Top Ten Time Traveling Movies
With 'The Adam Project' premiering on Netflix, we countdown the best time traveling movies of the last 40 years!
Premiering on Netflix March 11th is the new time-traveling family comedy, 'The Adam Project.' Directed by Shawn Levy ('Free Guy'), the movie stars Ryan Reynolds as a pilot from the future who travels to 2022 to save the timeline and must team-up with the 12-year-old version of himself (Walker Scobell). The movie also features Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, and Mark Ruffalo.
Hollywood is no stranger to making movies about time travel, with the first being the 1921 silent film 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.' 1960's 'The Time Machine' was the first time traveling movie to win an Oscar (for Best Visual Effects), and dozens of movies about time travel have been released since including 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Time Bandits' and 'Time After Time.'
In honor of 'The Adam Project's release, we are counting down the best time traveling movies of the last 40 years!
Let's Begin!
10) ‘Frequency’ (2000)
New Line Cinema
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) the chance to speak to his father (Dennis Quaid), 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.
9) ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ (2014)
Warner Bros. Pictures
Major Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
8) ‘The Time Traveler's Wife’ (2009)
Warner Bros.
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams).
7) ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ (2010)
MGM
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man (John Cusack) back to 1986 with his two friends (Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson) and nephew (Clark Duke), where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
6) ‘About Time’ (2013)
Universal Pictures
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's (Domhnall Gleeson) father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
About Time
5) ‘Groundhog Day’ (1993)
Columbia Pictures
A narcissistic TV weatherman (Bill Murray), along with his attractive-but-distant producer (Andie MacDowell), and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Groundhog Day
4) ‘Time Cop’ (1994)
Universal Pictures
An officer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Timecop
3) ‘Looper’ (2012)
TriStar Pictures
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
2) ‘Terminator’ (1984)
Orion Pictures
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior (Michael Biehn) to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
1) ‘Back to the Future’ (1985)
Universal Pictures
Eighties teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) - return to 1985.
Back to the Future
