Time travel is one of the most classic but also most controversial themes of sci-fi productions. Approached in different ways by cinema and TV, this subject often involves paradoxes, temporal loops and changes of reality, a full plate for those who like twists. If you’re the type to enjoy these titles, we’ve listed 10 Netflix original series and movies with time travel that deserve the play. Check!
Netflix time-travel series and movies
1. Dark [series]
Voted by Rotten Tomatoes users the best original series on the platform, Dark is a German production. Its history takes place in the city of Winden, when the disappearance of two children and other strange occurrences repeat events that occurred 33 years earlier. A mystery that involves past, present and future, and some families of the city.
- Creation: Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese
- Year: 2017
- Episodes: 26 (3 seasons)
- Cast: Louis Hofmann and Lisa Vicari
2. The Secret of the Temple [series]
Turkish thriller series, The Gift is based on a book. Her plot is the protagonist of a painter, who discovers that there is a symbol that she has always used in her works in the excavations of a famous and ancient temple of the country. In search of answers, she begins to investigate the image, finding deep relationships with her past.
- Creation: Jason George and Nuran Evren Şit
- Year: 2019
- Episodes: 16 (2 seasons)
- Cast: Beren Saat
3. See You Yesterday [movie]
Produced by Spike Lee, See You Yesterday debate racial issues in its narrative. In the film, a girl and her best friend are developing what they believe to be a time machine. When the girl’s brother, however, is killed unfairly by the police, they decide to use the device even though he is not yet ready to prevent the crime.
- Director: Stefon Bristol
- Year: 2019
- Cast: Eden Duncan-Smith and Brian ‘Astro’
4. Mirage [film]
Spanish thriller, Mirage is indispensable for those who like productions of the genre. The feature film revolves around a woman who due to a space-time defect manages to save the life of a little boy who lived in his home 25 years earlier. The problem is that now the future has changed and in this reality your daughter was never born.
- Director: Oriol Paulo
- Year: 2018
- Cast: Adriana Ugarte and Álvaro Morte
5. When We First Met [movie]
There’s also romantic comedy between Netflix’s time-travel series and movies! When We First Met, she accompanies a boy who three years ago met the girl of her dreams, but since the first date is seen by her as a friend. With the girl about to get married, he desires more than ever to fix that night, until he manages to go back in time, over and over again, trying different tactics to conquer her.
- Director: Ari Sandel
- Year: 2018
- Cast: Adam DeVine and Alexandra Daddario
6. The Umbrella Academy [series]
Based on the comics of the same name, The Umbrella Academy has already had its third season confirmed. In the series, after several women from around the world give birth at the same time, even without being pregnant, six of these babies are adopted by a tycoon. Endowed with superpowers, they are trained to fight evil until they grow up and need to unite again after the mysterious death of their foster father.
- Creation: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater
- Year: 2019
- Episodes: 20 (2 Seasons)
- Cast: Elliot Page and Aidan Gallagher
7. Travelers [series]
Set in a dystopian future, Travelers accompany special agents who manage to send their consciousness into the past, taking the body of people who would die. Following the routine of their hosts, they lead seemingly normal lives, while as a team, they try to prevent catastrophic events from humanity.
- Creation: Brad Wright
- Year: 2016
- Episodes: 34 (3 Seasons)
- Cast: Eric McCormack and MacKenzie Porter
8. Horse Girl [movie]
Released at the Sundance Film Festival, Horse Girl tells the story of Sarah, a young woman without many friends, attached to her horse and her police stories. When, however, she meets a boy who corresponds to her feelings, she begins to have strange dreams, episodes of sleepwalking and the mistrust that she is being abducted by aliens.
- Director: Jeff Baena
- Year: 2020
- Starring: Alison Brie
9. Twice Upon A Time [series]
French miniseries, Twice Upon A Time mixes drama and romance in its narrative. In the plot, a boy, for months in pain at the end of their relationship, receives a box that he had not asked for and that acts as a portal to the past, at a time in his life when he and his girlfriend were still happy.
- Director: Gaspard Ulliel
- Year: 2019
- Episodes: 4 (1 season)
- Cast: Gaspard Ulliel and Freya Mavor
10. ARQ [film]
Launched at the Toronto Film Festival, ARQ takes place in the near future, in which oil runs out, but a machine, still very rare, manages to replace it. In this scenario, a man who possesses this technology is surprised along with his girlfriend by criminals who want to steal it. Killed by the bandits, he then enters a time loop in which he relives the same situation dozens of times.
- Director: Tony Elliott
- Year: 2016
- Cast: Robbie Amell and Rachael Taylor
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