List of time travel films
This list gives an overview of particularly well-known and noteworthy films in which time travel is shown . It contains both films in which objects or people are physically moved into other times, as well as films in which the consciousness of the characters is moved into the bodies of their younger self or a stranger in another time, as well as films with time loops in which people go through the same period of time over and over again.
Movies
1920-1950
- 1921: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (see also the novel A Yankee at the court of King Arthur )
- 1931: A Connecticut Yankee
- 1933: Berkeley Square
- 1933: Turn Back the Clock
- 1944: Fiddlers Three
- 1945: Manhunt of Mystery Island
- 1947: Repeat Performance
- 1949: Knight Hank, the Terror of the Round Table (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
- 1950: minute man
1951-1960
- 1951: The House in the Square
- 1955: Journey to prehistoric times (Cesta do pravěku)
- 1955: Seven Seconds Late (Time Slip)
- 1956: Planet of Horror (World Without End)
- 1957: The Undead
- 1958: Terror from the Year 5000
- 1959: The Young Jacobites (The Young Jacobites)
- 1960: The Time Machine (The Time Machine)
- 1960: Beyond the time limit (Beyond the Time Barrier)
- 1960: Jimmy and the Pirates (The Boy and the Pirates)
1961-1970
- 1961: The 1st Century Man (Muž z prvního století)
- 1961: The man with the lens
- 1962: At the edge of the runway (La Jetée)
- 1962: Skin Hercules (The Three Stooges Meet Hercules)
- 1963: The Yesterday Machine
- 1964: 2071: Mutan beasts versus robots (The Time Travelers)
- 1964: The Magic Mantle (Wolschebnyj Chalat)
- 1965: Dr. Who and the Daleks
- 1966: Cyborg 2087
- 1966: Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD
- 1966: Dimension 5
- 1967: The witch without a broom (Una bruja sin escoba)
- 1967: Wonderful times in the Spessart
- 1967: Journey to the Center of Time (Journey to the Center of Time)
- 1968: I love you, I love you (Je t'aime, je t'aime)
- 1968: Planet of the Apes
- 1970: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- 1970: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
1971-1980
- 1970: I killed Einstein (Zabil jsem Einsteina, panove)
- 1971: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
- 1972: The miracle of Mr. B. (The Amazing Mr. Blunden)
- 1972: Slaughterhouse 5 (Slaughterhouse-Five)
- 1973: Expedition into the Future (Idaho Transfer)
- 1973: Ivan Vasilevich changes his profession (Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu)
- 1976: Time Travelers (TV movie)
- 1977: Jubilee
- 1977: Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem
- 1978: A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court
- 1978: Superman
- 1978: A hole in time (A Hitch in Time)
- 1979: The thing in the castle
- 1979: Escape to the Future (Time after Time)
- 1979: Unidentified Flying Oddball (The Spaceman and King Arthur)
- 1979: The two worlds of Jenny Logan (The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan) (TV movie)
- 1979: Time Slip - The Day of the Apocalypse (Sengoku jieitai)
- 1980: The Secret of the Empty Urn (Neco je ve vzduchu)
- 1980: The Final Countdown (The Final Countdown)
- 1980: A Deadly Dream (Somewhere in Time)
- 1980: Invasion from Space (The Day Time Ended)
- 1980: Narcissus and Psyche (Nárcisz és Psyché)
1981-1990
- 1981: Time Bandits
- 1982: Rulers of Time (Les Maîtres du Temps)
- 1982: The time travel (Voyager From the Unknown)
- 1982: The Flight of Dragons
- 1982: Timerider : The Adventure of Lyle Swann
- 1983: The return of the time machine (TV movie)
- 1984: Cold Room - The Cold Room
