questionable · Unknown

Mr. Nobody

Jaco Van Dormael · 141 minutes

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

Romance, Drama, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

A borderline case: the temporal interpretation remains disputed. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Temporal structure drives the whole film. Nemo was born remembering the future, so the 118-year-old narrator in 2092 recalls every life that could follow his choice at the station as a nine-year-old, told out of order and revisited like replayed timelines. Arrow-of-time and entropy ideas recur throughout, and at his death time runs backward on screen. No one physically travels, and the film frames the lives as a child's foreseen or imagined possibilities, so it stops short of 9–10.

Possible futures, apparent foreknowledge, and cosmic time reversal coexist with an explicit imagination framing; evidence supports ambiguity rather than a definitive literal-travel classification.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan84.0

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.6/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 117.97 base × 71.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh-Dan Pham, Rhys Ifans

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

10 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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