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Time Flies (1944)
Because you were so good at helping me build my collection of End Of The World As We Know It films, I'm hoping you can recommend some Time Traveler films. The IMBD Search on "time-travel" nets 4,800 titles and, no, I won't be THAT interested.
For me, this genre's attracting elements are "How does Time Traveler interact with the differences, and how do characters react to the time-traveler's insertion into their lives?"
Could you also give a recommendation about each suggested title?
Here's what I have so far:
Back To The Future's...
Butterfly Effect
Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
Final Countdown
Frequency
Grand Tour Disaster In Time
Happy Accidents
House In The Square
Kate & Leopold
Lake House
The Love Letter
Philadephia Experiments...
Planet Of Apes...
Riverworld
Slaughterhouse Five
Somewhere In Time
Terminator's...
Time After Time
Time Bandits
Time Machine
Twelve Monkeys
Les Visiteurs/Just Visiting...
World Without End
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I didn't include Groundhog Day because, well, it's time-NON-travel. Woody Allen's SLEEPER includes the two attracting elements but it doesn't occur to me to consider this a time-travel film.
Time Flies (1944)
The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)
Biggles (1986)
A Hitch in Time (1978)
name='ChristineCB']Because you were so good at helping me build my collection of End Of The World As We Know It films, I'm hoping you can recommend some Time Traveler films. The IMBD Search on "time-travel" nets 4,800 titles and, no, I won't be THAT interested.
You could always refine the search in the IMDb Advanced Search where you can do things like looking for all films with the time-travel keyword that were made in the UK. Yoy can then refine that to exclude TV series and TV movies if you want.
I don't see any of the Dr Who films in your list.
Then there are a few others like:
Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
Orlando (1992)
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)
Fiddlers Three (1944)
And if you include TV series as well then you could also consider ones like
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - the TV series
Life on Mars (2006)
Steve
Thanks for all of these. More, more, more! I'm trying to find some reviews about the older films, and am pleased to see there are at least a handful from the '40s so I can see how the subject may have changed over time.
Three more from the television.
In b/w the wonderful Adam Adamant, (1967) Gerald Harper as an Edwardian gentleman adventurer coming alive again after being found frozen in a capsule in the 1960s.
Also two starring Peter Firth from the Play For Today series.
Another Flip for Dominick (1982)
The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980)
A time traveller comes back to study London's transport system in the 1980's
best wishes
Freddy
La Jetee (1962)
Timeslip (1956)
Groundhog Day (1993)
World Without End (1956)
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Goodnight Sweetheart (TV Series)
...and loads more.
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name='ChristineCB']Thanks for all of these. More, more, more! I'm trying to find some reviews about the older films, and am pleased to see there are at least a handful from the '40s so I can see how the subject may have changed over time.
From the 40s Portrait of Jennie (1948)
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Quest for Love (1971)
Hi Christine -
surprised no-one has mentioned the recent film A Sound of Thunder (2005) as we seem to have gone international on this thread.
Also, then, Frankenstein Unbound (1990) and Timeline (2003).
Quest for Love isn't really time-travel, more parallel/alternate world - maybe that could be the subject for your next collection?
Pip
I've yet to see it myself, but a silent with a firm reputation is 'The Man Without Desire' (1923) directed by Adrian Brunel, and starring Ivor Novello; an 18th Century Venetian aristo is frozen by an alchemist, and revives in the 1920's....he is dashing, suave and a huge hit with the ladies...but there is one problem; and Viagra is another 80 years away....although if you read between the lines, it's as much to do with sexual inclinations, and the casting of Dear Ivor is calculated...
Thanks, please keep them coming! I'm hoping you'll add a line or two's review of any title offered, by the way. The IMDB listing gives me plenty of titles, but I'm hoping to use your personal comments to help me prioritize my quest for acquisition.
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND is one that I've rejected because I've seen it, and won't waste the 3mm shelf space, LOL.
SOUND OF THUNDER and QUEST FOR LOVE are unfamiliar. Thanks for bringing those to my attention. "Parallel Universe" can share attracting elements, a la Gwyneth Patrow's SLIDING DOORS (which always left me screaming, "Women, it's called The Pill - Contraception - it IS available! You don't all have to get pregnant!")
(I think GROUNDHOG DAY could also fit into that Parallel Universe or Time Non-Travel collection. Please, folks, do NOT suggest more collections for my addiction! "More collections" is exactly what I do NOT need suggestions for!! ha ha... in other words, suggest away!)
Dylan, can you tell me something of LA JETEE?
Pen, I'm definitely looking for the silent MAN WITHOUT DESIRE. I wonder if Hemingway ever saw this film before he wrote SUN ALSO RISES (1926 publ date, so probably written circa 1923-25)?
An odd tale from Richard Matheson was made into a movie starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. It involved a man falling in love with a woman from the past and finding a way to go back, by will power (I think), to find her. The book "Bid Time Return" was better than I remember the movie, Somewhere In Time, being, but that is often the case. The story concept is a little different to the usual time-warping machinery/hole plotlines........
J B Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls'.
A moral tale starring the wonderful Alistair Sim
Scrooge with Alistair Sim.
Nick
name='Freddy']J B Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls'.
A moral tale starring the wonderful Alistair Sim
Time travel? Or a ghost story?
Steve
Ahhh I know you have this in your listing but i got to say that the original George Pal version of The Time Machine has got to be the best ever made. The Time machine was a piece of real artistic genius. Its strange really as when this was released onto DVD the colour had been toned down far too much. The version shown many times on BBC2 on british television was much stronger. The new version of the Time machine i did not like it and it came no where near the best version even despite all the computer helped animation. George Pal Rocks!
name='room 237']George Pal Rocks!
Yes, but have you seen any of his Puppettoons...Glorious!!
name='Nick Dando']Scrooge with Alistair Sim.
Nick
Uhh? I dont recall this version of Scrooge with Alistair Sim being a Time travel movie?
I know where you are coming from though! The Ghost of christmas past and christmas present. But also being able to move between Past, Present, Future.
Although really this does not rank as a Time travel movie!
Any body suggested the American TV series The Time Tunnel?
Or Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour Somewhere In Time? Sorry if anybody has already mentioned it i must be blind.
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