20 best movies like Back to the Future Part III (1990)

List of the best movies like Back to the Future Part III (1990): Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Another Time, Deadpool 2, Paul, My Science Project, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Land of the Lost, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Interstellar, Timeline.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, action, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA

Just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:13

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:44

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:49

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration02:49

    Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:41

      When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:23

        Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but just as perplexed as he is by the fact 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.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA

        As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
        CountryUSA

        When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.

        Markimdb: 2.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, western
        CountryUSA

        After an accidental explosion at a local mine, dinosaurs emerge from the rubble to terrorize a small western town. Now, a group of gunslingers must defend their home if anyone is going to survive in a battle of cowboys versus dinosaurs.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryRussia, USA
        Duration01:30

        A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
        Duration02:29

        After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, adventure, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:39

        A professor creates a device that allows him and his colleague to change the course of events from the past in order to improve their current life.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, comedy, adventure, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

        The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:14

        Noah spends the perfect first night with the girl of his dreams Avery but gets relegated to the friend zone. He spends the next three years wondering what went wrong - until he gets the unexpected chance to travel back in time and alter that night, and his fate, over and over again.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration01:36

        Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:28

        A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:11

        When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lemar sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrefantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:17

        Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:33

        After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA

        A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy, detective
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration01:39

        Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, crime
        CountryNew Zealand

        A small-town criminal finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:56

        An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.

        Markimdb: 3.3
        Genrefantastic, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        Hot Bot is the hilarious journey of two sexually repressed and unpopular teenage geeks who accidentally discover a life-like super-model sex bot (Bardot).

        Markimdb: 2.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        1970's pop culture icons Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams face off in the hunt for the legendary mountain creature.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Spain

        A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom
        Duration02:22

        Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
        Duration02:40

        Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.




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