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Spoiler: Can anyone find me a time-travel movie where the protagonist


doesn't die horribly at the end. I'm seeing too many of these kind of films recently, even a bittersweet one would do or a good old family adventure type.

Time travel movies I own are:

Deja Vu
Donnie Darko
Back To The Future trilogy
Southland Tales
Stargate Continuum
Twelve Monkeys
The Butterfly Effect
All Terminator movies and tv series

I used to own Timecop 2 but we won't talk about that

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The Time Machine (2002, or the original from 1960)

and maybe also:
- The Final Countdown
- The Philadelphia Experiment
- Timeline


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'Kate & Leopold'



Enjoy these words, for one day they'll be gone... All of them.

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Dont forget Primer.
Not going to spoil but its a bit of a variation what you say about the others.

Very low budget but an excellent film on time travel.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - I don't like it but lots of folk do, apparently even numbered Star Trek films are the best ones (I'd argue that this is an exception to that rule but I guess it's a bit of fun). Definitely a spot of random time travel going on here, family friendly fun & games for the Enterprise crew in the mid-80s, rescue mission, no one we care about dies etc. does what it says on the tin.

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"Time After Time" where Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells.

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the french film irreversible

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the french film irreversible

Not at all a time travel movie and a lot of people would prefer death to the end of that one.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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Whaaaat?!?!?!? Man, I hope the OP didn't watch that expecting a happy ending. (And i hope you were just making a very sick joke.)

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Lunopolis

and we're not talking dramas, here are some others where the time travelers don't die.

Safety Not Guaranteed
About Time
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

and if you're feeling more generous...

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Hot Tub Time Machine
Peggy Sue Got Married


For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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Somewhere in Time -- it is a classic of the genre, with a bittersweet ending

"Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys! I am talking about the central nervous system!"

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Los CronocrĂ­menes / TimeCrimes
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
La casa del fin de los tiempos
A Sound of Thunder (avoid this one though, it's cinematic herpes)

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Ya'll forgot one.... "Idiocracy" had a time "masheen" as part of the plot.

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A Sound of Thunder is laughably bad, to the point of almost being so bad it's good.

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