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 which is repeatedly resetting: when a certain condition is met, such as a death of a character or a clock reaches a certain time, the loop starts again, with one or more characters retaining the memories from the previous loop.[1]: 207  The list provides the names and brief synopses of films in which time loops are a prominent plot device.

Films with time loops
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. She must discover how to break the cycle – should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, should she pursue Miles, or something else?[2]
12:01 1993 Office worker Barry Thomas is forced to relive the worst day of his life.[3]
12:01 PM 1990 This short film 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.[4]
ARQ 2016 An engineer, whose invention causes time to loop during a home invasion, attempts to save his former lover while learning who has targeted him and why.[5]
Before I Fall 2017 A popular high school senior finds herself reliving the same day over and over.[6]
Blood Punch 2013 A trio visits a remote cabin for a one-time criminal endeavor and finds each member independently reliving the same day.[7]
Boss Level 2021 A retired special forces officer is trapped in a time loop on the day of his death.[8]
Camp Slaughter (also known as Camp Daze) 2005 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.[9]
2021 A holiday Disney Channel Original Movie starring Scarlett Estevez as Ro, whose Christmas wish goes awry as she finds herself living christmas day over and over again.[10]
Christmas Do-Over 2006 A television movie. Kevin tries to be involved with his son and ex-wife's family for Christmas. During dinner, he thought his Christmas *day* couldn't be more screwed; his son suddenly wishes it was Christmas every day. After that, it was a regular Groundhog's Day. A remake of Christmas Every Day from an adult perspective.
Christmas Every Day 1996 An American television movie based on William Dean Howells' 1892 short story "Christmas Every Day". A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day.[11]
Churuli 2021 The Film, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, tells the story of two undercover police officers who go in search of a wanted criminal named Mayiladumparambil Joy. However, they get stuck in the village of Churuli as eerie mysteries unfold.

The original story and characters are based on a short story from the book Kaligaminarile Kuttavalikal written by Vinoy Thomas.[12][13]

A Day 2017 A father attempts to save his daughter whilst stuck in an endless time loop.[14]
Doctor Strange 2016 Aided by the powers of The Eye of Agamotto, Stephen Strange traps himself and Dormammu in a time loop in order to bargain against him consuming the Earth.[15]
Edge of Tomorrow (also known as Live. Die. Repeat: 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.[16]
The Endless 2017 Two brothers return to a cult that is stuck in a time loop.[17]
The Fare 2018 A taxi driver and his passenger find themselves locked in an endless time loop as they have to repeat their journey over and over.[18]
The Final Girls 2015 A group of friends find themselves trapped in an '80s horror movie that restarts every 92 minutes.[19]
Game Over 2019 Swapna, a wheelchair user, is defending her home from a mysterious intruder. Every time she is killed by the intruder, she awakens to the start of the day. However, the concept is more along the lines of how a video game works.[20]
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (live-action) 1983 Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel of the same name. The story is about a Japanese schoolgirl who accidentally gains the ability to time travel, which she experiments with and attempts to alter past events, leading her on a journey through multiple time loops.[21][22]
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (anime) 2006
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (live-action) 2010
Groundhog Day 1993 Self-centered television weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is forced to relive the same day over and over.[23]
Groundhog Day for a Black Man 2016 Short film about a Black man who keeps reliving the same day in which he ends up being shot by a police officer.[24] The director of this film accused Netflix's Two Distant Strangers of plagiarism.[25]
Happy Death Day 2017 A snobby young woman is murdered on her birthday, Monday the 18th. She wakes up the morning of the 18th, alive, facing the same day over and over, while also getting weaker.[26]
Happy Death Day 2U 2019 Immediately after the events of the first film, Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) unexpectedly re-enters the time loop and becomes determined to escape it after finding out her friends are now involved.[27][28]
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.[29]
The Incident 2014 Two stories of groups trapped in infinite time and space loops. One, an endless staircase, the other, an endless road, both looping back on themselves. While time resets in their surroundings each day, the trapped characters continue to age within the loops.[30]
The Infinite Man 2014 After a romantic weekend break with his girlfriend goes awry, a scientist invents time travel in order to create for her the perfect getaway, but inadvertently traps her in a recurring temporal loop.[31]
Jango 2021 A neurosurgeon who is stuck in a time loop tries to save his estranged wife from being killed by a mystery man.[32]
Koko-di Koko-da 2019 A struggling couple on a camping trip is caught in a time loop where they are tormented by a group of fairy-tale characters.[33]
The Last Day of Summer 2007 11-year-old Luke gets his wish that every day could be the last day of summer.[34]
Maanaadu 2021 A man who is stuck in a time loop tries to stop a political rally from taking place in order to save the state's chief minister and prevent religious violence.[35]
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things 2021 Two teens live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create the titular map.[36]
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.[37]
Mine Games 2012 A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop that they attempt to break.[38]
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 reassessed their attitude towards elders.[39][40]
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2016 Teenager Jake visits the ruins of an orphanage that was destroyed by a bombing raid during World War II and discovers that the original inhabitants survived by creating a time loop set to repeat the day of September 3, 1943.[41]
Naked 2017 Rob is caught in a time loop as he keeps waking up naked in a hotel elevator on the day of his wedding.[42] This is a remake of the 2000 Swedish film Naken.
Naken 2000 On the day of his wedding, Anders wakes up naked in an elevator. As he attempts to piece together the reason for his predicament, the day repeats itself, and he becomes stuck in a time loop.[42]
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson 2019 A gay African-American teenager repeatedly relives the day of his fatal shooting in an unprovoked police brutality incident.[43]
Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum 2014 A group of friends find themselves in a time loop with 3 different time slots for the same incident and the result will vary due to the time and the result of people mood.[44]
Palm Springs 2020 When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated the next morning when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.[45]
Premature 2014 Rob, a high school senior, has to relive losing his virginity over and over until he gets it right, with the right girl.[46]
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie 2012 Homura Akemi has the ability to travel 30 days back in time, and has done so countless times. Each month, Homura fails in her attempts to save Madoka Kaname from destruction, and is forced to relive the tragedy of losing Madoka.[47]
Repeaters 2010 A group of inmates at a rehabilitation facility are forced to repeat the same day over and over.[48]
Reset 2017 A physicist uses an experimental wormhole machine to travel to parallel universes and back in time by an hour, trying to save her kidnapped son.[49]
Retroactive 1997 A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman who was murdered by her husband.[50]
The Road 2011 A group of teens finally work up the fortitude to explore a rural road, that has all the warning signs of being a bad idea.[51]
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.[52]
See You Yesterday 2019 An ambitious science prodigy uses her prowess and capabilities to create time machines, in order to save her brother who has been killed by a police officer. As she tries to alter the events of the past, she will eventually face the perilous consequences of time travel.[53]
Source Code 2011 U.S. Army Aviation pilot Captain Colter Stevens repeatedly experiences the last eight minutes of another person's life to identify the bomber in a terrorist attack in order to prevent a second, nuclear attack on Chicago.[54]
Triangle 2009 A group of friends go on a boat trip and become stranded due to a storm. They discover a cruise ship which causes them to experience a series of repeating events.[55]
Two Distant Strangers 2020 An American short science-fiction film that examines the deaths of black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.[56]
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer 1984 The students of Tomobiki high school relive the day before the school festival over and over.[57][58][59]

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