Escape from the 21st Century
Three friends discover that they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hope, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
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2022★ 7.0
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1974★ 6.0
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The Time Machine
2002★ 6.3
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.
Legion of Super-Heroes
2023★ 6.4
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018★ 6.6
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Sleeper
1973★ 6.9
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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2008★ 7.2
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014★ 7.9
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2019★ 6.3
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2009★ 7.4
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2013★ 6.7
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The Flash
2023★ 6.6
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
Next
2007★ 6.1
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
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2014★ 6.7
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