🏷 Discover The Best Time Machine Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Time Travel Through the Lens: Discovering the Best Movies and TV Shows

Step into a world where the past and future collide, and the possibilities are endless. Time travel has long fascinated us, inspiring some of the most iconic movies and TV shows of all time. From mind-bending sci-fi epics to heartwarming dramas, we've got the ultimate guide to the best time-traveling tales that will transport you to another dimension.

Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Asami Imai

Kana Hanazawa

Tomokazu Seki

Steins;Gate (2011) TV Show

8.5 966 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

Style: psychological

Plot: technology, secret organization, time travel, time machine, romance, mad scientist, conspiracy, tragedy, ...

Cast

Louis Hofmann

Dark (2017) TV Show

8.4 7.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Germany

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

Style: chilling

Plot: hotel, detective, small town, cave, nuclear power plant, time travel, investigation, time machine, ...

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Avengers: Endgame (2019)

8.2 28.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 181 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.

Plot: superhero, time travel, space travel, time machine, based on comic, sequel, alien invasion, superhero team, ...

Cast

Matt Smith

David Tennant

John Hurt

Jenna Coleman

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)

8.2 778 votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 77 min.

Story: In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Plot: time travel, time machine, alien, tv special, war

Cast

Matt Smith

Jenna Coleman

Richard E. Grant

Dan Starkey

Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)

7.7 242 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 60 min.

Story: The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...

Plot: time machine, alien, tv special

Cast

Vishnu Vishal

Miya George

Karunakaran

Jayaprakash

Indru Netru Naalai (2015)

7.7 38 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 146 min.

Story: Elango and his astrologer friend Pulivetti Arumugam come in possession of a time machine and start profiting from it. However, their meddling with time prevents the death of a gangster, who begins to wreck havoc in their lives.

Plot: time travel, time machine, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lost and found, cold blooded killer, astrologer, unintended consequences, ...

Cast

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Gary Carr

Jack Reynor

T'Nia Miller

The Peripheral (2022) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, based on novel or book, war veteran, virtual reality, time machine, futuristic, gamer, ...

Cast

Jodie Whittaker

Mandip Gill

John Bishop

Doctor Who (2005) TV Show

7.6 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Seasons: 13

Episodes: 153

Audience: TV-PG

Story: The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Plot: time travel, time machine, alien

Voyagers! (1982) TV Show

7.5 94 votes

Genre: Science Fiction

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Story: A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate history, speculative, grand

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Sarah Snook

Noah Taylor

Christopher Kirby

Predestination (2014)

7.4 7.2K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Style: shocking, philosophical

Plot: mission, orphanage, pregnancy, bomber, secret organization, time travel, bartender, time machine, ...

Cast

Rod Taylor

Alan Young

Yvette Mimieux

Sebastian Cabot

The Time Machine (1960)

7.4 926 votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: G

Story: A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

Plot: new year's eve, london, england, based on novel or book, inventor, dystopia, time travel, time machine, ...

Time: future

Cast

Abigail Spencer

Matt Lanter

Malcolm Barrett

Goran Viu0161njiu0107

Timeless (2016) TV Show

7.2 801 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-PG

Story: A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

Plot: secret society, time travel, time machine, criminal, top secret project, computer scientist, changing history, butterfly effect, ...

Cast

Daniel Hansen

Jordan Fry

Wesley Singerman

Matthew Josten

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

6.9 3.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: G

Story: Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

Style: witty

Plot: friendship, flying car, saving the world, based on novel or book, tyrannosaurus rex, adoption, villain, time travel, ...

Time: future

Seven Days (1998) TV Show

6.8 58 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 66

Audience: TV-PG

Story: "Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."

Plot: time travel, time machine, secret government organization, alternate history, top secret

Ghostbusters (1986) TV Show

6.8 82 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 65

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Jake Kong Jr. and Eddie Spencer Jr. are sons of the original Ghost Busters, and they work alongside Tracy the Gorilla (who also worked with their fathers). Together, they are dedicated to ridding the world of the evil ghost wizard Prime Evil and his cast of henchmen.

Plot: ghostbuster, time travel, time machine, paranormal phenomena, ghost hunting, paranormal investigation, ghost hunter, ghost, ...

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

6.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Plot: time travel, time machine, loss of virginity, womanizer, mumblecore, dreamer, intern, repressed memory, ...

Primer (2004)

6.7 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 77 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

Plot: distrust, garage, mathematics, identity crisis, time travel, time machine, paradox, mechanical engineering, ...

Cast

James Marsden

Vince Vaughn

Eiza Gonzu00e1lez

Keith David

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026)

6.7 404 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two gangsters and the woman they love try to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine.

Plot: love triangle, hitman, gangster, time travel, time machine, shootout, mob boss, loan shark, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Tommy Lee Jones

Josh Brolin

Jemaine Clement

Men in Black 3 (2012)

6.5 11.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United Arab Emirates, United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

Plot: time travel, time machine, based on comic, alien, buddy cop, fictional government agency, seeing the future, changing history