Movies and TV shows like Paper Girls

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Paper Girls (2022)
 7.3
 12K
Paper Girls (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: It's the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intergalactic battle and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.
Style: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, exciting, thrilling, retro, queer cinema
Plot: time travel, lesbian, lgbt, friendship, teenage girl, time traveler, lgbtq, save the day, teenager, time loop, halloween, friends, girlfriend, save the world, time jump, teamwork, mission, group of friends, female protagonist, changing the past or future, teenage protagonist, back in time, time warp, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, apocalypse ...
Time: 80s, 2010s

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Most similar movies to Paper Girls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, tense and exciting films and TV series with plots about time travel, time traveler, time jump, time warp, teenager, supernatural and time loop mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Paper Girls: The Crossing (2018), Marvel's Runaways (2017), The Last Bus (2022), I Am Not Okay with This (2020), Time travels (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.1
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The Crossing (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, non-linear, spiritual
Plot: time travel, conspiracy, twists and turns, superpower, runaway, manhunt, police, adaptation, society, friendship, investigation, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Marvel's Runaways (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.
Style: captivating, entertaining, tense, futuristic, queer cinema
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, supernatural ability, youth, superheroine, friendship, parents and children, high school, runaway, lesbian, superhero, lgbt, superhero team ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 878
The Last Bus (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: After embarking on a life-changing field trip, a group of whip-smart students fight to save humanity from an army of ruthless drones.
Style: semi serious, entertaining, captivating, epic fantasy, futuristic
Audience: family outing
Plot: schoolboy, child, robot, school, save the day, teamwork, friendship, friends, teenager, robot as menace, sentient robot, bus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Am Not Okay with This (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.
Style: feel good, captivating, light, humorous, existential ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, adolescence, youth, teenager, friendship, telekinesis, high school, love, lgbt teen, small town, teenage protagonist, lgbt ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 7.3
 362
Time travels (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A teenage girl wish for her parents to get back together, when suddenly she meets a time traveling guy from the future. Together they try to change both the past and the feature - with small bumps on their way.
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating
Plot: time travel, teenager, changing the past or future, time traveler, back in time, time warp, child, child protagonist, parents and children, children, teenage life, time jump ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Ministério do Tempo (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
TV show
Story: A warrior from the XVI century, the first female university student from the XIX century and a nurse from the XXI century, join a secret agency to prevent people to change the Portuguese history by using time-traveling doors
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: time travel, time paradox, time traveler, time portal, teamwork, historical event, save the day, time machine, time warp, back in time, time jump, time loop ...
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Tales from the Loop (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
Style: anthology, futuristic, captivating, thought provoking, visually appealing ...
Plot: supernatural, science, body swapping, time portal, time loop, small town, time warp, science gone wrong, research laboratory, parents and children, society, small town life ...
Time: future
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Time Trackers (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Time Trackers is a children's television series produced for the Seven Network in and TV2 in New Zealand The 13 half-hour episodes first screened in 2008. The series is a co-production of Gibson Group in New Zealand and Taylor Media in ...
Style: captivating, entertaining
Plot: time travel, teenager, virus, time traveler, technology, back in time, adventure hero, teamwork, time loop, futuristic technology, teenage protagonist, time jump ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Astrid & Lilly Save the World (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: High school is hard enough when you're different, but when outcast BFFs Astrid and Lilly accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It's up to them to vanquish the creepy ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: lgbtq, save the day, lesbian, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, satire, human versus monster, friendship, girlfriend, friends, schoolgirl, lgbt, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to ...
Style: captivating, humorous, exciting, sad, absurd ...
Audience: teens
Plot: superhero team, time travel, villain, lesbian, lgbt, female warrior, superhero, lesbian love, save the world, martial arts, supernatural, alternate reality ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.8
 4K
Class (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Coal Hill School has been a feature of Doctor Who since the first episode, but now we get to see the day-to-day adventures of the students coping with intrusions from space and time.
Style: captivating, tense
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor who, gay, young adult, time warp, time travel, space, teenage protagonist, teenage life, lifestyle, friendship, time paradox, time loop ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.5
 2K
Captain Nova (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
Style: futuristic, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, inspirational
Audience: family outing
Plot: time travel, sent to the past, time traveler, girl heroine, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time jump, heroine, save the world, time warp, teamwork ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.6
 5K
Riley Rewind (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A high school girl named Riley has the ability to travel back in time and uses this power to save her friend who commits suicide.
