It’s almost the weekend, and that means you should book in another Gizmodo movie night. This week, there’s no fate but what we make — these are the best time travel movies streaming online right now.
We’ve re-jigged our existing Netflix Movie Night series, and brought in Australia’s other popular subscription video on demand services — Stan and Presto — to give you a broader selection of movies and TV shows to enjoy. On all three services, you can watch from your tablet or smartphone, on your PC or laptop, through your Smart TV, or through a media streaming dongle like the Google Chromecast, although specifics can vary.
Stan costs a flat $10 per month, Netflix can cost from $9 to $15 per month, and Presto is $10 to $15 depending which package you choose.
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Presto
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Presto: The Terminator is back and now he’s one of the good guys, assigned to protect freedom fighter John Connor from a cyborg sent by the leader of the human resistance in the future.
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Twelve Monkeys
Presto: 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.
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Predestination
Presto: This amazing and intricate story of time travel follows an agent whose career has been dedicated to stopping crime before it happens, and the terrifying criminal he’s hunting.
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The Butterfly Effect
Presto: Ashton Kutcher, playing a young man trying to dig up childhood memories, finds a technique that allows him to travel back in time. He finds he is able to change history – with unexpected consequences.
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Planet Of The Apes
Presto: An astronaut is trapped on a planet ruled by talking apes. He must reach a temple that holds the shocking secrets of mankind’s past – and the last hope for its future.
Stan
Edge Of Tomorrow
Stan: An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy.
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Army of Darkness
Stan: An epic horror-fantasy pitting the Armies of Good against those of Evil when a modern day hero is sent back in time. This film is the third segment of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Trilogy.
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Doctor Who
Stan: The adventures of the time traveling alien adventurer and his companions.
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Safety Not Guaranteed
Stan: When an unusual classified ad inspires cynical Seattle magazine employees Darius and Jeff, to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife
Stan: Clare Abshire shares a deep bond with Henry De Tamble, a librarian who travels involuntarily through time. The Time Traveller’s Wife weaves together destiny and devotion, past and future to turn an extraordinary love into an extraordinary love story.
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Netflix
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Netflix: High school underachievers Bill and Ted will flunk out if they don’t ace a year-end history presentation, so they transport themselves back in time.
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Back In Time
Netflix: Thirty years after “Back to the Future,” Michael J. Fox, Robert Zemeckis and others talk about the film that went from blockbuster to cultural icon.
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Interstellar
Netflix: With humanity teetering on the brink of extinction, a group of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of another inhabitable planet.
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The Terminator
Netflix: In the post-apocalyptic future, tyrannical machines teleport a cyborg to 1984 to a kill a woman whose unborn son is destined to lead the human rebels.
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Men In Black III
Netflix: When Earth is threatened by an alien attack, Agent J travels back in time to join forces with a much-younger Agent K and change the course of history.
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