21 of the Best Time-Travel Movies of This Chronology

One of the most enjoyable parts of fiction is living vicariously through characters who can do things you can’t, like throwing a car at evil aliens, successfully hitting on a member of your preferred gender or going back in freaking time. After all, who wouldn’t want to relive certain parts of their life all over again or see what the future holds? Like, probably not Hitler, in either direction, but just about everyone else.

That definitely includes Redditor inkyblinkypinkysue’s daughter. “(She) loves time travel movies, and we are trying to find some good ones to watch together,” they told r/Movies. “Her all-time favorite is Back to the Future (and she loves Part II and Part III). Last night, we watched Edge of Tomorrow, and she has also seen 12 Monkeys, Looper, Bill & Ted’s, the Harry Potter one, Austin Powers and probably a few more I can’t remember off the top of my head. Her favorite show is Dark, too, so anything involving a time paradox would be great.”

They then asked, “What are the best time travel movies?” and their fellow Redditor didn’t need to travel far to come up with a bunch of options.