# Time Travel on film, grouped by origin-destination **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 18, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741 "2023-06-18T18:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/1 "2023-06-18T18:22:25Z")
“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) ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/2 "2023-06-18T18:35:47Z")
Present - Past: [**Primer**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_primer) (2004) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/3 "2023-06-18T18:35:57Z")
Time Cop Present-Past ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/4 "2023-06-18T20:39:13Z")
Future - Closer Future: _Star Trek: First Contact_ _Looper_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/5 "2023-06-18T20:59:11Z")
Future - Past / Closer Future: _Twelve Monkeys_ ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/6 "2023-06-18T20:59:24Z")
> **[Category:Films about time travel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_time_travel)** > > This category lists the titles of films that include the theme of time travel. > This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. > The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 427 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 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 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/7 "2023-06-18T21:09:49Z")
Present - Past: Peggy Sue Got Married (which I always liked quite a bit) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/8 "2023-06-18T21:12:13Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Time Cop Present-Past I think you might want to rethink that. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/9 "2023-06-18T21:20:16Z")
Past-Present: The Heavenly Kid 13 Going on 30 ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/10 "2023-06-18T22:54:19Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/11 "2023-06-18T23:34:04Z")
Please clarify your remark. No snark, I don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/12 "2023-06-19T00:12:20Z")
Present - Past Hot Tub Time Machine ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/13 "2023-06-19T00:19:16Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Please clarify your remark. No snark, I don’t understand. 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. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/14 "2023-06-19T17:40:01Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-on-film-grouped-by-origin-destination/985741/15 "2023-06-19T17:56:31Z")
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.