6 Best Time Machine Movies

By Vlad Zakh · September 16, 2026

A time machine is an impossible promise, and filmmakers love it. The Time Machine has a 19th-century inventor stranded 800,000 years ahead, 2067 summons a utility worker to the future, and See You Yesterday has teen prodigies making dangerous trips to the past. Time Cut, Men in Black 3 and Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor round out the six.

2067 (2020)

TMDB ★ 5.5

A utility worker is summoned to the future by a mysterious signal and must leave his dying wife to try to save humanity.

Directed by Seth Larney · 1h 54m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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See You Yesterday (2019)

TMDB ★ 5.5

Two teen prodigies mastering time travel take increasingly dangerous trips to the past after a tragedy.

Directed by Stefon Bristol · 1h 26m

Where to watch

Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

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Time Cut (2024)

TMDB ★ 5.6

A teenager accidentally travels back two decades to the days before a masked killer murders her sister, giving her a chance to stop it.

Directed by Hannah Macpherson · 1h 30m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

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The Time Machine (2002)

TMDB ★ 6.4

A 19th-century inventor hoping to alter the past instead finds himself 800,000 years in the future.

Directed by Simon Wells · 1h 36m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Stream: MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Men in Black 3 (2012)

TMDB ★ 6.5

Agent J travels back in time to save his partner K and uncover secrets about the universe he was never meant to know.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld · 1h 46m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Stream: Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)

TMDB ★ 8.2

The Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him, with all of reality at stake across three different centuries.

Directed by Nick Hurran · 1h 17m

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Time Machine Movies

2067 (2020)

See You Yesterday (2019)

Time Cut (2024)

The Time Machine (2002)

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)

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