Time Travel on film, grouped by origin-destination

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“Past”, “present” and “future” are from the timeframe of the film’s release. So when Marty McFly goes from 1989 to 2015, that counts as Present-Future.

Includes time travel and suspended animation, etc. Let me know what I’ve missed.

Present - Future:

Back to the Future 2
Futurama (TV)

Past - Present:

Time After Time
Encino Man
All the various versions of The Mummy
Austin Powers

Future - Present:

Star Trek IV

Past - Future:

The Time Machine (1960)

Present - Past:

Back to the Future
Back to the Future 3
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Outlander (although technically, it’s past - farther past)

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Present - Past:
Primer (2004)

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Time Cop Present-Past

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Future - Closer Future:

Star Trek: First Contact
Looper

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Future - Past / Closer Future:
Twelve Monkeys

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Future -Present
Twelve Monkeys

Future - Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Present - Past
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: Goldmember

Near future - far future
World Without End

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Present - Past:

Peggy Sue Got Married (which I always liked quite a bit)

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I think you might want to rethink that.

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Past-Present:
The Heavenly Kid
13 Going on 30

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Past – Present:
Sexy Timetrip Ninjas (1984)

Present – Past:
Repeat Performance (1947)
I’ll Never Forget You (1951)
A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (TV series) (1959-63)
The Yesterday Machine (1965)
Time Tunnel (TV series) (1966-67)
The Day Time Ended (1979)

Present - Future:
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
The Time Travelers (1964)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Sleeper (1973)
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

Future – Past:
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

Future – Present:
Cyborg 2087 (1966)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
The Terminator (1984)

Near Future – Later Future:
Idaho Transfer (1973)

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Please clarify your remark. No snark, I don’t understand.

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Present - Past
Hot Tub Time Machine

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IIRC, that movie came out in 1994, and so our hero’s story pretty much kicks off in 1994 — where we get to meet a fresh-faced cop and his young wife, and said wife soon gets killed, and so the cop who’s now seen things, man is, ten years later, older and kinda grizzled and working for a time-travel agency: journeying from (at the time of the film’s release) the future, rather than the present, when going on back-in-time missions.

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OK future to present in the external context but present to past in the context of the movie, (Also there were other missions to the past like the Civil War gold heist.)

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Present - Future, and Present - Past: Bill & Ted Face the Music

The 2020, non-triumphant versions of Bill and Ted travel to 2720, and to 2067. They also travel to the past, to recruit Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ling Lun, and a prehistoric drummer, to play in their band.