Movies like Rewind (2013)
The best movies like Rewind (2013) are Curvature (2017), The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997) and The Time Shifters (1999). If Rewind hooked you with its science fiction and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCaddo Lake (2024)7.2/10 from 623 votes
- NewestTim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2025)Released 2025
Curvature (2017)
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)
A sci-fi novelist in 1950s Brooklyn suddenly finds herself transported 40 years into the future. She quickly learns that she isn’t the only “timefreak,” and that her time may already be up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Time Shifters (1999)
Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this12:01 (1993)
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadox (2016)
A group of scientists are experimenting with time travel, and they manage to send one of their group ahead in time one hour. But when he comes back, he tells them that they’ll all be dead within the next hour unless they shut the machine down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this41 (2012)
A young man discovers a hole in the floor of a local motel that leads to yesterday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisTimestalkers (1987)
History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West and he is soon joined by beautiful time-traveler Georgia in a time-skipping adventure to stop her colleague from the future from erasing her from existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this2067 (2020)
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal. He must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisFor All Time (2000)
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2025)
A scientist creates a time machine and kills their younger self to see what would happen. And that self-obsessed, misanthropic, mad genius of a scientist is Tim Travers. And the universe was bad enough with only one of him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
11 A.M. (2013)
In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea laboratory have finally invented a time machine. Head researcher Woo-seok is promised funding from a mega-corporation if he completes a test flight. He and Young-eun carry out the mission and travel to 11 A.M. the next day, only to find the base on the verge of collapse. All the researchers are gone and someone is out to kill them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Stalled (2022)
Late for the most important meeting of his life, a toxic executive finds himself trapped in a time paradox within a public restroom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
24 (2016)
Scientist turned Entrepreneur Dr. Sethuraman tries to safeguard his newly invented time travel device from falling into the hands of his Evil Twin Brother Aathreya.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrimer (2004)
A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: Time Crash (2007)
After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMark Antony (2023)
Set in 1995, Mark, a skilled mechanic and the son of a former gangster, stumbles upon a phone that has the ability to connect with the past, tries to save his estranged mother from a grim fate. While facing his own family's legacy, Mark must navigate through dangerous consequences of altering the past, as it causes unforeseen repercussions in the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Sum of Histories (2015)
A scientist makes a discovery that allows him to send emails back in time, but meddling with his past may not give him the future he wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Door into Summer (2021)
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaddo Lake (2024)
When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBack in Crime (2013)
Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer...
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLate for Dinner (1991)
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Time After Time (1979)
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShuffle (2012)
Lovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s terrified and wants it to stop - until he notices a pattern in his experience, and works to uncover why this is happening to him - and what or who is behind it.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWill You Be There (2016)
A terminally ill surgeon travels back in time through the use of unique capsules to reunite with his dead lover. He then meets his juvenile self and they try to prevent her death.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisOut of Time (2021)
Three mysterious figures emerge from the Mojave Desert and make their way to Los Angeles, leaving a trail of bodies in their path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Synchronicity (2015)
A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a spiteful serial-killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
After his girlfriend, Julie, and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisTime Travelers (1976)
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
57 Seconds (2023)
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Rewind?
The closest matches to Rewind are Curvature (2017), The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997) and The Time Shifters (1999). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Rewind?
People who watched Rewind most often go on to Curvature (2017), The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997) and The Time Shifters (1999).
What is the highest-rated movie like Rewind?
Caddo Lake (2024), rated 7.2/10 by 623 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Rewind?
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Rewind?
Yes: Curvature (2017), The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997) and The Time Shifters (1999).
How are movies similar to Rewind chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Rewind, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.