Last Updated on 12 June 2024
The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 200 best movies about time travel ever made.
I found 50 different ranked lists online of “best time travel movies of all time” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 50 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which ones you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list with links to IMDb.
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Looper (2012)
- Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Primer (2004)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Source Code (2011)
- Predestination (2014)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
- Arrival (2016)
- About Time (2013)
- La Jetée (1962)
- Star Trek (2009)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- The Time Machine (1960)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Army of Darkness (1992)
- Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
- Back to the Future Part III (1990)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
- Time After Time (1979)
- Tenet (2020)
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
- Palm Springs (2020)
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
- The Butterfly Effect (2004)
- Your Name. (2016)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
- Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Idiocracy (2006)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Somewhere in Time (1980)
- Déjà Vu (2006)
- Doctor Strange (2016)
- Flight of the Navigator (1986)
- Timecop (1994)
- 13 Going on 30 (2004)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- Frequency (2000)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- The Lake House (2006)
- Men in Black 3 (2012)
- Sleeper (1973)
- Happy Death Day (2017)
- The Adam Project (2022)
- The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
- Kate & Leopold (2001)
- The Final Countdown (1980)
- Click (2006)
- The Time Machine (2002)
- Meet the Robinsons (2007)
- Triangle (2009)
- The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- The Jacket (2005)
- Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
- The Endless (2017)
- See You Yesterday (2019)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)
- Time Lapse (2014)
- Project Almanac (2015)
- I Love You, I Love You (1968)
- Deadpool 2 (2018)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
- The Infinite Man (2014)
- Mirage (2018)
- Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
- 2046 (2004)
- Mr. Nobody (2009)
- Minority Report (2002)
- The Family Man (2000)
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Freejack (1992)
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
- Pleasantville (1998)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
- Superman (1978)
- ARQ (2016)
- Brigadoon (1954)
- Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
- Lucy (2014)
- A Sound of Thunder (2005)
- Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
- In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
- Mirai (2018)
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
- Time Trap (2017)
- When We First Met (2018)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
- Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
- 12:01 (1993)
- Forever Young (1992)
- The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
- The Man from Earth (2007)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- Timeline (2003)
- Les visiteurs (1993)
- Synchronicity (2015)
- Star Trek: Generations (1994)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
- A Christmas Carol (1984)
- Big (1988)
- Meet Cute (2022)
- The Final Girls (2015)
- Warlock (1989)
- Shrek Forever After (2010)
- Synchronic (2019)
- Last Night in Soho (2021)
- Happy Accidents (2000)
- 41 (2012)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
- Before I Fall (2017)
- The Tomorrow War (2021)
- Boss Level (2020)
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
- Passengers (2016)
- Terminator 5: Genisys (2015)
- Just Visiting (2001)
- Naked (2017)
- Time Freak (2018)
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
- Don’t Let Go (2019)
- Land of the Lost (2009)
- Returner (2002)
- Millennium (1989)
- Blood Punch (2014)
- Evil Dead II (1987)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- My Science Project (1985)
- Time Changer (2002)
- Il Mare (2000)
- A Christmas Carol (1951)
- A Day (2017)
- Captain Nova (2021)
- Maanaadu (2021)
- Jumanji (1995)
- Jubilee (1978)
- The House at the End of Time (2013)
- House of the Disappeared (2017)
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- Coherence (2013)
- A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
- The Call (2020)
- Retroactive (1997)
- Daleks: Invasion Earth 2051AD (1966)
- Trancers (1984)
- Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time (2007)
- Scrooged (1988)
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
- My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)
- The Kid (2000)
- The Door into Summer (2021)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- I Want To (1979)
- Mega Time Squad (2018)
- Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (2007)
- Haunter (2013)
- I’ll Never Forget You (1951)
- Terminator Salvation (2009)
- Berkeley Square (1933)
- Petite Maman (2021)
- Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1991)
- The Langoliers (1995)
- Mine Games (2012)
- The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
- Lost in Space (1998)
- Repeaters (2010)
- 12 Dates of Christmas (2011)
- El Ascensor (2021)
- Sound of My Voice (2011)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
- Terminator 6: Dark Fate (2019)
- Beneath The Planet of the Apes (1970)
- Continuum (2013)
- Dead Again (1991)
- Time Renegades (2016)
- Clockstoppers (2002)
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
- A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
- Assassin’s Creed (2016)
- Sphere (1998)
- The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
- The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)
- The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)