Time Travel Movies

Predestination

2014

A temporal agent nearing retirement is sent through different decades to stop a bomber who has repeatedly evaded his organization. Using a portable time-travel device, he follows a mission that folds personal history and causality into an increasingly intricate paradox without treating time travel as mere background.

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12 Monkeys

1995

In a future devastated by a lethal virus, prisoner James Cole is sent into the past to gather information that might help survivors understand the outbreak. His unstable jumps between years, uncertain memories, and attempts to trace the disaster make time travel central to both the investigation and the film’s causal structure.

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Edge of Tomorrow

2014

Major William Cage is thrown into a disastrous battle against alien invaders and dies, only to wake at the start of the previous day. Forced to repeat the same combat cycle, he uses accumulated knowledge to survive longer, improve his skills, and search for a way to break the loop.

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Looper

2012

In 2044, criminals from the future secretly send targets backward in time to be killed by hired assassins called loopers. Joe’s job becomes dangerously personal when a future version of himself arrives as a target, turning outlawed time travel into a conflict over causality, choice, and changing what comes next.

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About Time

2013

At 21, Tim learns that the men in his family can travel back to earlier moments in their own lives. He begins using the ability to redo awkward encounters and shape relationships, but even small changes can have wider consequences, making time travel a sustained mechanism in an otherwise intimate romantic drama.

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The Butterfly Effect

2004

Evan discovers that reading his old journals can send his consciousness back into key moments from childhood. Each attempt to repair traumatic events creates a different present, forcing him to confront the unintended consequences of changing history and making alternate timelines the central engine of the story.

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Primer

2004

Two engineers accidentally discover that an experimental device can send objects, and eventually people, backward through time. They begin using homemade machines for carefully planned trips, but overlapping versions of themselves, secret failsafes, and competing interventions quickly turn their discovery into a dense web of temporal causality.

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Palm Springs

2020

Nyles and Sarah become trapped reliving the same wedding day after entering a mysterious cave. With every reset, they experiment with the freedom and frustration of endless repetition while searching for meaning and, eventually, a possible escape from a loop that has detached them from ordinary time.

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Timecrimes

2007

After fleeing a mysterious attacker, Héctor enters an experimental machine and is sent roughly an hour into the past. His attempts to avoid interfering with earlier events instead pull him deeper into them, creating multiple versions of himself and a tightly wound chain of self-caused events.

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

2006

Teenager Makoto Konno discovers that she can leap backward in time and starts using the ability to redo embarrassing moments, improve ordinary days, and avoid unwanted situations. What begins as playful experimentation gradually reveals that changing one event can redirect consequences toward the people around her.

Deja Vu

2006

ATF agent Doug Carlin investigates a deadly ferry bombing using an experimental system that appears to show one fixed window into the recent past. When the technology proves capable of more than observation, the investigation becomes an attempt to send information and eventually intervene across time before the attack occurs.

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The Time Traveler's Wife

2009

Henry has a genetic condition that unpredictably pulls him out of the present and deposits him at other points in his own life. His involuntary journeys repeatedly intersect with Clare across different ages, making nonlinear time travel the defining complication of their relationship and their attempts to build an ordinary life.

Midnight in Paris

2011

While visiting Paris, disillusioned writer Gil discovers that a car arriving at midnight can carry him into the city’s artistic past. Night after night he spends time among celebrated writers and painters, turning literal travel to an earlier era into both a fantasy adventure and a confrontation with nostalgia.

Tenet

2020

A covert operative is introduced to objects and people whose entropy has been inverted, causing them to move backward through time relative to the surrounding world. As he investigates a threat linked to the future, forward and inverted actions collide, making temporal direction, causality, and paradox central to the mission.

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Donnie Darko

2001

After narrowly avoiding a bizarre accident, teenager Donnie Darko becomes entangled with visions, predictions, and ideas about wormholes and a temporary offshoot of reality. As a strange countdown advances, the story increasingly revolves around disrupted space-time, causal connections, and the possibility of restoring a damaged timeline.

Mirage

2018

During a strange electrical storm, Vera discovers that an old television can connect her with a boy living decades earlier. When she uses the link to warn him about danger, she wakes in a drastically altered present and must understand how one intervention in the past reshaped her life.

