History TimeTravel / Film

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome 4]], [[Film/StarTrekGenerations 7]], [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact 8]] and [[Film/StarTrek2009 11]] all use time travel as a device, by a different method each time.

* In Jean Claude Van Damme's ''Film/{{Timecop}}'', there's a federal agency responsible for going after people who attempt to go back in time. He winds up [[spoiler: having to go back in time himself to save his wife from dying, which is what he was hired to keep other people from doing.]]

* ''Film/TheAdamProject'' follows a twelve year old boy as he encounters an action-hero version of himself from the future.

* In Film/MidnightInParis an American screenwriter on holiday in Paris with his fiancée discovers that by entering a car on a particular street at midnight he is able to time travel back to the 1920s.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek 4'', 7, 8 and 11 all use time travel as a device, by a different method each time.

* In Film/MidnightInParis an American screenwriter on holiday in Paris with his fiancée discovers that by entering a car on a particular street at midnight allows him to time travel back to the 1920s.

* In Film/MidnightInParis an American screenwriter on holiday in Paris with his fiancée discovers that by entering a car at a particular street at midnight he is able to time travel back to the 1920s.

* In the romantic fantasy drama Film/MidnightInParis an American screenwriter on holiday in Paris with his fiancée discovers that by entering a car at a particular street at midnight he is able to time travel back to the 1920s.

* In the romantic fantasy drama Film/MidnightInParis an American screenwriter on holiday in Paris with his fiancée discovers that by entering a car at midnight he is able to time travel back to the 1920s.

* In the romantic fantasy drama Film/MidnightInParis an American writer on holiday in Paris with his fiancée discovers that at midnight he is able to time travel back to the 1920s.

* In ''Film/{{Primer}}'', Time Travel is very limited, time travelers can only go as far back as when the machine was first turned on and the amount of time spent within the machine is equivalent to the amount of time the traveler has been sent back, however since the travelers in this film use their time machine for personal gain by going back a few hours investing in stocks, this is not usually an inconvenience.

* In Duncan Jones’s ''Film/SourceCode'', Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed protagonist Colter Stevens is part of a special program that allows him to relive the final 8 minutes of a dead person’s memory, the worlds created by the Source Code is thought to just be simulations, [[spoiler: however it is revealed that the Source Code actually creates an alternate universe that is created at the point in time where the memories take place.]]

* In ''Film/PleaseStandBy'', Wendy writes a script for a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' screenwriting contest that has Spock traveling back and forth in time to save the Federation.
* In ''Film/GroundhogDay'', protagonist Phil Connors is trapped in a time loop, meaning his consciousness is sent back to the beginning of February 2nd every time the day ends or he dies. [[spoiler: His only way to escape is to better his rude personality.]]
* ''Film/BillAndTed'' has a more consistent timeline, with every action the time traveling duo Bill and Ted having already been done and allows their future actions to help them in the present.
* In ''Film/{{Synchronic}}'', the titular designer drug enables its users to travel through time.

* In Duncan Jones’s ''Film/SourceCode'', Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed protagonist Colter Stevens is part of a special program that allows him to relive the final 8 minutes of a dead person’s memory, the worlds created by the Source Code is thought to just be simulations, [[spolier: however it is revealed that the Source Code actually creates an alternate universe that is created at the point in time where the memories take place.]]
* In Jean Claude Van Damme's
''Film/{{Timecop}}'', there's a federal agency responsible for going after people who attempt to go back in time. He winds up [[spoiler: having to go back in time himself to save his wife from dying, which is what he was hired to keep other people from doing.]]
* In ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'', James Cole travels to the past several times, to find a sample of TheVirus before it become ThePlague.

''Film/BillAndTed'' has a more consistent timeline, with every action the time traveling duo Bill and Ted having already been done and allows their future actions to help them in the present.

* In ''Film/TimeTrap, Time Travel is closer to reality by using time dilation, a concept which has proven to exist in real life, where time passes slower for some objects while the unaffected experience time normally, causing those affected to travel to the future. This happens in the movie via an underground time-warping field.
* In Jean Claude Van Damme's ''Film/{{Timecop}}'', there's a federal agency responsible for going after people who attempt to go back in time. He winds up [[spoiler: having to go back in time himself to save his wife from dying, which is what he was hired to keep other people from doing.]]

* In ''Film/GroundhogDay'', protagonist Phil Connors is trapped in a time loop, meaning his consciousness is sent back to the beginning of February 2nd every time the day ends or he dies, [[spoiler: his only way to escape his to better his rude personality.]]

* In ''Film/{{Predestination}}'', Temporal Agent go back in time to prevent crimes.

* In ''Film/Planet of the Apes (1968)'', Time Travel is closer to reality by using time dilation, a concept which has proven to exist in real life, where time passes slower for moving objects than stationary objects, which is seen when astronauts on a ship going at near light speed are able to travel 2000 years into the future while only experiencing 18 months.

%%* ''Film/BillAndTed'' has a more consistent timeline, with every action the time traveling duo Bill and Ted having already been done and allows their future actions to help them in the present.

* In''Film/GroundhogDay'', protagonist Phil Connors is trapped in a time loop, meaning his consciousness is sent back to the beginning of February 2nd every time the day ends or he dies, [[spoiler: his only way to escape his to better his rude personality.]]
%%* ''Film/BillAndTed''.

* In ''Film/DonnieDarko'' people in the future will be able to mess with the past without leaving the future via machine. Such meddling causes alternate universes which must be destroyed or they'll erase the future-people's universe.

%%* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''.
%%* ''Film/GroundhogDay''.

* In ''Film/Primer'', Time Travel is very limited, time travelers can only go as far back as when the machine was first turned on and the amount of time spent within the machine is equivalent to the amount of time the traveler has been sent back, however since the travelers in this film use their time machine for personal gain by going back a few hours investing in stocks, this is not usually an inconvenience.

%%* ''{{Film/Primer}}''.

* ''Film/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsAboutTimeTravel'' has several of the above mentioned categories (notably SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong taken to KnightTemplar extremes, as [[spoiler: an entire group exists to kill great people just after their greatest achievement, so they never decline in quality]] as [[ConversationalTroping discusses]] the rest.

* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' Lewis is brought to the future, while Bowler Hat Guy tries to change the past.

* ''Film/SeeYouYesterday'': Claudette and Sebastian try to time travel to stop her brother from being shot by cops due to being mistaken for a robber.

* ''Film/SoundOfMyVoice'' is about a young female {{cult}} leader who claims to have come from the post-apocalyptic year 2054 to recruit a group of people who can rebuild society once civilization collapses.
* ''Film/SeeYouYesterday'' Claudette and Sebastian use time travel equipment they made to try and save her brother who gets shot by police due to a misunderstanding.