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Directed by Gregory HoblitOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
CrimeThemes Radio,
Films about the labor movement,
Time travel films,
Serial killer films,
Alternate history films,
Disaster filmsActors Dennis Quaid,
Jim Caviezel,
Andre Braugher,
Elizabeth Mitchell,
Noah Emmerich,
Shawn DoyleRating73%
In Queens, New York during October 1999, John Sullivan (Caviezel), a 36-year-old homicide detective, breaks up with his girlfriend Samantha (Melissa Errico) with the reason partially attributed to the trauma caused by the death of his fireman father Frank (Quaid). Still living in the same house where he grew up, he discovers his father's Heathkit single-sideband ham radio and begins transmitting radio signals. Because of highly localized electro-temporal spatial effects caused by unusual aurora borealis activity, John somehow makes contact with his father exactly 30 years in the past on the day before Frank's death in a warehouse fire. The ensuing conversation results in Frank thinking John is a stalker. Before the connection cuts out, John is able to shout out the circumstances that led to Frank's death. The next day as little things brought up in their conversation prove true, Frank believes and heeds John's words, escaping the fire to safety. The father and son reconnect on the HAM radio set later that evening, with Frank sharing his dreams and his hopes for his son, and John recounting the details of the Mets-Orioles World Series, which is just beginning in Frank's timeline in 1969. John also reveals to Frank that he now dies of lung cancer in 1989 due to his smoking habit., 2h8
Directed by Oriol PauloOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Time travel films,
Alternate history filmsActors Adriana Ugarte,
Nora Navas,
Aina Clotet,
Ana Wagener,
Belén RuedaRating74%
En 1989, durant une nuit d’orage, l’adolescent Nico Lasarte (Julio Bohigas-Couto) joue de la guitare devant son caméscope avant d’être interrompu par sa mère María (Mima Riera) qui part travailler. Plus tard, seul dans la maison, il entend des cris provenant de la maison des voisins et aperçoit des ombres très agitées. Pour en avoir le cœur net, il va chez eux, rentre, remarque des talons d’aiguilles par terre dans la cuisine et, dans l’entrée, découvre le corps inerte de sa voisine, Hilda Weiss (Clara Segura). Soudain, le mari de cette dernière, Ángel Prieto (Javier Gutiérrez), descend de l’escalier avec un couteau à la main. Le garçon prend peur et s'enfuit. Poursuivi par le mari, il se fait renverser par une voiture et meurt., 1h48
Directed by Michael AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
ThrillerThemes Transport films,
Time travel films,
Aviation films,
Films based on science fiction novelsActors Kris Kristofferson,
Cheryl Ladd,
Robert Joy,
Brent Carver,
Al Waxman,
Daniel J. TravantiRating56%
The film begins in the cockpit of a U.S. passenger airliner (Boeing 747) in 1989, shortly before they are struck from above by another airliner (McDonnell Douglas DC-10) on a landing approach. The pilot handles the airplane as well as he can while the flight engineer goes back to check on the passenger cabin. He comes back in the cockpit screaming, “They're dead! All of them! They’re burned up!”, 2h25
Directed by Richard KellyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictionThemes Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Time travel films,
Bisexuality-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Films set in the future,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Alternate history films,
LGBT-related films,
Disaster films,
LGBT-related filmActors Dwayne Johnson,
Seann William Scott,
Sarah Michelle Prinze,
Mandy Moore,
Miranda Richardson,
Wallace ShawnRating52%
On July 4th, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas: El Paso and Abilene were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks that triggered a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of anarchy and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized perspective of what the War on Terror would've escalated to). The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizens—even to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the perpetual motion of ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma". However, its inventor Baron von Westphalen and his associates are hiding the fact that the generators alter the ocean's currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and that the transmission of Fluid Karma to portable receivers (via quantum entanglement) is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time., 1h40
Directed by Michael SchultzOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Adventure,
WesternThemes Time travel filmsActors William Devane,
Lauren Hutton,
John Ratzenberger,
Forrest Tucker,
Klaus Kinski,
Tracey WalterRating55%
