Alternate universe movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant alternate universe movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, entertaining, interesting, cult film, thought provoking and clever films and TV shows about / with alternate universe, parallel universe, chase, death, time travel, danger, alternate reality, heroes, storytelling and fantasy world plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as alternate universe: The Butterfly Effect (2004), Fringe (2008), The One (2001), Terra Nova (2011), John Dies at the End (2012), The Flash (2014), Battlestar Galactica (2003), The Family Man (2000), His Dark Materials (2019), Mirage (2018).
Best films
List of alternate universe movies
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, dramatic, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, butterfly effect, twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, alternate reality, psychology, memory, changing the past or future, time traveler, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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246K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, surreal, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, investigation, mad scientist, time travel, fbi, special agents, alternate dimension, parallel universe, alternate reality, experiment, top secret, paranormal activity ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
harvard university, usa, massachusetts, canada
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93K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, parallel universe, alternate universe, alternate dimension, cyberpunk, time travel, kung fu, fight, law enforcement, alternate reality, multiverse, supernatural ability ...
Time:
future
Place:
hong kong, china, los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, post apocalypse, survival, human existence, extinction, changing the past or future, characters in danger, experiment, dangerous animal, alternate universe, fate of humanity ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic, prehistory, 22nd century
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, absurd, not serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
invasion, twists and turns, alternate reality, dark humor, alternate universe, buddies, save the world, parallel universe, dog, drugs, fictional reality, adaptation ...
Place:
usa, las vegas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style:
surreal, entertaining, philosophical, emotional, psychedelic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
multiverse, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, chinese, alternate universe, lgbt, kung fu, nihilism, martial arts, philosophy, alternate reality, reincarnation ...
Time:
future
Is relevant ?
351K
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, humorous, epic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
superhero, heroes, time travel, speed, supernatural power, superhuman powers, multiverse, good versus evil, alternate universe, secret identity, super strength, masked superhero ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Style:
dark fantasy, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
superhero, multiverse, magical power, alternate universe, villain, interdimensional travel, witchcraft, monster, superhero team, mutant, supernatural power, witch ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story:
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, cerebral, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, space wars, space, space battle, future dystopia, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, alternate universe, good versus evil, obsessive quest, military ...
Time:
future, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, destiny, road not taken, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, time travel, workaholic, fish out of water, lifestyle change, midlife crisis, singleness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1987, year 2000
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious ...
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, dark, exciting, sad ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
magic, travel, friendship, children, prophecy, child protagonist, conspiracy, church, suspense, journey, grownups, multiverse ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, norway
Is relevant ?
58K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
On November 9, 1989 (the same day that Wall of Berlin falls), Nico is a 12 years old boy passionate to videotape himself playing guitar, being care lovely by her single mother María. This same night, when starts a 72-hours storm, Nico watches a ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, psychological, disturbing, twisted ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
parallel universe, suspense, time travel, uncover truth, time paradox, time, plot twist, butterfly effect, alternate universe, little girl, accident, girl ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2001, 2000s, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
spain
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5K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.
Style:
light, enigmatic, breathtaking, romantic, exciting ...
Plot:
astronomer, universe, space, professor, space and aliens, scientist, alternate universe, parallel universe, scientific research, romancing partners, riddles and clues, romantic relationship ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, thought provoking, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, alone, end of the world, male nudity, distopia, disaster, vestiges of humanity, love triangle, survival, experiment, cyberpunk ...
Time:
future
Place:
new zealand
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559K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited ...
Style:
neo noir, dark, stylized, visually appealing, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
superhero, distopia, heroes, alternate reality, moral dilemma, good versus evil, conspiracy, vigilante, parallel world, mars, cold war, masked vigilante ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, future, year 1985, year 1970 ...
Place:
usa, new york, washington d.c., los angeles, russia ...
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64K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
time travel, archaeology, time machine, knight, medieval, changing the past or future, twists and turns, time, father son relationship, alternate universe, natural disaster, suspense ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 14th century, middle ages, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
Is relevant ?
