If you are someone who likes time-traveling movies you have come to the right place as we’ve listed Top 10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Time!
Time travel is a recurring theme in the era in which science fiction has spread its robust wings throughout all the mediums. In the area of films too this theme has become recurrent.
Some of them are adapted from novels or stories and some of them are original. Following is a list of films about the theme of time travel that includes the Top 10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Time!
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Top 10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Time!
Looper (2012)-
Rian Johnson directed this American sci-fi action thriller movie the plot of which revolves around a hitman named Joe who works for an organized crime.
His job is to kill people who are sent back in time by his employers. But when his own future self emerges before him for the cause of the assassination, everything changes.
American actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt portrayed Joe in the series. Other cast members include Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, and Jeff Daniels. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2012.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)-
Bryan Singer directed this American superhero movie that is based on the eponymous superhero team of Marvel Comics.
The plot finds Logan aka Wolverine travelling back in time in order to stop Raven aka Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask the death of whom causes the creation of the robots known as Sentinels, which are designed to kill mutants.
The movie serves as a follow-up to the 2013 film ‘The Wolverine‘ and the fifth mainline installment of the X-Men film series. The movie was released in the United States on May 23, 2014.
Meet Cute (2022)-
This romantic comedy movie follows a young woman struggling with suicidal thoughts who comes across a time machine and travels back twenty-four hours to relieve her best date night and eventually comes to the decision that her boyfriend needs some fixing. But her meddling with the past tends to ruin the future which makes her realise that her boyfriend is already pretty perfect for her.
‘The Big Bang Theory‘ famed Kaley Cuoco played Sheila in the series with Pete Davidson starring as Gary. The movie was released on September 21, 2022.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)-
The list of time travel-themed films cannot be complete without the only Harry Potter film that included time traveling.
‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ is adapted from the same novel by Rowling and follows Harry, Ron, and Hermione in their third year after the second film.
The plot introduces Harry’s Godfather Sirius Black, played by Gary Oldman, and finds Harrt traveling back in time with Hermione with the help of her Time-Turner to fix some mistakes that have dire consequences. The movie was released in the United States on June 4, 2004.
Time Trap (2017)-
Mark Dennis and Ben Foster directed the science fiction action adventure movie the plot of which revolves around a group of students facing their worst nightmares inside a cave in which they find out that they have been trapped in time. The movie premiered at Seattle International Film Festival on May 19, 2017.
When We First Met (2018)-
Ari Sandel directed the romantic comedy movie the plot of which finds a man traveling through time and altering his night with the girl of his dreams over and over again to make it perfect after the girl makes him just friends following that night.
Alexandra Daddario and Adam DeVine played Avery Martin and Noah Ashby respectively in the movie. It was released on Netflix on February 9, 2018.
Last Night in Soho (2021)-
Edgar Wright directed this psychological horror movie the plot of which finds an aspiring fashion designer traveling to the 1960s and encounters a wannabe singer as the glamour and dazzle unravel into something darker.
Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, and Diana Rigg are cast members of the movie. It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2021.
About Time (2013)-
Richard Curtis directed this romantic comedy-drama film that follows a young man named Tim Lake who is able to travel through time and tries to alter his last to improve his future.
Domhnall Gleeson played Tim Lake in the movie. It premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 27, 2013.
Last Train to Christmas (2021)-
This Christmas fantasy comedy-drama movie revolves around a nightclub manager (played by Michael Sheen) traveling back and forth in time. The movie was released in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2021.
The Time Machine (1960)-
George Pal directed this second visual adaptation of H. G. Wells’ same-named period post-apocalyptic science fiction novel of 1895.
The plot follows a scientist named George who invents a time machine which he uses to explore the distant future. But after traveling forward into the far future, he comes across revolutionary but shocking aspects of society. The movie was released on August 17, 1960.
