The Best 80s Time Travel Movies You've Never Heard Of
When people think '80s time travel,' they usually stop at Back to the Future and call it a day. Maybe The Terminator if they're feeling generous. But the truth is, the decade was crawling with weird, clever, totally off-the-wall time travel movies that nobody talks about anymore.
Not because they were bad—some of them were way ahead of their time—but because they got buried by bigger blockbusters or just… vanished.
And that's what we're digging up today. These aren't the usual suspects. These are the scrappy, low-budget, sometimes totally insane time travel movies that dared to do something different—before studios figured out how to turn the concept into a cash machine.
Every one of these movies has some weird little hook that makes it unforgettable. Maybe it's a timeline that makes no sense but still works. Maybe it's a cast of total unknowns delivering one-of-a-kind performances. Or maybe it's just the kind of chaotic ‘80s energy that would never get greenlit today. But somehow, it all clicks.
So if you thought you'd seen every good time travel movie from the ‘80s… nope. Not even close. These are the ones hiding in the VHS bargain bin that deserve to be on your screen right now.