Sci-fi action movie from the 20th century

Necronomicron
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:27:11 +0000
Movies

I tried to find this movie on my own multiple times, but I was unable to due to very vague (and most likely incorrect) information.
So, I watched this probably sci-fi action movie in a cinema in the '90s (most likely between the mid and late of ‛90s, but not later than that). The movie itself may be much older however.
I was a really small kid back then and I most likely remembered and interpreted most of things incorrectly, but here is how I remember it.
I tend to think it’s European (French, German, British or so), but maybe it is American. I also tend to think it was black-and-white, but maybe it was just in depressive colors.
It seems it was about a war, perhaps WWII, or maybe just some fictional war, and some people managed to go back in time and change the course of that war. Or, those weren’t travels in time, but travels between alternative universes. And they used doors to travel. Or at least I think they did.
I remember at least some of the action happened within half-ruined buildings similar to those during WWII.
Well, at least there was a point in a movie where they were walking through doors a lot, shooting each other in between, somewhere in the 2nd half of it.
Can’t name any actors, but I probably didn’t even know any back then anyway.

Update:
So, I was playing around with different AI models, and the last one gave me this:

Based on your description, the movie you’re thinking of could be “The Answer Man” (1990), also known as “The Adventures of Teddy Plicker.” This British-German film is a sci-fi action movie set during World War II, where a time-traveling agent, Teddy Plicker, goes back in time to alter the course of the war. The movie features a lot of scenes in ruined buildings and has a dark, muted color palette, which might give the impression of being black-and-white.

In the movie, there is a sequence where Teddy Plicker is navigating a series of doors in a building, trying to escape pursuers, which aligns with your memory of people “walking through doors a lot, shooting each other in between.”

Hope this helps!

Like, wow! It sounds like the best match so far! The only problem… I can’t find it anywhere! Did the AI just make it up and fool me?!

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