Future Tense: The 20 Best Time-Travel Movies

Time travel doesn’t have to span hundreds of years to be a significant plot element in a movie, of course: it can be hours, or a handful of seconds. Characters can be caught in a loop, or spawn alternate universes, or even kill their grandfathers, depending on the rules the filmmakers set up: at press time, actual time travel was still fictional.

The time travel in this Bill Murray comedy, while limited to a single day, still plays into one of the most fundamental reasons for its persistence: the notion that if we had a chance to do our lives over, we could do it better the second time. The movie’s great subversion of that fantasy is the lesson that you could begin your do-over right now, in the present tense, on February 3rd and beyond.

Top 5 Looper Back to the Future (1-3) Groundhog Day Star Trek IV Bill & Ted honorable mention to SOURCE CODE (great flick)!!!

TerryMatalas God I’m old

Are there are time travel and parallel world type movies or shows coming out soon? I'm a huge fan of that genre...syfy/fantasy, I mean.

The fact that Back to the Future is not 1 is a disaster

TerryMatalas 7 is Hot Tub Time Machine?!? SMDH. No longer care what 1-6 are

BackToTheFuture 4 plot: Young doc Brown's family moves to cross country to hill valley. His father takes over a western union and teen Doc works there w his father. TD finds letter old Doc wrote Marty in 1885. TD finds/repairs DeLorean and adventure begins. Your welcome

morningrocker Way to make me feel even older.

CLASSIC!!!

This list is invalid if Time Rider isn't on it.

Just skip 3. Number 2 is the best. I've seen these movies millions of times in my childhood.

12 Monkeys and The Time Machine should have been in that list, unlike some other movies. (Galaxy Quest? Groundhog Day? Lola Runs? ... Not sure about those)

robertliefeld The Final Countdown not being on this list totally devalues this list.

Oh how time flies. 😎

robertliefeld How can any list of time-travel movies not include The Time Machine? Or the often over-looked and under-rated Timecrimes by Nacho Vigalondo?

What?!? How What

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