Movies like Frequency
If Frequency's mix of rescue, future and race against time stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Frequency's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Source Code
2011 · Directed by Duncan Jones · 93 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: race against time, investigation, time travel · Also thriller and science fiction
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
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In Time
2011 · Directed by Andrew Niccol · 109 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: future, race against time, time · Also thriller and science fiction
In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities.
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Insomnia
2002 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 118 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: detective, investigation, flashback · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (2000s)
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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Interstellar
2014 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 169 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: race against time, time travel, family relationships
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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The End of Oak Street
2026 · Directed by David Robert Mitchell · 100 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: time travel, family relationships · Also science fiction and thriller
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they…
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Déjà Vu
2006 · Directed by Tony Scott · 126 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Jim Caviezel · Shares: time travel · Also thriller and science fiction · From the same decade (2000s)
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a…
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Super 8
2011 · Directed by J.J. Abrams · 112 min6.8
Why you'll like itWith Noah Emmerich · Shares: complex · Also thriller and science fiction
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing…
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Time Lapse
2014 · Directed by Bradley King · 104 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: future, time travel · Also thriller and science fiction
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: detective, investigation · Also crime and thriller
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Back to the Future
1985 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 116 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: race against time, time travel
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest.
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Tenet
2020 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 150 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: time travel · Also thriller and science fiction
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real…
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The Truman Show
1998 · Directed by Peter Weir · 103 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Noah Emmerich · Shares: escape
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.