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1. Back to the Future. 1985 1h 56m PG. 8.5 (1.3M) Rate. 87 Metascore. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Feb 22, 2022 · 24. Happy Death Day (2017) Pick away at the surface of a time-loop movie and you find a horror movie. Most of the entries on this list are covered in enough feel-good spin to land as comedies, but ...
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- 12 '13 Going on 30'
- 11 'When We First Met'
- 10 'Kate & Leopold'
- 9 'The Lake House'
- 8 'If Only'
- 7 'The Time Traveler's wife'
- 6 'Somewhere in Time'
- 5 'Back to The Future Part III'
- 4 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'
- 3 'Midnight in Paris'
Director: Gary Winick
After being humiliated on her 13th birthday, Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen) wishes to escape her life of pre-teen unpopularity and become a well-adjusted grownup in this time travel rom-com. She's shocked when she wakes up to find her wish has come true; somehow Jenna (Jennifer Garner) is now 30 and living in 2004. Soon she realizes how adulthood has its own set of struggles – one particularly being her love life. As an iconic 2000s rom-com, 13 Going on 30 has warmed fans' hearts for decades....
Director: Ari Sandel
Having been friend-zoned by the girl of his dreams after meeting her at a Halloween party, Noah (Adam DeVine) remains close to Avery (Alexandra Daddario). Three years later, she's now engaged to someone else. Suddenly, Noah stumbles on the opportunity to travel back in time to the moment they met, giving him the chance to alter his life, and get the girl. In an almost Groundhog Day scenario (and it's worth noting that film is a benchmark for romantic time-travel movie), When We First Met is a...
Director: James Mangold
Kate (Meg Ryan) is a 21st-century woman who's determined to focus on her career. She thinks she doesn't need romance in her life at all, that is until she meets Leopold (Hugh Jackman), an English Duke from the 19th century who's accidentally brought to the future via a portal made by her ex-boyfriend, Stuart (Liev Schreiber). Where Kate & Leopold may be cheesy at times with the classic fish-out-of-water tropes, this movieis an underrated feel-good romancethat will easily keep one warm and coz...
Director: Alejandro Agresti
As lonely doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), moves out of her beloved lake house, she begins to exchange letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect named Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The two instantly spark a connection and form a budding romance. The only problem – she's living in the year 2006, whereas he's in 2004. An epic love story where two are separated by time, this romantic flick is special in the way that it portrays the simplicities of intimacy. With only the writte...
Director: Gil Junger
Struck with grief after the sudden loss of his girlfriend Samantha (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Ian (Paul Nicholls) is given the opportunity to relive the day she died and rewrite his wrongdoings. The repetition of time allows him to become a better partner and fix things before the impending tragedy, but it also brings some unexpected pain as he relives the best and worst moments of his relationship. Despite being an emotional and bittersweet tale, If Only is filled with hope and true love. It se...
Director: Robert Schwentke
Henry Detamble (Eric Bana) is a librarian from Chicago who struggles with his rare genetic disorder that causes him to randomly travel through time, uncontrollably. His life becomes more complex when he meets and marries the love of his life, Claire (Rachel McAdams), as she must now learn to cope with her husband's condition. An interesting spin on star-crossed lovers,The Time Traveler's Wife captures the struggles of fated love.Where Henry and Claire's story is romantic and tender, it's also...
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Enamored and infatuated by a vintage portrait that hangs in a grand hotel, playwright Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) finds a way to travel through time to 1912 to meet Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour), a stage actor. Where the two seem destined to be together, conflicts arise when Elise's obsessive manager, William (Christopher Plummer), tries to stop them. A great movie that's severely slept on, Somewhere in Time tells the story of an unworldly and impossible love. With a brilliant concept...
Director: Robert Zemeckis
As the third and final chapter to their adventures, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) must travel back in time to 1885 to the Old West to save his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), from his impending murder. Matters become more complicated when Marty realizes that Doc has fallen deeply in love with local school teacher, Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen). Though not a typical romance movie, Back to the Future Part III, is a film spearheaded by the themes of love.Where there are romant...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
A popular anime movie for beginners, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Makoto Konno (voiced by Riisa Naka), who learns that she has the ability to time travel. She soon uses her newfound power to fix the small things in her daily life, from schoolwork to friendships. When she meets another person who can time travel, the two develop an unconventional bond. Chiaki Mamiya (voiced by Takuya Ishida) helps the protagonist realize and fix the consequences of messing with time, but...
Director: Woody Allen
Whilst on a holiday in Paris with his fiancé and her family, Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) – a screenwriter and aspiring author – develops a habit of touring the city alone. One night he finds himself swept back in time to the 1920s where he meets his favorite cultural and artistic icons. By experiencing life in the past, he is forced to confront his dissatisfactions with the present. As a romance movie, Midnight in Paris offers multiple romantic interests, each with its own qualities and individu...
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) Of the three movies where Rachel McAdams dates a time traveling man (girlfriend's got a type), the drama is definitely the most serious. Based on Audrey Niffenegger ...
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The most complete list of movies in which time traveling or time looping are a prominent plot device. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, generally using a theoretical invention known as a "time machine". Let's face it, the time traveling concept was always an preoccupation in literature and ...
Jul 20, 2020 · Palm Springs (2020) So Palm Springs is not technically a time-travel movie, but it's definitely time-travel adjacent. The film follows Sarah (Cristin Milioti) and Nyles (Andy Samberg), two ...
Jan 28, 2022 · 9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Image via Warner Bros. As the best movie in the franchise (fight me), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban also stands as one of the best time ...