Style: suspenseful, serious, disturbing, captivating, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, high school, supernatural ability, supernatural, life risking, youth, teenage life, friendship, teenager, alternate timeline, superpower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.
Style: exciting, tense, anime, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, time travel, heroes, apocalypse, time traveler, danger, fight, fantasy world, team, alternate history, academy, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, year 1989, 80s, year 1963, 60s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.6
 245K
Doctor Who (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Doctor looks and seems human. He's handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But he is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, humorous, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, alien, space travel, save the day, journey, danger, companion, sent to the future, space and aliens, outer space, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 2020s
Place: london, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.1
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Plan B (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Et si c'était possible de faire marche arrière dans le temps pour modifier le cours des événements et changer sa destinée? Et si une deuxième chance nous était offerte? Et si c'était possible grâce à Plan B - Le jour où Philippe ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, anthology
Plot: time loop, changing the past or future, time warp, second chance, starting over, time traveler, sent to the past, time machine, lawyer, aftermath, backfire, changing lives ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The intricate and magical love story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem… time travel.
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: time travel, male female relationship, love story, time traveler, time, romantic relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, time paradox, couple relations, relationship problems, relationships ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.0
 5K
4400 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: 4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. As the government races to ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, interesting
Plot: time travel, missing person, disappearance, time loop, new life, supernatural ability, supernatural power, supernatural, mysterious disappearance, social problems, time warp, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 7.5
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The Flash (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, action adventure, thought provoking, humorous ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: superhero, heroes, time travel, speed, multiverse, supernatural power, superhuman powers, good versus evil, super powers, secret identity, masked superhero, fighting crime ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
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The Island (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel
TV show
Story: An Israeli tv show about 6 kids who discover one day, under an asteroid attack on earth that kills everything but them what their true destiny is- to save the world. Together they go through an amazing ride that includes supernatural powers, time ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, apocalyptic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: time travel, supernatural ability, post-apocalyptic future, time loop, save the world, post apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, relationships, time traveler, time warp, love, children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.9
 6K
Naomi (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Follow a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers will challenge everything we ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining, exciting
Plot: alien, supernatural ability, superhero, supernatural power, black girl, fight, teenage protagonist, magical power, villain, women, woman, justice league ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Wheel of Fortune (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Shinozaki Ayumi receives a strange call telling her that an earthquake will occur one hour from now. She hangs up the phone thinking it was just a prank call. But one hour later, she feels herself sway a little. When she turns on the television, she ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, time warp, race against time, time machine, time jump, time paradox, time loop, team, back in time, time traveler
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Totally Doctor Who (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A look at everything Doctor Who, with exclusive behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the programme's stars and competitions.
Style: captivating, disturbing, entertaining, futuristic
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: doctor who, time machine, time travel, time traveler, time warp, alien technology, technology, time jump, time paradox, competition, behind the scenes
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
My Perfect Stranger (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: An enthralling journey begins as a man and a woman, trapped in May 1987, embark on their adventure.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, retro
Plot: time travel, time paradox, time loop, problem, male female relationship, back in time, father son relationship, couples, time jump, time traveler, time warp, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen. The programme is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme ...
Style: exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supernatural, save the world, young heroes, escapades, doctor who, danger, genetic engineering, heroic mission, time travel, friendship, magic, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Vencer la culpa (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Four women become friends and learn to overcome their guilt after the disappearance of a local teenage girl unexpectedly brings them together.
Style: soap opera, serious, captivating, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot: female protagonist, woman, friend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, strong female presence, friendship, women, girlfriend, female friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.6
 22K
Cloak & Dagger (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, bleak, anime
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: superheroine, superhero, superpower, multiverse, teenage superhero, teenager, youth, friendship, supernatural, teleportation, danger, investigation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
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Command Z (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.
Style: metafiction, captivating
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, time warp, mission, time machine, time traveler, rescue mission, time paradox, adventurer, teamwork, time loop, time jump ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 18K
Krypton (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved ...
Style: captivating, exciting, non-linear, tense, anime ...
Audience: teens
Plot: save the world, friendship, betrayal, uncover truth, destiny, martial arts, family relations, rivalry, youth, danger, alien planet, dialogue ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Will vs. The Future (2017)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A sci-fi action comedy about middle-schooler Will, who is visited by a time-traveling, rebel warrior named Athena. Athena shocks Will when she tells him that he grows up to destroy the world.
Style: exciting, satirical, futuristic, captivating
Plot: warrior, rescue mission, escapades, time jump, back in time, time travel, teamwork, fate of humanity, time paradox, satire, time traveler, battles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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