- 1984: The Philadelphia Experiment (The Philadelphia Experiment)
- 1984: Terminator (The Terminator)
- 1984: Time Traveler
- 1985: Beatie Bow - Playing Beatie Bow
- 1985: Visiting Van Gogh
- 1985: Blue Yonder ( The Blue Yonder , Movie made for TV)
- 1985: Cavegirl
- 1985: Future Project - The 4th Dimension ("My Science Project")
- 1985: The Lucky Boys (Non ci resta che piangere)
- 1985: Trancers
- 1985: Back to the Future
- 1986: The Biggels Effect (Biggles: Adventures in Time)
- 1986: Flight of the Navigator (Flight of the Navigator)
- 1986: Destroyers (Eliminators)
- 1986: Future Hunters
- 1986: Peggy Sue got married (Peggy Sue Got Married)
- 1986: Star Trek IV: Back to the Present (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
- 1987: Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World
- 1987: The Navigator (The Navigator - A Medieval Odyssey)
- 1987: The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones)
- 1987: The Time Trap (Timestalkers) (TV movie)
- 1987: Time Guardian (The Time Guardian)
- 1988: The Pyramid of Death
- 1988: Tender Chaots II
- 1988: The Ghosts I Called ... (Scrooged)
- 1989: Bill & Ted's Crazy Journey through Time (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
- 1989: Crazy Balloon (Norman's Awesome Experience)
- 1989: Millennium - The 4th Dimension (Millennium)
- 1989: The Lords of Magick
- 1989: Time Trackers
- 1989: Valby - The Secret in the Moor (Miraklet i Valby)
- 1989: Warlock - Satan's Son (Warlock)
- 1989: Time leap into the Round Table (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
- 1989: Back to the Future Part II
- 1990: Future Zone
- 1990: Kappatoo - The doppelganger from space (Kappatoo)
- 1990: Roger Corman's Frankenstein (Frankenstein Unbound)
- 1990: The Spirit of '76
- 1990: Race Against Time (Running Against Time)
- 1990: Back to the Future Part III
- 1990: Time Barbarians
1991-2000
- 1991: Beasties
- 1991: Beastmaster 2 : Through the Portal of Time
- 1991: Bill & Ted's Crazy Journey into the Future (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
- 1991: Brother Future
- 1991: Godzilla - duel of the megasaurs (Gojira tai Kingu Ghidora)
- 1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- 1991: Trancers II
- 1992: Army of Darkness (Army of Darkness)
- 1992: Forever Young
- 1992: Freejack - Hostage of the Future (Freejack)
- 1992: Spaceshift
- 1992: Timescape
- 1992: Trancers 2010 (Trancers III)
- 1992: The Most Beautiful Story in the World (La Belle Histoire)
- 1993: 12:01 (TV movie)
- 1993: The visitors (Les Visiteurs)
- 1993: Magic Müller
- 1993: Philadelphia Experiment II
- 1993: Time Runner
- 1993: Turtles III (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III)
- 1993: Groundhog Day (Groundhog Day)
- 1994: Apex (APEX)
- 1994: Star Trek Generations (Star Trek Generations)
- 1994: Tangents
- 1994: Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000
- 1994: Timecop
- 1995: 12 Monkeys (Twelve Monkeys)
- 1995: Knightskater - Knights on Rollerblades (A Kid in King Arthur's Court)
- 1995: Full throttle in King Arthur's Round Table (A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
- 1995: Stephen Kings Langoliers - Lost in the Time Hole ( The Langoliers , TV movie)
- 1995: Timemaster - Back from the future (Timemaster)
- 1996: 2025 - Chased Through Time (Yesterday's Target)
- 1996: Dinosaur Valley Girls
- 1996: Doctor Who - The Movie ( Doctor Who - The Movie , TV movie)
- 1996: Star Trek: First Contact
- 1996: T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
- 1996: Tenchi Muyô! In love
- 1996: Time Under Fire
- 1996: Tomorrow Man (The Tomorrow Man)
- 1996: Werner - That has to be a big deal !!!
