Timecrimes (2007)

A man in the Spanish countryside follows something he shouldn’t have seen and stumbles into a one-hour loop that closes around him like machinery.

Medium Film
Year 2007
Creator Nacho Vigalondo
Mode Fiction
IMDb tt0480669
Reviewed 2026-07-26

Nacho Vigalondo’s debut feature, built around three passes through the same hour.

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(i cannot see them if they were inputed…) or if they were edited in later…

it is on my top three favourite time travel films. UwU

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Three passes through the same hour, each one caused by the last. The protagonist becomes his own antagonist without ever intending to.

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Vigalondo keeps the camera with the man who has already lived this, so the audience holds knowledge the other characters don’t — the dread is entirely temporal.

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