Can anyone name some great time travel films?

Question

I love time travel films, and fancy watching some new ones, anyone have any recommendations?

Answer 1

Agree with Choc_tpot, FREQUENCY is a great film, Dennis Quaid very dependable and his son, played by James Caviezel is equally up to the task. Strange tale but well scripted and well played, well worth a night in.

Answer 2

There is only one time travel film and that is back to the future.

But I would also recommend Frequency.

It stars Dennis Quaid and Jim Cavaziel as father and son except Dennis Quaid was a fireman and dies when Jim was a kid.

Jim starts playing with dads old CB radio and gets chatting to a guy who he soon realises is his dad who is speaking 20 years in the past.

I dont want to ruin the story for you...

Answer 3

Back To The Future
Back To The Future II
Back To The Future III

There is no need to look for any more time travel films as these are the best ever.

Now where did I leave my Delorian?

Answer 4

Time after Time
Somewhere in Time (if you don't mind a love story)
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Final Countdown
Star Trek IV
The Terminator series
Back to the Future series

Answer 5

The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Daleks: Invasion Earth. 2150AD
Trancers
Star Trek 4
Army of Darkness
These all have (somewhat tenuous) time travel storylines.

Answer 6

I love Timeline.

Plot:
In the heart of the beautiful and historically rich Dordogne Valley of France, a team of archaeology students and their professor diligently work to uncover the ruins of a 14th-century castle. For Professor Edward Johnston (Billy Connolly), the project is the culmination of a lifelong dream. Aided by assistant professor Andre Marek (Gerard Butler), his son Chris (Paul Walker) and students Kate (Frances O'Connor), Stern (Ethan Embry) and François (Rossif Sutherland), Johnston has made major strides in unearthing not only La Roque Castle but also a monastery and structures from the surrounding village of Castlegard. But things are about to go haywire... Suspicious of the dig's benefactor, International Technology Corporation (ITC) and the man who runs it, Robert Doniger (David Thewlis), Professor Johnston heads to ITC headquarters in New Mexico to get some answers, and while he's away, his students discover a chamber that has been sealed for more than 600 years. Marek and Kate descend into the unstable room, and just before a near disastrous cave-in, they make two startling discoveries -- a bifocal lens, which couldn't have been invented before the chamber was sealed, and even more intriguing, a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357...from Professor Johnston! Determined to solve the mystery, the students head for ITC headquarters, where they are stunned to learn of Doniger's new invention -- a machine that can actually transmit three-dimensional objects through space. Although he meant for the device to revolutionize shipping, Doniger inadvertently opened a wormhole that leads directly to the 14th century, and Professor Johnston, who had insisted on experiencing the discovery himself, is now trapped in a vicious French vs. English feudal war! Can Johnston's loyal students survive one of the most violent battles in world history... and make it back to the 21st century alive?

Answer 7

would `field of dreams` be considered a time travel film... the one with kevin costner building a baseball pitch that attracts the ghosts of former players... wonderful film

Answer 8

this isn't a film, but if you like to read then you NEED to read Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. it's about a british nurse in the 1940's who steps through some standing stones in Scotland and gets zapped back to 1740's, just before the rising. Awesome. i've read it 4 times.

Answer 9

Twelve Monkeys
Donnie Darko
The Terminator (Original)
Austin Powers

Answer 10

"12 Monkeys", "Timeline", "The Time Machine" and "Forever Young" - Mel Gibson doesn't actually travel in time but gets frozen and then thaws out fifty years later.