best time travel films

The Butterfly Effect 2004
 1. Where Do They Start? The present day, where Evan (Ashton Kucher) is studying psychology.Where Do They End Up? Re reading journal entries enables him to return to the scene of hitherto unexplained childhood blackouts.Biggest Culture Clash. Evan .....
The Lake House 2006
 2. Where Do They Start? Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves) moves into a lake house in 2004 Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) does the same in 2006.Where Do They End Up? Moving normally through time except they can communicate via a mailbox that bridges the two year gap.Biggest Culture Clash. Whenever they want to meet, Alex has to wait two years for the rendez vous. For Kate, it .....
The Jacket 2005
 3. Where Do They Start? In 1992, where Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is locked up in a mental institution. Where Do They End Up? Jack .....
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthurs Court 1949
 4. Where Do They Start? The present day where mechanic Hank Martin (Bing Crosby) gets a knock on the head.Where Do They End Up? In King Arthur .....
The Time Travellers Wife 2009
 5. Where Do They Start? Sticking to the chronology of the film, Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) lives the 1970s.Where Do They End Up? All over the shop, much to the confusion of Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams).Biggest Culture Clash. The icky ethics of a time hopping relationship that, depending on where they are in the timeline, involves Henry being in love with a girl.Unresolved Paradox. Clare gives Henry a diary to help him keep track of their meetings, .....
Hot Tub Time Machine 2010
 6. Where Do They Start? Los Angeles 2010, where Adam (John Cusack) and his mates head off to an old ski resort hang out.Where Do They End Up? Via a hot tub and some dodgy Russian energy drink, they are transported to their 1980s youth.Biggest Culture Clash. The biggest thing in rock music is Poison.Unresolved Paradox. Lou (Rob Corddry) stays behind to relive his life, inventing search engine Lougle and pretty much changing the entire world. .....
Timecop 1994
 7. Where Do They Start? In 2004, where Max Walker (Jean Claude Van Damme) is an agent of the Time Enforcement Commission.Where Do They End Up? Various trips. it .....
Midnight In Paris 2011
 8. Where Do They Start? Hollywood screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) is on a working vacation in present day Paris.Where Do They End Up? A magical bell rings at midnight next thing, Gil is living in the 1920s and hanging out with Hemmingway and Picasso.Biggest Culture Clash. Gil getting seduced by the nostalgic glamour of becoming mates with artistic geniuses.Unresolved Paradox. Gil discovers that Picasso .....
Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999
 9. Where Do They Start? 1999, where Dr Evil (Mike Myers) hatches a fiendish plan to steal the mojo of Austin Powers (Myers).Where Do They End Up? 1969, where Austin chases Dr Evil in a time machine disguised as a psychedelic VW Beetle.Biggest Culture Clash. Dr Evil holds America to ransom for $1 billion .....
Peggy Sue Got Married 1986
 10. Where Do They Start? 1985, where Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) attends her high school reunion.Where Do They End Up? 1960, when Peggy Sue was actually at high school.Biggest Culture Clash. Peggy Sue indulges in all the things she always wanted to say and do, such as shagging the most popular boy.Unresolved Paradox. Almost the opposite of a paradox. Peggy Sue never bothers to prevent her future husband (Nicolas Cage) from becoming an adulterer. .....
Galaxy Quest 1999
 11. Where Do They Start? The cast of TV show Galaxy Quest ends up in space aboard a working version of the series .....
Deja Vu 2006
 12. Where Do They Start? On Fat Tuesday, during the New Orleans Mardi Gras, where Special Agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) is investigating a terrorist attack.Where Do They End Up? Via the revolutionary Snow White program, Doug can see and eventually visit the past up to four days previously.Biggest Culture Clash. Doug gets romantically attached to Clare (Paula Patton), one of the victims of the bomb blast.Unresolved Paradox. Doug saves Clar .....
Somewhere In Time 1980
 13. Where Do They Start? 1980, where Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) becomes obsessed with a photo of actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour).Where Do They End Up? 1912, when the photo was taken.Biggest Culture Clash. Richard buys a vintage suit which he thinks will help him blend in, which proves to be out of date by 1912 fashion.Unresolved Paradox. Richards romance starts when the elderly Elise gives him a pocket watch. Trouble is, she only has it .....
