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10 Best Movies Like The Time Machine

If you loved The Time Machine, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Time Machine

The Time Machine

2002★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Time Machine for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races....

#2
Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Time Machine for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive trac...

#3
2073

2073

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Time Machine for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominan...

#4
The Saint

The Saint

1997★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Time Machine for fans of Thriller & Adventure & Romance. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government...

#5
Paycheck

Paycheck

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Time Machine for fans of Thriller & Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapa...

#6
Space/Time

Space/Time

2025★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Time Machine for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or...

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