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 exciting, suspenseful, suspense, clever, futuristic and serious films and TV shows about / with time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, time, imaginary, time jump, time loop, catastrophe, paradox and time traveler plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, United Arab Emirates and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as time machine: The Time Machine (2002), Time Lapse (2014), Primer (2004), Dark (2017), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), Project Almanac (2015), Timeless (2016), Time After Time (1979), Predestination (2014), Time Changer (2002).
Best films
New films
| Doctor Who (2023) | 6.1 | |
| Time Cut (2024) | 5.1 | |
| Time Bandits (2024) | 6.1 | |
| River (2023) | 6.9 | |
| Orion and the Dark (2024) | 6.3 |
List of time machine movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
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, atmospheric, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, steampunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, escapades, changing the past or future, utopia, destiny, chase, time warp, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, distant future, 2030s, victorian era, near future ...
Place:
usa, new york, egypt
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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, cerebral, intellectual, confusing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, parallel universe, time loop, twists and turns, murder, paranoia, blackmail, time, party ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2014, near future
Is relevant?
121K
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, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
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531K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 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:
mysterious, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, investigation, mysterious past, time machine, cave, missing child, time portal, deja vu, small town, disappearance, alternate dimension ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, 50s, 80s, year 1953 ...
Place:
germany, chernobyl, europe
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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:
funny, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time machine, party, friendship, stupidity, changing the past or future, time loop, casual sex, ski resort, sex in a hot tub, sex scene, foul language ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, chernobyl, california
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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, clever, suspense, futuristic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time, time loop, teenager, alternate timeline, time paradox, time machine, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, butterfly effect, teleportation ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, distant future ...
Place:
usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
Is relevant?
51K
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, light, exciting, surprise ending, spiritual ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alternate reality, female scientist, fighting crime, alternate timeline, mother daughter relationship, shooting, murder, conspiracy, gang of outlaws, fantasy life ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, 19th century, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place:
san francisco
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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, retro, psychotronic, cult classic, mysterious ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, serial killer, time loop, jack the ripper, culture clash, murder, altering history, bank, writers, elevator, alternate history ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 70s, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, london, california, usa, europe
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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, philosophical, confusing, clever, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, time paradox, twists and turns, parallel universe, gender, destiny, existentialism, changing the past or future, loner ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place:
usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
Is relevant?
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, psychological, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, professor, society, religions or cults, preaching, theology, time, christian, ethics, christianity, bible ...
Time:
1890s, future, victorian era
Is relevant?
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, raunchy comedy, psychotronic, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, male nudity, sent to the future, hallucinogenic drug, alternate timeline, acid trip, virtual reality, buddy, female nudity, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, future
Place:
new orleans, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, 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:
witty, exciting, stylized, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, getting home, hopes, sent to the past, fish out of water, altering history, body swapping, experiment gone awry, alternate timeline, partner ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa
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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, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, epidemic, dystopian future, changing the past or future, sent to the past, existence paradox, time machine, post apocalypse, virus, paradox, apocalypse, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
69K
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, period piece, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
time travel, knight, time machine, archaeology, medieval, changing the past or future, danger, siege, twists and turns, parallel universe, time, sword and shield ...
Time:
medieval times, future, year 2003, middle ages, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, france
Is relevant?
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, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, time machine, danger, alternate reality, heroic mission, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, technology, jungle, race against time, killer animal ...
Time:
future, prehistory, prehistoric times, 1900s, year 2005
Place:
chicago, illinois
Is relevant?
66K
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, apocalyptic, spooky, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, heroine, time machine, getting home, terrorist group, existence paradox, policewoman, changing the past or future, sent to the past, hopes, fish out of water, computer genius ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, vancouver, canada
Is relevant?
71K
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 machine, time traveler, undercover, consciousness, artificial intelligence, time paradox, sent to the past, hopes, police detective, changing the future, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
north america
Is relevant?
626K
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, mind bending, thought provoking, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, distopia, hitman, time paradox, cyberpunk, time, self sacrifice, assassin, changing the past or future, organized crime, revenge ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, distant future, year 2012 ...
Place:
shanghai, kansas, seattle, usa
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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, road movie, suspenseful, cerebral, intense ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, changing the past or future, serial killer, time, alternate timeline, alternate reality, destiny, repeated event, twists and turns, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future
Place:
texas, usa, arizona
Is relevant?
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:
mumblecore, independent film, melancholic, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
time travel, time machine, loneliness, self discovery, fall in love, journalism, social misfits, happy ending, interview, intern, government agent, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state
Is relevant?
118K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, tech noir, thought provoking, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, memory loss, amnesia, twists and turns, time travel, changing the past or future, frame up, destiny, prophecy, technology, time machine, gunfight ...
Time:
future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place:
seattle
Is relevant?
384K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style:
inspirational, parody, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, architect, wish come true, alternate reality, wish fulfillment, time machine, life lesson, dysfunctional family, destiny ...
Time:
year 2006, future, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place:
new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
Is relevant?
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, apocalyptic, scary
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time machine, sent to the past, friends, youth, twists and turns, danger, multiple storylines, escapades, gunfight, time travel, catastrophe, runaway ...
Time:
2010s, 80s
Place:
russia, ussr, chernobyl
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, Canada
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:
cult classic, funny, hilarious, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, medieval, changing the past or future, sent to the past, high school, introvert, rock and roll, teenager, dumb, classmate classmate relationship, castle ...
Time:
80s, middle ages, 20th century, future, medieval times ...
Place:
ancient greece, california, washington d.c., athens greece, new mexico ...
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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:
suspense, twist ending, cerebral, enigmatic, confusing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, twists and turns, time machine, plot twist, threat, mysterious character, problem solving, trippy, time, surrealism, disorder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
basque country, iberian peninsula, europe, spain
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
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:
horror comedy, entertaining, humorous, tricky, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, sent to the future, time machine, alternate reality, time, time loop, friendship, existence paradox, pub, underdog, disorder, atheism ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 2009, distant future, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, saga, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, alien, alien invasion, ufo, hi-tech, time machine, changing the past or future, benign alien, alternate timeline, mind control, space travel, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa, florida, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
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
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