Romantic Time Travel Movies

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I've decided this is my favorite genre. Unfortunately, I don't have much to work with.

Here are a few I've thought of (some are obviously much better than others):
* Late for Dinner
* Planet of the Apes
* Happy Accidents
* Kate & Leopold
* The Time Machine
* The Back to the Future series (there's a wee bit o' romance)

And some with a related feel:
* Tuck Everlasting
* Bill & Ted movies
* Primer
* Donnie Darko
* Defending Your Life

Perhaps these movies appear to be completely unrelated, but anyway: ILX, recommend me some movies!

* Terminator movies (ditto)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Les Visiteurs. (Not much romance but the best time travel film evah.)

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Wasn't Always with Mel Gibson a time travel story too?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't find that Mel Gibson movie on IMDB...

Is Somewhere in Time any good?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked it when i was 7, but i'm not sure how reliable that opinion is.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty schmaltzy. I was the hardcore anti-romance film type when I saw it but it got me.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Flight of the Navigator any good? I remember being impressed with the ending at least. (no romance there either...)

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

again, i liked it as a child but i'll be damned if i can remember anything about it.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Philadelphia Experiment

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty schmaltzy

Good for all that, though. I remember being disappointed that the original setting in the Hotel Del Coronado wasn't used for the film (since I'm more or less from Coronado and all).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

otm Beanz ... Les Visiteurs is a great film, and there is some romance (although not necessarily of a romantic kind, which you'd understand if you'd seen it).

― andyjack (andyjack), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, same sort of thing as MCFly and mom.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there a girl in FotN?

The female lead in the recent version (with Guy Pearce) of HG Wells' Time Machine was very hot.

Isn't the Terminator Trilogy essentially a love story? The whole future hinges on the non-corruption of the timeline so that a series of different actors playing the same role can have sex with Linda Hamilton?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I had the Terminator movies on my list, Huk, they just showed up at the end for some reason.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops. sorry.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson movie. I don't think it's straight up time travel, more the transfer of souls or something, but, um love/hate across the ages, etc.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that Dead Again, Huk-L?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mel Gibson movie is Forever Young.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, thanks, Candicissima.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Eternal Sunshine (ish)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sliding Doors (sort of)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Army of Darkness!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Back to the Future!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Appropriately enough, here's a film which hasn't been made yet but is forthcoming: the adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's FANTASTIC The Time Traveler's Wife, to star Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet apparently.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I loved that book! I thought it might be made into a movie as I was reading it. :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to a reading by Niffenegger on Weds, so this was from the horse's mouth sort of! She wanted Adrian Brody to play Henry though.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Is 'The Jacket' sort of like this?

Returner!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

How about the 1980 'Play for Today' classic The Flipside of Dominic Hide, now out on DVD.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Brad Pitt must *not* play Henry. AB much better choice. But that reminds me, Twelve Monkeys for TimeTravel movies.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

His company's producing the movie, so alas... (I like BP but he's no Henry.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, apparently Brad & Jen bought the movie rites (or is it rights? the sun killed my brain cells this weekend) last year. Then they split.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Peggy Sue Got Married

― brianiac (briania), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a good one! I love the scene when she hooks up with the poet.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"You bought an Edsel...hahahaha!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.moviestars.co.nz/images/products/1459833.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Chances Are with Robert Downey Jr & Cybill Shepherd. ALhtough I think it's more of a reincarnation story. I forget.

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever. That sounds good too. How is Time after Time, Chris?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Peggy Sue Got Married pwnz. Back when Nick Cage was actually fun to watch... "I'VE got the TEETH, I'VE got the HAIR..."

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Returner! That's not just a great time travel flick, but it's one of those rare romantic time travel movies that ends with the time travelling romantic tensions frustratingly never coming to fruition in the form of doing it! Plus the main dude is totally this perfect Japanese hybrid of Steven Seagal and Ornaldo Bloomps! And it has fucking TRANSFORMERS FROM SPACE in it!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Time Machine is neither romantic nor a comedy.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Why did I think this was about comedies.

Anyway, I still think that "romantic" doesn't really describe the film very well. His relationship with the primitive girl isn't really the focus of the story, especially in the book.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

back then it WAS known as a "scientific romance," tho!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sticky Fingers of Time fits perfectly into this genre, it's a lesbian time travel romance.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How is Time after Time, Chris?

It's one of my faves. Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

And Dvaid Warner as Jack the Ripper!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i haven't seen time after time in forever but i remember loving it as a kid

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

in the latest Time Machine movie (haven't read the book) Guy Pearce builds his time machine so that he can go back to save his girlfriend from being run down by a motor car.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Knight....with Martin Lawrence. A truly awful movie in which there is some time travel and a little romance. Luckily, Medieval England has a fine black lady for our chirpy hero to fall in love with. Perish the thought Hollywood would show a mixed race relationship in a comedy.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Blast from the Past? Does that sorta kinda count?