- 1997: Matusalem II - The Last of the Beauchesne (Matusalem II: Le Dernier des Beauchesne)
- 1997: Retroactive
- 1997: The Sticky Fingers of Time
- 1997: Time Tracers
- 1997: The Deadly Four (Total Reality)
- 1998: Clockmaker
- 1998: The Love Letter (The Love Letter)
- 1998: The Time Knights - In Search of the Sacred Tooth (Les Couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2)
- 1998: A Knight in Camelot (A Knight in Camelot) (TV movies)
- 1998: Better yesterday than never ... (The Man with Rain in His Shoes)
- 1998: Lost in Space
- 1998: Mothra III - King Ghidora returns (モ ス ラ 3 キ ン グ ギ ド ラ 来襲, Mosura Surī Kingu Gidora Raishū)
- 1998: Stephen's Test of Faith
- 1998: Teen Knight - Back to the Middle Ages (Teen Knight)
- 1998: The Exotic Time Machine
- 1998: Death Squad from the Future (Past Perfect)
- 1998: T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous
- 1999: Aliens in the Wild, Wild West
- 1999: Arthur's Quest
- 1999: Austin Powers - Spy Who Shagged Me (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
- 1999: The Magic Elevator (Time at the Top)
- 1999: Pirates of the past (Pirates of the Plain)
- 1999: Future Kids - Raiders of Lost Gold (Durango Kids)
- 1999: Peut-être
- 1999: The 13th Floor - Are you what you think? (The Thirteenth Floor)
- 1999: Timegate: Tales of the Saddle Tramps
- 1999: Veronica 2030
- 1999: Time travel to catastrophe (Thrill Seekers) (TV films)
- 2000: The house by the sea - Il Mare (Il Mare / 시월애)
- 2000: Frequency
- 2000: Happy Accidents
- 2000: Operation Nautilus (Nautilus)
- 2000: Timequest
- 2000: The Kid - Image is everything (The Kid)
2001-2010
- 2001: Another Day
- 2001: Donnie Darko
- 2001: InuYasha - Affections Touching Across Time (犬夜叉 時代 を 越 え る 想 い)
- 2001: Just Visiting (Just Visiting / Les visiteurs en Amérique)
- 2001: Kate & Leopold
- 2001: Planet of the Apes
- 2001: Pokémon 4 - The Timeless Encounter (劇場版 ポ ケ ッ ト モ ン ス タ ー セ レ ビ ィ ィ 時 を 越 え た 遭遇 (で あ い))
- 2001: Knight Jamal - A Black Knight
- 2002: An Angel for May
- 2002: Austin Powers in Goldmember (Austin Powers in Goldmember)
- 2002: Clockstoppers
- 2002: The Jesus Video (TV movie)
- 2002: Returner - fight for the future (Returner)
- 2002: The Time Machine
- 2002: Time Changer
- 2003: Lovelorn and the Pharaoh's Revenge
- 2003: Kim Possible - Mission Between Times (Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time)
- 2003: Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
- 2003: Timecop 2 - Decision in Berlin (Timecop: The Berlin Decision)
- 2003: timeline
- 2003: A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time)
- 2004: (T) Spaceship Surprise - Period 1
- 2004: 30 overnight (13 going on 30)
- 2004: Butterfly Effect (The Butterfly Effect)
- 2004: Channel Chasers
- 2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban)
- 2004: If Only
- 2004: primer
- 2004: Retrograde - War on the Ice Planet (Retrograde)
- 2005: Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time
- 2005: A Sound of Thunder
- 2005: Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
- 2005: Fetching Cody (released in Germany as: Back To Love)
- 2005: Heaven's Soldiers (천군)
- 2005: Oskar and Josefine - Witches of Today (Oskar og Josefine)
- 2005: Piratas en el Callao
- 2005: Samâ taimu mashin burûsu
- 2005: Sengoku jieitai 1549 (戦 国 自衛隊 1549)
- 2005: Slipstream
- 2005: The Jacket
- 2006: Santa Clause 3 - A frosty mess
- 2006: Butterfly Effect 2 (The Butterfly Effect 2)
- 2006: The Lake House (The Lake House)
- 2006: The girl who jumped through time (時 を か け る 少女 Toki o kakeru shōjo)
- 2006: Déjà Vu - race against time (Déjà Vu)
- 2006: Idiocracy
- 2006: Kao ... Kao (เก๋า.. เก๋า)
- 2006: Click (Click)
- 2006: Crusade in Jeans (Kruistocht in spijkerbroek)
- 2006: Southland Tales
- 2007: 11 minutes Ago
- 2007: Cinderella - True Love wins (Cinderella III: A Twist in Time)
- 2007: Eonni-ga ganda (언니 가 간다)
- 2007: Flight 507 - Trapped in a Time Hole ( Termination Point , TV movie)
- 2007: Futurama: Bender's Big Score
- 2007: How I Married My High School Crush
- 2007: kiss me comrade! (TV movie)
- 2007: Mimzy - My Friend from the Future (The Last Mimzy)
- 2007: Secret (不能 說 的 秘密 / Bùnéng shuō de mìmì)
- 2007: Timecrimes - murder is only a matter of time (Los Cronocrímenes)
- 2007: Meet the Robinsons (Meet the Robinsons)
