THEME EXPLORATION

time travel paradox

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
They Caught the Ferry
They Caught the Ferry
1948 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
Predestination
Predestination
2014 · Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig
Terminator Genisys
Terminator Genisys
2015 · Alan Taylor
Time Piece
Time Piece
1965 · Jim Henson
Embryo Larva Butterfly
Embryo Larva Butterfly
2023 · Kyros Papavassiliou
Time Trap
Time Trap
2014 · Michael Shanks
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1995 · Michael Haneke
Your Name.
Your Name.
2016 · Makoto Shinkai
Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run
1998 · Tom Tykwer
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Christopher Nolan United Kingdom

Consistently explores temporal mechanics and paradoxes through complex narratives in films like Primer, Memento, and Tenet.

 Mark Steven Johnson United States

Masterfully deconstructs time travel causality and predestination in Looper, examining how changing the past creates philosophical and physical contradictions.