Meet The Robinsons 2007
 14. Where Do They Start? The present day, where orphan Lewis meets Wilbur Robinson, a time traveller from the future.Where Do They End Up? Living with the Robinsons, where Lewis realises he is Wilbur .....
Pleasantville 1998
 15. Where Do They Start? Siblings David and Jennifer (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) are watching telly in the present day when they get zapped by a dodgy remote control.Where Do They End Up? In the 1950s, albeit in a fictional TV show, Pleasantville.Biggest Culture Clash. David and Jennifers modern attitudes literally add colour to Pleasantville .....
Les Visiteurs 1993
 16. Where Do They Start? 1123, where Count Godefroy de Papincourt (Jean Reno) and his servant Jacquouille la Fripouille (Christian Clavier) ask a wizard to send them back in time.Where Do They End Up? A mistake in the spell sends them forwards in time to 1992.Biggest Culture Clash. Arrested by the police for destroying a Devil .....
Slaughterhouse Five 1972
 17. Where Do They Start? Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) is a POW in Dresden during WW2.Where Do They End Up? Coming unstuck in time, he finds himself in the future living on an alien planet, Trafalmadore.Biggest Culture Clash. The Trafalmadorans can experience every moment of their lives, past and future.Unresolved Paradox. Not a paradox, exactly, but its never made explicit if Billy really time travelled or is just insane. .....
Triangle 2009
 18. Where Do They Start? When single mother Jess (Melissa George) goes on a boating trip.Where Do They End Up? In an inescapable time loop.Biggest Culture Clash. Jess is driven to madness and murder by the endless repetition.Unresolved Paradox. There isn .....
Frequency 1999
 19. Where Do They Start? In 1999, where John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) makes an unusual contact on his radio.Where Do They End Up? John stays in the 90s, but his words travel back to 1969, where he can communicate with his late father Frank (Dennis Quaid).Biggest Culture Clash. Frank can leave evidence that John can find and have forensically examined 30 years later.Unresolved Paradox. John gives Frank knowledge that changes his timeline, but remembers .....
The Philadelphia Experiment 1984
 20. Where Do They Start? Aboard the USS Eldridge in 1943, subject to an experiment to make it invisible to radar.Where Do They End Up? Sailors David (Michael Pare) and Jim (Bobby Di Cicco) jump overboard but are sucked into a time vortex to 1984.Biggest Culture Clash. Seeing that movie star Ronald Reagan is President.Unresolved Paradox. Jim travels back to 1943 and has to live out the interim years diagnosed as a madman but David doesn .....
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home 1986
 21. Where Do They Start? 2286, where a probe will destroy the Earth unless a humpback whale answers its call.Where Do They End Up? The Enterprise crew slingshot around the Sun in a stolen Klingon ship to travel back to San Francisco, 1986.Biggest Culture Clash. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) gives a Vulcan nerve pinch to an antisocial punk.Unresolved Paradox. Scotty (James Doohan) trades the secret of yet to be discovered transparent aluminium for a whale tan .....
Run Lola Run 1998
 22. Where Do They Start? With Lola (Franka Potente) getting a panicky call from boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who needs to find a shitload of cash within 20 minutes.Where Do They End Up? In three parallel universes, depending on what happens to Lola as she tries to help.Biggest Culture Clash. The ramifications of every single action and reaction, which deliver a vastly different outcome in each story.Unresolved Paradox. Which of these events ac .....
Flight of the Navigator 1986
 23. Where Do They Start? 1978, where 12 year old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) is kidnapped by aliens.Where Do They End Up? 1986, although due to travelling faster than light Joey doesn .....
Source Code 2011
 24. Where Do They Start? In the aftermath of a terrorist attack on a train.Where Do They End Up? War veteran Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is forced to relive the eight minutes leading up to the tragedy in order to identify the perpetrator.Biggest Culture Clash. Colter appears to fellow passenger Christina (Michelle Monaghan) as her boyfriend Sean but Colter behaves quite differently.Unresolved Paradox. According to Colter .....
Star Trek First Contact 1996
 25. Where Do They Start? The 24th Century, where Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the Enterprise crew fight off a Borg attack.Where Do They End Up? 2063, when pioneer Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) made the historic first contact with aliens.Biggest Culture Clash. Cochrane is a grumpily down to earth geezer who doesn .....
Army of Darkness The Medieval Dead 1992
 26. Where Do They Start? Ash (Bruce Campbell) is whisked away from the present day by the Necronomicon.Where Do They End Up? and arrives in Medieval England.Biggest Culture Clash. Ash .....
