Best Time Travel Movies & TV Shows

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.

Run time: 141m Tagline: Something wicked this way comes. Release: 2004-05-31

Stars: Alan Rickman Daniel Radcliffe David Thewlis Emma Watson Gary Oldman Michael Gambon Robbie Coltrane Rupert Grint Timothy Spall Tom Felton

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

Stars: Chinatsu Akasaki Inori Minase Kohei Amasaki Rie Murakawa Rie Takahashi Satomi Arai Takehito Koyasu Yuichi Nakamura Yumi Uchiyama Yusuke Kobayashi

Justice League vs. the Fatal Five

The Justice League faces a powerful new threat — the Fatal Five! Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman seek answers as the time-traveling trio of Mano, Persuader and Tharok terrorize Metropolis in search of budding Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz. With her unwilling help, they aim to free remaining Fatal Five members Emerald Empress and Validus to carry out their sinister plan. But the Justice League has also discovered an ally from another time in the peculiar Star Boy — brimming with volatile power, could he be the key to thwarting the Fatal Five? An epic battle against ultimate evil awaits!

Run time: 77m Tagline: When the future collides with the past, there's no time to waste. Release: 2019-03-29

Stars: Daniela Bobadilla Diane Guerrero Elyes Gabel George Newbern Kevin Conroy Kevin Michael Richardson Noel Fisher Peter Jessop Susan Eisenberg Tom Kenny

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.

Run time: 81m Tagline: Fight the future. Release: 2013-07-30

Stars: C. Thomas Howell Dana Delany Dee Bradley Baker Grey DeLisle Justin Chambers Kevin Conroy Kevin McKidd Michael B. Jordan Sam Daly Steve Blum

The Terminator

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

Run time: 108m Tagline: Your future is in its hands. Release: 1984-10-26

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger Bess Motta Dick Miller Earl Boen Lance Henriksen Linda Hamilton Michael Biehn Paul Winfield Rick Rossovich Shawn Schepps

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Run time: 137m Tagline: It's nothing personal. Release: 1991-07-03

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger Castulo Guerra Danny Cooksey Earl Boen Edward Furlong Jenette Goldstein Joe Morton Linda Hamilton Robert Patrick S. Epatha Merkerson

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

Run time: 109m Tagline: The Machines Will Rise. Release: 2003-07-02

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger Carolyn Hennesy Claire Danes David Andrews Earl Boen Jay Acovone Kristanna Loken Mark Famiglietti Moira Sinise Nick Stahl

Terminator Genisys

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.

Run time: 126m Tagline: Reset the future Release: 2015-06-23

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger Courtney B. Vance Dayo Okeniyi Emilia Clarke J.K. Simmons Jai Courtney Jason Clarke Lee Byung-hun Matt Smith Michael Gladis

Terminator: Dark Fate

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.

Run time: 128m Tagline: Welcome to the day after judgement day Release: 2019-10-23

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger Diego Boneta Ferran Fernández Gabriel Luna Linda Hamilton Mackenzie Davis Natalia Reyes Stephanie Gil Tomás Álvarez Tristán Ulloa

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations

The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a spiteful serial-killer.

Run time: 90m Tagline: Death repeats itself. Release: 2009-01-09

Stars: Chantel Giacalone Chris Carmack Hugh Maguire Kevin Yon Lynch R. Travis Melissa Jones Mia Serafino Rachel Miner Richard Wilkinson Sarah Habel

The Butterfly Effect 2

After his girlfriend, Julie, and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.

Run time: 92m Tagline: Can you change your past without destroying your future? Release: 2006-08-17

Stars: Andrew Airlie Chris Gauthier David James Lewis Dustin Milligan Eric Lively Erica Durance Gina Holden JR Bourne Lindsay Maxwell Susan Hogan

Time Trap

A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.

Run time: 87m Tagline: Escape to the future. Release: 2018-06-22

Stars: Andrew Wilson Brianne Howey Cassidy Gifford Chris Sturgeon Hans Marrero Jocelyn Kay Max Wright Olivia Draguicevich Reiley McClendon Rich Skidmore

The Adam Project

After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

Run time: 104m Tagline: Past meets future. Release: 2022-03-11

Stars: Alex Mallari Jr. Braxton Bjerken Catherine Keener Jennifer Garner Kasra Wong Lucie Guest Mark Ruffalo Ryan Reynolds Walker Scobell Zoe Saldaña

The Butterfly Effect

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

Run time: 113m Tagline: Change one thing. Change everything. Release: 2004-01-17

Stars: Amy Smart Ashton Kutcher Elden Henson Eric Stoltz Ethan Suplee Irina Gorovaia John Patrick Amedori Logan Lerman Melora Walters William Lee Scott