Recommendations for GOOD time travel films!

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Every 2013 movie I've seen ranked from best to worst http://www.imdb.com/list/1nILxnBjQpk/

There are two kinds of Time Travel films/stories. The most common (and most boring) is where time travel is a "spice" element of the story like, e.g., Kate & Leopold, About Time, Terminator, 12 Monkeys and, ironically, The Time Machine.

Few focus on time travel being the main plot, if you know what I mean? A kind of overarching story line in other words. Few examples include The Butterfly effect, BttF2, The Girl who Leapt through time and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Any story involving Time Travel is bound to have some made up *beep* in it but there's a fine line between making *beep* up as you go along versus having it all figured out at the start and abiding by the constraints you've set up.

In simple terms, you can only watch a good time travel movie once since watching it a second time will be vastly different (in a good way).

I know you've requested a GOOD time travel film. Instead I present you with perhaps the best Time Travel focused story in the form of a short anime series. Forgiving its small 2 episode derailing near the middle with the two side characters, it's overall one of the most solid time travel stories ever told. Extremely spoiler heavy, as with any good story of course, so be aware.

I'm quite surprised none have yet mentioned it in this thread not only because it's about time travel, but also because it's under Kate&Leopold.

The name of the series is Steins;Gate.

Since someone else mentioned Star Trek: TNG, I'll second those and add:

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Visionary, Trials and Tribbleations, The Sound of Her Voice, Things Past, Past Tense 1 & 2
Star Trek: Voyager - Relativity, Time and Again, Blink of an Eye, Gravity, Shattered
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Cause and Effect
Red Dwarf - Future Echoes, Stasis Leak, Timeslides, Backwards

Films are tougher. I liked Back to the Future, Frequency, and Terminator. I usually like romantic comedies, I haven't found too many romcom time travel movies that I like.

Edit: I'm quite fond of Sliding Doors, but it's more like a dimension-hopping than time travel concept.

My favorite time-travel story ever was the "Journeyman" TV show that aired 13 episodes in 2007. The acting was great, and the writing was absolutely brilliant! But evidently, it was too intelligent for NBC's viewers, because it lost ratings week by week and was cancelled. Unfortunately, there are no commercially available DVDs (or streaming) in the U.S., but an eBayer sells bootleg discs made from the original TV broadcasts. There's also a Region 2 DVD set available from Britain (the lead actor is Scottish). Eight friends came over to watch the DVDs with me and my wife and they all said things like "Wow--this is great!" "Thanks so much for sharing this!" and "How come I never heard of this when it was on??"

Seconding some other recommendations here, "Kate and Leopold" was fun, and "Lost in Austen" was GREAT fun--highly recommended!

The best serious time-travel film I know is "Millennium." Watch the movie--and then read John Varley's novel of the same name (both are extensions of his short story "Air Raid") and get blown away by how much richer and deeper he's able to go with the same story in 200 pages of print than in two hours of film.

Finally, I have to try to warn unwary viewers away from "Somewhere in Time." As I said in my imdb review, this is the first movie I would consider watching again, with the right group of friends, just to make fun of it. It is the hokiest, cheesiest, brain-dead-ist thing I have ever seen. Seriously, my wife and I both thought "Clairol commercial" when we watched it. If that sounds harsh, or you want to be amused, check out the examples in my review.

Triangle - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/?ref_=tt_rec_tti
The man from Earth - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Primer - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

Timeline (2003), based on the 1999 Michael Crichton novel.

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