Time Travel movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Gordon Flemyng
S-Tier StudioCanal 4K. The second Cushing Doctor Who film.
StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray
S-Tier StudioCanal 4K. Peter Cushing as the Doctor. A fun curiosity for Who fans.
dir. Christopher Nolan
Someone found it with a slip this week. Half the comments are about the deer in the background of the photo. The other half are '4.5 stars, a perfect movie, minus half a star for being utter gibberish.'
Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Peter Hyams
In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
StudioCanal · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Terry Gilliam
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Robert Zemeckis
A-Tier Universal 4K. The trilogy box set exists in about five different packaging configurations at this point. The disc is the same across all of them. A-Tier is right for this, it's a clean catalog transfer.
Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
A-Tier Universal 4K. Same disc quality as the first film. The trilogy exists in multiple box set configurations.
A-Tier Universal 4K. Same story as Part II. Universal gave the whole trilogy consistent transfers.
dir. Stephen Hopkins
A-Tier Arrow Video 4K. The 1998 sci-fi film that people remember being bad but still love. Arrow gave it a proper restoration, and the artwork on the slip got compliments.
dir. Duncan Jones
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
dir. Leonard Nimoy
When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.
dir. Jonathan Frakes
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
dir. Tim Miller
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
dir. Don Taylor
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
dir. Dean Parisot
Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the stakes are higher than ever for the now middle-aged Bill and Ted who set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.
dir. Stephen Herek
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
dir. Luc Besson
Universal 4K from 2015. Scarlett Johansson sci-fi that collectors pick up cheap and then argue about whether it deserves a spot in the collection. The HDR does real work on the Paris chase sequence and the VFX-heavy finale.
dir. Nacho Vigalondo
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
dir. James Cameron
D-Tier Lionsgate 4K and a famously bad transfer. The steelbook artwork is great and sells well, but the disc inside is one of the worst 4K presentations of a major film. People buy the steelbook planning to swap the disc if a better version ever comes out.
Lionsgate · Blu-ray
dir. Charles Band
The 4K exists, but the consensus is rough. The Blu-ray actually rates higher than the 4K on bestblurays. Most of the problems are baked into the source material, a sub-500K production shot on film short ends with cheap equipment. 101 Films put out a UK limited edition with a solid extras package, same transfer though. People buy Trancers because the movie is genuinely great, not for the picture quality.
101 Films · Limited Edition
dir. Geoffrey Sax
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
BBC Studios · Steelbook
dir. Randal Kleiser
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.
dir. Gore Verbinski
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
dir. Matt Johnson
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah.
Neon · Blu-ray
dir. Shawn Levy
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
