Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "back-in-time"

1. Outlander (2014– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.

Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin

Votes: 179,157

2. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 737,313 | Gross: $100.21M

3. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

Director: Steve Pink | Stars: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke

Votes: 186,554 | Gross: $50.29M

4. Midnight in Paris (2011)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller

Votes: 449,984 | Gross: $56.82M

5. Lightyear (2022)

PG | 105 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.

Director: Angus MacLane | Stars: Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi

Votes: 123,921 | Gross: $118.31M

6. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.

Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann

Votes: 77,862 | Gross: $111.51M

7. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton

Votes: 132,094 | Gross: $92.00M

8. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 91,504 | Gross: $109.71M

9. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–2016)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.

Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge, Elizabeth Carling

Votes: 3,339

10. Black Knight (2001)

PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.

Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Vincent Regan

Votes: 43,318 | Gross: $33.42M

11. The Angry Video Game Nerd (2004– )

TV-MA | Action, Comedy

A foul-mouthed nerd reviews bad video games.

Stars: James Rolfe, Mike Matei, Kyle Rogers, Kieran Fallon

Votes: 15,930

12. Free Birds (2013)

PG | 91 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A pair of turkeys discover a time machine and decide to use it to travel to the first Thanksgiving, to take turkeys off the menu forever.

Director: Jimmy Hayward | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehler

Votes: 26,012 | Gross: $55.75M

13. A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)

PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A Little League player is sent back into medieval times where he is given the task of saving Camelot.

Director: Michael Gottlieb | Stars: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Joss Ackland, Art Malik, Paloma Baeza

Votes: 6,795 | Gross: $13.41M

14. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

TV-PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi

Votes: 70,888

15. Stargate: Continuum (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks

Votes: 26,316

16. Somewhere Between (2017)

TV-14 | 41 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A local news producer is given one chance to relive a deadly week and stop a serial killer. If she fails, she'll lose her daughter forever.

Stars: Paula Patton, Devon Sawa, Aria Birch, Catherine Barroll

Votes: 6,921

17. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Santa, a.k.a. Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.

Director: Michael Lembeck | Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd

Votes: 42,676 | Gross: $84.50M

18. The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)

PG | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Kate Pierce, now a cynical teen, is unexpectedly reunited with Santa Claus when a mysterious troublemaker threatens to cancel Christmas--forever.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Darby Camp, Julian Dennison

Votes: 35,717

19. Touchback (2011)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

A man looks back 15 years to the injury that ended his career as a promising high-school football player.

Director: Don Handfield | Stars: Brian Presley, Kurt Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Marc Blucas

Votes: 4,469 | Gross: $0.20M

20. The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.

Director: David L. Cunningham | Stars: Alexander Ludwig, Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston, Frances Conroy

Votes: 15,862 | Gross: $8.79M

21. It's About Time (1966–1967)

30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Two astronauts traveling faster than light go back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the "natives".

Stars: Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, Imogene Coca, Joe E. Ross

Votes: 575

22. Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

In this sequel, a couple must use a portal through time to defeat evil.

Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp, Bruce Campbell

Votes: 4,954

23. Retroactive (1997)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley

Votes: 6,707

24. The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

G | 99 min | Family, Mystery, Fantasy

Two children befriend ghosts in a haunted mansion. To help the ghosts, they make a potion allowing time travel to the past. After becoming housekeepers, they return to the mansion's past and aid the dead children.

Director: Lionel Jeffries | Stars: Laurence Naismith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison, Benjamin Smith

Votes: 1,697

25. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)

PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.

Director: William Dear | Stars: Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, Richard Masur

Votes: 2,506

26. Flight World War II (2015)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After Flight 42 travels through a storm they find themselves in France, 1940, during World war II.

Director: Emile Edwin Smith | Stars: Faran Tahir, Robbie Kay, Aqueela Zoll, Matias Ponce

Votes: 2,317

27. A Returner's Magic Should Be Special (2023– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Just when he thinks it's the end, Desir wakes up 13 years in the past. Can he make the changes needed to save the world from destruction?

Stars: Mari Hino, Yasuhiro Mamiya, James Larabee, Yuki Ishikari

Votes: 778

28. One Magic Christmas (1985)

G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy

An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about too.

Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill

Votes: 4,454 | Gross: $13.68M

29. Slipstream (2005)

R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist goes to a bank to meet a pretty bank teller. His time machine allows him to go 10 minutes back in time and correct his approaches to her. He's shadowed by two FBI agents and the bank gets robbed.

Director: David van Eyssen | Stars: Sean Astin, Vinnie Jones, Ivana Milicevic, Kevin Otto

Votes: 3,514

30. A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)

Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.

Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Vladimír Bejval, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukás, James Lucas

Votes: 2,505

31. The Time Machine (1978 TV Movie)

99 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: John Beck, Priscilla Barnes, Andrew Duggan, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 454

32. The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980–1981)

TV-Y7 | Animation, Adventure, Family

Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, Richie Cunningham, and Ralph Malph find themselves lost in time with their new friend, Cupcake, an alien from the future.

