10 Time Travel Movies To See Before You Die

As if we needed to add to the list of reasons space is somewhere you definitely don't want to go, along came Christopher Nolan with a big ol' time-bending, heart-wrenching space drama to knock us for a loop.

Interstellar follows farmer and ex-NASA pilot Cooper as he undertakes a critical mission into space in search of habitable planets for humankind, in order for our species to escape a dying Earth.

Curiously for a film that heavily depends upon time travel, Interstellar plays it straight, with only a background assortment of odd happenings (Murph's 'ghost') to suggest anything but time as usual is playing out.

We don't reach the wibbly wobbly timey wimey portion of the film until well into the third act. (The time dilation between the surface and orbit of an ocean planet may appear to be the time travel we're looking for, but is actually just gravitational relativity.)

After jettisoning himself into a black hole to, in essence, save the future of all humanity, Matthew McConaughey's Cooper finds himself inside a tesseract that allows him to see into his own past and communicate via gravity. This not only provides a convincing visual representation of the fourth dimension, but another fascinating dimension (get it?) to the film as a whole.

The best thing about this entry is that, in preparation for Tenet and with a post-lockdown cinema schedule to fill, Interstellar and a selection of other Nolan favourites are screening once more around the UK.