The Temporal: A Time Warping Thriller

PG min Action, Sci-Fi. A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies. A linguist is recruited by the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts land around the world. PG min Adventure, Drama, Romance. A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future. A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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PG min Comedy, Fantasy, Romance. A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. G min Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi. A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.

PG min Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. TV 42 min Adventure, Drama, Mystery. Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race. R min Action, Sci-Fi. A seemingly indestructible android is sent from to 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.

Marty McFly, a year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Copy from this list Export Report this list. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Feature Film 20 TV Series 2. IMDb user rating average 1 1. Triangle R 99 min Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller 6. Looper R min Action, Crime, Drama 7. The term was coined by mathematician Edward Lorenz years after the phenomenon was first described.

The butterfly effect has found its way into popular imagination. For example, in Ray Bradbury's short story A Sound of Thunder , the killing of a single insect millions of years in the past drastically changes the world, and in the film The Butterfly Effect , the protagonist's small changes to their past results in extreme changes. In literature, communication from the future as a plot device is encountered in various science fiction and fantasy stories.

Ackerman noted in his anthology of the best fiction of the year that "[t]he theme of getting hold of tomorrow's newspaper is a recurrent one". Wells short story " The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper ", [17] [18] which tells the tale of a man who receives such a paper from 40 years in the future. The film It Happened Tomorrow also employs this device, [17] with the protagonist receiving the next day's newspaper from an elderly colleague who is possibly a ghost.

A newspaper from the future can be a fictional edition of a real newspaper, or an entirely fictional newspaper. John Buchan 's novel The Gap in the Curtain , is similarly premised on a group of people being enabled to see, for a moment, an item in Times newspaper from one year in the future. During the Swedish general election of , the Swedish liberal party used election posters which looked like news items, called Framtidens nyheter "News of the future" , featuring things that Sweden in the future had become what the party wanted.

A communication from the future raises questions about the ability of humans to control their destiny. In It Happened Tomorrow , the events that are described in the newspaper do come to pass, and the protagonist's efforts to avoid those events set up circumstances which instead cause them to come about. Where such a device is used, the source of the future news may not be explained, leaving it open to the reader or watcher to imagine that it might be technology, magic, an act of a god etc. Wells story, the author writes of the newspaper that "apparently it had been delivered not by the postman, but by some other hand".

Ackerman suggests that "[t]he longer that authors mush on with the tale of Precognition has been explored as a form of time travel in fiction. Priestley wrote of it both in fiction and non-fiction, analysing testimonials of precognition and other "temporal anomalies" in his book Man and Time.

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His books include time travel to the future through dreaming, which upon waking up results in memories from the future. A "time loop" or "temporal loop" is a plot device in which periods of time are repeated and re-experienced by the characters, and there is often some hope of breaking out of the cycle of repetition. Although similar, causal loops are unchanging and self-originating, whereas time loops are constantly resetting. In a time loop when a certain condition is met, such as a death of a character or a clock reaching a certain time, the loop starts again, with one or more characters retaining the memories from the previous loop.

Many time travel works explore the topic of disrupting causality leading to time paradoxes. One of the most commonly referred to in time travel literature is known as the grandfather paradox. Many works of fiction explore what would happen if a time traveller went back in time and changed the past, for example if they killed their own grandparents. A time slip is a plot device used in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means for a period of time.

The difference is that in time slip stories, the protagonist typically has no control and no understanding of the process which is often never explained at all and is either left marooned in a past time and must make the best of it, or is eventually returned by a process as unpredictable and uncontrolled. Time slips featuring a child and a realistic depiction of an earlier period enjoyed a vogue in the UK in the midth century.

A "distinct subgenre" of stories explore the possibility that time travel might be used as a means of tourism, [4] with travelers curious to visit periods or events such as the Victorian Era , Crucifixion of Christ , or some point where dinosaurs could be watched or hunted by big game hunters , or to meet historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln or Ludwig van Beethoven.

An early example of present-day tourists travelling back to the past is Ray Bradbury ' s A Sound of Thunder , in which the protagonists are big game hunters who travel to the distant past to hunt dinosaurs. Instances of immortality are prevalent in time travel fiction. Oxford defines immortality as "the ability to live forever; eternal life. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes a time war as a fictional war that is "fought across time, usually with each side knowingly using time travel Time wars are also known as "change wars" and "temporal wars". Nahin compiles a variety of examples of fictional works that raise issues framed as arising in a time war:.

Consider this passage from The Fall of Chronopolis Bayley , a novel about a "time-war. If the target was to alter past events—the usual strategy in a time-war—then the empire's chronocontinuity would be significantly interfered with. In this novel the history changers isolate themselves from all the alterations taking place outside of their Time Lab, and they compare their stored historical records with those of external libraries.

That allows the staff historian to adjust for each new round of changes. As the historian explains, outside of the Time Lab "History might change, but here [in the Time Lab] the past lives on. In a novel of a galaxy-wide confrontation between humans and androids — Time and Again Simak —the use of time travel to alter history is central: It would strike at points in time and space which would not even know that there was a war. It could, logically, go back to the silver mines of Athens, to the horse and chariot of Thut- mosis III, to the sailing of Columbus. It would twist the fabric of the past.

In Western fiction, one common use of time travel technology is to travel back in time and attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in an attempt to avoid World War II and the Holocaust. Fiction that applies the Novikov self-consistency principle that the past can't be changed results in plots where attempts to assassinate Hitler or avert the war are destined to fail, or where they actually result in the rise of Hitler as history records it.

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