Movies like Time Trap (2017)
The best movies like Time Trap (2017) are Time Lapse (2014), 2067 (2020) and Synchronicity (2015). If Time Trap hooked you with its science fiction and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPredestination (2014)7.4/10 from 7,468 votes
- NewestTim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2025)Released 2025
Time Lapse (2014)
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisSynchronicity (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 thisProject Almanac (2015)
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
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 thisSee You Yesterday (2019)
As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisSource Code (2011)
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCurvature (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 thisTimecrimes (2007)
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPredestination (2014)
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
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 thisARQ (2016)
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimeline (2003)
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & 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 this24 (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 this11 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
Rewind (2013)
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnter Nowhere (2015)
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Adam Project (2022)
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies 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
12:01 (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 thisThings Will Be Different (2024)
In order to escape the police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCoherence (2014)
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTim 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
I'll Follow You Down (2013)
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later – one that may bring him home.
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 thisAporia (2023)
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimescape (1992)
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAssassin 33 A.D. (2020)
When a billionaire gives a group of young scientists unlimited resources to study the science of matter transfer, the scientists unlock the secrets of time travel. But they soon find out that the project is backed by a militant extremist group, and the billionaire plans to go back in time and prove that Jesus never rose from the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisWatch the Skies (2022)
When a fostered teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but in fact kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to discover the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with unidentified flying expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Time Trap?
The closest matches to Time Trap are Time Lapse (2014), 2067 (2020) and Synchronicity (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Time Trap?
People who watched Time Trap most often go on to Time Lapse (2014), 2067 (2020) and Synchronicity (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Time Trap?
Predestination (2014), rated 7.4/10 by 7,468 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Time Trap?
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Time Trap?
Yes: Time Lapse (2014), 2067 (2020) and Synchronicity (2015).
How are movies similar to Time Trap chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Time Trap, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.