Movies Like A Sound of Thunder (2005)

A Sound of Thunder is a 2005 action, adventure, science fiction, thriller film from Peter Hyams with a MovieMagicScore of 4.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Millennium and Avengers: Endgame.

Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller

Millennium

1989

An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

5.3

MagicScore

Avengers: Endgame

2019

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.

8.2

MagicScore

Synchronicity

2015

A daring physicist travels into the past 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.

5.7

MagicScore

Déjà Vu

2006

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

6.9

MagicScore

Caddo Lake

2024

When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

7.2

MagicScore

Lost in Space

1998

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.

5.4

MagicScore

Paycheck

2003

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

6.2

MagicScore

World of Tomorrow

2015

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

7.8

MagicScore

The Time Machine

1960

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

7.4

MagicScore

#10

The Time Machine

2002

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

6.3

MagicScore

#11

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

1996

After being rescued from the ruins of Virtual Space Industries, Jobe is rebuilt and reconnected to virtual reality by corporate mogul Jonathan Walker. Years later, teenage hacker Peter Parkette helps Jobe locate Benjamin Trace, the original creator of virtual reality, only to uncover Jobe’s plan to launch a new world order using Walker’s tech. Now, Peter, Trace, Cori, and a band of runaways must stop Jobe and Walker before they enslave humanity through cyberspace.

3.3

MagicScore

#12

James vs. His Future Self

2019

When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself - literally.

5.8

MagicScore

#13

57 Seconds

2023

When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

1966

Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Dimensions

2011

Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world is turned upside down upon meeting a charismatic and inspirational professor at a garden party, who demonstrates to Stephen and his friends what life would be like if they themselves were merely one, or two, dimensional beings. He then proceeds to explain that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel may actually be possible. As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time travel into reality. Jealousy, love, obsession, temptation and greed surround him, influencing his fragile mind and the direction of his work.

4.7

MagicScore

#16

The Lawnmower Man

1992

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

5.6

MagicScore

#17

Impostor

2001

A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Click

2006

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

Terror from the Year 5000

1958

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

3.5

MagicScore

#20

Meet the Robinsons

2007

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like A Sound of Thunder?

The top films similar to A Sound of Thunder by MovieMagicScore are Millennium (5.3), Avengers: Endgame (8.2), Synchronicity (5.7). Each shares action/adventure/science fiction/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is A Sound of Thunder worth watching?

A Sound of Thunder holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.9/10 from 417 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is A Sound of Thunder?

A Sound of Thunder (2005) is a action, adventure, science fiction, thriller film directed by Peter Hyams, starring Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley.

Where can I find more recommendations like A Sound of Thunder?

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About movies like A Sound of Thunder

This ranked list pairs A Sound of Thunder (2005), a action and adventure and science fiction and thriller film from Peter Hyams, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Edward Burns take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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