List of films featuring time loops

This list of films featuring time loops where characters experience the same period of time repeatedly. The list provides the names and brief synopses of films in which time loops are a prominent plot device.

List

Film Year Description
12 Dates of Christmas2011Kate finds herself reliving Christmas Eve (including a blind date with a man named Miles) over and over again. She must discover how to break the cycle – should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, should she pursue Miles, or something else?[1]
12:011993Office worker Barry Thomas is forced to relive the worst day of his life.[2]
12:01 PM1990This is the first film adaptation of the short story "12:01 PM" by Richard A. Lupoff, which was published in 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It originally aired on cable television as part of the Showtime 30-Minute Movie anthology series. It was nominated for an Academy Award.[3]
A Day2017A father attempts to save his daughter whilst stuck in an endless time loop.[4]
About Time2013Tim Lake learns from his father that all male members of the family possess the ability to travel back in time. Tim decides to use his new powers to improve his love life.[5]
ARQ2016An engineer, whose invention causes time to loop during a home invasion, attempts to save his former lover, while learning who has targeted him and why.[6]
Before I Fall2017A popular high school senior finds herself reliving the same day over and over.[7]
Blood Punch2013A trio visits a remote cabin for a one-time criminal endeavor and finds each member independently reliving the same day.
Camp Slaughter (also known as Camp Daze)2005A group of present-day teenagers are sent back to 1981, and discover a summer camp which is stuck reliving the day a demented killer went on a rampage.[8]
Christmas Every Day1996An American television movie based on William Dean Howells' 1892 short story "Christmas Every Day". A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day.[9]
Dead End2003A family seems to relive an eerie night-time drive along a forest road.[10]
Doctor Strange2016Stephen Strange captures himself in a time loop to prevent Dormammu from winning and save the world from becoming another one of his dark dimensions.[11]
Edge of Tomorrow (also known as Live. Die. Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow) 2014Maj. William "Bill" Cage (Tom Cruise) and Special Forces soldier Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) team up to fight a hostile alien race known as Mimics, with Cage continually returning to a repeating battle through a time loop.[12]
The Endless2017Two brothers return to the ‘UFO death cult’ camp where they were raised in this thoughtful indie sci-fi. [13]
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time2006A high school student discovers her powers of time traveling and uses them to her amusement. Little does she know that changes in the past end up effecting the lives of her loved ones.[14]
Groundhog Day1993Self-centered television weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is forced to relive the same day over and over again. He is freed after he changes his ways for the better.[15]
Happy Death Day2017A snobby young woman finds herself murdered at her birthday party. She wakes up the morning of her death, alive, facing the same day over and over again.[16]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2004Harry Potter and his friend Hermione Granger use a Time Turner magic charm to help rescue their friend Sirius Black.[17]
Haunter2013The ghost of a teenager, Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) who, along with her family, keeps reliving the same day (although she is the only one aware of it) tries to protect a young girl, Olivia (Eleanor Zichy) and her family from a dead serial killer, the Pale Man (Stephen McHattie) who can possess the living.[18]
If Only2004A man (Paul Nicholls) tries to avert destiny when he gets an opportunity to relive the day his lover (Jennifer Love Hewitt) died in an auto accident.
The Infinite Man2014After a romantic weekend break with his girlfriend goes awry, a scientist invents time travel in order to create for her the perfect getaway, but inadvertently traps her in a recurring temporal loop.[19]
The Last Day of Summer200711-year-old Luke gets his wish that every day could be the last day of summer.[20]
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas1999Huey, Dewey, and Louie must repeat Christmas Day until they come to learn the true meaning of Christmas.[21]
Mine Games2012A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop which they attempt to break.[22]
Mirror for a Hero1987Zerkalo dlya geroya a Soviet Union film by Vladimir Khotinenko. Two heroes circle multiple times in 1949, adapting to the harsh post-war life, meeting the parents of one of them, finally returning to the present time, having reassessed their attitude towards elders.[23][24]
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children2016Teenager Jake visits the ruins of an orphanage that was destroyed by a bombing raid during World War II and discovers that the original inhabitants are still alive inside a time loop set to repeat the day of September 3, 1943.[25]
Naked2017Rob is caught in a time loop as he keeps waking up naked in a hotel elevator on the day of his wedding.[26] This is a remake of the 2000 Swedish film, Naken.
Naken2000On the day of his wedding, Anders wakes up naked in an elevator. As he attempts to piece together the reason for his predicament, the day repeats itself, and he becomes stuck in a time loop.[26]
Pete's Christmas2013Pete has to keep repeating his Christmas Day, so he can make it right. Pete experienced the worst Christmas in his life, so he has to fix it.
Time Lapse2014Three friends discover a photo machine that shows pictures a day into the future. After they use it for personal gain, disturbing and dangerous photos begin to develop.
Predestination 2014An agent for the Temporal Agency is sent back in time to prevent unwanted events in the past so they cannot occur in the present, all while chasing an unidentifiable terrorist.[27]
Premature2014Rob, a high school senior, has to re-live losing his virginity over and over again until he gets it right, with the right girl.[28]
Primer2004Two engineers accidentally develop a means to travel back in time several hours, but soon come at odds over how to use their discovery, and each start using their own version of time travel to outwit the other.[29]
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010 Set in the mystical lands of Persia, a rogue prince and a mysterious princess race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time — a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie2012Homura Akemi has the ability to travel 30 days back in time, and has done so countless of times. Each month, Homura fails in her attempts to save Madoka Kaname from destruction, and is forced to relive the tragedy of losing Madoka.[30]
Repeat Performance1947A woman shoots her husband on New Year's Eve 1946 then wishes that she could relive the year all over again. Will she make the same choice a second time?[31]
Repeaters2010A group of inmates at a rehabilitation facility are forced to repeat the same day over and over again.[32]
Retroactive1997A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman who was murdered by her husband.[33]
Run Lola Run1998A woman needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in twenty minutes to save her boyfriend's life—and she gets more than one try.[34]
Salvage2006Claire encounters horror and murder after finishing a day working at a convenience store, not once but many times. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival.[35]
Source Code2011U.S. Army Aviation pilot Captain Colter Stevens repeatedly experiences the last eight minutes of another person's life to identify the bomber in a terrorist attack in order to prevent a second, nuclear attack on Chicago.[36]
Stork Day2004An Italian television star who is filming a documentary in Tenerife relives August 13 over and over. Based on Groundhog Day.[37]
Timecrimes2007Hector, a middle-aged man, is chased by an unidentified bandaged man. He meets a scientist with a time machine, and travels a short period back in time to briefly escape the unknown assailant.[38]
Triangle2009A group of friends go on boat trip and become stranded due to a storm. They discover a cruise ship which causes them to experience a series of repeating events.[39]
Turn Back the Clock1933After marrying for love, tobacconist Joe is hit by a car, and wakes up 20 years in the past. He decides to relive his life and marry a wealthy woman instead of his true love.[40][41]
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer1984The students of Tomobiki high school relive the day before the school festival over and over again. It is eventually revealed that the students are actually in a dream.[42][43][44]
When We First Met2018Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.[45]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "It's like Groundhog Day, but different. What is it?". TV Guide. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
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  9. ↑ Caro, Jason. "Christmas Every Day". Radio Times. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Dead End - Horror Movie Reviews". JoBlo.com. Retrieved 28 September 2016. Quick-lipped Frank (Wise) and his family are driving down an interstate on their way to a X-Mas family gathering. But when good old Frankie decides to take a 'shortcut', they find themselves on a never ending road that is plagued with mysterious happenings.
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