Best Time Travel Movies - AMC Movie Database

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1 Back to the Future
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and their plutonium-fuelled Delorean take a trip to the '50s that changes everything. 100 172

2 12 Monkeys
A convict from the future (Bruce Willis) and the mental patient he befriends (Brad Pitt) propel Terry Gilliam's dystopic vision of the future. 55 155

3 Back to the Future Part II
Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) dusts off the Delorean and sets out to rescue stuck-in-the-past Doc (Christopher Lloyd); high-speed hijinx ensue. 50 162

4 The Time Machine
A progressive scientist (John Beck) builds a machine that allows him time travel in this adaptation of the classic from H.G. Wells. 27 135

5 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Two slacker teens (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) sail through time collecting historical figures to help them with a presentation at school. 16 138

6 Donnie Darko
The titular troubled teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal) follows the advice of a mysterious giant rabbit in an effort to fix the space-time continuum. 15 129

7 Time Bandits
In Terry Gilliam's fantasy epic, a young boy (Craig Warnock) hopscotches through history with a team of dwarves who stumble out of his closet. 11 121

8 Time After Time
H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) teams up with Jack the Ripper (David Warner) for a trip to modern day San Francisco. -9 97

9 Slaughterhouse-Five
George Roy Hill's adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut story chronicles the adventures of Billy Pilgrim, a man who experiences life out of sequence. -14 86

10 Primer
First time filmmaker Shane Carruth directs and stars in this low-budget flick, about a pair of scientists whose friendship is ruined by time travel. -27 101

11 Timecop
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as a special agent overseeing time travel in this 1994 thriller, set futuristically in the year 2004. -29 111

12 Idiocracy
An Army soldier (Luke Wilson) and a prostitute (Maya Rudolph) awake in a future where mankind has degenerated into a race of idiots. -36 108

13 Millenium
In this 1989 drama, air crash investigator Kris Kristofferson falls for a woman from the future (Cheryl Ladd) on a mission to save the human race. -55 79

14 Happy Accidents
In this 2000 romantic comedy, Marisa Tomei plays an unlucky-in-love single who meets a great guy (Vincent D'onofrio) who insists he's from the future. -57 73

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