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Movies that feel like The Time Machine (2002)

If you loved The Time Machine, the closest films we have are Superman Returns (2006), Ra.One (2011) and Waterworld (1995). All three share The Time Machine's cerebral and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 28% Rotten Tomatoes6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Simon Wellscerebralepickinetic
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If The Time Machine hit the spot, these will too

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%6.1science fiction · action · adventure

Cerebral and epic in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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Ra.One
2011 · dir. Anubhav Sinha
🍅 59%4.8adventure · action · science fiction

Kinetic science fiction, and it commits to that

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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Waterworld
1995 · dir. Kevin Reynolds
🍅 61%6.3adventure · action · science fiction

Adventure with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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Hardcore Henry
2015 · dir. Ilya Naishuller
🍅 52%6.7action · adventure · science fiction

Epic action in both cases

Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.

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Coma
2020 · dir. Nikita Argunov
6.3science fiction · adventure · action

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.

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Bleeding Steel
2017 · dir. Leo Zhang
🍅 24%5.2science fiction · action · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: near future

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Time Machine does

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

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Alienoid: Return to the Future
2024 · dir. Choi Dong-hoon
6.5action · fantasy · adventure

Common ground: time travel

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Time Machine does

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.

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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
2012 · dir. Brad Peyton
🍅 44%5.7adventure · action · science fiction

Adventure built on ideas, twice over

Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 89%8.1science fiction · action · adventure

New York City shapes both of them

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2020s show

Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.

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The Rocketeer
1991 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 73%6.6adventure · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: steampunk

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as The Time Machine

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

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65
2023 · dir. Bryan Woods
🍅 35%5.4action · adventure · science fiction

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

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🍅 38%5.6science fiction · adventure · action

Different title, same corner of the shelf

The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.

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