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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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Who Is Julia? (1986)
Plot Summary:
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Mirror for a Hero (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical devices: time comes miracle happens. They spend in 1949 only one day the next morning they found that it is the same day that was yesterday. All several months, they spent in the past, they spent in one and the same day: the 8th of May, Sunday, the day of heightened coal production. In the morning to the coal mine, in an hour an accident in a coalface, at 10 o'clock wire from the Ministry, after work reunion concerning the Stalins anniversary; robbing of pay desk, death of policeman Ryabenko, in the evening - volunteer Sunday work… and in the morning the same, and so for ever and ever Philosophic fiction, accompanied by music of group Nautilus Pompillius. After a novel of S.Rybasa of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: social, surreal, philosophical
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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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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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The Penitent Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Penitent Man tells the story of psychologist Dr. Jason Pyatt, a man devoted to his work - a man torn from his family. With his struggling marriage and mounting bills, Jason is at a crossroads with the life he has chosen and the life he could have. When one of his clients - the mysterious Mr. Darnell - walks into his office and paints him a repentant tale of future economic and moral collapse, Jason's eyes are forever opened. With the help of his best friend Ovid, he embarks on a personal mission to change the course of his future, and possibly the world, forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, realistic
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Message From The Future (1981)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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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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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
Plot tags:
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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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Extracted (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction causes his consciousness to become trapped inside the criminal's mind. He remains a prisoner in the addict's memories for more than four years until he discovers the possibility of escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, confusing, melancholic, futuristic, surreal, twist ending, mind blowing
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Serena and the Ratts (2012)
Plot Summary:
After years of killing for a man only known as "The Boss", Serena is burnt out. When she is hired for one final job, she teams up with an underground renegade group to stop her replacement from executing the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, tense, rough, serious
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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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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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Time Chasers (1994)
Plot Summary:
An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Plot Summary:
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past, present, and future.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, non-linear, talky, tense, serious, emotional, depressing, cerebral
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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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Synchronicity (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, tricky, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, confusing, mindfuck, mind bending, inspirational
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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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James vs. His Future Self (2019)
Plot Summary:
When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself - literally.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Time Changer (2002)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming generations and, using his secret time machine, Anderson sends Carlisle over 100 years into the future, offering him a glimpse of where his beliefs will lead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, contemplative, biting, suspense
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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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Forever Young (1992)
Plot Summary:
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, inspirational, humorous, semi serious, romantic, emotional, scenic
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Testament (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, disturbing, emotional, tense, apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic
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The Day After (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, rough
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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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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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Primer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, surreal, independent film, mind bending, confusing, thought provoking, enigmatic, clever, mindfuck