Caddo Lake

2024

Around the wetlands of Caddo Lake, disappearances and family mysteries become tied to a phenomenon that can move people between different years when conditions align. Characters cross into earlier points in local history, gradually revealing how events separated by decades are connected through the lake’s temporal displacement.

The Adam Project

2022

A fighter pilot from 2050 steals a time-traveling jet but crashes in 2022, where he meets his 12-year-old self. The two versions of Adam are drawn into a mission connected to the invention of controlled time travel, forcing them to confront both personal history and threats to the timeline.

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The Tomorrow War

2021

Soldiers from 2051 arrive in the present with a warning that humanity is losing a future war against alien invaders. Governments respond by sending contemporary recruits decades forward through a limited temporal link, making travel between two moving points in time essential to both the war effort and the search for survival.

Happy Death Day

2017

College student Tree Gelbman is murdered on her birthday, then wakes in the same morning and begins reliving the day. Each death resets the cycle, allowing her to test suspects, change her behavior, and gather information while trying to identify her killer and escape the repeating timeline.

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Meet the Robinsons

2007

Young inventor Lewis meets Wilbur, a boy from the future who needs help recovering a stolen time machine. Their adventure sends Lewis across eras and into a future shaped by choices made in the present, using time travel as the main engine for the film’s family mystery and comic adventure.

Totally Killer

2023

After her mother is murdered by a killer linked to an old Halloween case, teenager Jamie accidentally activates a time machine and lands in 1987. She meets the teenage version of her mother and tries to stop the original murders, even as each intervention risks changing the present she came from.

Boss Level

2020

Former special-forces soldier Roy Pulver wakes each morning into the same lethal sequence of assassins and repeatedly dies before the day resets. After months inside the loop, he uses what he has learned from previous runs to trace the cycle back to a secret experimental machine and the people behind it.

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Triangle

2009

After a storm strands a group of friends, Jess boards an apparently abandoned ocean liner and begins encountering events that seem disturbingly familiar. As deaths and encounters repeat, she realizes the ship is caught in a recurring pattern involving multiple versions of the same people and attempts to alter what happens next.

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The Jacket

2005

Gulf War veteran Jack Starks is confined to a psychiatric institution, where an extreme treatment places him in a morgue drawer under heavy medication. In that state he begins appearing years in the future, using what he learns there to investigate his fate and reconsider events in the present.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014

Genius dog Mr. Peabody educates his adopted son Sherman with the WABAC, a machine that lets them visit historical periods firsthand. When Sherman uses it without permission, a trip involving classmate Penny spirals into a cross-era rescue mission with consequences that threaten the proper order of history.

Time Lapse

2014

Three friends discover a machine in a neighbor’s apartment that takes photographs showing their living room 24 hours in the future. They begin arranging their lives around the images, only to become trapped by the belief that the predicted scenes must occur, creating a tense causal puzzle about foreknowledge and choice.

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

2025

A man enters a Los Angeles diner claiming he has traveled from the future to prevent a technological catastrophe. He recruits a particular mix of strangers for yet another attempt at his mission, with his repeated returns and detailed knowledge of events making time travel central to the group’s race to change what lies ahead.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016

Teenager Jake follows clues left by his grandfather to a hidden home where unusual children live inside a repeating day protected by Miss Peregrine. Entering and leaving the loop exposes Jake to a world where specific dates can be preserved, revisited, and threatened by forces operating outside ordinary time.

The Endless

2017

Brothers Justin and Aaron return to the isolated commune they escaped years earlier and discover that the surrounding area is governed by strange repeating cycles. Different places appear trapped in loops of varying lengths, and understanding those temporal prisons becomes essential as the brothers confront the force controlling the region.

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Interstellar

2014

Former pilot Cooper joins a mission through a wormhole to find a new home for humanity, while extreme gravitational time dilation causes years to pass differently for people separated by distance and gravity. The story ultimately ties relativity, communication across time, and causal influence into its central emotional and scientific stakes.

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Safety Not Guaranteed

2012

Magazine intern Darius helps investigate a classified ad seeking a partner for a supposed journey back in time. She grows close to the eccentric man behind the advertisement while trying to determine whether his planned mission is delusion or reality, keeping the possibility and preparation for time travel at the center of the story.