120K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min.
TV show
Story:
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode explores a pivotal moment from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and turns it on its head, leading the audience into uncharted territory.
Style:
anime, entertaining, exciting, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
superhero, villain, heroes, multiverse, alternate universe, twists and turns, power, female martial artist, fight, universe, battles, attack ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Tang San spent his life in the Tang Outer Sect, dedicated to the creation and mastery of hidden weapons. Once he stole the secret lore of the Inner Sect to reach the pinnacle of his art, his only way out was death. But after throwing himself off the ...
Style:
scenic, captivating, exciting, breathtaking, thought provoking ...
Plot:
magical, friendship, good versus evil, supernatural ability, alternate world, twists and turns, martial arts, alternate universe, fight scenes, fight for justice, bravery, fantasy world ...
Place:
ancient china, china
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the "classic Spider-Man mold", Miles Morales must juggle his high school life with his status as a superhero. Until he learns by Peter Parker, the original Spider-Man, that there is a multiverse, called the "Spider-Verse", in ...
Style:
feel good, anime, light, colourful, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
superhero, spider man character, teenager, alternate universe, multiverse, peter parker character, teenage hero, teenage superhero, superheroine, super powers, physics, school ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, north america, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.
Style:
christian film, disturbing, scenic, propaganda film
Plot:
christian, christianity, religious fanatic, manipulation, christian propaganda, faith, religion, alternate universe, religious persecution, bible, evangelist, religious ...
Place:
phoenix arizona
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15K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes
Style:
futuristic, intense, enigmatic, confusing, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel universe, plot twist, suspense, teleportation, twists and turns, survival, time, betrayal, multiverse, alternate universe, alternate reality, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
Is relevant ?
528K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, mind bending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, train, twists and turns, alternate reality, bomb, destiny, save the day, memory, parallel universe, changing the past or future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, afghanistan, chicago illinois, illinois
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Eduard, a husband and father who loses his family in a tragic accident, travels to parallel universes to seek a better fate for his beloved wife.
Style:
touching, disturbing, tense, exciting, intellectual
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
alternate universe, alternate world, parallel universe, alternate reality, parallel world, loss of loved one, alternate timeline, death, family relations, hopes, time travel, family problems ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business... even though they're more afraid of the children than they are of them. When a child accidentally enters their world, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
monster, friendship, creature, imagination, fantasy world, children, parallel world, rivalry, talking animals, disney, friends, best friend ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
himalaya
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Style:
visually appealing, captivating, fairy tale, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, obsessive quest, parallel universe, magic, wizards, witch, female warrior, dragon, alternate world, lion, talking animals ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the ...
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
magic, witch, fantasy world, wizards, friendship, magical creature, good versus evil, magic wand, chase, sorcerer, teleportation, magician ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
new york, england, arizona, london, usa ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style:
humorous, sweet, not serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, preschoolers, girls' night ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, lifestyle change, hacker, heroes, betrayal, villain, disney, bullying, friendship, disguise, journey, courage ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 80s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Is relevant ?
111K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, feel good, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, altering history, murder, police detective, serial killer, changing the past or future, butterfly effect, parallel universe, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1969, year 1999, 60s, 90s ...
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant ?
608K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm ...
Style:
futuristic, epic, stylized, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
star trek, alien, time travel, space travel, spacecraft, space, space opera, heroic mission, space and aliens, space wars, teamwork, heroes ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, 24th century
Place:
san francisco, iowa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
After a traffic accident, Kazuma Sato’s disappointingly brief life was supposed to be over, but he wakes up to see a beautiful girl before him. She claims to be a goddess, Aqua, and asks if he would like to go to another world and bring only ...
Style:
anime, parody, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
goddess, deity, parallel world, magic, alternate reality, harem, heroes, alternate world, fight, battles, knight, fictional reality ...
Place:
japan
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