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1. The Flash (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon
Votes: 212,014
2. 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: 450,603 | Gross: $56.82M
3. Timeline (2003)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A group of archaeologists get embroiled in an adventure where they must travel back in time to 14th Century France, to save their professor before the French battle the English at Castlegard. If they fail, they won't be able to return.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 65,992 | Gross: $19.48M
4. Kate & Leopold (2001)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer
Votes: 89,213 | Gross: $47.12M
5. The Final Countdown (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino
Votes: 27,052 | Gross: $16.65M
6. The Visitors (1993)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A medieval knight and his servant ask a familiar wizard to move them back in time to prevent father-in-law's accidentally killing. Instead, they fly away to the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valérie Lemercier, Marie-Anne Chazel
Votes: 38,064 | Gross: $0.70M
7. The Undead (1957)
Unrated | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour
Votes: 2,601
8. Wizards (2020)
TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The third installment of DreamWork's 'Tales of Arcadia' trilogy. The gang ends up in the past and must make sure that everything happens the way it should.
Stars: Colin O'Donoghue, David Bradley, James Faulkner, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 4,745
9. Just Visiting (2001)
PG-13 | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A French count is in England to marry the princess. She's killed. A wizard helps him time travel back before the murder - but ends up in Chicago, April 2000. A descendant helps him. Can he return to the 1100s?
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Matt Ross
Votes: 20,226 | Gross: $4.78M
10. Eliminators (1986)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee
Votes: 2,522 | Gross: $4.60M
11. Playing Beatie Bow (1986)
Not Rated | 93 min | Family, Fantasy, Mystery
A discontented Sydney teenager travels back in time to 1873, whilst watching an old fashioned children's game.
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Imogen Annesley, Peter Phelps, Mouche Phillips, Nikki Coghill
Votes: 356
12. Dino Crisis 2 (2000 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
One year after the events of the first game, Regina from the S.O.R.T. team and Dylan from the U.S. Army Special Forces T.R.A.T. team are sent on a new rescue mission to the past after the Third Energy causes another catastrophic accident.
Director: Shu Takumi | Stars: Gabriel Hogan, Stephanie Morgenstern, Lisa Jai, Eric Hempsall
Votes: 1,098
13. Quasi at the Quackadero (1976)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Quasi, a duck, spends the day at a bizarre amusement park with fellow duck Anita and a robot named Rollo, but his rude and annoying behavior soon becomes impossible for his companions to tolerate.
Director: Sally Cruikshank | Stars: Sally Cruikshank, Kim Deitch
Votes: 734
14.
Dark Shadows (1991)
Episode:
Episode #1.10
(1991)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The Collins Family mourns the apparent death of Barnabas as they move into the new Collinwood mansion. Meanwhile, Peter enlists Natalie's help to help Victoria prove her innocence. That ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Ben Cross, Lysette Anthony, Barbara Blackburn, Jim Fyfe
Votes: 51
15.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Storm Front
(2004)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Following the destruction of the Xindi weapon, the Enterprise crew discovers that they have been sent back in time to 1944. However, history has been altered, leaving Nazi Germany in control of a large portion of the eastern United States.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,723
16.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Storm Front, Part II
(2004)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After Silik attacks Trip, Vosk wants to make a deal with Archer: supplies of the ship for the completion of his time machine in return for a trip to the 22nd Century.
Director: David Straiton | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,671
17.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Tempus Fugitive
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lois and Clark team up with H. G. Wells and go back in time to the day of Clark's arrival on Earth in an attempt to stop a citizen of a future utopia from killing the infant Superman.
Director: James R. Bagdonas | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 386
18.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
All Our Yesterdays
(1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 3,415
19.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Time's Arrow
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Captain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,693
20.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Time's Arrow, Part II
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Captain Picard and crew follow Data back to the late 1800s to get him back, only to find the suspected alien visitors killing people of that time.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,668
21.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Apprentice
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
College sophomore Sarah McBride accepts a job at Colonial Village, a tourist attraction that recreates Puritan life in 1692 Salem and allows nothing from the 20th century. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Director: Eleanor Gaver | Stars: Wayne Tippit, Haviland Morris, Katherine Elizabeth Neuman, Gary Lahti
Votes: 207
22.
The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode:
Act Break/The Burning Man/Dealer's Choice
(1985)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Act Break": Selfish second-rate playwright Maury Winkler wishes for a better writing partner than his ailing colleague Harry. "The Burning Man": A strange figure appears on the road and ... See full summary »
Directors: Wes Craven, J.D. Feigelson, Theodore J. Flicker | Stars: James Coco, Bob Dishy, Avery Schreiber, Piper Laurie
Votes: 423
23.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003–2010)
Episode:
Return of Savanti Romero: Part 2
(2006)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Return of Savanti Romero: Part 2: Evil demon sorcerer Savanti Romero has lured the Turtles back to the Jurassic period to exact his revenge, as well as get his hands on the Time Sceptre.
Director: Roy Burdine | Stars: Michael Sinterniklaas, Wayne Grayson, Sam Riegel, Gregory Abbey
Votes: 139
24.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Blink
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Sally Sparrow receives a cryptic message from the Doctor about a mysterious new enemy species that is after the TARDIS.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Carey Mulligan, Lucy Gaskell
Votes: 24,079
25.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022)
Episode:
The Bullet Blondes
(2021)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Legends are trapped in 1925 when someone uses a future Waverider to blow up their Waverider.
Director: Kevin Mock | Stars: Caity Lotz, Tala Ashe, Jes Macallan, Olivia Swann
Votes: 887
26.
The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode:
The One with the Nineties
(2021)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Cisco and Chester travel back in time and get stuck in 1998, repeating the same day over and over again. The key to returning home is at Chester's childhood home but he refuses to visit.
Director: Jeffrey W. Byrd | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes
Votes: 1,881
27.
American Dad! (2005– )
Episode:
Stan & Francine & Stan & Francine & Radika
(2021)
TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy
Stan and Francine go back in time to settle an argument.
Director: Jennifer Graves | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane
Votes: 349
28.
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991–1992)
Episode:
Kings of the Dinosaurs
(1992)
21 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Knowing that the world will soon die, Silverthorn and Draco attempt to escape 2500 using the Time Gate. Alana, Jenny and Nik attempt to stop the rocket from destroying the last Peace Platform.
Stars: Katharine Cullen, Melissa Marshall, James Findlay, Andrew Clarke
Votes: 14
29.
Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode:
Bloodlines
(2012)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A mysterious intruder appears inside Mount Justice claiming to be a time-traveling visitor from the future.
Director: Melchior Zwyer | Stars: Cameron Bowen, Nicole Dubuc, George Eads, Crispin Freeman
Votes: 3,123
30.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022)
Episode:
Land of the Lost
(2017)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Legends are left seventy million years in the past when Rip causes the Waverider to crash after his capture.
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Arthur Darvill, Caity Lotz
Votes: 1,876
31.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode:
Know Your Onions
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
With the identity of the timeline-unraveling "thread" revealed, the team's mission to protect him at all costs leads each agent to question their own values.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge
Votes: 1,993
32.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode:
The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D
(2020)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After getting stranded in 1982, Mack retreats to his childhood home to deal with the death of his parents; Deke scouts a group of new agents.
Director: Jesse Bochco | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge
Votes: 2,226