As humans, we generally don’t like the present, and either the past or the future is much more attractive to us. Scientists say that maybe we can go to the past, but the future is difficult, so time travel is not possible at the moment. Fortunately, there is cinema, and events that are impossible in real life, such as time travel, are possible on the screen with successful stories and impressive acting.
Time travel-themed movies generally seem fun at first, but then turn into harsh tensions as the seriousness of the business emerges. It’s understandable because we all know now that every step you took in the past will change your life today. Let’s take a closer look at the time travel-themed movies that you can’t get enough of, and the stories they tell in an unbelievable dimension, which we call time in short.
Time travel themed movies that you can watch with pleasure:
- Deja Vu
- tenet
- Predestination
- Midnight in Paris
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- About Time
- Twelve Monkeys
- Terminator series
- Back to the Future series
- Interstellar
In the past you will have only one chance: Deja Vu
- Year: 2006
- Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
- Director: Tony Scott
- Cast: Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Paula Patton
- IMDb: 7.1
There is a big explosion in New Orleans and many people lose their lives. During the investigation of this event, which takes place in a dark future, a technology is used that examines people’s entire lives, including their pasts. Agent Carlin is tasked with finding and destroying the person who made the explosion using this technology. Of course, for this, he must travel in time and put his life at great risk.
Watch a thousand times, get confused a thousand times: Tenet
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Cast: John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Pattinson
- IMDb: 7.3
The story is classic, the world is in great danger and there are agents on duty to stop it. Everything is ok so far, but these global spies can act beyond the time we know. So they must bend time like a dough and stop the possible Third World War. The movie Tenet, which made a big impression when it was released, is not one of the productions that is fully understood even today.
Who are you, who am I, where are we: Predestination
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
- Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor
- IMDb: 7.4
In Predestination, where you will feel the theme of Time Travel to your bones, our character is an agent who travels through time and prevents disasters. Our agent returns to 1970 and starts working as a bartender to prevent an explosion in 1975 that killed thousands of people. He meets a woman at the bar and things develop. As the story progresses, it becomes more and more mind-blowing who we are or what time we are in.
The past is always more attractive: Midnight in Paris
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Director: Woody Allen
- Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen
- IMDb: 7.7
Gil and Inez, an engaged couple, arrive in Paris with Inez’s family. Gil, a writer, is neither satisfied with the life he lives nor the period in which he lives. One night, he gets into a car on the streets of Paris. This car will take him to the past, to the artists he admires. But, interestingly, Gil realizes that artists living in the time period he admires also admire another time period.
This is how I begin the agony of love: The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Year: 2009
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Director: Robert Schwentke
- Cast: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston
- IMDb: 7.7
The Time Traveler’s Wife movie, which was released in our country as the Time Traveler’s Wife, actually reveals its subject from its name. Henry is a time traveler and met Clare, whom he would later marry, when he was 6 years old. After the two get married, Henry’s frequent disappearances and time travel become more and more of a problem that will kill our couple’s love.
It’s possible to fix the past, but why do it: About Time
- Year: 2013
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Director: Richard Curtis
- Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Nighy, Rachel McAdams
- IMDb: 7.8
A man named Tim Lake realizes when he turns 21 that he can time travel, like all the men in his family. At first, these trips are pretty fun. One day, Tim falls in love with a woman named Mary and they get married. Tim also uses this unique ability to be a good husband. But as time progresses, he realizes that these tricks he did to be perfect have become his biggest flaw.
Of course you came from the sure future: Twelve Monkeys
- Year: 1995
- Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Christopher Plummer
- IMDb: 8.0
The world has been affected by a deadly virus and billions of people have died. A small number of people forced to live in underground shelters invent a time machine and decide to go back in time and destroy the virus. Volunteering for this, ex-con James Cole goes to the past, to a mental institution. Now the problem is; If someone in a mental institution told you they were from the future, would you believe it?
The darkest of the future: The Terminator series
- Year: 1984 – 2019
- Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
- Director: James Cameron
- Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
- IMDb: 8.1
The Terminator series, which has written its name in golden letters in the world of science fiction with its 6 films made between 1984 and 2019, takes place in a dark future where machines dominate the world. When humanity opposes this situation, a robot is sent to the past to kill the resistance leader. In each movie of the series, this time travel theme is handled in a rather confusing way, and all the details of a dark future are excitedly reflected to the audience.
Scary but hilarious: Back to the Future series
- Year: 1985 – 1990
- Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
- IMDb: 8.5
If you don’t like science fiction or time travel movies, you haven’t watched the Back to the Future series yet. Mad scientist Dr. Brown invents a car that can travel through time. He takes young Marty with him and travels to the past. In each movie of the series, our characters go to a different time period and try to fix them by making some mistakes that change both our present and future wherever they go.
Nothing better done: Interstellar
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine
- IMDb: 8.6
According to some, Interstellar, one of the most successful science fiction films of all time, is an extremely successful film because what it tells is compatible with scientific facts. The world will perish, and therefore new planets to inhabit are sought. A farmer volunteers for this search journey. This journey, which should not take too long, suddenly turns into a kind of time travel, even if not in the sense we know, because the laws of physics are upside down.
We have listed some of the most successful time travel themed movies that will make you question the past, the future and the present. Of course, this list could have been much longer. You can share the time travel themed movies that we want to be on our list in the comments.
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