Time machine movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant time machine movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, mind bending and intellectual films and TV shows about / with time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, time jump, time, imaginary, time traveler, time loop, paradox and changing the past or future plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as time machine: The Time Machine (2002), Project Almanac (2015), Primer (2004), Time Changer (2002), Time Lapse (2014), Dark (2017), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), 12 Monkeys (2015), Predestination (2014), Timeless (2016).

List of time machine movies

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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
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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
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 6.7
 114K
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
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 5.2
 3K
Time Changer (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming ...
Style: christian film, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, professor, society, religions or cults, christian, christianity, ethics, bible, faith, dystopian future, preaching ...
Time: 1890s, future, victorian era
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 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
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 8.7
 438K
Dark (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 1455 min.
TV show
Story: A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style: mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, deja vu, small town ...
Time: year 1986, year 2019, year 1953, 50s, 80s ...
Place: germany, chernobyl
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Style: feel good, funny, hilarious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, party, time machine, friendship, profanity, changing the past or future, casual sex, ski resort, stoner, weed, nudity, stupidity ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, chernobyl
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 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
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 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
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 7.6
 47K
Timeless (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the ...
Style: romantic, exciting, light, surprise ending, intellectual ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate reality, alternate timeline, murder, female scientist, fighting crime, betrayal, mother daughter relationship, team, shooting, conspiracy ...
Place: san francisco
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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
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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
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 8.2
 36K
Quantum Leap (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown ...
Style: exciting, stylized, captivating, touching, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, getting home, impersonating, fish out of water, sent to the past, experiment gone awry, altering history, hopes, alternate timeline, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa
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A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Style: scary, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, time machine, evolution, danger, alternate reality, heroic mission, laboratory, jungle, experiment gone awry, race against time, killer animal ...
Time: future, prehistory, year 2005, 1900s, prehistoric times
Place: chicago
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 5.6
 66K
Timeline (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, sincere, suspense ...
Plot: time travel, knight, archaeology, time machine, medieval, changing the past or future, danger, twists and turns, time loop, sorcery, parallel universe, time ...
Time: future, medieval times, year 2003, middle ages, 14th century ...
Place: europe, france
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Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: 5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, scary, apocalyptic
Audience: teens
Plot: time machine, youth, sent to the past, friends, danger, twists and turns, multiple storylines, escapades, chase, gunfight, runaway, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, 80s
Place: russia, ussr, chernobyl
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Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Style: independent film, mumblecore, melancholic, enigmatic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: time travel, time machine, loneliness, intern, self discovery, journalism, love, social misfits, mental illness, fall in love, character study, escapades ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
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 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
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of failing high school students -- Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan -- are visited by a time traveler from the future who takes them on an adventure through time to gather up actual historical figures to help them ...
Style: hilarious, funny, cult classic, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, high school, changing the past or future, sent to the past, teenager, rock and roll, buddy, medieval, travel, heavy metal, classmate classmate relationship ...
Time: 80s, middle ages, 20th century, future, 1900s ...
Place: ancient greece, california, new mexico, washington d.c., athens greece ...
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
Style: humorous, not serious, psychotronic, retro, absurd
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, sent to the future, changing the past or future, hallucinogenic drug, virtual reality, buddy, disorder, friends, buddies, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, future
Place: new orleans, usa
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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
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 6.0
 2K
Rewind (2013)
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: intense, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, terrorism, danger, heroic mission, special agent, twists and turns, foreknowledge, catastrophe, investigation, virtual reality ...
Time: future, 21st century
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Fetching Cody (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Art, a drug-addicted dealer and hustler, arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.
Style: semi serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: time machine, time travel, love affair, couples, addiction, drug abuse, pimp, hopes, misfit, life is a bitch, overdose, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, vancouver
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 3.3
 774
Morlocks (2011)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: time machine, time travel, survival, danger, chaos, deadly creature, supernatural, military, battles, murder, violence, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 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
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 7.6
 63K
Continuum (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to ...
Style: captivating, exciting, detective, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, heroine, getting home, policewoman, terrorist group, time jump, existence paradox, changing the past or future, sent to the past, alternate timeline, computer genius ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, vancouver, canada
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The 25th Reich (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.
Style: exciting, humorous, tense, psychotronic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, world war two, time machine, chaos, swastika, military, killer robot, soldier, military base, ufo, nazi occultism, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 20th century, future, 1940s, year 2012, year 1943 ...
Place: australia
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 3.7
 403
Shifter (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, intense, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, animal experimentation, body horror, science runs amok, loneliness, life & death, father daughter relationship, experiment gone awry, dream, obsession, technology ...
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 5.9
 64K
Timecop (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, martial arts, time machine, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, danger, violence, murder, superhero, cyberpunk, dystopic future ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1994 ...
Place: washington d.c.
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The Time Machine (1978)
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, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time traveler, salem witch trial, cave, social commentary, aftermath, time travel, cannibal, dystopian future, mutant, disorder, chaos ...
Time: future, 20th century, distant future
Place: salem massachusetts
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