- 2007: Turma da Mônica em Uma Aventura No Tempo
- 2007: Winter Solstice - The Hunt for the Six Signs of Light (The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising)
- 2008: 100 million BC
- 2008: Love Story 2050
- 2008: Minutemen - Schoolchildren on a journey through time ( Minutemen , TV film)
- 2008: Siyama - Warriors from Another Time (Siyama)
- 2008: Stargate: Continuum
- 2008: The Forbidden Kingdom ( Chinese 功夫 之 王 )
- 2009: The Butterfly Effect 3 - Revelation (The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations)
- 2009: Change of Life
- 2009: Dark Country
- 2009: Land of the Lost (Land of the Lost)
- 2009: The wife of the time traveler (The Time Traveler's Wife)
- 2009: Disney's A Christmas Carol
- 2009: Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
- 2009: everyone needs an angel
- 2009: Pokémon 12 - Arceus and the Jewel of Life (劇場版 ポ ケ ッ ト モ ン ス タ ー ダ イ ヤ モ ン ド & パ ー ル ア ル セ ウ ス 超 克 の 時空 へ)
- 2009: S. Darko - A Donnie Darko Saga (S. Darko)
- 2009: Star Trek
- 2009: Timetrip - The Curse of the Viking Witch (Vølvens forbandelse)
- 2009: Death in the Time Loop ( Hors du temps , TV movie)
- 2009: Triangle - Fear comes in waves (Triangle)
- 2009: the door
- 2010: Action Replayy
- 2010: Dino Mom
- 2010: Hot Tub - The whirlpool ... is a damn time machine (Hot Tub Time Machine)
- 2010: Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time
- 2010: Waking Up
- 2010: Future X-Cops
- 2010: Repeaters - Deadly Time Warp
As of 2011
- 2011: My Future Boyfriend (My Future Boyfriend) (TV movie)
- 2011: Midnight in Paris
- 2011: Shuffle
- 2011: Source Code
- 2011: Time Freak
- 2011: window to summer
- 2012: Looper
- 2012: Men in Black 3
- 2012: Morlocks
- 2012: The Philadelphia Experiment - Reactivated ( The Philadelphia Experiment , Movie for TV)
- 2012: Safety Not Guaranteed
- 2013: It's all a question of time (About Time)
- 2013: Chronicles of the Underworld - City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones)
- 2013: Free Birds - Eat Us Another Day (Free Birds)
- 2013: Haunter - Beyond Death
- 2013: I'll Follow You Down
- 2013: Mad Jack - Traveling Forbidden Dimensions (The Forbidden Dimensions)
- 2013: ruby red
- 2013: The House at the End of Time (La casa del fin de los tiempos)
- 2013: Time Runners - The Law of the Future (95ers: Time Runners)
- 2014: The Zufrühkommer (Premature)
- 2014: Edge of Tomorrow
- 2014: Interstellar
- 2014: Predestination
- 2014: sapphire blue
- 2014: X-Men: Future is Past (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
- 2014: Project Almanac
- 2014: In the Land of Dinosaurs (Dinosaur Island)
- 2014: A Single Life
- 2015: Amapola
- 2015: Doktor Proktors time bathtub (Doktor Proktors tidsbadekar)
- 2015: Half Shell Heroes: Ab in die Dinozeit (Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past)
- 2015: Hot Tub Time Machine 2
- 2015: Synchronicity
- 2015: Terminator: Genisys
- 2015: And the groom says hello every day
- 2016: Alice in Wonderland: Behind the Mirrors (Alice Through the Looking Glass)
- 2016: emerald green
- 2016: Your Name. - Yesterday, today and forever (君 の 名 は。)
- 2016: ARQ
- 2017: If you die, your whole life will pass you by, they say (Before I Fall)
- 2017: Time Trap (The Cave - The Gate to Another Time)
- 2017: Happy Deathday
- 2017: God doesn't just roll the dice once
- 2017: Rewind - The second chance
- 2017: Time Trap
- 2017: reset
- 2018: Avengers Grimm: Time Wars
- 2018: Batman Ninja (ニ ン ジ ャ バ ッ ト マ ン)
- 2018: Border Crossers - Between Times (Rubezh)
- 2018: Mirai - The girl from the future (未来 の ミ ラ イ Mirai no Mirai)
- 2018: When we first met
- 2018: Back To You - A Second Chance For Love (Time Freak)
- 2019: Happy Deathday 2U
- 2019: Avengers: Endgame
- 2019: Cleo
- 2019: See You Yesterday
- 2020: Tenet (film)
TV Shows
Time travel is an often used plot element in science fiction television series. In some productions, time travel is the central element of the series plot. In addition, there are also very many series in which time travel is only used in individual episodes, such as in Twilight Zone , Eureka - The Secret City or the various Star Trek series as well as Babylon 5 .
This list only includes series in which the time travel or time loop is an often recurring or central element of the entire series plot.
