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The 15 Best Time Travel Movies of All Time

by YPB Team

Paradox-twisting brain-benders, blockbuster thrill rides, and tender romances all bend the clock here, from the 1960s to today. Which one wins?

  1. Back to the Future — ranked #11
    Back to the Future
    Robert Zemeckis' beloved 1985 adventure sending Marty McFly to 1955 in a DeLorean.
    1000pts
  2. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — ranked #22
    Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
    The 1989 comedy sending two slackers across history in a phone-booth time machine.
    600pts
  3. The Terminator — ranked #33
    The Terminator
    James Cameron's 1984 sci-fi thriller about a cyborg sent back to kill the future resistance leader's mother.
    494pts
  4. Predestination — ranked #44
    Predestination
    The Spierig Brothers' 2014 thriller built on a dizzying temporal paradox starring Ethan Hawke.
    494pts
  5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day — ranked #55
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    Cameron's 1991 sequel with a reprogrammed Terminator protecting young John Connor.
    428pts
  6. Source Code — ranked #66
    Source Code
    Duncan Jones' 2011 thriller looping a soldier through the last eight minutes before a bombing.
    428pts
  7. Looper — ranked #77
    Looper
    Rian Johnson's 2012 neo-noir where hitmen kill targets sent back from the future.
    350pts
  8. Groundhog Day — ranked #88
    Groundhog Day
    The 1993 comedy classic trapping Bill Murray in an endlessly repeating day.
    350pts
  9. Edge of Tomorrow — ranked #99
    Edge of Tomorrow
    Doug Liman's 2014 sci-fi action film where Tom Cruise relives a deadly alien battle.
    350pts
  10. About Time — ranked #1010
    About Time
    Richard Curtis' 2013 romantic dramedy about a man who can relive moments of his life.
    257pts
  11. Planet of the Apes — ranked #1111
    Planet of the Apes
    The 1968 sci-fi classic whose astronauts discover the shattering truth of where they've landed.
    257pts
  12. Primer — ranked #1212
    Primer
    Shane Carruth's intricate 2004 indie about engineers who accidentally build a time machine.
    257pts
  13. Donnie Darko — ranked #1313
    Donnie Darko
    Richard Kelly's 2001 cult mind-bender about a troubled teen, a doomsday vision, and a giant rabbit.
    257pts
  14. 12 Monkeys — ranked #1414
    12 Monkeys
    Terry Gilliam's 1995 dystopian thriller about a prisoner sent back to stop a pandemic.
    0pts
  15. Interstellar — ranked #1515
    Interstellar
    Christopher Nolan's 2014 epic bending relativity, time dilation, and a tesseract across the cosmos.
    0pts

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Comments

Most of these fifteen need a machine, a DeLorean or a chair. One of them just uses gravity, and an hour costs twenty-three years back on the ship: https://youpick.best/articles/christopher-nolan-ranked-many-ways

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