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# Awesome Time Paradox Movies



- Not only a time travel.

- Should contains a time paradox or violation of causality.

- **Conception** is in higher priority than a quality.



## Movies



[The Adam Project](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2463208/) (2022)

After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future by returning to the original branch.



[The Tomorrow War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9777666/) (2021)

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight.



**[Tenet](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6723592/)** (2020)

Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.



[Volition](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6385952/) (2019)

A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.



[Synchronic](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9016974/) (2019)

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.



[Durante la tormenta](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6908274/) / _Mirage_ (2018)

Two storms separated by 25 years. A woman murdered. A daughter missed. Only 72 hours to discover the truth.



[ARQ](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5640450/) (2016)

Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.



**[Arrival](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/)** (2016)

A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world.



**[Paradox](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4540434/)** (2016)

A time machine's tested first time by a man in the team traveling 1 hour into the future. He returns to warn them against killings in the next hour. Is it possible to change things in the "past"? Twist after twist follow.



[Project Almanac](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2436386/) (2015)

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.



**[Edge of Tomorrow](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/)** (2014)

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.



**[Time Lapse](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2669336/)** (2014)

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.



**[Coherence](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2866360/)** (2013)

Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.



**[Predestination](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/)** (2013)

For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.



[Yeolhansi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3281394/) / _11 A.M._ (2013)

In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea labaratory have finally succeded in inventing a time machine. They make a test flight and travel to 11 A.M - the next day. They arrive at the planned time only to find the base on the verge of collapse. What could have happened in the 24 hours?



[Men in Black 3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/) (2012)

Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.



[Looper](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/) (2012)

In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.



**[Source Code](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/)** (2011)

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.



**[The Time Traveler's Wife](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/)** (2009)

A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage.



[Triangle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/) (2009)

A group of friends suffer a yachting accident and take refuge on a cruiser drifting on the open sea, but quickly realize they were better off on the upturned yacht.



[Star Trek](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/) (2009)

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.



**[Los cronocrímenes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/)** / _Timecrimes_ (2007)

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.



**[Next](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/)** (2007)

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.



**[Deja Vu](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/)** (2006)

After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.



[The Lake House](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410297/) (2006)

A lonely doctor, who once occupied an unusual lakeside house, begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.



[The Jacket](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366627/) (2005)

A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.



[Slipstream](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381601) (2005)

A scientist goes to a bank to meet a pretty bank-teller. His time-machine allows him to go 10 minutes back in time and correct his approaches to her. He's shadowed by 2 FBI agents and the bank gets robbed.



**[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304141/)** (2004)

Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.



[The I Inside](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325596/) (2004)

An amnesiac discovers himself leaping through time between 2000 and 2002 as his past returns to him.



**[Primer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/)** (2004)

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.



[The Butterfly Effect](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/) (2004)

Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.



[Frequency](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186151/) (2000)

An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.



[Retroactive](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117468/) (1997)

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.



[Twelve Monkeys](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/) (1995)

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.



**[Back to the Future](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/)** (1985); **[Part II](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874/)** (1989); **[Part III](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/)** (1990)

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.



**[The Terminator](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/)** (1984); **[Judgment Day](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/)** (1991); [Rise of the Machines](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/) (2003)

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.



## TV-Series



> Descending by end date.



**[Devs](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/)** (2020)

A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.



[Tales from the Loop](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8741290/) (2020)

The townspeople who live above "The Loop," a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, experience things previously consigned to the realm of science fiction.



**[Dark](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/)** (2017-2020)

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.



**[Legion](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5114356/)** (2017-2019)

David Haller is a troubled young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, but after a strange encounter, he discovers special powers that will change his life forever.



[El ministerio del tiempo](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4136774/) / _The Ministry of Time_ (2015-2020?..)

A warrior from the 16th Century, the first female university student from the 19th Century, and a paramedic from the 21st Century join a secret agency to prevent people from changing Spanish history using time-traveling doors.



[12 Monkeys](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3148266/) (2015-2018)

Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race.



[Fringe](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/) (2008–2013)

The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist - who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science - and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and may be connected with a global company called Massive Dynamic. // [White Tulip](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1537139/) (S2E18) The Fringe team investigate a train full of people who died in a mysterious way. Olivia and the others then meet the astrophysicist who was responsible for the "experiment" and who can reset the time.



[Day Break](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0801425/) (2006-2007)

Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then he will wake up and start the day over again.



[The Triangle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452573/) (2005)

A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.



**[The Langoliers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/)** (1995)

Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.



## Animation



**[Steins;Gate](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1910272/)** (2011-2015)

After discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans.



[Toki o kakeru shôjo](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808506/) / _The Girl Who Leapt Through Time_ (2006)

A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.



[Les maîtres du temps](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084315/) / _Time Masters_ (1982)

Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.



## TODO



Awaiting for the new one...



## Excluded



[Infinitum: Subject Unknown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12108622/) (2021)

Jane wakes up in a strange attic, bound and tied to a chair, she has no idea where she is or who she is. As panic sets in, she sees a violent bright light flash in front of her eyes and once again she wakes up; same situation as before, an exact repeat. Jane is forced to find a way to alter her reality before it is too late.



[Boss Level](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7638348/) (2021)

A retired Special Forces officer is trapped in a never-ending time loop on the day of his death.



[Happy Death Day](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5308322/) (2017); [2U](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8155288/) (2019)

A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer's identity.



[H0us3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9055630/) (2018)

A group of friends for meeting, a secret for disclosing, a nightmare for starting.



[Alcatraz](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1728102/) (2012)

In 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them.



[Midnight in Paris](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/) (2011)

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.



[Enter Nowhere](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631707/) (2011)

Three strangers arrive one by one at a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere only to learn they've been brought together for a reason.



[Journeyman](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948538/) TV Series (2007)

A man travels back in time to help people in trouble.



[Lola rennt](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/) / _Lola Runs_ / _Run Lola Run_ (1998)

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.



[Groundhog Day](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/) (1993)

A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again.