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Plot Summary:
It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Aditya 369 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Aditya 369 is scientific based movie in which, Ramdas (Tinu Anand) is a great scientist Proffesor doing vigorous experiments to invent a time machine.He becomes successful after some time. His daughter hema (Mohini) and her boy friend Krishna Kumar (Balakrishna) accidentally get into the time machine and visit the past (time of krishnadeva raya's empire).
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: experimental
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The Flying Cestmir (1983)
Plot Summary:
Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 258 min
Plot tags: urban fantasy
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Pan Tau (1970)
Plot Summary:
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristically behavior is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: urban fantasy
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Simon and the Witch (1987)
Plot Summary:
Simon is a very sensible young schoolboy, who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very silly, and a huge showoff.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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Catweazle (1970)
Plot Summary:
Catweazle is a British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role. The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, Gibraltar, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec. The first episode is available to view in full at the BFI Screenonline site.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Charmings (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Charmings is an American fantasy sitcom that aired from March 1987 to February 1988 on ABC. Based on the fairy tale Snow White, it chronicles Snow White and Prince Charming after they are transported in time from the Enchanted Forest to the 20th Century Los Angeles suburbs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, fairy tale, offbeat, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, semi serious
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The Last Bus (2022)
Plot Summary:
After embarking on a life-changing field trip, a group of whip-smart students fight to save humanity from an army of ruthless drones.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, epic fantasy, futuristic
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Adventures in Time (2001)
Plot Summary:
Aventuras En El Tiempo is a Mexican telenovela from 2001, presented completely in Spanish, and featuring a young pre-teen girl named Violeta.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, hispanic, telenovela
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Bernard's Watch (1997)
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Bernard's Watch is a British children's drama series about a young boy who can stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven series that aired on CITV from 14 November 1997 to 31 March 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
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All American Doctor Who (2013)
Plot Summary:
The American adventures of an eccentric renegade time traveling alien and his companions.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
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Disney Intertwined (2021)
Plot Summary:
Allegra dreams of joining the Eleven O' Clock music hall company, but her mother, Caterina, won't accept that. Allegra's life changes drastically when she finds a mysterious bracelet that takes her to 1994, the year Caterina was her age and was starting her career in Eleven O' Clock while she lived in Coco's shadow. Cocó is Allegra's grandmother. Will Allegra be able to change the past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Argentina
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Thunderstone (1999)
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The year is 2020. Fifteen-year-old Noah lives with his family in the futuristic underground community of North Col. The world above is a frozen wasteland after a massive comet strike destroyed all other life in the world including the animals. One night, he accidentally time travels to the future and finds himself trapped in the year 2085 in a desolate desert place called Haven with a group of children, the Nomads, led by Arushka.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Doomsday (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min
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Time Trackers (2008)
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Time Trackers is a children's television series produced for the Seven Network in and TV2 in New Zealand The 13 half-hour episodes first screened in 2008. The series is a co-production of Gibson Group in New Zealand and Taylor Media in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 24 min
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Worst Year of My Life, Again! (2014)
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What if you woke up one morning to discover you had to relive the most excruciating 12 months of high school all over again? Alex King has had a horrible year - humiliated by his teachers, targeted by bullies and embarrassed by attempts to impress the most popular girl in school. So when he wakes up on his birthday to discover that somehow time has reset itself, he can't believe he must relive every miserable moment of the past 12 months once more. Until his friends Simon Birch and Maddy Kent convince him he's being offered a second chance and maybe this time round, he can get it right.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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Phil of the Future (2004)
Plot Summary:
Phil of the Future is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004 to August 19, 2006 for a total of two seasons. The series was created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber and produced by 2121 Productions, a part of Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. It follows a family from the future that gets stranded in the 21st century when their time machine breaks down. The series returns to the US on May 9, 2013 as part of Disney Channel: Throwback Thursday. It also currently airs in select countries such as Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, melancholic, offbeat, witty, teen comedy, campy
