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Plot Summary:
In a forgotten corner of the vast Brazilian bureaucracy, a psychotic boss uses a time machine to enslave his lazy employees and increase productivity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sem Essa, Aranha (1970)
Plot Summary:
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Lots of Ice and a Little Bit of Water (2006)
Plot Summary:
Duas mulheres decidem se vingar da avó, que durante a infância delas as atormentava com conceitos rígidos sobre etiqueta e educação, sequestrando-a e levando-a para a casa de praia da família.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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As Time Goes by (1988)
Plot Summary:
A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Tomorrow Ever After (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel journey to our times, she assumes that everyone around her is honest, generous and caring, as she recruits the help that she needs to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Molester Train: Ninja Time Slip (1984)
Plot Summary:
1615. Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke is assigned the task of finding a hidden treasure that will restore his clan to their full power. However, sexy ninja warrior Kagero stands in Sasuke's way. Complications ensue when a sudden time warp occurs and both Sasuke and Kagero find themselves thrust hundreds of years into the future to Tokyo, Japan in 1984.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Kirby inherits only one thing from his millionaire uncle: a pocket watch that can stop time. Only, the bad guys know that he has it, and will do anything to take it from him. But they don't know that he's found the girl of his dreams, and she's got a sense of humor that, when combined with the watch, is devastating.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who is prone to romantic dreams involving her supervisor time-travels from 1986 to 2001 and becomes involved with a private investigator who is working on a divorce case and is having his own marital difficulties.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, ecchi
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Beer Money (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three guys find a space alien in the woods and attempt to sell it to a tabloid TV show, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Man in Outer Space (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back with a super-advanced being to a whole new world. He discovers that in his long absence, the world has literally cleaned up well, solved its problems, and is rife with a multitude of technical toys to make life easier. All of these conveniences, however, have not had much effect on the basic foibles that have plagued humanity since cave-dwelling days. Of significance are the names of two of the main characters -- Adam and Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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Tutunamayanlar (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tarik, who has never worked in his life, falls in love with Irem in a job interview. Having no place to go, Irem comes to the neighborhood where Tarik lives and starts to work at the book cafe in the neighborhood. Irem's dream is to be successful, to establish her own business and to return to her old days one day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, black comedy, dark comedy
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Elite Cup (2014)
Plot Summary:
A spoof of recent Brazilian movies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, psychological, feel good, spoof
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Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City (2012)
Plot Summary:
Emmanuelle arrives in Las Vegas where she is recruited for a time-travel experiment that sends her to a time and place where all her wishes are granted. Brittany Joy, Russia Hardy, Tim Daly and Harper Issacs star in this erotic fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, parody
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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
Plot tags:
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Teenage Cavegirl (2004)
Plot Summary:
A prehistoric cavegirl named Tahra (Jezebelle Bond) with a penchant for passion finds pleasure in the company of archeologists when she is accidentally transported to the future. There she encounters two archaeologists named Richard (Alexandre Boisvert) and Sharon (Kennedy Johnston). After several adventures, many of them sexual, Tahra's lover Tiko (Evan Stone) also finds his way to the future. Eventually, all of them are transported back to the time of Tahra.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sex comedy
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Command Z (2023)
Plot Summary:
A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Holidays on Mars (2020)
Plot Summary:
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to marry the wealthy Bea on Mars. But what could happen if during an excursion into space, something goes wrong and Giulio suddenly becomes a sprightly old man (Massimo Boldi)? Between hilarious unexpected events and amusing misunderstandings, Fabio will find himself dealing with a seventy-year-old son and a marriage that is in danger of jumping.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light
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I Wake Up Yesterday (2012)
Plot Summary:
Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, teen comedy
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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
Plot tags:
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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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Aporia (2023)
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
Plot tags:
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Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011)
Plot Summary:
John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He also learns that in order to reestablish a livable atmosphere for what's left of humanity, he'll have to go on a solitary mission to retrieve important codes dispersed in remote locations. Soon enough, he'll encounter more than he bargained for: aliens, crazy survivors, inadequate equipment, LOTS of walking and a pretty unhealthy dose of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, offbeat, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
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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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Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)
Plot Summary:
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, mystic, weird
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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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Flashback (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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The Spirit of '76 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surreal, independent film, spoof, humorous, witty, not serious, parody
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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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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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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, tricky, witty, exciting, not serious, surreal, mindfuck, apocalyptic