crime, terminal illness, missing person, antidote, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
23%
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%
Thrill Seekers (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tom Merrick (Van Dien) works as a TV reporter when he's nearly killed in an accident while informing about a fire in the Evanston power plant. The sight of a creepy-looking man leaving the place accidentally saves his life, when he was meant to ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, time travel, time loop, social commentary, die hard, journalism, alternate timeline, time machine, escapades, investigation, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: future
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.2
 989
Dark Storm (2006)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, military base, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, race against time, mad scientist, heroes, save the world, technology gone awry, danger, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.7
 3K
Curvature (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously ...
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, mistaken identity, warning, science, scientist, female protagonist, guest, secret identity, love, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.9
 485
Madelines (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Working in their garage, indie entrepreneurs Madeline and Owen discover the secret of time travel. There's only one hitch: a bug in the code creates a new copy of Madeline at the same time every day.
Style: psychological, semi serious, futuristic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: time travel, clone, time portal, time machine, escapades, problem, cloning, time loop, time traveler, time warp, time paradox, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.1
 326K
Deja Vu (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tricky, confusing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, date night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, twists and turns, investigation, terrorism, deja vu, time, police investigation, danger, changing the past or future, parallel universe, shooting ...
Time: year 2006, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 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 ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
 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
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22%
 6.7
 5K
Mark Antony (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Set in 1995, Mark, a skilled mechanic and the son of a former gangster, stumbles upon a phone that has the ability to connect with the past, tries to save his estranged mother from a grim fate. While facing his own family's legacy, Mark must ...
Style: rough, humorous, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Plot: time travel, bandit, time portal, asian gangster, back in time, gang, time jump, criminal gang, gangster, time loop, time traveler, time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 13K
Enter Nowhere (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: time paradox, group of strangers, time travel, cabin in the woods, time loop, alternate reality, woods, danger, isolation, stranger, mind game, escape attempt ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Project Almanac (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time loop, teenager, time, time machine, alternate timeline, time paradox, butterfly effect, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, teleportation ...
Time: future, year 2015, year 2014, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, clever, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate reality, inventor, changing the past or future, time loop, sent to the past, teenager, travel, alternate timeline, time, mad scientist ...
Time: future, year 2015, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, retro ...
Plot: time loop, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, violence, afterlife, mental health, time travel, paradox, twists and turns, sexual abuse ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
James vs. His Future Self (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, psychological, captivating
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, time traveler, sent to the past, showdown, time loop, confronting the past, time warp, time jump, science, alternate timeline, silly humor ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Termination Point (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, alien encounter, save the world, undercover, on the run, escapades, disorder, experiment gone awry, space and aliens, manhunt, heroic mission, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
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, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, dinosaur, time loop, apocalypse, epidemic, time machine, disorder, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, inventions and discoveries, space travel, alien encounter ...
Time: year 1967, future, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Wake Up and Die (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman wakes up next to a mysterious man she's never seen before. Wondering what happened, she is seduced by the man and brutally killed later on in a moment of passion. As she awakes over and over again and to the same fate, she must dig into ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: time loop, killed during sex, murder, dangerous attraction, memory loss, dying repeatedly, danger, woman in danger, couples, serial killer, uncover truth, repeated scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 3K
Blood Punch (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous ...
Style: horror comedy, absurd, surreal, brutal, feel good ...
Plot: time loop, twists and turns, repeated event, murderous pair, groundhog day, time travel, supernatural, love, love triangle, bloody violence, dark humor, time warp ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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