
Movies that feel likeThe Time Machine (1960)
If you loved The Time Machine, the closest films we have are 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), La Jetée (1962) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). Most of the picks below share The Time Machine's cerebral and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Quiet Earth (1985).
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If The Time Machine hit the spot, these will too

Common ground: steampunk
The difference: Easier on the tension than The Time Machine

Both are built on the same subject: time travel
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Time Machine does

Both land scale and dream logic at once
The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1940s show

One thread runs through both: dystopia
The difference: Sits closer to action than The Time Machine does

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

Tense where it counts, cerebral underneath

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the future
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Bleak adventure in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: the future

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Bleak fantasy, and it commits to that
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