Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore journeys through time, alternate timelines and time machines.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 236 films.
Drama, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, hard science fiction, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In the near future, humanity faces extinction due to dust storms and widespread crop blights. Joseph Cooper, a widowed former NASA test pilot, works as a farmer and raises his children, Murph and Tom, with his father-in-law Donald. Followi…
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Super Hero, Time Travel
In 2018, 23 days after Thanos erased half of all life in the universe, Carol Danvers rescues Tony Stark and Nebula from deep space. They reunite with the remaining Avengers—Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and James Rhod…
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Secret Agent, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film, spy film, thriller film, time-travel film
On "the 14th,” the Protagonist leads a covert CIA extraction during a staged terrorist siege at an Opera House in Kyiv. Compromised, he is saved from KORD forces by a masked operative whose bag has an orange trinket. The Protagonist retrie…
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Adventure, Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film, teen film, time-travel film
In 1985, teenager Marty McFly lives in Hill Valley, California, with his depressed alcoholic mother, Lorraine; his older siblings, who are professional and social failures; and his meek father, George, who is bullied by his supervisor, Bif…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, tech-noir film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1984 Los Angeles, an imposing man appears naked in an alley amid electric flashes and attacks some punks for clothes. Later, a man with scars appears in an alley the same way and evades police. The first man robs a gun shop, looks up ad…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Time Travel, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, magic realist film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
On October 2, 1988, troubled teenager Donald "Donnie" Darko sleepwalks outside, led by a mysterious voice. Once outside, he meets a figure named Frank in a monstrous rabbit costume. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, chase film, comedy film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, girls with guns, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 2029, Earth has been ravaged by the war between the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet and the human resistance. Skynet sends the T-1000—an advanced, shape-shifting prototype Terminator made of virtually indestructible liquid met…
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Dark Comedy, Political Satire, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Prologue: A glib case study demonstrates how ne'er-do-wells with lower IQ scores and incomes rashly reproduce at greater rates than more prudent, affluent, and overly logical intellectuals, thus reducing future humanity's average intellige…
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Fake Documentary, Komödie, adventure film, mockumentary, time-travel film
In 2008, Toronto musicians Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol form Nirvanna the Band in the hopes of playing a show at the Rivoli. Seventeen years later, they have still not secured a show, with their schemes repeatedly failing. Matt proposes a…
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Super Hero, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crossover fiction, dystopian film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, time-travel film
In a dystopian 2023, robots called Sentinels hunt and kill mutants, as well as humans who either possess the genetic potential to have mutant offspring or try to protect them. In Moscow, they attack X-Men survivors Kitty Pryde, Colossus, B…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, War Film, dystopian film, military science fiction, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2015, an alien race known as "Mimics" lands in Germany and swiftly conquers much of continental Europe, killing millions. By 2020, humanity has formed a global military alliance, the United Defense Force (UDF), to combat the Mimics. How…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1998, three years after the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems, Sarah and John Connor have retreated to Livingston, Guatemala, where they are ambushed by a T-800 Terminator—one of several sent back through time by Skynet prior to its eras…
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Action Comedy, Super Hero, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, time-travel film
After helping Bruce Wayne / Batman and Diana Prince / Wonder Woman stop a robbery in Gotham City, Barry Allen / The Flash revisits his childhood home, where he lived with his parents Nora and Henry, before Henry's wrongful imprisonment for…
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Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, fantasy film, magic realist film, melodrama, romance film, romantic comedy, science fiction film
thumb|A private home in Woodstock, Illinois, was used for exteriors of the Cherry Street Inn, the fictional location in which Phil awakens every morning in the film.|alt=A white house with a green roof. It is set back from a lawn and surro…
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Dramedy, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Time Travel, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
Tim Lake grows up in Cornwall with his father James, mother Mary, uncle Desmond, and younger sister Katherine ("Kit Kat"). The morning after a less-than-great New Year’s Eve party, James tells Tim that the men of their family can travel ba…
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Drama, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film
Growing up, Evan Treborn, his friends Lenny Kagan and Kayleigh Miller, and her brother Tommy suffered many severe psychological traumas that caused Evan to experience frequent amnesia. These traumas include being forced to create child por…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, time-travel film, werewolf film
During another unhappy summer with the Dursleys, Harry Potter becomes enraged when Vernon's sister Marge viciously insults his parents and provokes him to inflate her and float away. Expecting to be expelled from Hogwarts for using magic o…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, war film
In the present day, scientists in the Arctic uncover an old aircraft with someone frozen inside and a circular shield. In March 1942, during World War II, Nazi lieutenant general and Hydra leader Johann Schmidt steals a mysterious relic ca…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic film
In 2035, twenty-nine years after a virus killed 99 percent of the global human population, James Cole is a prisoner in a compound underneath the ruins of Philadelphia. He is selected by scientists for a mission to travel to 1996 and collec…
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Action, Aliens, Time Travel, action film, military science fiction, science fiction film, time-travel film, war film
In December 2022, biology teacher and former Green Beret Dan Forester fails to land a job at the United States Army Research Laboratory. While he watches the televised 2022 FIFA World Cup final, soldiers from the year 2051 arrive on the pl…
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Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin or "looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back …
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, superhero film, sword and sorcery film
On the planet Eternia, the warlord Skeletor seizes control of Castle Grayskull, the center of power in the universe. His army scatters the remaining Eternian defenders and captures the Sorceress of Grayskull, imprisoning her within a power…
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, Washington, D.C., archaeo-linguist Milo Thatch obsesses over finding the legendary lost city of Atlantis, believed to have sunk thousands of years ago. His employers ridicule his theories, but he gains an unexpected ally in eccent…
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Super Hero, science fiction action film, superhero film
Thousands of years ago, Apokoliptian warlord Darkseid and his Parademons attempt to invade Earth using the combined energies of three Mother Boxes to form "the Unity", an event that would instantly devastate Earth and xenoform it into a co…
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