Time Travel has been a prevalent theme in the sci-fi genre for as long as the history of cinema itself. However, making a great time travel movie isn’t a walk in the park. Quite a few films tried and miserably failed over time. Nevertheless, there are some really prodigious time travel films that grab the idea so well and portray memorable plots and ingenious stories.
If you are looking to watch a perfect time travel movie but are unsure which title to choose, look no further. We had to dig out the lexicon of time travel movies to compile a list of the best time travel movies you should watch.
Note: Spoilers ahead!
Back To The Future (1985)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
A sci-fi movie with a twist of comedy in it? Yes, a perfect combo. Back to the future covers a fiction in which a teenager got sent back in the past by accident. There he bonds with the younger selves of his parents also struggle with how to not have sex with his mom. In the end, the movie is crazy as well as a great job is done by the actors and director.
The Time Machine (1960)
Director: George Pal
Writer: David Duncan, H.G. Wells
Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
The Time Machine is one of those movies which are made to watch again and again. It never gets old, even till today’s date. Director George Pal has really outdone himself. Rod Tylor has nailed his performance as George in the movie. The story tells us about a man who travels forward in time to only find out the clichés of future society.
The Terminator (1984)
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
IMDB Rating: 8/10
A story ahead of its time, that came from just a little nightmare of writer and director James Cameron. But had the ability to pave the path for sci-fi movies and built a strong ground for the genre. The tale roams around a soldier sent in the past to protect a pregnant woman from a robot-cyborg also sent from the same timeline, who seems to be indestructible. Why is he trying to save the woman? Because the unborn child happens to be the future savior of humankind.
Time After Time (1979)
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Writer: Karl Alexander, Steve Hayes, Nicholas Meyer
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, Charles Cioffi
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
Famously known for his work with the Star Trek franchise, Time After Time is directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film stars Malcolm McDowell as H.G Wells, who believes in time travel, follows his sinister friend Jack The Ripper, a serial killer who uses the writer’s machine to escape the time of his arrest. This sci-fi film is full of action and drama, and the performance of legendary McDowell lifts the overall mood of the screenplay.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Director: Richard Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
IMDB Rating: 8/10
A teenager with a lot of psychological issues who doesn’t get along well with people around him. As a result of the situation, he starts to see a man dressed as a bunny but is no friend of his as the mysterious bunny persuades him by manipulating him to do unspeakable crimes. With the mystery of a parallel world in it, the movie presents the idea that not many would explore. Yet gives a genuine and heartfelt story going from an ordinary one to a spectacular scale.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
Mostly like other sequel movies, Terminator 2 does not disappoint its audience. As an identical robot, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the previous villain, comes to rescue the mother and son from a threat greater than before. As the new cyborg, which is sent again to kill the mother and her 10-year-old son, is far more dangerous and advanced. This movie definitely falls in one of the best time travel movies list.
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Michael Wilson, Rod Serling, Pierre Boulle
Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore
IMDB Rating: 8/10
Planet of the Apes is one of the best time travel movies. A classic that changes its perspective and unravels a whole new theory in the final moments. The audience watching it for the first time couldn’t have possibly thought that it is a time travel film. As an astronaut crew who thinks they have landed on a planet where Apes are intelligent and in power over humans. But at the end, the movie concludes they time traveled in the distant future of Earth.
Groundhog Day (1993)
Director: Harold Ramis
Writer: Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis
Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
IMDB Rating: 8/10
With Bill Murray as in the main cast, Groundhog Day portrays a story of the weather reporter who somehow happens to live the same day again and again. At first, he uses this to his advantage but later realizes the sad side of it. He had to live in the same small town, watching the same faces till eternity. With romance and comedy mixed, this film ranks high in the best movies about time travel.
Run Lola Run (1998)
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
Although Franka Potenteis is the main character of the film, but the director and writer, Tom Tykwer, is the real star for coming up with such a fantastic and cool concept. Lola is given three paths with the same time window to help her boyfriend get money, to save him from his boss. But she must choose the right way to do it. The movie portrays a simple daily life concept of making the right choice in such a wonderful way.
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Writer: Derek Connolly
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Lauren Carlos
IMDB Rating: 7/10
On seeing an ad in the paper about someone wanting a companion to time travel, three magazine reports set out to interview the person and find more. Only to realize after that they all want to go back in the past and change some things that they could have done differently. And to mend some regrets. The movie is surely a good comedy and has a weirdo vibe to it.