Time After Time 1979
 27. Where Do They Start? 1893, where H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) realises his best friend (David Warner) is Jack The Ripper. Where Do They End Up? Wells chases the Ripper to 1979 in his time machine.Biggest Culture Clash. Present day London isn .....
Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD 1966
 28. Where Do They Start? Present day London, where local bobby Tom Campbell (Bernard Cribbins) is whisked away in the TARDIS by Doctor Who (Peter Cushing).Where Do They End Up? 2150, where the Daleks are in charge.Biggest Culture Clash. An eerily deserted London.Unresolved Paradox. The Doctor takes Tom back to a point before he entered the TARDIS, preventing the sequence of events that caused him to get involved in the first place. .....
The Navigator A Medieval Odyssey 1988
 29. Where Do They Start? In the 14th Century, where the visions of a medieval boy cause English villagers to tunnel into the earth.Where Do They End Up? In present day New Zealand.Biggest Culture Clash. Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) is confronted with a bank of televisions in a shop window.Unresolved Paradox. Does the earth tunnelling method work both ways? .....
Escape From The Planet of the Apes 1971
 30. Where Do They Start? The 40th Century, where the Planet of the Apes aka Earth is blown to bits.Where Do They End Up? Apes Cornelius, Zira and Dr Milo flee through a time warp that takes them to 1973.Biggest Culture Clash. What happens to talking monkeys? They become celebrities.Unresolved Paradox. The apes .....
Back to The Future Part 3 1990
 31. Where Do They Start? Specifically, in this film, 1955. However, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) has done a lot of time travelling by this point.Where Do They End Up? 1885, where Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is stuck.Biggest Culture Clash. Marty adopts the non de plume of Clint Eastwood to get by.Unresolved Paradox. If Doc Brown got stuck in 1885, and left his DeLorean for Marty to travel back to rescue him, that means there must be two DeLoreans in .....
Superman The Movie 1978
 32. Where Do They Start? After Superman (Christopher Reeve) has failed to save Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) from being killed.Where Do They End Up? Before the tragedy, as a result of Supes flying really fast around the earth.Biggest Culture Clash. Superman breaks his father .....
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure 1988
 33. Where Do They Start? 1988, where slackers and future world leaders Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are about to flunk their history exam.Where Do They End Up? Open the history book pick a page. These guys need the help of Napoleon, Billy The Kid, Abe Lincoln and So crates.Biggest Culture Clash. At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender. Except here its a water park.Unresolved Paradox. The films central premise. Bill and Ted only rule the worl .....
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004
 34. Where Do They Start? Just another fun filled day at Hogwarts for Harry and Hermione.Where Do They End Up? Three hours ago, thanks to Hermione .....
Time Bandits 1981
 35. Where Do They Start? In the contemporary, suburban home of Kevin (Craig Warnock).Where Do They End Up? After being kidnapped by dwarves, Kevin travels around time meeting Robin Hood, Napoleon and Agamemnon.Biggest Culture Clash. Discovering Robin Hood (John Cleese) is a bit of a prick.Unresolved Paradox. Does Kevins time travelling cause his family to be killed, or was he simply dreaming? .....
La Jetee 1962
 36. Where Do They Start? An unnamed prisoner (Davos Hanich) living in the aftermath of the Third World War.Where Do They End Up? Various trips to the pre apocalyptic past of his childhood, and also into the future.Biggest Culture Clash. A brief visit into the future reveals that mankind sorts out the mess eventually.Unresolved Paradox. The man falls in love with a woman he first saw as a child who was witnessing his own future death. .....
The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992
 37. Where Do They Start? Ebeneezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) is enjoying if that .....
The Time Machine 1960
 38. Where Do They Start? 1900, where George, aka H.G. Wells (Rod Taylor), decides to try out his prototype time machine.Where Do They End Up? 1917, 1940, 1966 and then 802,701.Biggest Culture Clash. Humanity in the future is split into the primitive Eloi and the savage Morlocks.Unresolved Paradox. George tells his friend all about World Wars 1 & 2. They couldve passed on the message. .....
Star Trek 2009
 39. Where Do They Start? The 23rd century, where Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Nero (Eric Bana) got caught in a black hole.Where Do They End Up? The 22nd century, where Spock (Zachary Quinto) is young and only just starting out.Biggest Culture Clash. Nero is out for revenge against people who dont know what the hell his problem is.Unresolved Paradox. Whether reboot Spock is going to be permanently emailing old Spock to ask what was meant to happen in the .....
