Time Travel Sci-Fi movies

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Tense Procedural Clinical Relentless Fast-paced

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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 time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

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State secrecy pressure, Patriotism vs duty, Surveillance overreach, Time manipulation ethics, Alter history risks, Ethical costs of security

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Realistic Intimate Fast-paced Stylish Measured

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When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

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Personal growth under pressure, Time manipulation ethics, Impact of choices on others, Unintended consequences, Finite power limits, Generational connections across time

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Immersive Tense Claustrophobic Restrained Deliberate

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A war-hardened veteran is trapped in a mental hospital where his mind is forced into the future, revealing his own death. As reality blurs, can he unravel the mystery that holds his life in the balance?

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Time travel consequences, Memory erosion under amnesia, Ethics of experimental treatment, Coercion and care in institutions, Hope amid altered timelines

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Steady Claustrophobic Dry Deliberate Clinical

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Imagine a world where two engineers create a device that lets them relive the past six hours. Now, as they manipulate time to outsmart the stock market, they risk becoming lost in a loop of their own making.

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Causal loop ethics, Foreknowledge vs improvisation, Physiological cost of travel, Collaborative strain under pressure, Timeline interference and adaptation, Risk management vs curiosity

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Tense Claustrophobic Atmospheric Clinical Relentless

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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.

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Trauma-induced amnesia, Memory control, Abuse impact on youth, Time travel consequences, Peer bullying dynamics, Therapy and coping

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Bleak Relentless Fast-paced Intense Oppressive

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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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Time travel ethics, Desire to change fate, Survival of divided humanity, Divided futures under threat, Techno determinism vs humanity, Collateral consequences of progress

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Tense Intimate Atmospheric Restrained Eerie

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When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.

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Deception and framing, Altering history consequences, Cross-generational communication, Family bonds across time, Unintended collateral damage, Duty under danger

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Playful Realistic Tense Whimsical Dry

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A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary New York City where past and future experiences of trust, commitment and denial are cleverly put to the test. Just as Ruby is beginning to relish her first-ever healthy relationship, Sam begins muttering about being a time traveler from the year 2470.

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Trust under pressure, Time travel ethics, Reality versus illusion, Future obsession, Manipulation across timelines, Commitment and doubt

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Dry Clinical

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In 2035, convict James Cole is trapped in a world ravaged by a virus, forced underground. When a time-travel mission goes awry, he lands in 1990, locked in a mental asylum. Can Cole escape the confines of his own mind and find the virus's origin before humanity's clock runs out?

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Institutional control, Paranoia and doubt, Nonlinear time perception, Science under pressure, Underground survival networks, Conflicting authority

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Steady Stylish Witty Sun-drenched Gritty

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The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

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Duty vs desire during locomotive, Loyalty under outlaw threat, Nostalgia vs progress time travel, Time travel ethics, Frontier justice under train threat, Romance amid indigenous peoples

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