List of films featuring time loops

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This list of films featuring time loops where characters experience the same period of time repeatedly. The list provides the names and brief synopses of films in which time loops are a prominent plot device.

List

Film Year Description
12 Dates of Christmas 2011 Kate finds herself reliving Christmas Eve (including a blind date with a man named Miles) over and over again. She must discover how to break the cycle – should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, or should she pursue Miles, or something else? [1]
12:01 1993 Office worker Barry Thomas is forced to relive the worst day of his life.[2]
12:01 PM 1990 This is the first film adaptation of the short story "12:01 PM" by Richard A. Lupoff, which was published in 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It originally aired on cable television as part of the Showtime 30-Minute Movie anthology series. It was nominated for an Academy Award.[3]
About Time 2013 Romantic comedy-drama film about a young man with the special ability to time travel who tries to change his past in order to improve his future.[4]
Camp Slaughter (also known as Camp Daze) 2005 A slasher film in which a group of present day teenagers are sent back to 1981, and discover a summer camp which is stuck reliving the day a demented killer went on a rampage.[5]
Christmas Do-Over 2006 In this movie starring Jay Mohr, a remake of Christmas Every Day, a father has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and changes his ways.[6]
Christmas Every Day 1996 An American television movie based on William Dean Howells's 1892 short story "Christmas Every Day". A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day.[7][8]
Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Maj. William "Bill" Cage (Tom Cruise) and Special Forces soldier Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) team up to fight a hostile alien race known as Mimics, with Cage continually returning to a repeating battle through a time loop.[9]
È già ieri (Stork Day) 2004 An Italian television star who is filming a documentary in Tenerife relives August 13 over and over. Based on Groundhog Day.[10][11]
Groundhog Day 1993 Self-centered television weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is forced to relive the same day over and over again.[12]
Haunter 2013 The ghost of a teenager, Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) who, along with her family, keeps reliving the same day (although she is the only one aware of it) tries to protect a young girl, Olivia (Eleanor Zichy) and her family from a dead serial killer, the Pale Man (Stephen McHattie) who can possess the living.[13]
The Last Day of Summer 2007 In this Nickelodeon TV movie, 11-year-old Luke gets his wish that every day could be the last day of summer.[14][15]
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas 1999 Huey, Dewey, and Louie must repeat Christmas day until they come to learn the true meaning of Christmas.[16]
Mine Games 2012 A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop which they attempt to break.[17]
Mirror for a Hero 1987 "Zerkalo dlya geroya", a Soviet Union film by Vladimir Khotinenko. Two heroes circle multiple times in 1949, adapting to the harsh post-war life, meeting the parents of one of them, finally returning to the present time, having reassesed their attitude towards elders.[18][19]
Premature 2014 Rob, a high school senior, keeps waking up in the morning of one of the most important days of his life every time he ejaculates during this day.[20]
Repeat Performance 1947 Film noir meets science fiction when a woman shoots her husband on New Year's Eve, 1946, then wishes that she could live the year all over again. Will she make the same choice a second time?[21][22]
Repeaters 2010 A group of inmates at a rehabilitation facility are forced to repeat the same day over and over again.[23]
Retroactive 1997 A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman who was murdered by her husband.[24]
Salvage 2006 Claire encounters horror and murder after finishing a day working at a convenience store, not once but many times. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival.[25]
Source Code 2011 U.S. Army Aviation pilot Captain Colter Stevens is repeatedly sent back in time to identify the bomber in a terrorist attack in order to prevent a second nuclear attack on Chicago.[26]
Timecrimes 2007 Hector, a middle-aged man, is chased by an unidentified bandaged man. He meets a scientist with a time machine, and travels a short period back in time to briefly escape the unknown assailant.[27]
Triangle 2009 A group of friends go on boat trip and become stranded due to a storm. They discover a cruise ship which causes them to experience a series of repeating events.[28][disputed – discuss]
Turn Back the Clock 1933 Only a single time loop is needed for Joe to wish that he could relive his life and marry the wealthy woman. When he has the chance to go through his life again, he has interesting discoveries and decisions.[29][30]

See also

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