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I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
Plot Summary:
I Dream of Jeannie is an American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries. Produced by Screen Gems, the show originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and through September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC. The show ran for five seasons and produced 139 episodes. The first season consisted of 30 episodes filmed in black and white.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, supernatural thriller, slapstick, sensitive, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, vintage, telenovela
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Catweazle (2021)
Plot Summary:
Otto Waalkes plays a magician who strayed into the present from the 11th century and who absolutely wants to return to his time.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002)
Plot Summary:
Black Hole High is a Canadian science fiction television program which first aired in North America in October 2002 on NBC and Discovery Kids. It is set at the fictional boarding school of the title, where a Science Club investigates mysterious phenomena, most of which is centered around a wormhole located on the school grounds. Spanning four seasons, the series developed into a success, and has been sold to networks around the globe. Created by Jim Rapsas, the series intertwines elements of mystery, drama, romance, and comedy. The writing of the show is structured around various scientific principles, with emotional and academic struggles combined with unfolding mysteries of a preternatural nature. In addition to its consistent popularity among children, it has been recognised by adults as strong family entertainment. Forty-two episodes of the series, each roughly twenty-five minutes in length, have been produced, the last three of which premiered in January 2006. Those three final episodes that aired were combined into a film, Strange Days: Conclusions. The show was filmed at the Auchmar Estate on the Hamilton Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, enigmatic, captivating, adult cartoon, dark fantasy, mystical, nostalgic
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The Ministry of Time (2015)
Plot Summary:
A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 3155 min
Plot tags: suspense, light, feel good, intense, hispanic, epic fantasy, extraordinary
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Visitor from the Future (1984)
Plot Summary:
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him. Written by Boris Shafir.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: light, clever, entertaining, apocalyptic, exciting
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James vs. His Future Self (2019)
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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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Visitor from the Future (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Visitor from the Future is a cross-media series that combines comedy and science fiction. Since its launch in April 2009, it was viewed 5 million times on the French web and was aired on the TV channel NOLIFE.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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 Girl from Tomorrow (1991)
Plot Summary:
The Girl from Tomorrow is an Australian children's television series created by Film Australia. The series is based around Alana, a girl from the year 3000. At the start of the series, she is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the year 1992, she befriends Jenny, who helps Alana adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and later helps her to return to her own time. A sequel series, The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End aired in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, children's program, exciting, clever, serious, captivating, iconic, nostalgic
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Best Friends Whenever (2015)
Plot Summary:
The live-action comedy follows best friends Shelby and Cyd who, when their aspiring scientist friend Barry’s invention goes awry, gain the power to leap forward and backward in time whenever they want – and sometimes when they don’t. Now, they experience the twists and turns of friendship and must decide between fixing mistakes in the past or catching a glimpse of the future. While Barry and his assistant, Naldo, try to figure out how to replicate time travel for themselves, Cyd and Shelby use their newfound power to navigate high school life and Shelby’s mischievous twin brothers, Bret and Chet.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, corny, teen comedy
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The Lost Saucer (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Lost in Space (1965)
Plot Summary:
Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968. The first TV season was filmed in black and white, but the remainder were filmed in color. In 1998, a Lost in Space movie, based on the TV series, was released. Though the original TV series concept centered on the Robinson family, many later story lines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, played by Jonathan Harris. Originally written as an utterly evil but extremely competent would-be saboteur, Smith gradually becomes the troublesome, self-centered, incompetent foil who provides the comic relief for the show and causes most of the episodic conflict and misadventures. Smith was not in the un-aired pilot and neither was the robot. A meteor storm in the un-aired pilot put them off course. In the first aired episode, Smith's sabotage and unintended presence caused them to go off course so that they encountered the meteors. In the un-aired version, they were going at such a relatively slow speed that they wondered if they were on Mars, while in the first aired episode, just seconds of hyper-drive and they were lost, unknown light years from Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, uplifting, epic, saga, sitcom, cult classic, serious, futuristic, vintage, campy