Doctor Strange (2016)
Director: Scott Derrickson
Writer: Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
In this marvel movie franchise, a journey of a top-end neurosurgeon is shown, how he goes from all self-centered to being spiritual. After a car accident that left him with a lot of physical injuries and hopelessness, he found the world of secrets. Which not only healed him physically but gave him powers he doesn’t even believe exists. With great power comes great responsibility, and so does the case here. So, Doctor Strange should act wisely to save the world.
Arrival (2016)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
Arrival is not just a sci-fi story with aliens in it. It is a movie that has so many lessons in it for someone with the eye to see. The movie revolves around Linguistics professor Louise Banks, whose services are needed to communicate with the aliens who have shown around the world with their huge spaceships. As the world is on the verge of war, the professor should hurry and understand the purpose of their arrival.
Primer (2004)
Director: Shane Carruth
Writer: Shane Carruth
Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
Four friends, engineers, trying to invent something else but accidentally build the time machine. So on knowing about what they have built, they do what anyone at their place could have done, make a lot of money out of it. But later, the events take a dark turn. When greed and betrayal take over, it’ll do the damage. With a moral lesson in it, it’s worth watching a film from the list of best time traveling movies.
Interstellar (2014)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
This masterpiece comes from one of the best directors, Christopher Nolan. Along with being a sci-fi movie, it reflects love. As the Earth faces some disasters and becomes polluted, a team of extraordinary scientists wanders through space to find a sustainable land for humankind’s survival. And goes to the length in the solar system where no man has gone before. You’ll be intrigued by the screenplay no matter how many times you watch it.
12 Monkeys (1995)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Janet Peoples, David Webb Peoples, Chris Marker
Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito, Jon Seda
IMDB Rating: 8/10
Mankind faces a man-made deadly virus and is on the brink of extinction. A convict is sent back into the past to gather information about it and stop it. Changing the fate of the world, easier said than done. His sanity is being questioned on this revelation, and he’s put into a psychiatric facility. There he found someone who might hold the key to solving this puzzle. 12 Monkeys definitely makes an argument on current human doom that is becoming inevitable.
Frequency (2000)
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Writer: Toby Emmerich
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
There is a reason why they say, ‘Whatever happens, happens for a reason. The movie is about the consequences of tampering with the past when a son and his father connect through a rare radiofrequency thirty years apart. As the son tries to warn his firefighter father of his accidental death to save him. He set a path for other tragic events to happen. Now together, they have to find a way to undo what they caused.
Timecrimes (2007)
Director: nacho vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Cast: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
TimeCrimes is a low-budget movie, yet one on the list of the best movies about time travel. When a man uses his time machine without testing it, it messes with the time quantum, which traps the leading character into the time continuum. While stuck in there, he commits a series of crimes to fix his other crimes. And the loop goes on.
Deja Vu (2006)
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Bill Marsilii, Terry Rossio
Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
After a terrorist attack on a ferry in New Orleans, an A.T.F agent joins a top-secret program to experiment to find the attacker. Observing through advanced surveillance technology which allows you to look through the past, he has to find the bomber before he strikes again. With all the action going on in the film, it will keep you hooked.
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014)
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
One of the best movies made in the X-Men franchise is Days of Future Past. When the mutants are being killed to eradicate them from Earth, through indestructible robots made by using the DNA of Mystique, Wolverine must go back in the past and save her from getting captured to be used in the Sentinel Program. To prevent things from ever happening in the first place.
Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)
Director: Doug Liman
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Jonas Armstrong
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
A blockbuster film coming from the director Dough Liman and writer Christopher McQuarrie. The film is a perfect cocktail with action, romance, sci-fi, and humor in it. As some alien forces declare war on Earth, fate lies in the hand of a soldier who is resetting the same day again and again upon his death on the battlefield. Each reset gets a step closer to defeating the mastermind behind the alien invasion.
About Time (2013)
Director: Richard Curtis
Writer: Richard Curtis
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
When 21-year-old Tim discovers he can travel through time as a rare gift like all the men in his family, but not in history. He is set to make his personal and romantic life better. He travels through time to meet the perfect girl and to make her fall in love with him. But there’s only so much you can do by traveling in time.
The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
Director: Robert Schwentke
Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin, Audrey Niffenegger
Cast: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Michelle Nolden
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
Not like other time-traveling movies relying on some time machine and making it the center of their story. The Time Traveler’s Wife is more of a love story and how time traveling causes some problems in the couple’s life. When the husband is on his time traveling cruise and the wife is left alone.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
When a nostalgic writer goes on a trip to Paris with his fiancé. He tries to find the inspiration to unlock the creative block he is facing while writing his first novel. He wants to make a home there, but his fiancé doesn’t share the same thoughts. On a midnight walk, a mysterious taxi takes him back to the 1920’s era. Where he found himself lost and fascinated by the romantic notion of the city.
