Time travel has been one of the fascinating things that everyone desired and want to find out how to travel into the past. However, one can time travel or not is yet to discover meanwhile we are here to recommend you some timeless classics related to time travel. All these movies are available on paid as well as unpaid streaming platforms. Here is a list of free streaming platforms. Find yourself a perfect match and grab a bucket of popcorn. Enjoy!
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Time Travel Movie List
1. Back to the future (1985)
Let’s go back to the past with this time travel classic “Back to the future” portraying a family of three deceased by daily drama and fights. Marty, a young boy, troubled by his depressed and alcoholic mother Lorraine and meek father George. One day when he failed a music band audition, Marty drained all his emotions in front of his girlfriend Jennifer. Not only this, he also met his scientist friend Doc who is working on a DeLorean time machine powered by the plutonium stolen from Libyan terrorists. Further Marty travels to the year 1955 and finds George sneaking into Lorraine’s room while she is changing clothes. George falls into the car making Marty unconscious.
Marty finds Lorraine around when he wakes up and now she is in love with Marty who is in real life her son. After tough attempts he finds teenager Doc and tells him everything about how he came from the future. Doc analyzed that his action today is altering future life and needs to be corrected as soon as possible. In the meantime, Lorraine’s infatuation deepens and asks Marty to dance at a school party. Marty literally wants and tries hard to get George and Lorraine together but if you want to know if he succeeds or not, go and watch Back to the future. Do comment your suggestion below because in a human centric world your view matters.
2. Primer (2004)
Time travel has been one of the best genres of all the time. Primer, the story of two friends built on the same concept. Two friends Aaron and Abe try their entrepreneurial skills alongside their engineering job. In an attempt to make error checking technology with the help of their two other friends Aaron and Abe find they have mistakenly made a time machine which can be used for various purposes and at the same time cause adverse consequences as well.
Morally derived behavior with technological advancement have balanced the film throughout. Now their journey has started and to find what happens next go and watch Primer on Prime video and Apple TV.
3. Looper (2012)
Looper is an Action, sci-fi, mystery thriller film which portrays a future society where time travel exists but only accessible to those who can manipulate black market and make their way. In this context, a mob whenever they want to eliminate someone.
They firmly transfer the accused into the past and a hit man named Looper assassinates the target. Joe is one of the gang members for which an order has been issued to assassinate him. Will Joe travel to the past or if he did, will he survive? This can only be deciphered by watching Looper so go and watch Looper and comment your review.
4. 12 Monkeys (1995)
Yet another sci-fi mystery film titled 12 monkeys will blow your mind with its concept of time travel into the past. Story follows a criminal in the 2030s who is assigned a task to go into the past and collect information about a nascent plague which is about to butcher a majority of the population all over the world. However he faces many hurdles and minimal cooperation from others.to find out what happens next go and watch 12 monkeys available on VUDU, Peacock, Prime Video and Apple TV.
5. The Terminator (1984)
We know you must have heard this name. The Terminator is an action sci-fi mystery thriller film directed by James Cameron. The story starts with Skynet, an artificial intelligence system which knows that the unborn son of Sarah will wage a war against it. To kill Sarah, a cybernetic android disguised as a human being known as Terminator sent back in time via time travel from 2029 to 1984.
Sarah being important, Kyle Reese is also sent to protect Sarah from the attacks of Terminator. Here the story adds a magic formula of action for which James Cameron known. We need your views on the story so go, watch and write.
6. Predestination (2015)
Predestination is a story of an agent sent to missions involving time travel. In 1975, an agent assigned a task to protect and defuse a bomb. Failing to fully contain the bomb resulting in severe injuries. Someone helped him to grasp his time travel machine which he used to get to his employer’s place in time 1992. Though he considered the mission a failure because he failed to catch the bomber and now the bomber will plan a new attack putting over ten thousand to death.
The agent with altered face and voice due to severe injuries convinces his employer to assign him a last mission and travels back to 1970. He then meets Jane turned John to help him out and for that you need to watch the movie.
7. Groundhog Day (1993)
Groundhog day is a romance comedy directed by Harold Ramis. Starring Bill Murray groundhog day follows the life of Phil, a weatherman, who is out to cover annual emergence groundhog. During the coverage he is caught in an intense blizzard which he neither expected nor predicted.
Eventually, he finds himself in a time warp in which he is predestined to relive the same day again and again. This rom-com is available on VUDU, HULU, Prime video and Apple TV. people are waiting for your review, go and watch right now.
8. Donnie Darko (2001)
What if someone tells you that the world will end in precisely 28 days 6 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. Yes you are right!, this is the premise of the story. Donnie Darko is a teenager who sleepwalks outside and finds a monstrous rabbit-like figure named frank. Frank tells him that the world will end in the coming 28 days. Next day, Donnie encounters a jet engine that crashed into his bedroom which even the FAA doesn’t know the origin of.
In a series of days such incidents dominate his lifestyle and Frank’s influence is getting stronger through his sleepwalk thing. One day, frank asks him if he believes in time travel and the we asks you have you watched this movie?, if not go and watch no.
9. Bill and ted’s excellent adventure (1989)
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is a comedy film directed by Stephen Herek. The story follows back to the year 1988 when two high school teenagers Bill and Ted plan to start a music band. But if they fail then Ted’s father will send ted to a military school and the band will fall.
To pass the history class, a citizen from the future named Rufus comes and offers help to complete their history project in a phone booth shaped time machine. Using this time machine, they travel several ages from napoleon to Socrates and so on. We suggest you go on an adventure with bill and ted. Give your time to this amazing movie that will make you laugh.
10. Interstellar
Movie Interstellar is well known for its Staggeringly beautiful, bafflingly complex storyline. Interstellar is a sci-fi action adventure film directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie follows a global crop blight and second dust bowl rendering the current planet earth uninhabitable for the future as well as current generation. With this view, professor brand plans to send people to other habitable planets via a wormhole.
Before that happens he needs to check and develop favorable conditions. For this brand sends a former NASA pilot cooper with a team of researchers through a wormhole to discover and find the best suitable place. Will they find it before the earth gets destroyed?. Yes, you need to find the answer yourself.
