Movies Like The Way the Future Was

If you liked The Way the Future Was (2019), a science fiction movie directed by Raphael Kryszek, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
2
Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
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 annihilate it entirely.
3
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
4
12:01 (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including…
5
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
★ 7.9/10Also science fiction
After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship.
6
The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
7
Alien: Containment (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Aboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship.
8
Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and…
9
The Time Shifters (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
10
Project Almanac (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
11
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial…
12
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of…
13
ARQ (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
14
Time Lapse (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
15
Minutemen (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.
16
Timecop (1994)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
17
Next (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical…
18
The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
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.
19
Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…
20
The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more…