# Good foreign time travel movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566 "2017-03-06T19:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566/1 "2017-03-06T19:17:29Z")
By “foreign”, I mean movies that were made for an audience outside of the US. It could be in English, as long as it was never created for the US market. I’ll open up with mentioning two Japanese time-travel movies: [Bubble Fiction](http://asianwiki.com/Bubble_Fiction:_Boom_or_Bust) (2007): This one is pretty good, but a lot of the humor will probably go right over the head of someone (like myself) who isn’t familiar with/nostalgic for the culture of Tokyo in the 1980s (in a similar way to how much of the humor in Back to the Future will go over the heads of someone without at least some knowledge of the culture of 1950s small-town America.) [Summer Time Machine Blues](http://asianwiki.com/Summer_Time_Machine_Blues) (2005): This one is more accessible and enjoyable for a general audience. One day, the members of a high school science fiction club (and the neighboring photography club) discover sitting in the middle of the club room something that looks somewhat like the classic time machine from H.G. Wells–and quickly discover that it _is_ a time machine. (I won’t go into more details both because you can read the linked summary and I’d rather avoid giving spoilers in case anyone wants to give it a try.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566/2 "2017-03-06T19:44:35Z")
[La Jettee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e), of course. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566/3 "2017-03-06T19:52:56Z")
At the 2017 Boston Science Fiction Film Marathon a couple of weeks ago they showed the Spanish film **TimeCrimes** ( **Los Cronocrímenes** ) , a 2008 film with time loops. The Time Loops (a la Heinlein’s _By His Bootstraps_) are interesting, but you quickly lose sympathy with the “hero”, who frequently acts like a jerk. It’s an “idiot plot”, in that the film wouldn’t work unless he acted like a jerk. So I’m not a big fan. Worth seeing once, though > **[Timecrimes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecrimes)** > > Timecrimes (Spanish: Los Cronocrímenes) is a 2007 Spanish science-fiction thriller film written by, directed by, and featuring Nacho Vigalondo. The film stars Karra Elejalde as Héctor, a man who unwittingly becomes part of a causal loop and must stop his other selves from continuing to exist. > In the Spanish countryside, a middle-aged man named Héctor and his wife Clara live in a home that they are renovating. Héctor scans the forest behind their house with binoculars and sees a young woman take ... A better foreign Time Travel movie is **Predestination** , a 2014 film from Australia based on Heinlein’s _All You Zombies_, which I saw at Arisia a year ago > **[Predestination (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film))** > > Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction action-thriller film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor, and is based on the 1959 short story " '—All You Zombies—' " by Robert A. Heinlein. > In March 1975, an agent, while trying to stop a bombing in a public building in New York City, is caught in a gunfight. The bomb is not fully contained in time, causing severe burns to the agent. Someone unseen helps him grasp hi... ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566/4 "2017-03-06T20:00:30Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [La Jettee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e), of course. Beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566/5 "2017-03-06T20:03:16Z")
[About Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Time_(2013_film)) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-foreign-time-travel-movies/781566/6 "2017-03-06T20:05:58Z")
The British made comedy [Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/?ref_=nm_knf_t4).