Terrifying Time Travel Movies
AMC Movie List

Terrifying Time Travel Movies

Time travel should be fun, but that's not the way it usually works out in movies: Visit the past, change the future... and never for the better. Rank this tales of time-travel terror.

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1 Army of Darkness
A time rift sends Ash back to battle "deadite" demons in the middle ages.
240 586
2 12 Monkeys
A man from the ruined future tries to prevent a devastating plague.
209 543
3 The Butterfly Effect
A man tries to undo childhood tragedies, but only makes them worse.
46 538
4 Donnie Darko
An alienated teenager gets bizarre messages from the future -- or is he just crazy?
46 544
5 Frequency
A ham radio that connects a father and son across time also unleashes a serial killer.
39 487
6 Time After Time
What if H.G. Wells had invented an time machine, and Jack the Ripper used it to terrorize the future?
23 441
7 The Jacket
A war veteran's damaged brain allows him to shuttle back and forth in time.
-87 405
8 Triangle
A freakish storm and an abandoned ship entangle a young mother in a time paradox.
-150 368
9 Timecrimes
A chance encounter plunges a middle-aged man into a nightmare of multiple pasts and futures.
-219 349
10 La jetée
Told entirely in still images, a man tries to save the future by changing the past.
-270 344