Stars: Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Don Most, Didi Conn

Votes: 288

33. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)

104 min | Romance, Sci-Fi

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Tomoyo Harada, Ryôichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi, Toshie Negishi

Votes: 954

34. Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen (1998)

R | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An erotic drama follows a modern young man on a virtual reality trip back to 17th-century England where men were men and women were readily available.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Shannon Dow Smith, Kim Sill, Cristi Harris, Betsy Lynn George

Votes: 153

35. Tinted with You (2021–2022)

Fantasy, Romance

A time-slip fantasy romance between Heon, the deposed Crown Prince who is trapped in the painting, Guem, a guard silently protecting the prince, and Eun Ho, a high school student who adores painting and living in the present

Stars: Park Jun-Hee, Hyun Woo Yoo, Kim Tae-Jung, Yoon Ye-hee

Votes: 494

36. Cinderella Chef (I) (2018– )

TV-14 | Comedy, Fantasy, History

Ye Jia Yao travels back in time to the ancient times, where she becomes the daughter of a magistrate with the name Ye Jin Xuan. When she wakes up she is suddenly kidnapped to Hei Fang Camp ... See full summary »

Stars: Ching Yang Chen, Thassapak Hsu, Zhao Jian, Daikun Li

Votes: 75

37. Verano (2015)

21 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Manu enjoys the loneliest holidays of his life.

Director: Manuel Eyzaguirre | Star: Ricardo Eyzaguirre Montenegro

Votes: 11

38. A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011)

Not Rated | 84 min | Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An unsettling drama that cinematically captures and recreates the psycho-analytic experience.

Director: Dana Lustig | Stars: Stuart Martin, Emilia Fox, Dougray Scott, Jodie Whittaker

Votes: 536

39. Before You Say 'I Do' (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

George's fiancee regrets due to a bad marriage 10 years ago. George wishes that he could change things and suddenly finds himself 10 years back in time - days before the wedding. Can he change things?

Director: Paul Fox | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Jennifer Westfeldt, Lauren Holly, Brad Borbridge

Votes: 1,306

40. Summer Days with Coo (2007)

138 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A boy befriends an orphaned water spirit, or Kappa, he found dried up and buried in a riverbank. He and his family help the creature adjust to life in the modern world.

Director: Keiichi Hara | Stars: Kazato Tomizawa, Takahiro Yokokawa, Naoki Tanaka, Naomi Nishida

Votes: 2,157

41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (I) (1991 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An on-rails light-gun shooter based on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

Directors: Jack Haeger, George Petro | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Peter Kent

Votes: 1,937

42. Time Traveller (2010)

Not Rated | 122 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Director: Masaaki Taniguchi | Stars: Riisa Naka, Akiyoshi Nakao, Munetaka Aoki, Anna Ishibashi

Votes: 1,721

43. An Unseen Enemy (1912)

Not Rated | 17 min | Crime, Short, Thriller

A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron

Votes: 973

44. Hell's Belles (1995)

NC-17 | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

It's near the 21st century, and the Devil wants to com out and play. He's been stuck with the same women in Hell for thousands of years and he's bored! He's ready for some mortal babes. ... See full summary »

Directors: Ed Hansen, Gerben Cath | Stars: Terence Cooper, Nadine Kalmes, K.C. Kelly, Martin Howells

Votes: 44

45. John Fox (2021)

97 min | Drama, Thriller

When a young pub owner witnesses a suicide, her quiet life is thrown into turmoil. Between troubling amnesia and enigmatic reminiscences, she embarks on a journey to unravel the threads of her own history.

Director: Nino Ilacqua | Stars: Jack O'Halloran, Roberta Catanese, Giuseppe De Domenico, Asia Sottile

46. A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)

95 min | Adventure, Fantasy

Hank is a shy high school student in Connecticut who plays in a band with his friends. While trying to fix an amplifier for the band, he gets a shock and awakes in the land of a peasant. He... See full summary »

Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Michael York, Theresa Russell, Nick Mancuso, Philippe Ross

Votes: 319

47. The Cold Room (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A girl who arrives in modern day East Germany begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl in 1936.

Director: James Dearden | Stars: George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke

Votes: 260

48. Querida voy a comprar cigarrillos y vuelvo (2011)

80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

The film takes places in different time periods and countries. It narrates the story of a common man, who after entering into a deal with a strange character with superpowers, has the ... See full summary »

Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Emilio Disi, Eusebio Poncela, Darío Lopilato, Alberto Laiseca

Votes: 699

49. Running Against Time (1990 TV Movie)

PG | 92 min | Sci-Fi

History professor David Rhodes has never gotten over the death of his older brother, 1966 in Vietnam. When he hears the rumor that a famous professor is working on a time machine, he ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Seth Green | Stars: Robert Hays, Catherine Hicks, Sam Wanamaker, Wayne Tippit

Votes: 362

50. Eger, 1552 (2022)

17 min | Short, Adventure, History

Two sixth-graders lose their way on a school trip and find themselves in the middle of the siege of Eger in 1552, on the exact day the Ottoman Army unleashes the final attack on the iconic Hungarian castle.

Director: Attila Szász | Stars: Gergely Kovács-Szégner, Borka Boros, Nóra Trokán, Levente Molnár

Votes: 26