Time Crimes 2007
 40. Where Do They Start? Hector (Karra Elejalde) is having a nice quiet day in a cabin in the woods.Where Do They End Up? Very confused.Biggest Culture Clash. Hector finds himself forced to become a vicious thug simply to keep the timelines going. Unresolved Paradox. Where does the time machine come from, anyway? .....
Planet of the Apes 1968
 41. Where Do They Start? Taylor (Charlton Heston) and crew set out into space 1972.Where Do They End Up? In the year 3978, although the journey only appeared to take 18 months because they were travelling at light speed.Biggest Culture Clash. Clues in the title. Theyve finally made a monkey out of Chuck.Unresolved Paradox. Whats never explained is how all of this happened. For that, you need to check out Rise of the Planet of the Apes. .....
Terminator 2 Judgement Day 1991
 42. Where Do They Start? 2029, they being the T 1000 (Robert Patrick) and a reprogrammed T 800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger).Where Do They End Up? 1991, to respectively assassinaterescue John Connor (Edward Furlong). Biggest Culture Clash. The original audiences discovery of the T 1000s gobsmacking effects, achieved (as far as we known) without time travel.Unresolved Paradox. Skynet is founded using bits of the Terminator that it wont invent until much lat .....
Its A Wonderful Life 1946
 43. Where Do They Start? Bedford Falls, 1946, where George Bailey (James Stewart) lives but wants to die.Where Do They End Up? A potted history of Bedford Falls in a parallel universe where George never lived.Biggest Culture Clash. The alternative to Bedford Falls Pottersville a seedy metropolis run by crooked banker Mr Potter (Lionel Barrymore).Unresolved Paradox. Why Georges beautiful wife Mary (Donna Reed) would end up a spinster librarian if .....
Groundhog Day 1993
 44. Where Do They Start? Phil Connors (Bill Murray) spends 2nd Feb in Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day.Where Do They End Up? 6am, the same day. Over and over again.Biggest Culture Clash. Between misanthropic city boy Phil and the gormless but jovial townsfolk he initially despises but comes to love.Unresolved Paradox. The obvious one. who or what is causing all of this? And lets ignore the original script idea that its a voodoo curse. .....
Back to The Future Part 2 1989
 45. Where Do They Start? 1985, of course.Where Do They End Up? 2015, then an alternative 1985, and finally 1955. Keep up. Biggest Culture Clash. A literal clash, as Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) recasts Hill Valley in his own image.Unresolved Paradox. When Marty and Jennifer travel to 2015, surely they cease to exist in the interim years. So how are they able to have kids? .....
12 Monkeys 1995
 46. Where Do They Start? James Cole (Bruce Willis), post apocalyptic future, year unspecified.Where Do They End Up? 1996, via 1990 and the First World War.Biggest Culture Clash. What would the authorities do with a man claiming to be a time traveller? Lock him up in an asylum, of course.Unresolved Paradox. Its just possible that Cole pushes the villain into unleashing the planet destroying virus. .....
Primer 2004
 47. Where Do They Start? Sunday, 23rd September 2003.Where Do They End Up? Oh, if only it were that simple to explain.Biggest Culture Clash. The gap between usual time travel glamour and the grim reality of hiding out in hotels or lying in a box in a storage shed.Unresolved Paradox. The film ends with five simultaneous timelines. Confused? This diagram probably wont help. .....
The Terminator 1984
 48. Where Do They Start? 2029, they being The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn).Where Do They End Up? 1984, to respectively assassinaterescue Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton).Biggest Culture Clash. A robot from a post Internet world has to use the phone book to track down Sarah.Unresolved Paradox. John Connor is only born because his adult self sent Kyle back in time. Lucky, huh? .....
Back to The Future 1985
 49. Where Do They Start? Marty McFly hits 88mph in Doc Browns customised DeLorean in 1985.Where Do They End Up? and drives into 1955.Biggest Culture Clash. Can I get a Pepsi Free? asks Marty, sparking shop owner Lou to insist, You wanna Pepsi, pal, you gotta pay for it.Unresolved Paradox. The biggie. if Marty has such an impact on his future parents lives, how come they dont twig theyre bringing up a son who looks just like Calvin Klein. .....
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