curious dreamer

Here are some TED Talks that have improved, changed, inspired, and encouraged me to be the best version of myself for the new phase of my life.

Being a late bloomer

Overcoming anxiety

Good communication

The importance of reading

Learning a new language

Procrastination

Eliminating self doubt

Self-confidence

The power of grit

Understanding the personality question

The elasticity of time

Taking control of your behavior

With love,

This list is made up of those movies that have two people(sometimes more) usually romantic interests, but could be friends or family, that are stuck in an extraordinary time travel or time loop situation together. Movie night just got better. Read on below for this interesting top ten 10 list.

1. Passengers, 2016

Sci-Fi / Romance

IMDb: 7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 30%

Director: Morten Tyldum

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis:

On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim and Aurora face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5,000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all.

2. Palm Springs, 2020

Sci-Fi / Fantasy

IMDb: 7.4 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 94%

Director: Max Barbakow

Starring: Andy Samberg, Christin Milotti,Camila Mendes, J. k. Simmons

Synopsis:

Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.

3. The Fare, 2019

Romance / Thriller

IMDb: 6.2 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Director: D.C. Hamilton

Starring: Brinna Kelly, Gino Anthony Pesi

Synopsis:

When a charming woman climbs into his taxi, a taxi driver finds himself entranced until she disappears without a trace. When he resets his meter, he is brought back to the moment she first climbed into his cab, starting an endlessly repeating loop.

4. 6:45, 2021

Psychological Thriller / Thriller

IMDb: 3.9 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Director: Craig Singer

Starring: Augie Duke, Thomas G. Waites, Shasha K. Gordon, Ray Mancini

Synopsis:

A romantic weekend getaway turns into a demented cycle of terror when a couple find themselves living the same horrific day over and over again.

5. Enter Nowhere, 2011

Mystery / Thriller

IMDb: 6.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: -

Director: Jack Heller

Starring: Scott Eastwood, Sara Paxton, Katherine Waterston

Synopsis:

Three strangers arrive one at a time in a remote cabin, and learn they have been brought together for a reason.

6. Edge of Tomorrow, 2014

Sci-Fi / Action

IMDb: 7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

Director: Doug Liman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton

Synopsis:

When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to beat them. Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise), an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide mission. Killed within moments, Cage finds himself thrown into a time loop, in which he relives the same brutal fight -- and his death -- over and over again. However, Cage's fighting skills improve with each encore, bringing him and a comrade (Emily Blunt) ever closer to defeating the aliens.

7. Source Code, 2011

Sci-Fi / Action

IMDb: 7.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Duncan Jones

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis:

Helicopter pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a top-secret military operation that enables him to experience the last few minutes in the life of Sean Fentress, a man who died in a commuter-train explosion. The purpose of Colter's mission is to learn the identity of the bomber and prevent a similar catastrophe. As Colter lives Sean's final moments, he becomes more certain that he can prevent the first tragedy from occurring -- as long as he doesn't run out of time.

8. The Endless, 2017

Horror/Thriller

IMDb: 6.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson

Starring: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington

Synopsis: Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't find as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

9. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, 2021

Romance / Fantasy

IMDb: 6.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Director: Ian Samuels

Starring: Kyle Allen, Kathryn Newton

Synopsis:

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a 2021 American science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Ian Samuels, from a screenplay by Lev Grossman, based on his 2016 short story of the same name. It stars Kathryn Newton and Kyle Allen as two teenagers stuck in a time loop.

10. Repeaters, 2010

Thriller / Sci-Fi

IMDb: 5.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 20%

Director: Carl Bessai

Starring: Amanda Crew, Dustin Milligan, Richard de Klerk, Benjamin Ratner

Synopsis:

Three people find themselves in an impossibly confusing time labyrinth, where each day they wake up to face the same horrors as the day before.

If you are a fan of time travel movies, this list is for you. This list includes some gems you probably haven't seen but are totally worth a watch. Included on the list are movies with themes about time loops, alternate realities, parallel universes and time travel itself. So go on, get lost in time with this amazing list. Sorry, couldn't help it 🤣

1. Coherence, 2013

Sci-fi/ Thriller

IMDb: 7.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Director: James Ward Byrkit

Starring: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicolas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen, Lorene Scafaria, Hugo Armstrong

Synopsis:

Eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of events due to the malevolent influence of a passing comet.

