Open Your Eyes (1997), Contact (1997), Coherence (2013), Three Lives and Only One Death (1996), Triangle (2009), Vanilla Sky (2001), Altered States (1980), The Halfway House (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Time Distortion movies.
Storyline: A once handsome playboy, César finds himself in a mental facility and he can't remember why. All he can remember is meeting the love of his life for one day, and then getting into a car accident which left his face horribly disfigured. But the pain of becoming physically undesirable may help him to find the truth.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, thriller, psychological, mystery, romance, dream, reality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway (David Morse), who died when she was nine-years-old, leaving her orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (N.S.F.) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her N.S.F. superior David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders, and other scientists, such as Drumlin, try to take over her work. When the messages received ...
Plot Keywords: science fiction, aliens, space exploration, science, religion, interstellar travel, government conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, psychological thriller, surreal, low budget, independent film, nonlinear narrative ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, surrealism, french cinema, fable, multiple storylines, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realized when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she's been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.
Plot Keywords: psychological, thriller, horror, time loop, supernatural, mystery, mind-bending ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Incarcerated and charged with murder, David Aames Jr. is telling the story of how he got to where he is to McCabe, the police psychologist. That story includes: being the 51% shareholder of a major publishing firm, which he inherited from his long deceased parents; the firm's board, appointed by David Aames Sr., being the 49% shareholders who would probably like to see him gone as they see him as being too irresponsible and immature to run the company; his best bro friendship with author, Brian Shelby; his "friends with benefits" relationship with Julie Gianni, who saw their relationship in a slightly different light; his budding romance with Sofia Serrano, who Brian brought to David's party as his own date and who Brian saw as his own possible life mate; and being in an accident which disfigured his face and killed the person who caused the accident. But as the story proceeds, David isn't sure what is real and what is a dream/nightmare as many facets of the story are incompatible to ...
Plot Keywords: science fiction, psychological thriller, romance, mystery, dream, reality distortion, identity crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the late 1960's. Just for a lark, graduate student Eddie Jessup, known for being unconventional, brilliant and slightly mad, conducts experiments with an isolation chamber, using himself as the subject. His experiences in the chamber cause him to hallucinate, much of the imagery being religious-based despite he not being a religious man. Seven years later, he is a respected full professor in the Harvard Medical School. Believing he has lost his edge and has fallen into an unwanted state of respectability, Eddie decides to resume his work with sensory deprivation, this time using hallucinogens, specifically untested ones used in mystical Mexican rituals, to enhance the experience of being in the isolation tank. After initial tests, he claims he entered an alternate physical and mental state. Although unbelieving of Eddie's claims, his colleagues Arthur Rosenberg and Mason Parrish, as well as Eddie's wife, Emily, who is in her own right a respected academic, are concerned for ...
Plot Keywords: science fiction, horror, psychological thriller, experimental, psychedelic, surrealism, evolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrives at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter (Mervyn Johns and his real life daughter Glynis Johns). Why are all the newspapers a year old ? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow ?—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, supernatural, psychological thriller, ghosts, british film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, surrealism, schizophrenia, hallucination, nonlinear narrative, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
Plot Keywords: gothic, psychological thriller, film noir, mystery, surrealism, romance, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with her bourgeois stepfather, and among male chauvinists in a communist group in Rome. Her only friend is her brother Arturo, who dreams of going to space but is unable to do so due to his epilepsy.—Pusan International Film Festival
Plot Keywords: science fiction, russian, space, loneliness, psychological, survival, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet. After a disastrous crash-landing Ross awakes to learn that Kane lies near death and that they apparently have returned to Earth, as evidenced by the presence of the Council director and his staff. Released to the custody of his wife, he soon learns things are not as they seem.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, adventure, space, parallel universe, astronaut, mystery, exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, alien, conspiracy, government cover-up, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious 'manifestations'? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, psychological, deep sea, alien, mystery, disaster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ian Stone (Mike Vogel) is a working stiff, an American businessman who travels to England for business only to find himself trapped in a bizarre reality: every day he dies a horrific death at the hands of an unknown killer... only to wake up and murdered again and again. Can Ian get to the bottom of the mystery and break the recurring chain of death and resurrection?
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, mystery, death, demon, pursuit ...
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