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Plot Summary:
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, feel good, romantic, offbeat, psychotronic
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Captain Nova (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing, inspirational
Similar in 84%
Time Slip (1979)
Plot Summary:
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Time travels (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl wish for her parents to get back together, when suddenly she meets a time traveling guy from the future. Together they try to change both the past and the feature - with small bumps on their way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Mega Time Squad (2018)
Plot Summary:
A small-town criminal finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, light, horror comedy
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Sapphire Blue (2014)
Plot Summary:
Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, intellectual, action adventure, entertaining
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The Secret Kingdom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Paper Girls (2022)
Plot Summary:
It's the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intergalactic battle and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, exciting, thrilling, retro, queer cinema
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Time Jumpers (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anthology
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Cyborg She (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cyborg She follows the burgeoning romance between an ordinary college student and his sassy love interest - who happens to be a time-traveling cyborg with superhuman powers. One day, a beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university student. Even though the cyborg starts to like him, she can’t truly feel emotions, so the boy has no choice but to say goodbye. Missing her, he continues his lonely existence. One day, a disastrous earthquake hits Tokyo and the cyborg girl saves his life. In that moment, she starts to have feelings like a real human being.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, captivating, entertaining, light, sad, novela, cyber, surprise ending, offbeat
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Time Loop (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a pastoral Italian village, a young Londoner scientist helping his father with physics experiments, has to face the consequences of choices he hasn't made yet.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Brave: Gunjyo Senki (2021)
Plot Summary:
Students, including Aoi Nishino, take part in class and sports activity at a prestigious high school. Aoi Nishino is a member of the school's archery club. He practices archery studiously and doesn't socialize much with the other students. His childhood friend Haruka Seno is also a member of the archery club, but she worries about Aoi Nishino. One day, thunder strikes the school grounds. After that, the ordinary lives of the students changes drastically. Many samurai descend on the school grounds. It appears that the entire school has traveled back in time to the Sengoku period. Making things worse, they realize that they are in the time right before the Battle of Okehazama takes place.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, seinen
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Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, exciting, humorous, semi serious, funny, spoof
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Another Time (2018)
Plot Summary:
Just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, exciting
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Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn’t changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, uplifting
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Minutemen (2008)
Plot Summary:
When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, scenic, teen, semi serious, fun
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The Time Machine (1978)
Plot Summary:
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga, surreal, mind bending, mind twisting, psychological, funny
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Time Trap (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, psychological, retro, philosophical, mind bending, clever, lovecraft
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Ruby Red (2013)
Plot Summary:
Gwendolyn Shepherd is a normal 16-year-old, but her family holds a secret: A time-travel gene is expressed in the clan inherited, but not every member of the family is blessed with. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene. However, someday Gwendolyn suddenly finds herself in London at the end of the 19th century and realizes that it her, who was born a time traveler. While she is not very enthusiastic about it she will do everything possible to solve the ancient mysteries of the red ruby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, stylized, sentimental, action adventure, serious, cute
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Plot Summary:
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed, light hearted, independent film, feel good, humorous, stylized
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Returner (2002)
Plot Summary:
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic, cyber, serious, fast
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Time Freak (2018)
Plot Summary:
Stillman, a heartbroken physics student builds a time machine when his girlfriend Debbie breaks up with him. Going back in time, Stillman attempts to fix every mistake he made to save their relationship, while dragging his best friend, Evan, along in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, psychological, family comedy, romantic comedy, surprise ending, light, feel good
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My Science Project (1985)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, light, feel good, eighties, complex, idiotic
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Plot Summary:
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, cult classic, humorous, retro, slapstick comedy, slapstick, mystical, uplifting, feel good
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, cult classic, absurd, not serious, teen, psychotronic, unusual plot structure
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Just Visiting (2001)
Plot Summary:
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, feel good, exciting, funny, hilarious, not serious, independent film, light, romantic
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Plot Summary:
A pair of failing high school students -- Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan -- are visited by a time traveler from the future who takes them on an adventure through time to gather up actual historical figures to help them with a history report.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, feel good, cult classic, light, humorous, uplifting, absurd, buddy comedy, mystical
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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 563000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, clever, light, humorous, funny, teen, saga, cult classic, exciting
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Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Plot Summary:
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 473000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, sentimental, not serious, entertaining, saga, humorous, cult classic, exciting, epic
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Back to the Future (1985)
Plot Summary:
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, funny, cult classic, teen, futuristic, spectacular, not serious, fast paced