"Groundhog Day" and more than 11 of the loop time of movies

The loop time - artistic reception in literature and film, as the authors make the characters constantly worry about the same amount of time. To open the action, the characters usually need to fix something or just to survive. A similar story has a new series "Matryoshka", which overlooks the strimingovoy Netflix platform. The main character always gets to the same party, and then dies. For those who love such stories, we should pay attention to a few more interesting films.

1. Groundhog day

groundhog Day

• USA, 1993.
• Comedy, Romance.
• Duration: 101 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.

TV commentator Phil Connors is sent to the town of Punxsutawney to celebrate Groundhog Day. February 2, he shoots report, casually spends the day and go to bed. And in the morning discovers that on the calendar again February 2. This day will be repeated over and over again, until Phil did not find a way to get out of the time loop.

Perhaps the most famous film on the subject. And this despite the fact that he has nothing to do with science fiction and time travel. "Groundhog Day" - melodramatic comedy about what it takes to try to escape from their everyday life and see the world more widely. No wonder his name became phraseology, meaning the endless repetition of the same events.

And those who know the original by heart, can see the Italo-Spanish remake "Already yesterday," 2004. The plot is almost the same, but slightly different atmosphere.

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2. Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow

• United States, 2014.
• Fantasy, action.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

In the near future, mankind have to fight with an aggressive race of aliens. People who suffer defeat, but Major William Cage gets the blood of one of the strangers. Since then, he keeps coming back in the day when killed in battle. As a result of it, with the support of an experienced soldier Rita Vrataski must somehow survive this battle. At the same time, William could use their new knowledge to help mankind defeat enemies.

Structurally, the film is also similar to "Groundhog Day," only in the form of fiction blockbuster: the hero is necessary to build the perfect plan to escape from the endless loop.

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3. Run Lola Run

lola rennt

• Germany, 1998.
• Drama, thriller.
• Duration: 81 min.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Manni cranked large contraband trade, and it remains only to transfer money to his boss. But he forgets the bag on the subway, and now his girlfriend Lola need 20 minutes to get 100,000 marks. She robs a bank, but it ends tragically. Then Lola back to the very beginning of history.

In this film does not explicitly refers to the time loop, just at the time of interchanges action returns to the beginning and the heroine decides otherwise. What is interesting, all events take place in real time.

The same subject later try to beat the American romantic film "And came Lola" in 2009. But he came out not too successful.

4. Mirror for a Hero

• USSR, 1988.
• Drama, Science Fiction.
• Duration: 139 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Sergei Nemchinov Wheat and Andrew accidentally met at a concert. Inexplicably, they are moved from the eighties to 40 years ago, where friends are forced to live the same day. Heroes realize that they need to somehow fix the past in order to open the loop. Sergey acquainted with his parents and tries to understand them, but Andrew wants to save workers of coal mines.

In the five years before the "Groundhog Day" in the Soviet Union already had its own film on a similar theme, but much more serious. Here the rules are somewhat different. For example, the characters in the morning will not be moved to the starting point, and remain in place. But otherwise the same idea: repetition of some events and attempts to correct the past.

5. Source

Source Code

• USA, Canada, 2011.
• Fiction, thriller.
• Duration: 93 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Military Colter Stevens finds himself in the body of a stranger in the train. Before he can understand something, there is an explosion. It turns out that Coulter is in the simulation, which allows you to relive the last 8 minutes of man. During this time, the hero has to calculate the terrorist who planted the bomb.

The main difference between this film is that the action takes place in the simulation, which partly explains the opportunity to repeat the event. Although the final picture still allows you to take another look at what is considered a reality.

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6. Triangle

Triangle

• UK, Australia, in 2009.
• Mystery, Thriller.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

Single mother Jess goes with friends to sail on a yacht. They fall in a storm, and all have to escape by climbing a strange empty airliner. But then it turns out that on board there is someone else, and he preys on people. And on the ship stopped clock is not accidental.

The "Triangle" presented a somewhat different view on the time loop: it does not cancel the event repeat what happened earlier, but as it is imposed on all the previous ones, making each round becoming more creepy.

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7. Twelve zero one midnight

12:01

• USA, 1993.
• Fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,8.

It all starts with the fact that the main character of Barry dies colleague and his old love. He decides to drown grief alcohol and gets drunk in a bar. Back home, Barry's clinging to the cord of the lamp, it beats the current. And now he is going through the same day trying to save his beloved.

The film is based on a short story by Richard Lupoffa «12:01 PM», written back in the seventies. A few years before the release of pictures of the same name has already appeared screen version Short-lived, and it even was nominated for "Oscar». Full-length version of the much moved away from the original, the plot added more comedy, and became a hero to experience more than one hour of his life, and day.

What is interesting, the picture "Twelve midnight zero one" came out almost simultaneously with the "Groundhog Day", which gave rise to various rumors about the theft of ideas.

8. The loop

Hurok

• Hungary, 2016.
• Fiction, thriller, crime.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

Adam sells drugs, and one day after the transaction torn it begins the hunt. As a result of the tragic events of Adam's girl dies. He soon discovers that the events are repeated, and he has a chance to save his beloved. But every act of his in the past always affects the history of the development. He faces himself and tries to somehow prevent the tragedy.

Hungarian film looks very cheap, there is no need to wait for the beautiful filming and special effects. But the story itself is a wonder, with each repetition of the heroes of "multiply", and Adam must take into account their behavior in previous versions of the events, to fix it.

9. Happy day of death

Happy Death Day

• United States, 2017.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,5.

Arrogant beauty Trish wakes up on his birthday in a room unfamiliar guy. Soon Trish kills maniac in a mask, and then she wakes up again in the same room unfamiliar guy. She is trying to escape from the villain, but every time I die, returning to the top. The only way to get out of the time loop - the killer.

The filmmakers approached the box to the genre. Initially, the action seems to be reminiscent of thrillerBut then at some time everything is replaced by this comedy. Therefore, a special depth in the plot did not work, it is very entertaining movie.

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10. time matrix

Before I Fall

• United States, 2017.
• Drama, Detective.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

High school student Samantha almost always lucky. But on February 12, she went with her friends to a party and got into an accident on the way back. Now she will have to live through the last day of your life and think about what needs to change in order to escape from the endless cycle of events.

This film was released in the same year with the picture, "Happy day of death," but here the story is more inclined to romance and simple truths of life. Perhaps it is because of the simplicity of the film and not really noticed.

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11. Arch

ARQ

• USA, Canada, 2016.
• Fiction, thriller.
• Duration: 88 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

In a post-apocalyptic future hero Renton invented a perpetual motion machine ARQ. But the device has caused the closure of the time, and now, when Renton dies, he comes back in time to relive the last 3 hours again. Every time he is attacked by masked men and he dies. Renton gradually realizes that the case in opposition to corporations, seized almost the entire world, and the rebels.

Subject time loops are very well blended with the idea postapokalipsisa. At stake is not only the salvation of the hero, and perhaps the survival of the entire world.

12. Failure in time

Retroactive

• United States, 1997.
• Action, thriller, fantasy.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

Karen had an accident and had to catch a ride to get to the city. But at the nearest gas station pick it up the driver gave a gunfight. Fleeing from the offender, Karen is in the laboratory, where a mysterious machine sends her exactly at the beginning of the event. Woman trying to fix the situation, but it only gets worse.

Probably the simplest story associated with a loop time. You can only watch as each attempt to unlock its increasing scale of the tragedy. But by the middle of the plot there is a very unusual move: go back in time and the other characters, but the main character does not remember it.