- 1951-1956: Captain Z-RO
- from 1963: Doctor Who
- 1966–1967: Time Tunnel (The Time Tunnel)
- 1970-1971: Catweazle
- 1970-1971: Timeslip
- 1974-1976: Land of the Lost (Land of the Lost)
- 1975: The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim
- 1977: Fantastic Journey - Trapped on the Isle of Time (Fantastic Journey)
- 1979: The forbidden game
- 1979-1982: Sapphire & Steel
- 1981–1983: The visitors (Návštěvníci)
- 1982–1983: The Time Travelers (Voyagers!)
- 1982: On the way to Atlantis
- 1984: The Guest from the Future (Gostya iz budushchego)
- 1989–1993: Back to the Past (Quantum Leap)
- 1990–1991: Bill and Ted's Crazy Adventures (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures)
- 1990-1992: The girl from the future (The Girl from Tomorrow / Tomorrow's End)
- 1991–1992: Back to the Future: The Animated Series
- 1991–1992: In the Land of the Saurians II (Land of the Lost)
- 1993–1994: Time Trax - Back to the Future (Time Trax)
- 1993-1999: Goodnight Sweetheart
- 1995: AJ's Time Travelers
- 1995: Mirror, Mirror
- 1997: Crime Traveler
- 1998–2001: Seven Days - Das Tor zur Zeit (Seven Days)
- 1999–2000: Thunderstone - The Return of the Animals (Thunderstone)
- 2000-2001: Mirai Sentai Timeranger
- 2001–2002: Spook at the Gate of Time
- 2001–2003: The Time Squad
- 2001-2004, 2017: Samurai Jack
- 2002–2003: Do Over - Back to the 80s (Do Over)
- 2002-2004: Odyssey 5
- 2003: Jesus and Josefine (Jesus & Josefine)
- 2003–2005: Tru Calling - Destiny reloaded! (Tru Calling)
- 2004–2006: Phil of the Future
- 2004-2010: Lost
- 2005: Noein: Mō Hitori no Kimi e (Noein: Mō Hitori no Kimi e)
- 2005: Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time (The Triangle)
- 2005-2007: Time Warp Trio
- 2006-2010: Heroes
- 2006–2007: Life on Mars - Trapped in the 70s (Life on Mars)
- 2006-2007: Transformers: Cybertron
- 2006: day break
- 2006-2011: Torchwood
- 2007–2011 Primeval - Return of the primeval monsters (Primeval)
- 2007: Journeyman - The Time Jumper (Journeyman)
- 2007-2008: Kamen Rider Den-O
- 2008: Time Trackers
- 2008–2010: Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s (Ashes to Ashes)
- 2008-2009: Kamen Rider Kiva
- 2008–2009: Life on Mars
- 2008–2009: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- 2008–2011: Being Erica - All at the beginning (Being Erica)
- 2008-2013: Fringe - Borderline cases of the FBI (Fringe)
- 2009-2010: Flash Forward
- 2010: Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
- 2011: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- 2011: Steins; Gate
- 2011–2012: Terra Nova
- 2012–2015: Continuum
- 2012: Hotel 13
- 2012–2013: Primeval: New World
- 2013: Marry Him If You Dare ( 미래 의 선택 Mirae-ui Seontaek )
- 2013: Nine: Time travel times nine ( 나인: 아홉 번의 시간 여행 )
- from 2014: The Flash
- from 2014: Outlander
- 2015: Hindsight
- 2015-2018: 12 monkeys
- 2015–2016: Best Friends - At Anytime (Best Friends Whenever)
- from 2016: Legends of Tomorrow (DC's Legends of Tomorrow)
- 2016-2018: Timeless
- 2016-2018: Travelers - The travelers (Travelers)
- 2016: 11.22.63 - The attack (11.22.63)
- 2016: Time Traveling Bong
- 2016–2017: Frequency
- 2016: The time forger
- 2017: Making History
- 2017: Somewhere Between
- 2017: Time After Time
- 2017–2019: Future Man
- from 2017: Timewasters
- from 2017: Dark
- from 2018: Once a witch ... (Siempre bruja)
- from 2019: revisions (リ ヴ ィ ジ ョ ン ズ)
- from 2019: Once upon a time a second time (Il était une seconde fois)
See also
Web links
- Timelinks , list of time travel films and series (English)
- Andy's Anachronisms - Time Travel Movies (English)
- The Quintessential List of Time Travel Cinematic Movies
- The Quintessential List of Time Travel episodes in TV Series
- The Best and Worst Time Travel Movies on Metacritic (English)
- TopTimeTravelMovies.com ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), list of time travel films including descriptions (English)
- List of time travel films including review (German)