Movies like The Time Machine
If The Time Machine's mix of new year's eve, future and inventor stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Time Machine's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Time Machine
2002 · Directed by Simon Wells · 96 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: future, time travel, time machine · Also science fiction and adventure
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Ready Player One
2018 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 140 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: future, dystopia · Also adventure and science fiction
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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9
2009 · Directed by Shane Acker · 79 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, steampunk · Also adventure and science fiction
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…
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Divergent
2014 · Directed by Neil Burger · 140 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: future, dystopia · Also adventure and science fiction
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find…
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City of Ember
2008 · Directed by Gil Kenan · 95 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, steampunk · Also adventure and fantasy
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to…
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Mortal Engines
2018 · Directed by Christian Rivers · 128 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, steampunk · Also adventure and science fiction
Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources.
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Interstellar
2014 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 169 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, time travel · Also adventure and science fiction
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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Back to the Future
1985 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 116 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: inventor, time travel · Also adventure and science fiction
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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Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Directed by Anthony Russo · 181 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: time travel, time machine · Also adventure and science fiction
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo…
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WALL·E
2008 · Directed by Andrew Stanton · 98 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, distant future
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.
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The Thirteenth Floor
1999 · Directed by Josef Rusnak · 100 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also thriller and science fiction
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
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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 · 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…