Cross-media picks for Robert Zemeckis fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a preoccupation with time as an emotional force — not just a plot device, but the thing that separates people from who they loved and who they used to be. Across Travelers, To the Moon, Station Eleven and About Time, the past doesn't stay past: it resurfaces, gets revisited, and sometimes rewritten. The sensibility is warm rather than cold, character-first rather than concept-first. Sentiment is earned, not cheap. Ordinary people consistently find themselves inside extraordinary machinery, never quite sure whether going back changes anything that matters.
Film
About Time
A man who can revisit his own past must learn which moments are worth rewriting — heartfelt time-travel with real emotional stakes.
Film
Scarlet Sails
A prophecy of scarlet sails and a dreaming girl — romantic fantasy where destiny arrives literally on the horizon.
Film
Floating
A young man anchored by family duty after life derails him — grounded, quietly devastating drama about obligation and drift.
Film
Rememory
A device that plays back memories becomes the key to unravelling a mystery — sci-fi with a melancholy human core.
Film
Heart and Souls
Four ghosts bound to one man's life coach him toward the good he never did — warm, funny fantasy about second chances.
Film
Flashback
Visions of a vanished friend and a drug called Mercury drag a man back into a past he'd buried — unsettling memory-thriller.
Film
Mimic
A last-chance relationship trip into the woods turns shocking — genre dread wrapped around a crumbling romance.
Film
Closing the Ring
A wartime love story and a Belfast ring connect across decades — romantic drama built on the pull of unfinished history.
Series
Love Endures
Childhood friends make a shared promise and carry it into adulthood — sweeping emotional drama about loyalty across time.
Series
Our Movie
A director with no future meets an actress with no tomorrow — a love story that exists only in the borrowed present.
Series
A Place Further than the Universe
Teenagers push past the edge of their known world on a remote expedition, finding themselves in the process.
Series
Travelers
Consciousnesses from a dying future inhabit 21st-century bodies, secretly working to save humanity — clever, emotionally rich time-travel sci-fi.
Series
Operation Love
A man gets one more shot at confessing his love, with a mysterious angel's help — charming romantic comedy about a missed moment.
Series
No. 6
A privileged boy's sheltered life collapses after one act of kindness — dystopian drama about the cost of seeing clearly.
Series
Now and Again
A dead man's brain in a superhero body still longs for his family — bittersweet, funny, and surprisingly moving.
Series
Tunnel
A 1986 detective travels to the present to rescue his daughter — time-bending crime drama with a deeply personal mission.
Game
11-11 Memories Retold
Two soldiers on opposite sides of WWI try to hold onto their humanity — intimate anti-war story with real emotional weight.
Game
Close To The Sun
On a colossal ship in 1897, dark secrets and scientific ambition turn nightmare — atmospheric period thriller.
Game
Lake
A software professional swaps city life for her hometown in 1986, delivering mail and rediscovering what she'd left behind.
Game
Content Warning
Film your friends doing terrifying things for internet fame — chaotic, self-aware comedy about recording and being watched.
Game
Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
A writer with false memories of a car crash unravels what really happened — psychological mystery about unreliable experience.
Game
To the Moon
Two scientists rewrite a dying man's memories to fulfil his last wish — a quietly devastating game about love, loss, and regret.
Game
Immortality
Scrub through film footage to solve a vanished actress's mystery — a cinematic puzzle game that rewards attention to detail.
Game
eXperience 112
Guide a sole survivor through a ship of surveillance cameras — tense, voyeuristic thriller where the camera is your only agency.
Book
Total Recall
Implanted memories of Mars lead a man to question which life is real — classic sci-fi about identity and manufactured experience.
Book
Hatchet
A boy stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness must survive with only a hatchet — a survival story about resilience and self-reliance.
Book
The Dark Ground
A boy wakes in a jungle that turns out to be his own shrunken world — unsettling children's sci-fi about disorientation and scale.
Book
Heat Wave (Left Behind. the Kids)
Young people on a dangerous rescue mission as apocalyptic judgments descend — urgent, stakes-high juvenile adventure fiction.
Book
Silverbridge
An actress filming in Regency England gets caught between clashing egos and unexpected romance — old-fashioned romantic drama on location.
Book
Ghost night
Murders staged as period tableaux on a remote island film set haunt the survivor two years later — gothic thriller blending film history and horror.
Book
The sledding hill
A boy processes grief after losing his best friend — a quiet, strange novel about loss and what remains.
Book
Station Eleven
Survivors of a civilization-ending pandemic keep Shakespeare alive on the road — lyrical, hopeful novel about art outlasting catastrophe.
For fans of time-bending, emotionally driven stories, Travelers and About Time are strong starting points — both treat time travel as a way to explore human longing rather than pure action. Heart and Souls is a lighter, warmly funny fantasy in a similar vein.
To the Moon is the closest match — it's a short, story-driven game about rewriting a dying man's memories that leaves most players genuinely moved. Immortality suits fans who love the intersection of film and mystery.
Station Eleven captures the same mix of sweeping time-jumps and deep character investment, following survivors of a pandemic who carry the past with them. Total Recall is a short story exploring implanted memory and false identity — classic sci-fi for anyone drawn to questions of manufactured experience.