Movies like Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

A flagship time travel movie, Back to the Future explores the consequences of tampering with the past. With a healthy balance of humor, adventure, and science fiction, this film offers a similar playful perspective on time travel as Timerider.

A charming spin on the time travel genre, Peggy Sue Got Married follows a woman who finds herself in her high school years with the opportunity to alter her life. Like Timerider, it fuses a personal story with the wider implications of time travel.

Time Bandits is a wild adventure through various historical periods, featuring a young boy and a group of time-traveling dwarves. Its whimsical and humorous approach to time travel will resonate with fans of Timerider's lighter touch on the sci-fi genre.

The Final Countdown presents a similar premise to Timerider where a modern-day aircraft carrier is transported back in time to the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. It provides a compelling narrative on the moral dilemmas of time travel and altering history.

Freejack gives a darker twist to the time travel theme, with a race car driver from the past being transported to a dystopian future. It shares Timerider's concept of a protagonist caught unexpectedly in a time other than his own.