Movies Like The Past Tense

If you liked The Past Tense (2020), a science fiction and comedy movie directed by William Conrad, 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
Relax, I'm from the Future (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction
Casper is a time traveller who arrives in the 2020s in an attempt to prevent a major future catastrophe. He meets Holly, a queer black woman he befriends and draws into his plan by giving her his knowledge of the…
2
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also comedy and 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…
3
The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and comedy
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.
4
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.
5
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
6
Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also comedy and science fiction
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
7
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.
8
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and science fiction
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.
9
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…
10
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…
11
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and 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.
12
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
13
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
14
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and comedy
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
15
Minutemen (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and 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
In Time (2011)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest…
17
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and comedy
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
18
Men in Black 3 (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and science fiction
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the…
19
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.
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…