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Plot Summary:
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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The History of Time Travel (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, mockumentary, psychotronic
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Escape 2120 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A detached orphan teen escapes to the future in suspended animation, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
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Yesterday's Target (1996)
Plot Summary:
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
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Feedback (2002)
Plot Summary:
Feedback is a techno-thriller that takes place a few years from now. Set in a bleak and desolate world, this is the story of three friends caught up in a streak of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Kanam (2022)
Plot Summary:
A struggling young musician, along with his two friends, with the help of a quantum physicist goes back in time to prevent the death of his mother. What happens next?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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The Ugly Little Boy (1977)
Plot Summary:
Edyth Fellows is a nurse recruited for an research project with a time travel device that can snatch any being from any time and bring it to the present. The first such test brings an Neanderthal child to the project and Fellows is responsible for his care for the interim. As she manages this task, Fellows is increasingly revolted at how the scientists dismiss him as little more than an animal, especially when his real intelligence shows. This growing moral dilemma comes to a head when Fellows realizes what they plan to do with him and she cannot stand by and let it happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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Ministério do Tempo (2017)
Plot Summary:
A warrior from the XVI century, the first female university student from the XIX century and a nurse from the XXI century, join a secret agency to prevent people to change the Portuguese history by using time-traveling doors.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
Duration:
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Back to 1989 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young successful young man has always felt something missing in his life because he never knew his father. At 26, Che Chen is already a successful assistant manager for an investment trust. But he was raised by his single mother Chen Mu and never knew the identity of his father, and that void has been nagging at him. But a freak accident sends Che back 27 years into the past, to the year before he was born. When he meets 22-year-old Zhen Zhen Ye, Che realizes that this naïve and trusting young woman is his mother's best friend! When Che realizes that anything he does in the year 1989 could alter his mother’s future, will he do anything to alter the course of his own life?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 73 min
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Mark Antony (2023)
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Set in 1995, Mark, a skilled mechanic and the son of a former gangster, stumbles upon a phone that has the ability to connect with the past, tries to save his estranged mother from a grim fate. While facing his own family's legacy, Mark must navigate through dangerous consequences of altering the past, as it causes unforeseen repercussions in the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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The Lost Digit (2017)
Plot Summary:
Suburban every-man George Cassermeyer cuts his middle finger off in a carpentry accident. From then on the loss of his finger has a strange and profound effect on him. Lost in his own existential crisis over his finger his marriage, career, and even his grasp on reality end up suffering. Conventional notions of time and space begin to distort and he finds himself "skipping" through moments in his life without a clue to their order or significance. What follows is his quest to understand and stop the strange phenomena before his life literally flashes before his eyes.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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For All Time (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic
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Message From The Future (1981)
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From the year 3005, a delegate from the future arrives in 1985 to convince the present leaders make certain World War III happens, which he guarantees will make for a better future. Having already caused natural disasters and catastrophes by coming back from the future, he now tries to force his message on the world press and TV.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
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Time Teens: The Beginning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Time Travel exists. William is a Turasaiche ( a descendant time traveller) who works for the World Time forum, policing time crime at the world office in Perth, Scotland. When William is sent a letter from the future, he is shown what might happen if his journey continues. To Change it, he must recruit a new team. Time Teens is a Prequal Pilot film for a TV series by the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
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The Time Tunnel (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
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The Exotic Time Machine (1998)
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On board a space station in the near future, Leon falls into its time portal and lands in the boudoir of Marie Antoinette. He observes a dalliance of the queen with her maid, Mimi; then the queen finds him, suspects he's the king's spy, and seduces him. The king catches them in flagrante delicto and sends Leon to the Bastille. Back in space, Daria tries to rescue Leon, but she whizzes to Arabia, where she meets Shahrazad and Aladdin. She reaches France just as Mimi frees Leon from the Bastille. By way of Capone's Chicago, all three go back to the future where they find fascists in charge. To save freedom and fulfill her destiny, Mimi must go back to King Louis's court.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film, psychotronic
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Paradox (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists are experimenting with time travel, and they manage to send one of their group ahead in time one hour. But when he comes back, he tells them that they’ll all be dead within the next hour unless they shut the machine down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending, grindhouse, surprise ending
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41 (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young man discovers a hole in the floor of a local motel that leads to yesterday.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: twisted
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Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's 2007 and the Japanese Ministry of Finance have calculated that the economy will collapse in two years' time. They intend to prevent this by sending home appliance designer Mariko back in time 17 years using a time machine she accidentally invented. However, things don't go as planned and Mariko's daughter, Mayumi, is also sent back to find her mother and save Japan's economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
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The Yesterday Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the government shuts down his project on time travel, a brilliant quantum physicist must find a way to continue his research in order to travel back in time and prevent his fiance from being killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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I'll Follow You Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, funny, philosophical, suspense, mind bending, psychotronic, independent film
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Late for Dinner (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Not the End (2018)
Plot Summary:
Javier comes from the future to recover the lost love of María. Together they relive the magic of the first day they met and repeat the trip that took them from a sunrise in Madrid to a sunset on the Andalusian coast. Everything, to get Maria to be the full of life girl she once fell in love with.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Wheel of Fortune (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shinozaki Ayumi receives a strange call telling her that an earthquake will occur one hour from now. She hangs up the phone thinking it was just a prank call. But one hour later, she feels herself sway a little. When she turns on the television, she realizes that what the caller said about the time and the epicenter was on the mark. After that, she receives another phone call from the same caller who identifies himself as Kazama. He says that he knows what will happen in the future because he went back to a certain spot from the future and made a fresh start in life. Calling this time travel “Repeat”, he invites Ayumi to be his guest. Besides Ayumi, Mori Keisuke and Tendo Taro are among the eight people who have been invited by Kazama to participate in “Repeat”. These eight people who are making a repeat as a result of past regrets, are hit with a series of unanticipated events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
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Time Under Fire (1997)
Plot Summary:
A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship. They decide to help the rebels.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hu-Man (1975)
Plot Summary:
An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience's emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: weird
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The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 1950s author (Terumi Matthews) is transported to 1990s Brooklyn, where she meets a woman (Nicole Zaray) who reads about her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, independent film, mind bending, serious, experimental, contemplative, non-linear, art house, noir
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Running Against Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mindfuck, thought provoking, absurd, psychological thriller, psychedelic
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Time After Time (2017)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of young H.G. Wells and his time machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, intense, romantic, atmospheric