Movies Like Running Against Time
If you liked Running Against Time (1991), a science fiction and tv movie movie directed by Bruce Seth Green, 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.
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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionThe 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…
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57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionWhen 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.
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and tv movieBa'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and science fictionThe newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that…
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Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and tv movieWhat 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…
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Minutemen (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also tv movie and science fictionWhen 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.
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Universal Soldier (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionAn American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all…
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Déjà Vu (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also science fictionCalled in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a…
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The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7/10Also science fictionAfter 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.
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Timecop (1994)
★ 6/10Also science fictionIn 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.
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Caddo Lake (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also science fictionWhen an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
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Doctor Who (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and science fictionThe Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
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Frequency (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also science fictionWhen a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise…
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Project Almanac (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also science fictionA group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionTwo 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…
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12:01 (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and tv movieOffice 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…
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The Tomorrow War (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also science fictionThe world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for…
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The Time Shifters (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionTom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
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Don't Let Go (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also science fictionA detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
★ 8.2/10Also science fictionIn 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of…