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Feb 22, 2022 · From classics like ‘Groundhog Day’ and ‘Back to the Future’ to exciting new entries to the canon like ‘Palm Springs’ and ‘Tenet,’ these are the 25 best time-travel movies ever made.
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- Alex Manley
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Many of these films use either a mental ability, magical device or a time machine, some seem to have help from a higher power and sometimes the person just wakes up in a different time. If you love TV shows like Outlander, Timeless, Doctor Who or Quantum Leap, then this list of the best time-traveling films is for you.
1. Back to the Future. 1985 1h 56m PG. 8.5 (1.3M) Rate. 87 Metascore. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. Director Robert Zemeckis Stars Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Lea Thompson. 2.
- La Jetée (1962) Kicking off an unranked list of time-travel movies chronologically seems like a good place to start, actually. La Jetée is also probably the most experimental of the films on this list.
- Time After Time (1979) Nicholas Meyer is behind not one, but two brilliant time-travel movies that made this list. For this particular film, he not only wrote the screenplay but also made his directorial debut.
- The Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) While it's true that the first Back to the Future movie is probably one of the greatest time-travel movies of all time, with its two sequels living in its shadows, all three are essential to understanding the character of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox).
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) "Be excellent to each other" is the reigning philosophy of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the adventurous, fun-loving, stoner time-travel comedy that spawned a franchise, including a third installment released in 2020.
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- Back to the Future. But there’s really nothing like Back to the Future, is there? Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 original takes a universal idea—the fact that we’re never able to truly know what our parents were like when they were our age—and adds his usual dash of insane ambition by playing that out as a time-travel story.
- Groundhog Day. Star Bill Murray and director Harold Ramis famously butted heads while making Groundhog Day. Murray reportedly wanted the film to be more philosophical, while Ramis was always pushing the comedy.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day. We should have known, given Aliens and The Abyss, that director James Cameron’s Terminator 2 wouldn’t just be any old sequel.
- Planet of the Apes. So Planet of the Apes is technically a time-travel movie, even though audiences who first laid eyes on the 1968 film didn’t know it until that final, jaw-dropping scene.
Jun 23, 2023 · Movies love to time travel. “Time is a flat circle,” said Rust Cohle, talking about the fourth dimension—or something. But in the case of popular media, the weird koan holds true: No matter...
Jul 22, 2021 · La Jetée. The most famous art house film about time travel, La Jetée follows a man sent back from a post-World War III dystopia to save the future, and to find the truth behind a traumatic...