Looper (2012)
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
If you put all your logic and ‘how it can even happen?’ aside, Looper is a hell of a movie in the best time travel movies. When the future self of a classified looper is sent back for the assassination from the future, he is all prepared to face whatever awaits him. Rian Johnson pulls up a great storyline with outstanding direction.
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Director: Steve Pink
Writer: Josh Heald, Sean Anders, John Morris
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
A group of friends who are tired of life takes a vacation together to a spot where they used to go to party. One of friend’s nephews joins them. They hang out in a hot tub there, which happens to be a time machine, and take them back to the time of a fateful night in their life. But while reliving the moments they perish, they must not change anything to the nephew to be born.
The Time Machine (2002)
Director: Simon Wells
Writer: H.G. Wells, David Duncan, John Logan
Cast: Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
IMDB Rating: 6/10
Inspired by the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist Alexander Hartdegen is resolute in his claim that time travel is possible. A personal tragedy turns his fortitude into desperation that compels him to want to change the past. While testing his theories with the time machine already invented by him, Hartdegen is catapulted 800,000 years into the future, where to his shock, the human race has divided into two battle groups.
Predestination (2014)
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writer: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Robert A. Heinlein
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
An agent in law enforcement has been going back and forth in time to catch criminals and ensure his career till eternity. But as his final assignment, he must catch a criminal who has always escaped by this much from him throughout his time. How the Spierig brothers unfold the story in their film slowly will leave you surprised.
The Lake House (2006)
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Writer: David Auburn, Eun-Jeong Kim, Ji-na Yeo
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
The Lake House presents its viewers with a love story, one of its kind. Where the two lovers who met through the mailbox letters are living two years apart from each other. They both have possession of the lake house but in different timelines. How will they meet by breaking the mystery that’s keeping them apart before it’s too late?
Source Code (2011)
Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Ben Ripley
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
Duncan lays out a story of a man who relives a specific window of time again and again. Why? To find the bomber who has planted a bomb on a train. But while doing so, he grew fonder of a passenger on the train. Ben Ripley gives us an original script and idea when others are just making sequels or prequels. Source code definitely falls in the category of best time travel movies.
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Writer: J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
A kid had blackouts in his childhood, having no knowledge of what happened during that time. Grew up and found out he can travel in time. By making his old journals a guide he tries to fill in those gaps to make things better but only to find out he had made them worse. How can he undo this from the past? Question remains.
Timecop (1994)
Director: Peter Hyams
Writer: Mark Verheiden, Mike Richardson
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill
IMDB Rating: 5.9/10
Far in the future when time travel has been perfected in every way. A time cop whose duty is to make sure the time travel is regulated so that no one tries to temper the past for their own benefits. He must bring a politician to justice as he has done something like that.
La Jetée (1962)
Director: Chris Marker
Writer: Chris Marker
Cast: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
La Jetée, one of the best time travel movies without any time machine in it. This movie was no doubt so far ahead of its time to date. After World War III, as Paris is all destroyed, the air is all contaminated, and people have to live underground. A prisoner with a strong mental connection with the past catches the eye of the scientists who are looking for a way for the salvation of humankind. La Jetée will remain a classy work with no time boundaries.
Happy Accidents (2000)
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Brad Anderson
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Vincent D’Onofrio, Holland Taylor, Mick Weber
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
Ruby, a girl who always seems to have guy issues, gets together with quite a nice guy. He is everything a girl wishes for. But some flashbacks reveal he’s not from the present time and has come from the future, and that’s what he tells her as well. Ruby is concerned about his mental health on hearing this. Is he really a time traveler?
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri
IMDB Rating: 7/10
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is probably one of the funniest in best time travel movies. Two teenage boys who are literally so dumb, they have no brain. They are set to travel in time with the help of a stranger to prepare for a history presentation at school. Because if they do not perform well in school, their parents will send them both different ways.
Idiocracy (2006)
Director: Mike Judge
Writer: Etan Cohen, Mike Judge
Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony ‘Citric’ Campos
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
Joe Bauers, an army officer, as average as it can get, becomes a part of a secret experimental program of human hibernation. But after a shutdown on experiments by the government is forgotten about. Later he wakes up 500 years into the future only to find out that the human race has taken a downturn in terms of intelligence and he is the smartest man alive.
