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10 Best Movies With Time Travelers

Time Travel is something most of has thought about at some point in our lives. I am filled with Curiosity about what it'd be like to be a Time Traveler venturing into the past and future. How about you?

Each year on Dec 8th thousands of people celebrate Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day around the globe. People dress in costumes from the past or future and act as if they've never been in the current time. The only thing you can't do as a Time Traveler is tell people you are from the past or future.

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Back to the Future (1985)

Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

The Terminator (1984)

Directed by James Cameron. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield. A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Directed by Leonard Nimoy. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan. To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

The Time Machine (1960)

Directed by George Pal. With Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot. A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.

Time After Time (1979)

Directed by Nicholas Meyer. With Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, Charles Cioffi. H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

Star Trek (2009)

Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Directed by Alfonso CuarĂ³n. With Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Richard Griffiths. It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito. In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks. Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

Time Bandits (1981)

Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond. A young boy accidentally joins a band of time traveling dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Primer (2004)

Directed by Shane Carruth. With Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya. Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Directed by Stephen Herek. With Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri. Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.