Dr. Scott McKenzie (William Devane) is a college professor and ardent fan of the gunslinger culture of the Old West. A year ago, McKenzie watched his wife and son die in a car crash caused by a drunk driver attempting to flee the police. With his friend, General Joe Brodsky (John Ratzenberger), McKenzie attends an auction of Wild West memorabilia, where they agree to bid on a pair of steamer trunks and split the contents between them. As the auction is conducted, flashbacks show the items' histories in the 19th century. At the time a man, Joseph Cole (Klaus Kinski), is looking for a gunslinger who has a pair of distinctive ebony-handled pistols marked with stars. Some cowboys he encounters on the road point him towards the town of Crossfire, California. At the town saloon, he inquires about the man but is harassed by a trio of local thugs, one of whom shoots at him, hitting instead one of the trunks which Dr. McKenzie is bidding on in the present. Cole quickly shoots all three men dead, an event memorialized by a local photographer. In the present, McKenzie and Brodsky win the trunks at auction and McKenzie begins sorting through the contents, noticing the picture of the men who Cole killed., 2h14
Directed by Barry LevinsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Time travel films,
Underwater action films,
Submarine filmsActors Dustin Hoffman,
Sharon Stone,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Liev Schreiber,
Peter Coyote,
Queen LatifahRating61%
A alien spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for 300 years. A team of experts, including marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin, mathematician Dr. Harry Adams, astrophysicist Dr. Ted Fielding, psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman, and U.S. Navy Capt. Harold Barnes, are assembled and taken to the Habitat, a state-of-the-art living environment located near the spacecraft., 1h46
Directed by Dean IsraeliteOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Documentary,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Films about music and musicians,
Time travel filmsActors Jonny Weston,
Amy Landecker,
Sofia Black-D'Elia,
Sam Lerner,
Patrick Johnson,
Virginia GardnerRating63%
In 2014, 17-year-old high school senior and aspiring inventor David Raskin (Jonny Weston) is admitted into MIT, but is unable to afford its tuition fees. Upon learning his mother, Kathy Raskin (Amy Landecker), is planning to sell the house, David enlists his sister Christina (Virginia Gardner) and his friends Adam Le (Allen Evangelista) and Quinn Goldberg (Sam Lerner) to go through the belongings of his father, Ben Raskin (Gary Weeks), an inventor who died in a car crash on David's 7th birthday, in the hope of finding something that David can use to get a scholarship. David ends up finding an old camera with a video recording of his birthday, in which he briefly spots his 17-year-old self in a reflection. The four later find the blueprints of a temporal relocation device that Ben was developing for the United States military named "Project Almanac," and use the available resources to build a functional time machine, including hydrogen canisters stolen from their school. David, Christina, Adam, and Quinn later use the battery from the car of David's longtime crush, Jessie Pierce (Sofia Black D'Elia), who is attending a party in the neighborhood, to charge up the machine, and successfully send a toy car back in time, blowing out the power for the entire neighborhood. They end up being caught by Jessie and recruit her to their experiment., 1h55
Directed by McGOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictionThemes Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Transport films,
Time travel films,
Aviation films,
Films set in the future,
Political films,
Road movies,
Cyberpunk films,
Dystopian films,
Alternate history films,
Chase films,
Anticipation,
Robot films,
Disaster filmsActors Christian Bale,
Sam Worthington,
Anton Yelchin,
Bryce Dallas Howard,
Roland Kickinger,
Moon BloodgoodRating64%
In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) to sign over his body for medical research following his execution. One year later, the automated Skynet system is activated, begins to perceive humans as a threat, and eradicates much of humanity with nuclear weapons in the event known as "Judgment Day"., 1h56
Directed by Richard DonnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Time travel filmsActors Paul Walker,
Frances O'Connor,
Gerard Butler,
David Thewlis,
Billy Connolly,
Anna FrielRating56%
Professor Edward Johnston leads an archaeological study of the village of Castelgard near LaRoque Castle in Dordogne, France, the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole; her martyrdom led the French the win the Hundred Years War against the English. Johnston's includes Scottish archaeologist André Marek, Johnston's students Kate Erickson, Josh Stern, and François Dontelle, and his son Chris who is infatuated with Kate. While excavating a nearby monastery, they find a sarcophagus with the remains of a French knight with a lopped ear holding the hand of his lady, an unheard-of practice for the time. Johnston travels to the American headquarters of the ITC Corporation, their sponsor, to question if they have tampered with the site. The students later discover a pair of Johnston's bifocals and a note begging for help, though both date over 600 years old. When they contact ITC, the company invites them to their headquarters.