Time Travel Movies: Essential Films

A Victorian inventor builds a time machine and travels to the distant future, where he discovers humanity has evolved into two distinct and conflicting species.

Writer H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through time to 1970s San Francisco after the notorious killer steals his time machine to escape Victorian London.

A young playwright becomes obsessed with a mysterious elderly woman who approaches him on opening night, leading him to use self-hypnosis to travel back in time to meet her in her youth as a famous stage actress.

The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier is mysteriously transported back in time from 1980 to December 6, 1941, just hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The crew must grapple with whether to use their advanced knowledge and technology to alter the course of history.

A young boy joins six time-traveling dwarfs who steal treasures from different historical periods using a stolen map of time holes. Their adventures take them through various eras to encounter famous historical figures before facing consequences for their theft.

A cyborg assassin is sent back in time from a post-apocalyptic future to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead the human resistance against machines. A human warrior is also sent back to protect her from the seemingly unstoppable killing machine.

When teenager Marty McFly accidentally travels back to 1955 in his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown's time machine, he must ensure his parents fall in love or risk erasing his own existence.

Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to 2015 to prevent future problems for Marty's family, but their mission goes wrong when Biff Tannen gets hold of a sports almanac that alters the timeline.

Two slacker high school friends use a time machine to travel through history and recruit famous historical figures to help them pass their history class and save their rock band's future.

A reprogrammed Terminator is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from an advanced liquid metal assassin. Together with his mother Sarah, they must prevent the future war between humans and machines.

A modern-day department store clerk armed with a shotgun and chainsaw finds himself transported back to medieval England, where he must battle hordes of the undead while trying to find a way home.

In 2004, a time travel enforcement officer must protect himself from a corrupt politician connected to his past who threatens the timeline.

In a post-apocalyptic future, a convict is sent back in time to prevent a deadly virus from wiping out humanity. His mission becomes complicated when he's sent to the wrong year and must navigate a world that sees him as mentally unstable.

A police officer discovers he can communicate with his deceased father 30 years in the past through a rare phenomenon, but his attempts to change history have dangerous unintended consequences.

A troubled teenager begins experiencing disturbing visions of a large bunny rabbit that seems to be manipulating him into increasingly dangerous situations.

A group of archaeological students travel back to 14th century France to rescue their missing professor, but find themselves trapped in the dangerous medieval past.

A young man discovers he can travel back in time to inhabit his childhood body and alter past events. However, each change he makes creates unexpected and often dangerous consequences in the present.

A group of amateur inventors stumble upon a groundbreaking discovery that allows them to manipulate reality, initially using it for financial gain before facing unforeseen consequences.

A federal agent investigating a ferry explosion in New Orleans discovers a secret government lab with time-shifting surveillance technology that could help prevent crimes before they happen.

A man accidentally travels back in time by nearly an hour and must navigate the complex consequences of encountering his past self.

A librarian with a genetic disorder that causes him to involuntarily travel through time repeatedly encounters the same woman throughout different periods of her life, leading to an unconventional love story that spans decades.

Four middle-aged friends travel back to 1986 via a magical hot tub at a ski resort, getting a chance to relive their youth and potentially change their futures.

A nostalgic screenwriter visiting Paris with his fiancée's family discovers he can mysteriously travel back to the 1920s every night at midnight.

In 2044, Joe works as a "looper" - a hired assassin who kills targets sent back in time by future crime syndicates. His routine job becomes complicated when he's tasked with killing his own future self.

Three magazine employees investigate a mysterious classified ad seeking a companion for time travel, leading to an unexpected journey that blurs the line between skepticism and belief.

A young man discovers that the men in his family can travel back in time to change events in their own lives, though not history itself. Through this extraordinary ability, he learns valuable lessons about appreciating life and the people around him.

A temporal agent travels through time on missions to prevent crimes before they happen, but faces his greatest challenge when tasked with stopping an elusive criminal who has evaded capture across multiple timelines.

A group of teenagers discover blueprints for a time machine and decide to build one, but their experiments with time travel quickly spiral out of control.

A secret agent armed with only the word "Tenet" embarks on a mind-bending espionage mission that involves manipulating time itself to prevent global catastrophe.