01 A pilot leaves his children behind on a dying Earth to search the stars for humanity's next home.
24 Best Time Travel Movies of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · July 1, 2026
Time travel movies get to have it both ways, big paradox-chasing spectacle and small, personal stories about wishing you could just go back and fix one thing, and this list runs the full range of both. In Interstellar (2014): A pilot leaves his children behind on a dying Earth to search the stars for humanity’s next home. Just as strong is Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): A reprogrammed Terminator now protects the boy its earlier model was sent to kill.
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02 Marty travels to the Old West to rescue Doc Brown from a fate he already knows is coming.
03 A trip to 2015 to fix the future instead accidentally recreates the past all over again.
04 A teenager accidentally travels to 1955 and has to make sure his own parents still fall in love.
05 A reprogrammed Terminator now protects the boy its earlier model was sent to kill.
06 A relentless killing machine is sent back in time to erase a resistance leader before he's born.
07 A troubled teenager is warned of the world's end by a man in a disturbing rabbit costume.
08 A time traveler sent to stop a future plague can't tell if his memories are real or delusion.
09 A hitman who kills targets sent back in time is ordered to kill his own future self.
10 A time-traveling agent's newest case turns out to be tangled up in his own impossible identity.
11 A soldier repeatedly relives a train bombing's final eight minutes to identify the culprit.
12 A college student relives the day of her own murder until she can figure out who's killing her.
13 Two wedding guests are stuck reliving the same day together in an endless time loop.
14 A soldier relives the same brutal alien-invasion battle until he can finally win it.
15 A time-loop premise that still gets remade in spirit every few years.
16 A writer's midnight walks through Paris keep dropping him into the city's glamorous 1920s.
17 A ham radio accidentally connects a son to his long-dead father thirty years in the past.
18 A young man discovers his family can travel through time, and uses it mostly for small things.
19 A playwright wills himself back to 1912 to meet the woman in an old photograph he can't stop thinking about.
20 A magazine team investigates a classified ad seeking a partner for real time travel.
21 A man's genetic disorder pulls him uncontrollably backward and forward through his own relationship.
22 A 19th-century duke accidentally follows a portal into modern-day New York.
23 Two slackers borrow a time machine to assemble history's greatest figures for a school report.
24 Four friends' disastrous ski-lodge reunion sends them back to the exact weekend that ruined their lives.
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