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2. Parallel, 2018

Sci-Fi/ Drama

IMDb: 5.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: -

Director: Isaac Ezban

Starring: Aml Ameen, Martin Wallström, Georgia King, Mark O'Brien and Alyssa Diaz

Synopsis:

A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.

3. Triangle, 2009

Horror / Thriller

IMDb: 6.9 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 80%

Director: Christopher Smith

Starring: Melissa George, Michael Dorman,Liam Hemsworth, Henry Nixon, Rachel Carpani

Synopsis:

Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.

4. The Endless, 2017

Horror / Thriller

IMDb: 6.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Director: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

Starring: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez,Tate Ellington, Lew Temple, James Jordan

Synopsis:

Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't find as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

5. The Mandela Effect, 2018

Sci-Fi / Drama

IMDb: 5.8 /10

Rotten Tomatoes: 20%

Director: David Guy Levy

Starring: Charlie Hoffheimer, Aleksa Palladino, Robin Lord Taylor, Clarke Peters

Synopsis:

A man becomes obsessed with a phenomenon where facts and events have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing it to be the symptom of something larger, his search for answers brings him to the brink of insanity when a startling revelation forces him to make a difficult decision that, if he is right, could have consequences for the entire world.

6. Looper, 2012

Sci-Fi / Action

IMDb: 7.4 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Director: Rian Johnson

Starring: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Sagan, Piper Perabo, Garret Dillahunt, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis:

In a future society, time-travel exists, but it's only available to those with the means to pay for it on the black market. When the mob wants to eliminate someone, it sends the target into the past, where a hit man known as a looper lies in wait to finish the job. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is one such hired gun, and he does his job well -- until the day his bosses decide to "close the loop" and send Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) back in time to be killed.

7. Madelines, 2022

Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama

IMDb: 3.9 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: -

Director: Jason Richard Miller

Starring: Richard Riehle, Brea Grant, Perry Shen, Sydney Steinberg

Synopsis:

While working in their garage, Madeline and Owen discover the secret to time travel. However, a mistake in their code causes a copy of Madeline to appear every day, and the pair must kill her to prevent the universe from destroying itself.

8. The Alternate, 2021

Sci-Fi / Thriller

IMDb: 5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 75%

Director:Alrik Bursell

Starring: Ed Gonzalez Moreno, Natalia Dominguez, Syra McCarthy

Synopsis:

A man discovers a portal to another dimension in which he has everything he has always wanted.

9. Synchronic, 2019

Sci-Fi / Thriller

IMDb: 6.2 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Directors: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

Starring: Jamie Dornan, Anthony Mackie

Synopsis:

When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis' oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality -- and the flow of time itself.

10. Synchronicity, 2015

Sci-Fi / Thriller

IMDb: 5.4 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 47%

Director: Jacob Gentry

Starring: Chad McKnight, A.J. Bowen, Brianne Davis, Michael Ironside

Synopsis:

A physicist (Chad McKnight) travels back and forth in time to prevent a seductive woman (Brianne Davis) and a ruthless tycoon (Michael Ironside) from stealing his invention.

online, people say cut them off casually. they say - you'll feel amazing and your life will be so much better, trust me.

sometimes it isn't better. sometimes the other end of that is hard, and kind-of worse. it's lonely, and angry, and sad. it's picking up the phone thinking to text them. it's not being able to listen to that album anymore, it sounds like the time you spent with them. sometimes it's slow, guilty nights.

sometimes even the worst people are lovely. they can make your whole life glitter. yes, that glitter is also shattered glass - but it does all sparkle, don't it? they filled your hours and your mind. gave you something to hold on to, even if that something was anger and hurt. without them, life can be... bland. undefined.

you can sit there, knowing - they were a magnet pulling my compass off and then still wish you had that pull back. now your compass is just spinning around on its own.

it's worth it, always. but sometimes feeling like-it's-worth-it takes months. sometimes years. you'll look back from the ever-slow progress you've made, and there will be no confetti you did it! or big-sudden sense of peace. just plodding along carefully. missing them. hating yourself for wishing it hadn't happened.

it's okay. it won't always be easy to leave.

"If at first you don't succeed: try, try again!"