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Movies that feel likeBack to the Future Part III (1990)

The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

If you loved Back to the Future Part III, the closest films we have are Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), Paul (2011) and The Adam Project (2022). All three share Back to the Future Part III's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Used Cars (1980).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Zemeckisepicwittyplayfulcerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Back to the Future (1985) · Back to the Future Part II (1989)

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Hot Tub Time Machine
2010 · dir. Steve Pink
🍅 64%★ 6.4science fiction · comedy · adventure

Time travel as a comedy engine with rules to exploit

The difference: Raunchy R-rated nostalgia — crude where Marty is wholesome

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

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Paul
2011 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 70%★ 6.9adventure · comedy · science fictionPeacock

The same mix in both: scale, then wit

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

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The Adam Project
2022 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 68%★ 6.7adventure · science fiction · comedyNetflix

A time-hopping romp with real affection under the jokes

The difference: Streaming-slick and sentimental — no era feels lived-in

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.

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Barbarella
1968 · dir. Roger Vadim
🍅 64%★ 5.9science fiction · adventure · comedy

Playful and cerebral in the same breath

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

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Free Guy
2021 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 80%★ 7.1comedy · adventure · science fictionDisney+

A high-concept playground mined for jokes and sincerity

The difference: Video game logic, not time travel — references over invention

A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late.

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🍅 95%★ 6.9comedy · science fiction · adventureDisney+

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present.

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Men in Black
1997 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 91%★ 7.3action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Played as action first

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
★ 8.2comedy · science fiction

A mad inventor's time machine causing era-swapping chaos

The difference: A Soviet farce — its comic rhythms take some tuning

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

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Sexmission
1984 · dir. Juliusz Machulski
★ 7.5science fiction · adventure · comedy

Two men waking up in an era that makes no sense to them

The difference: A Polish dystopian satire — bleaker and much talkier

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

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Used Cars
1980 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 77%★ 6.7comedyPrime Video

Zemeckis' earlier comedy of escalating schemes and fast talk

The difference: Cynical con-man edge — no heart under the hustle

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

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Galaxy Quest
1999 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 90%★ 7.4comedy · science fiction · adventureParamount+

A genre send-up with genuine affection for what it spoofs

The difference: Space, not the Old West — ensemble satire over duo chemistry

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 · dir. Jonathan Liebesman
🍅 20%★ 5.8science fiction · action · adventureParamount+

Both lean on play more than on science fiction

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

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