Line #32 TimeTravel/Film


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7	* ''Film/TheAdamProject'' follows a twelve year old boy as he encounters an action-hero version of [[MyFutureSelfAndMe himself from the future]].
8	* In ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', you needed a way to generate 1.21 gigawatts of power, such as nuclear fuel or a lightning strike, and a ground speed of 88 miles per hour.
9	* ''Franchise/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.
10	* In ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'', the protagonist has mysterious periods of blacking out. As a young kid, he starts writing a journal describing his feelings. Years later, he finds out when he reads the journal before a blackout, he goes back in time to the period of the blackout. He quickly finds his time travel has a type of PsychicNosebleed limitation.
11	* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse: [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen/The Flash]] can travel in time when running beyond the speed of light. It is considered a DangerousForbiddenTechnique however, with some ill effects to expect.
12	** In ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', it serves as a ResetButton. During the FinalBattle, the Justice League fails to prevent Steppenwolf from activating the [[DoomsdayDevice Unity]] of the Mother Boxes, which causes the League and everything on Earth to be wiped out in a gigantic explosion. Being able to make himself {{intangib\|ility}}le, Barry is spared from the explosion and manages to run fast enough to go back in time just before the explosion occured and empower Cyborg so he can dismantle the Unity before it is formed.
13	** In ''Film/{{The Flash\|2023}}'', Barry travels back in time to discover the truth about his mother's death to clear his father's name. In testing the limits of his powers to travel back in time, he unintentionally creates an AlternateUniverse where his mother lives, but many things have changed, especially about other metahumans he used to know...
14	* In ''Film/DonnieDarko'', a duplicate timeline will be created for an unknown reasons, and will progress in time while the main universe doesn’t, and shows people within what will happen in the future of the main universe.
15	* ''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]] and [[ConversationalTroping discusses]] the rest.
16	* 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.]]
17	* ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' has four guys at a ski resort accidentally travel from TheNew10s back to The80s after a drunken bender inside a, well,...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hot tub time machine]].
18	* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' Lewis is brought to the future, while Bowler Hat Guy tries to change the past.
19	* 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.
20	* 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.
21	* In ''Film/{{Predestination}}'', Temporal Agents go back in time to both prevent and cause many events. People can only travel 54 years backwards or forwards from the year 1981, because that is when time travel was invented. Although some things in history are changeable, some things are fixed to happen, some of things can even be caused in vain attempts to prevent them.
22	* 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.
23	* ''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.
24	* ''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.
25	* 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.]]
26	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome 4]], [[Film/StarTrekGenerations 7]], [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact 8]] and [[Film/StarTrek2009 11]] all use time travel as a PlotDevice, by a different method each time.
27	* In ''Film/{{Synchronic}}'', the titular designer drug enables its users to travel through time.
28	* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series.
29	** In ''Film/TheTerminator'', only organic things could be sent through time. No weapons or clothes or anything but the time traveller.
30	** Stretched by LoopholeAbuse starting with ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. The only thing that allowed the original T-800 model 101 to go back through time was the fact it was a shell surrounded by living tissue. Following that, Skynet manages to send other Terminators back which are made of, or covered by, liquid metal or nanobots that mimic human flesh. Noted by many reviewers is that this discovery creates all new plot holes, such as the fact that now, the machines should be able smuggle back anything they want into the past, so long as it's covered by that stuff.
31	* 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.
32	* In Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's ''Film/{{Timecop}}'', there's [[TimePolice 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.]]
33	* In ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'', James Cole travels to the past several times, to find a sample of TheVirus before it becomes ThePlague.
34	* ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' is a French comedy film series in which a [[TheMiddleAges 12th century]] French knight and his [[MedievalMorons moronic]] squire are sent to The90s by mistake and try to fix this. FishOutOfTemporalWater antics and {{hilarity\|ensues}} ensue.
35	** ''Film/JustVisiting'', the [[ForeignRemake American (sort of) remake]] of the above.

Context TimeTravel / Film