I'm in a summer school class right now, and I'm doing an essay over the word "time". And part of it is I have to list a movie with the concept of time and its meaning. A little help here, because I've only got "Terminator" and "Back to the future" in my head right now. And I don't think that'll roll. So how about a few titles, please?

Memento
Out of Time

That's all I can think of right now.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

Yeah, Memento was brilliant for that type of thing... I actually think an essay on Back to the Future and time would be excellent if done well. It could be both funny and deep.

the hours.
or bill and ted's excellent adventure.. same diffrence

Stalker
Three Colors
The Sacrifice

etc...

Basically every decent film ever made involves time.

thanks, this report sucks, i'll check out some of these movies.

The Jacket also deals in time travel, and Donnie Darko (my favorite movie).

time doesn't necessarily have to do with time travel. plus there's probably a thousand essays on that kind of stuff already.

there's movies that deal with time as it moves forward, just over large chunks like:

Days of Heaven - not only does the movie happen through out a farming season, but it was actually filmed in time with the farming season. when the scene took place in fall, they would wait until fall to film it

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring - this movie came out last year, its' about a monk that lives on a lake, and how his life goes through changes. the major changes are marked by the seasons, but he ages throughout the film, so it's no necessarily sequential.

La Jetee/12 Monkeys - 12 monkeys is based on la jetee. it's good because the "time travelling" that happens in the movies is a character going through his memory, although things happen that the character doesnt' necessarily remember. the entire thing is whether the character really is time traveling, or whether he is insane and just thinks he is. it also questions our concept of time as a "constant", and how dependent it is on memory, something that can be so fallible.

The Time Machine
Timecop

Ah, Timecop, that was a good one.

i really good book was "slaughter house 5" and its all about a man rethinking (or possibly actually traveling through) his life as it jumps from his time in war, to the present, to hte future, and back to being a kid. its really freaky. and aliens are possibly behind it. its a classic. im pretty sure their is a film adaptation