The Time Machine (2002)

Based on H.G. Wells' classic science fiction novel, this movie stars Guy Pearce as Alexander Hartdegen, a scientist in 1880s Victorian England, who builds a vehicle to transport him through time. When he is unable to change the past, Alexander hurls himself more than 800,000 years into the future, seeking answers about the nature of time, but instead encountering a dystopian world where he meets an innocent race of people.