8 Time-Travel Movies to Stream in Your Past, Present, and Future (2024)

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    Fast-forward in time, without touching the remote.

    By Dalene Rovenstine

    Oct. 1, 2024

When you turn on the TV, it’s because you’re often looking for an escape. And there’s no greater trip than leaving your time entirely. Movies about time travel transport you to another reality, one far in the future — or far in the past.

Here, we’ve compiled eight films on Netflix that will have you watching the clock (or not). From comedies to sci-fi to Christmas flicks, these movies are worth your time... today.

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The Adam Project

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Many time-travel movies center around the main character losing a loved one, and that’s exactly the case withThe Adam Project. In a dystopian future, Adam Reed (played by Ryan Reynolds) discovers his wife has gone missing, and tries to travel back to the past to rescue her. When he crash-lands into the present, he’s forced to work with his 12-year-old self to save their future. The fun action-comedy also stars Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, and Zoe Saldaña.

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Captain Nova

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The world is on the verge of environmental collapse, so a woman must travel back in time to save it. The only problem is, the time-travel process causes her to age backwards to her teenage self. This 2021 Dutch sci-fi film is also family friendly — and was even selected as the opening film for the 35th Cinekid Festival in the Netherlands, where it won best children’s film and best Dutch children’s film.

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In the Shadow of the Moon

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This sci-fi thriller is a whodunit spread over decades. Philadelphia police officers Thomas Lockhart (Boyd Holbrook) and Winston Maddox (Bokeem Woodbine) first investigate a string of murders in 1998. Nine years later, Lockhart investigates what is assumed to be copycat murders. A suspect emerges — but she appears not to age. The film, which also stars Michael C. Hall, Cleopatra Coleman, and Rudi Dharmalingam, twists and turns throughout Lockhart’s life as he becomes obsessed with finding the truth.

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The Knight Before Christmas

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A squire from 1334 England and a high school teacher from present-day Ohio — it’s a match made in Christmas movie heaven! Vanessa Hudgens stars as Brooke Winters, the teacher, who meets a strange man named Cole (Josh Whitehouse) around Christmas time. He’s been sent to the future to complete a quest and earn a knighthood. But will he choose knighthood or true love? We suspect you can predict the ending, but that doesn’t make the watching of this Christmas flick any less fun.

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Long Story Short

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What would you do if you only had a short time left with your significant other? That’s the predicament Teddy (Rafe Spall) finds himself facing in Long Story Short. A woman overhears Teddy stalling on setting a wedding date with his fiancée, Leanne (Zahra Newman), and puts a sort of hex on him, fast-forwarding time so that he only experiences one day each year. He misses his wedding, the birth of his daughter, and many other small and memorable moments in between. This Australian rom-com will have you laughing while also hoping for a happy ending.

Mirage

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What would you do if you woke up and your husband is married to someone else and your daughter was never born? That’s what Vera (Adriana Ugarte) must figure out inMirage, a 2018 Spanish mystery. It all starts when they move into a new apartment and find a film that was recorded on VHS during an electrical storm in 1989, when a young boy was tragically killed. When they decide to watch it, a similar electrical storm hits. Vera discovers she’s able to interact with the boy in the video, which has drastic implications for both of them. She must figure out a way to save the boy in 1989 — and her family in the present day.

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See You Yesterday

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Eden Duncan-Smith stars inSee You Yesterdayas C.J., a teenage science prodigy who works with her best friend, Sebastian (Danté Crichlow), to develop time travel. When C.J.’s brother is murdered by the police for carrying a cellphone — which the cops mistook for a weapon — C.J. decides to fix the past. As with most time-travel movies, her changes to the timeline complicate the future. The 2019 film was written by Stefon Bristol and Fredrica Bailey and earned them an Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay. (Also, for an extra time-travel treat, keep your eyes peeled for a cameo from a certainBack to the Futurestar.)

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When We First Met

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In this rom-com, Adam Devine stars as Noah Ashby, a man who will go to great lengths not to be friend-zoned — even if it means time-traveling. He first meets Avery Martin (Alexandra Daddario) at a 2014 Halloween party. Avery sees Noah as a friend, and as luck would have it, she meets her future fiancé the next day. At their engagement party, Noah drunkenly passes out in a photo booth, which was also at the Halloween party. What ensues is part time travel, partGroundhog Day: Noah keeps traveling back to the day he met Avery, and takes new approaches to steal her heart.

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