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Plot Summary:
In the late eighties, the USSR government enlists Tomas, a devoted member of the Communist Party, to travel back in time to future London and document how Socialism has thrived.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: absurd, not serious, light, humorous, mumblecore
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7 Splinters in Time (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Narcopolis (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Frank, a police officer, discovers that the legalization of all recreational drugs comes with a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, mind bending
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The Exotic Time Machine II: Forbidden Encounters (2000)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to protect their time-traveling program, chuck and Melissa must travel the timeline to plant special beacons which will sabotage any effort to steal technology. Along the way our travelers meet and "mingle" with some of history's most famous characters. A hilarious encounter with the 1960's era hippy sisters Trippy and Moonbeam will leave you feeling groovy. History class was never this much fun!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, sensual
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Volition (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mind bending, exciting, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, twist ending, realistic, dramatic, independent film
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Termination Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline manifest after the flight has departed, the government orders the plane to turn back. But the plane drops from the radar, disappearing into thin air! As special agents try to locate the plane, scientists must deal with the repercussions from the time ripples that threaten to destroy the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tense, captivating
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The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 'The Philadelphia Experiment', a secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it brings back the original ship (the Eldridge) that disappeared during the first test in 1943 - which brings death and destruction to the 21st century. It's up to the sole survivor (Lea) of the first experiment and his granddaughter (Ullerup) to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Alien Code (2018)
Plot Summary:
After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, psychedelic
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Disconnect (2010)
Plot Summary:
A distraught college student finds a phone that enables her to talk to her deceased mother in the past. Instead of a heart attack, she learns that her mother was murdered. She tries to use the phone to stop the murder from occurring before the killer finds and kills her too.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, serious
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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The Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, mind bending, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking
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Curvature (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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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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The Man from the Future (2011)
Plot Summary:
Zero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel in time, more precisely, to the past. After the chance to change his story, Zero returns to this totally changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, apocalyptic
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The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002)
Plot Summary:
STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including SHARON, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend DAN is murdered, he goes into hiding.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, not serious, psychotronic, retro, parody, funny, clever, bad ending, melancholic
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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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2067 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, apocalyptic, dystopian
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11.22.63 (2016)
Plot Summary:
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, suspense, period piece, tense, light, emotional, intense, serious, suspenseful
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Frequency (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense, atmospheric, spiritual, sitcom
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Frequency (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, mind bending, clever
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95ers: Time Runners (2013)
Plot Summary:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. Her scientist husband has disappeared mysteriously, and the closer she gets to finding him, the more dangerous her life becomes. To save the future and her loved ones, Sally must enter a battlefield she never knew existed. Fortunately, she's a 95er. Surrounded by bizarre timespace paradoxes and hunted by terrifying forces from the future, Sally must discover the earth-shattering truth behind it all before her very being fades out of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gloomy, futuristic, independent film, interesting
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Enter Nowhere (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, retro, suspense, dramatic, surreal, twist ending, minimal cast
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Time Lapse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, cerebral, clever, confusing, mindfuck, enigmatic
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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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Project Almanac (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, absurd, clever, tricky, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, cerebral
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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)
Plot Summary:
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, funny, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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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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Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 639000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, twist ending, atmospheric, cerebral, non-linear, mind bending, apocalyptic, confusing, twisted
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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