This thesis analyzes representations of time travel in an ensemble of productions from the United States film industry. The purpose of this study is to understand the notions of time portrayed in the selected films and how these are related to modern-contemporary Western thought and practices. Specifically, the investigation focuses on movie pictures in which characters break from the chronology of a sequence of events or experience the same moment repeatedly. The term time travel involves diverse meanings. Therefore, the research effort begins by understanding its possible definitions. The first chapter reviews some of the theoretical strands about time in Western philosophical and scientific traditions. The second chapter explores interpretations about the phenomenon of myth and the history of science fiction. After delimiting and describing the selected material in the third chapter, the thesis proceeds to the textual analysis of films. The examination of the ensemble indicates three main issues related to time travel: cosmologies and images of the end of the world; objects as markers of and connections between different temporalities, and the questioning of social relations, above all, kinship. Each one of these issues is analyzed in the fourth chapter. The thesis demonstrates how films translate time in concrete terms through the trajectories of characters and their artifacts that, unbounded by the historical order, engender paradoxes, meetings, and mismatches in social life.