Frankenstein Unbound.
Summer Time Machine Blues by Katsuyuki Motohiro is hands down the best time traveling movie I’ve ever encountered. See it if you can!
Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988) is remarkable, can’t recommend it enough.
La Jette
Primer.
flight of the navigator!
TimeCrimes was pretty interesting.
Time Bandits! Scenes such as Sean Connery as King Agamemnon entering the ancient city, and Ian Holm as Napoleon are still very memorable to me, not to mention David Warner as the Evil Genius.
“Mum! Dad! Don’t touch it! It’s pure evil!” BOOM!!!
Witkacy said: “Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988) is remarkable, can’t recommend it enough.”
aw, yeah. that is a must-see film.
Back to the Future
Primer is the most intelligent movie on time travel I have seen by far. Nothing else I have ever seen comes close to explaining the ramifications of it.
The recent Timescrimes was quite good and fortunately didn’t get into the details of how time travel works.
Terminator and Terminator 2 were pretty entertaining.
I agree with the aforementioned Primer at #1, and Happy Accidents as a close second. Excellent call on that one, Ahnmin Lee. Little seen and underrated.
here’s a sleeper, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE… and while not strictly a time travel movie, LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD should be included for simply having no time reference at all.
it depends.
back to the future is a classic.
donnie darko is great.
faq about time travel is funny.
Primer, baby! And La Jette!
Keep that silly Zemeckis crap. Give me TWELVE MONKEYS and HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. Gilliam and Cuaron kick Zemeckis pathetic ass.
2046
Primer is not only sharp (sharper in its technical jargon than Chayefsky’s in Altered States), but it leaves you with a creepy feeling that some natural and sanctified order has been violated. Shane Carruth not only made a great movie on time-travel; but he also made one of the best Frankenstein movies of our time.
I also have a nostalgic feeling for Nicholas Meyer’s Time After Time (1979). It’s one of those love stories that was mirrored by real-life romance between the principals (Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenbergen), and that quality shows onscreen.
And 2046 is indeed great.
TIME BANDITS, yes! Endlessly inventive and enjoyable.
Also that Christopher Reeve / Jane Seymour film … I’m blanking on the film title, but it’s based on Richard Matheson’s BID TIME RETURN.
That’s Somewhere In Time, Harry. I saw it as a kid, and also have a kind of soft spot for that one, too.
I guess that leaves me Timecop (1994) d. Peter Hyams (“the hack’s Hack”) w/ Jean-Claude Van Damme.
No takers on Star Trek?
I don’t know if it’s my favorite but PRIMER (2004) by Shane Carruth. It’s the one that make me think that it was possible.
I’ve just saw CRONOCRIMENES by Nacho Vigalondo and it’s was also great!
PLANET OF THE APES
LA JETEE
BACK TO THE FUTURE
THE TERMINATOR / TERMINATOR 2
12 MONKEYS
STAR TREK (2009)
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION – Finale “All Good Things…”
I really enjoyed THE STICKY FINGERS OF TIME (1997) by Hilary Brugher
Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventure. You can’t argue with Keanu
Primer is amazing.
I really loved THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (2006) by Mamoru Hosoda
Other favorites are:
Back to the Future
Happy Accidents
Somewhere in Time
Be With You
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
I’d have to say 12 Monkeys is my favorite time travel movie. Terry Gilliam’s madness never ceases to amaze me. Back to the Future is a fun ’80’s teenager rock’n’roll film. I’ve always regarded Last Year at Marienbad as a ghost story, though. Of course, it’s open to interpretation. However, La Jetee is the innovative time traveling movie, you wouldn’t have 12 Monkeys without La Jetee.
ahnmin
I will always be a fan of the classic Back To The Future.
But I gotta say my favorite is Happy Accidents by Brad Anderson. Just because it does so much with so little. The story is a huge scope but is told as a small low budget feature. And the screenplay does its best to be airtight with the time traveling physics and mechanics (even postulating made-up theories that sound plausible) which is essential to any time-bending movie.