Time traveler movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant time traveler movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, exciting, suspenseful, serious, interesting and mind bending films and TV shows about / with time traveler, time travel, time, time jump, time loop, time machine, supernatural, time paradox, imaginary and alternate timeline plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as time traveler: An American Pickle (2020), Project Almanac (2015), Look Who's Back (2015), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Travelers (2016), The Butterfly Effect (2004), Outlander (2014), In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), The Man in the High Castle (2015), Continuum (2012).

List of time traveler movies

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An American Pickle (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, surreal, funny, feel good ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time traveler, time travel, immigrant, fish out of water, family relations, twists and turns, inventions and discoveries, disorder, jewish culture, hanukkah, life lesson, inspiration ...
Time: edwardian era, 2020s, 2010s, year 1919, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, canada
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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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Look Who's Back (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Adolf Hitler wakes up in a vacant lot in Berlin, with no knowledge of anything that happened after 1945. Homeless and destitute. Although everyone recognizes him, nobody believes that he is Hitler; instead, they think he is either a comedian, or a ...
Style: political, realistic, stylized, psychological, controversial ...
Plot: hitler, time traveler, time travel, twists and turns, nazi, politics, humanity, manipulation, fascism, culture clash, ethnic conflict, propaganda ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, time traveler, love story, love and romance, time paradox, time loop, love affair, true love, tragic love, marriage, couple relations ...
Time: future, year 2009, 20th century, 70s, 90s ...
Place: chicago, usa
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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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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
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 8.4
 178K
Outlander (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and ...
Style: stylized, serious, exciting, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: time travel, fall in love, couples, love affair, true love, danger, life turned upside down, love and romance, battles, fish out of water, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, britain, syria, europe ...
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In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the killer mysteriously resurfaces nine years later, Locke's ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, detective, tense, twist ending ...
Plot: time traveler, hospital, secret identity, homicide detective, time travel, paranormal investigation, time, female serial killer, police detective, teenage girl, profanity, murder investigation ...
Time: future, year 1997, year 1988, year 2015, year 2006
Place: philadelphia
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The Man in the High Castle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: alternate reality, resistance, fascism, alternate history, assassination, espionage, political intrigue, multiverse, spy, time traveler, freedom fighter, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1962
Place: japan, usa, berlin germany, new york, san francisco ...
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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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 6.2
 43K
Time Trap (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time dilation, cave, time loop, time portal, climbing, friendship, twists and turns, time traveler, college professor, missing person, youth ...
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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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 6.4
 89K
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, light, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: time travel, love story, fall in love, love, love and romance, fish out of water, manners, couple relations, dating, duke, supernatural romance, destiny ...
Time: 19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 8.2
 407K
Loki (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 586 min.
TV show
Story: The mercurial villain Loki resumes his role as the God of Mischief following the events of "Avengers: Endgame".
Style: enigmatic, surreal, spectacular, exciting, non-linear ...
Plot: time travel, multiverse, time traveler, super villain, supernatural power, outer space, good versus evil, norse mythology, sorcerer, fantasy world, alien, god ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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 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
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 8.1
 98K
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
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 5.3
 7K
Flashback (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a chance encounter with a man forgotten from his youth, Fred literally and metaphorically journeys into his past.
Style: mind bending, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: time traveler, sent to the past, time loop, midlife crisis, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, life turned upside down, painter, drug, choice, moral dilemma, dealing with the past, uncover truth ...
Time: 2020s
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, repeated event, military, danger, soldier, time paradox, space and aliens ...
Time: future, year 2014, near future, 2010s, 2020s ...
Place: france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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 90K
Manifest (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After landing from a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers of Montego Air Flight 828 discover five years have passed in what seemed like a few hours. As their new realities become clear, a deeper mystery unfolds and some of the ...
Style: mysterious, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: time warp, mysticism, a vision, time travel, life & death, time traveler, investigation, airplane, starting over, supernatural, passenger, presumed dead ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 6.8
 78K
Boss Level (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never-ending time loop on the day of his death.
Style: ambiguous ending, intense, funny, futuristic, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: time loop, repeated event, one against many, tough guy, time travel, time traveler, dying repeatedly, trapped, martial arts, hitman, end of the world, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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The Final Countdown (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1980, the US Navy's most powerful warship, the USS Nimitz, is caught in a storm during routine manoeuvres in the Pacific. Enveloped by a strange green light, the ship passes through a vortex and when they emerge, their communications have ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, manly
Plot: time travel, world war two, military, catastrophe, military life, changing the past or future, heroic mission, battles, aircraft carrier, airplane, alternate history, time traveler ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place: pearl harbor, japan, pacific ocean
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 7.7
 12K
Beforeigners (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called “beforeigners,” these people come from three separate time ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, non-linear, enigmatic, detective ...
Plot: time travel, viking, police detective, imaginary, time traveler, mentor, culture clash, police, social relations, drug, parent child relationship, unsupportive coworkers ...
Place: oslo norway, eastern europe
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Quantum Break (2016)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Bridging gaming and live-action, the thriller looks into aspect the villains of the game and the dramatic backstory as it unfolds.
Style: futuristic, captivating, psychotronic, stylized, exciting
Plot: back in time, quantum physics, time travel, time portal, time loop, time paradox, partner, supernatural ability, supernatural power, time warp, race against time, dystopian future ...
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Phil of the Future (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Phil of the Future is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004 to August 19, 2006 for a total of two seasons. The series was created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber and produced by 2121 Productions, a part of ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: time machine, teenager, time travel, high school, fish out of water, family relations, teenage life, imaginary, hidden identity, dishonesty, parents and children, high school life ...
Time: 2000s, future, 22nd century, 21st century
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The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.
Style: exciting, tense, anime, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, time travel, heroes, apocalypse, time traveler, danger, fight, fantasy world, team, alternate history, academy, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, year 1989, 80s, year 1963, 60s ...
Place: usa
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 7.4
 181K
Palm Springs (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Style: romantic, funny, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: time loop, time travel, time, love and romance, time traveler, wedding, repeated event, dark humor, earthquake, drug use, groundhog day, family relations ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s
Place: california, palm springs california, hawaii, texas, austin texas
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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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Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Scarlet Heart: Ryeo is the remake of Chinese drama Bu Bu Jing Xin that stars IU as a woman who gets time-warped back to the Goryeo dynasty, and becomes involved with a very large family of princes, some of whom are vying for the throne, or her ...
Style: touching, captivating, romantic, dorama, sageuk ...
Plot: sweetheart, love triangle, time travel, palace, broken heart, royal family, mad love, throne, romantic triangle, palace intrigue, rivalry, love ...
Time: 10th century
Place: korea
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 6.2
 223
Hussar (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: 1812 year. Lieutenant Grigoriy Rylskiy must deliver secret documents to Kutuzov. As soon as they get to the commander, the Russian army will begin an offensive. But on the way to the headquarters, Rylskiy looks at the girl and mysteriously ...
Style: light, humorous, entertaining, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: time machine, time warp, time traveler, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, silly humor, missing person, humour, male female relationship, time jump, escapades, heroic mission, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an earthquake. Once there, he learns he was summoned by the wizard Merlin, who needs Calvin to save ...
Style: arthurian, period piece, epic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, date night, family outing ...
Plot: time travel, medieval, arthurian legend, king arthur, youth, magic, technology, child, stupid kid, time loop, legend, coming of age ...
Time: 6th century, middle ages
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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