Happy Death Day (2017)
Director: Christopher Landon
Writer: Scott Lobdell
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Laura Clifton
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
Happy death day is quite a mixture of Scream and Groundhog Day. With a psychopath killer a day on loop and with a lot of comedy. When a girl is killed, only to wake up again the same day from the start. She is on the search to find the identity behind the mask that kills her.
Tenet (2020)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Jefferson Hall, Juhan Ulfsak
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
Tenet, another sci-fi thriller blockbuster by Director and Writer Christopher Nolan. Presenting the classic trademark of it is said Christopher completed the screenplay of tenet in more than 5 years. A CIA agent is sent back in time to prevent World War III and bend the laws of nature. Only then he can succeed in his mission. Tenet is a 2020 sci-fi film that can easily come to top the list of best movies about time travel.
Star Trek (1966)
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gene Roddenberry
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
From the maker of the renowned Star Wars and TV series Lost, Star Trek is directed by J.J. Abrams. The story revolves around James T. Kirk, who tries to keep his father’s legacy alive by fighting the Romulan mining vessel. Meanwhile, Mr. Spock keeps James pinged as a rancorous Romulan from the future who makes ominous black holes to abolish the Federation one planet at a time.
The Endless (2017)
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Writer: Justin Benson
Cast: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Shane Brady
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
Two brothers escaped death by a UFO cult when they were children. Receiving a video message makes them want to revisit. Hoping to find some answers they couldn’t get as young men. Justin Benson’s this sci-fi horror fiction is all about brotherhood while they are locked in cosmic struggles.
Palm Springs (2020)
Director: Max Barbakow
Writer: Andy Siara, Max Barbakow
Cast: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Tyler Hoechlin
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
Imagine being on a beach in Los Angeles under the sun, sipping cocktails. Seems like a paradise’s dream come true but not the same for two people stuck in the time loop and forced to go through the same time again and again. And it starts to seem like hell when they are stuck there to maintain somebody else’s happiest day. With a lot of humor, this movie is one of the best time travel movies on Netflix.
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, Harry Melling
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
Being one of the best movies in the Harry Potter movie franchise, Prisoner of Azkaban is also the best time-traveling movie. The series is based on the fantasy novel of J.K. Rowling. In this particular movie, Harry Potter and his friends must find a way to stop time and go back to change events in the past in order to save an innocent prisoner from execution.
Back To The Future Part II (1989)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
Even though director Robert Zemeckis’s original film Back to the Future is intangible, the sequel of the film is nothing less. In the second movie, time travel is doubled up. Marty has to go to the past again to save the future, and also, he has to look out to not mess up and do any changes in this time travel and must avoid his previous self-visiting the past. It was a difficult screenplay only Zemeckis could pull off.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Writer: Yasutaka Tsutsui, Satoko Okudera
Cast: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is an animated movie made in Japan. The story roams around a girl who has some mysterious powers and came to travel through time because of it. Being a teenage girl, she kept leaping forward and back in time. Knowing little about how it’ll affect her and the people around her.
Pleasantville (1998)
Director: Gary Ross
Writer: Gary Ross
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Reese Witherspoon
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
Pleasantville offers a very nice black and white and colored screenplay side by side. David is fascinated by a sitcom where everything seems to be perfect and without any violence. But when he and his sister get sucked into that 1950’s sitcom via magical remote, things were not as desirable as they seemed. Now they both must adapt to the lifestyle by oppressing their desires while trying to find a way home.
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Director: Stewart Raffill
Writer: Michael Janover, William Gray, Wallace C. Bennett
Cast: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
In 1948 when the USA government was doing experiments of making their ships invisible, due to some malfunction, they sent two of the soldiers 40 years ahead in the future along with the ship from Philadelphia. The movie is based on somewhat true experiences that actually happened during the experiment. There are books about it as well.
Somewhere In Time (1980)
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Richard Matheson
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
Somewhere in Time is one of the most romantic movies, along with being on the list of best time travel movies. When an old lady comes to the playwright giving him an old pocket watch and asking him to come back to her, he is left in puzzles. After finding out about her being one of the famous actresses in the past, he uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time to meet her.
Time travel movies are always packed with fun, thrill, suspense, drama, and a lot of action. Whether the plot involves the characters traveling to multiple time dimensions throughout the film, or it’s a group of researchers just talking about it, these films give a perception of captivating facades of being human that coerce us to believe that nothing is impossible.
