Movies like Curvature (2017)
The best movies like Curvature (2017) are Rewind (2013), Primer (2004) and 12:01 (1993). If Curvature hooked you with its science fiction and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMr. Nobody (2009)7.8/10 from 6,443 votes
- NewestOur Times (2025)Released 2025
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 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStalled (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 & thriller
The 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
2067 (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 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 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 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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & thriller
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
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 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
Shuffle (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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSum 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 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 & thriller
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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Door (2009)
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Times (2025)
Husband and wife Nora and Héctor's scientific breakthrough lets them time travel from 1966 to 2025. As Héctor struggles, Nora thrives—but at what cost?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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...
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
The 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLucid Dream (2017)
Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thriller & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Nobody (2009)
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Let Go (2019)
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Curvature?
The closest matches to Curvature are Rewind (2013), Primer (2004) and 12:01 (1993). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Curvature?
People who watched Curvature most often go on to Rewind (2013), Primer (2004) and 12:01 (1993).
What is the highest-rated movie like Curvature?
Mr. Nobody (2009), rated 7.8/10 by 6,443 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Curvature?
Our Times (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Curvature?
Yes: Rewind (2013), Primer (2004) and 12:01 (1993).
How are movies similar to Curvature chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Curvature, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.