I havent seen it but I think Brendan Fraser's a goofy cutie anyway.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Somewhere in Time *is* schmaltzy but it's pretty fucking good.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

La Jetee!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Terminator is perhaps one of the only films where the two protagonists have to have sex in order for the plot to progress.

― re (rde), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

not a movie but:

Synopsis of the Star Trek: Next generation Episode THE INNER LIGHT

An unsophisticated alien probe assumes a relative position, holding steady with the U.S.S. Enterprise, and releases a nucleonic particle stream that penetrates the ship's shields. Focusing solely on Picard, the beam knocks him unconscious. When he wakes up, Picard finds himself in unfamiliar surroundings, being cared for by an attractive woman. The woman, Eline, tells him his name is "Kamin," and he is her husband of three years. She also tells him that he has been sick and must be experiencing a memory loss. Picard soon learns that he lives on the planet Kataan, where he works as a simple iron weaver. His confusion is compounded when he notices that Eline wears an exact replica of the alien probe as jewelry. She tells Picard he gave her the necklace as a gift.
On the Enterprise, the crew is unable to revive Picard. Realizing the particle emission that has attached itself to him may control his life, they are afraid to destroy the beam. Only a few moments have passed, but on Kataan, it is already five years later, and Picard is settling into his life. He comes up with a solution to the drought that is destroying the planet, but his advanced ideas are laughed at by leaders of the primitive society. However, his life is not without its pleasures. Picard kisses Eline, an act that causes his pulse to rise back on the Enterprise. Worf insists they must destroy the beam since their Captain is under attack.

They do so, and Picard's pulse drops dramatically. On Kataan, where seven more years have passed, he falls to the floor. Acting quickly, the crew restores the beam. Back on Kataan, another 12 years have passed, and Picard has two children. The drought continues to worsen, and Picard's teenage daughter, Meribor, realizes their planet is doomed. At the same time, Geordi and Data are able to chart the probe's radiation to Kataan, a planet that was destroyed in a supernova explosion over a thousand years ago.

On Kataan, the years continue to fly by. Picard continues his quest to get something done about the drought, but his suggestions fall on deaf ears. Later, Eline dies, as does Picard's best friend Batai, and his first grandchild is born.

The elapsed time on the Enterprise is still only a few minutes. However, Dr. Crusher becomes alarmed when she realizes that Picard's metabolic rates match those of an 80-year-old man. In fact, Picard is actually 85 years old on Kataan, where the drought has almost completely destroyed the planet. His children and grandchild convince the unwilling old man to accompany them to a missile launching — an event they are all very excited about. Picard doesn't understand the point, knowing the missile will do nothing to save the planet or its people. However, as the missile takes off, his family, with the help of Eline's spirit, explain to Picard that they are launching a probe into the future to find a person who will bring them immortality by telling others about their planet after it is destroyed. Picard realizes the missile is actually the probe that brought him to Kataan over 30 years ago. As this happens, he wakes up aboard the Enterprise and is amazed to learn he has only been unconscious for 25 minutes, in which time he lived a third of a lifetime.

― nebbish, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha TEH BUTTERFLY EFFECT

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the worst movie ever made, but it is a romantic time travel movie.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, a bunch of us watched the 'Butterfly Effect' and 'Donnie Darko' back-to-back and only me and one other friend thought 'Donnie Darko' was better. I never knew so many of my friends were Kutcher apologists.

Would 'Groundhog Day' count as a time travel flick? It is kinda.

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Groundhog Day counts! Time Machine counts! Everything counts!

(Ok, so I admit, polyphonic, that the original Time Machine wasn't that romantic, but I still love it and think it falls somewhere in the guidelines I set)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Since almost every movie ever made has some kind of love interest (unless it was made by Akira Kurosawa)I'd say that every time travel movie is going to show up here sooner or later.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Nuh uh, not Star Trek: Teh Voyage Home!!!! No kissy face for Shat in that, and he directed it! WTF.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I might be wrong about that though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

HE DATES THE WHALE WOMAN RIGHT? RIGHT?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

AND WASN'T IT NIMOY?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm fine with straight up time travel too. Bring it on!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry to say this Sarah, but there was no time travel in Bring It On.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

But it was really good! It goes in the pot too.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Thinking a movie involves time travel when it doesn't

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I saw Time After Time yesterday and really enjoyed it. The guy (something McDowell?) from Clockwork Orange is so delightfully bizarre.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

MALCOLM

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

He's a don!

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I love your user name, Adam!

― Sweetums McGee (coco), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Sweetums!

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

to the original question, 2046

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, that's hardly about time travel... It isn't even sci-fi really.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

"frequency" is sort of romantic, innit?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

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