Alternate timeline movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant alternate timeline movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, exciting, mind bending, surprise ending, suspense and entertaining films and TV shows about / with alternate timeline, time travel, time, alternate reality, time loop, parallel universe, time jump, time machine, time traveler and love plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as alternate timeline: Coherence (2013), Project Almanac (2015), Happy Death Day (2017), The Family Man (2000), Yesterday (2019), Continuum (2012), Timeliner (2018), Tenet (2020), We Were Tomorrow (2024), Timeless (2016).

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 7.2
 144K
Coherence (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style: mind bending, psychological, suspenseful, mind blowing, confusing ...
Plot: alternate reality, twists and turns, parallel universe, parallel world, time loop, quantum physics, disorder, paranoia, dinner party, comet, couples, asteroids and comets ...
Time: 2010s, near future, distant future, year 2013, future ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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Project Almanac (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time loop, teenager, time, time machine, alternate timeline, time paradox, butterfly effect, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, teleportation ...
Time: future, year 2015, year 2014, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
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 6.6
 161K
Happy Death Day (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, murderer, college, college student, mystery killer, dying repeatedly, murder, repeated event, masked killer, surprise birthday party, alternate timeline ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: arizona
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 6.8
 119K
The Family Man (2000)
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, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: christmas, midlife crisis, road not taken, destiny, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, lost love, fish out of water, lifestyle change, time travel, family relations ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place: new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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 6.8
 166K
Yesterday (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, China, Japan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
Style: romantic, feel good, sincere, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: the beatles, musician, rock star, moral dilemma, alternate reality, music, alternate dimension, alternate timeline, plagiarism, parallel universe, rock concert, male female friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 2004, 21st century
Place: england, liverpool, united kingdom, los angeles, moscow russia
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 7.6
 63K
Continuum (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to ...
Style: captivating, exciting, detective, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, heroine, getting home, policewoman, terrorist group, time jump, existence paradox, changing the past or future, sent to the past, alternate timeline, computer genius ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, vancouver, canada
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Timeliner (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: A message of an impending alien invasion that will wipe out all life on earth forces the creation of a special paramilitary team that has the ability to cross parallel realities, preparing all possible futures for the attack. But when a ...
Plot: alternate timeline
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 7.3
 584K
Tenet (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Plot unknown. The project is described as an action epic revolving around international espionage.
Style: unusual plot structure, suspense, twist ending, mind blowing, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: time paradox, time travel, time, time loop, cia agent, alternate timeline, quantum physics, terrorism, save the world, espionage, propaganda, time traveler ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s
Place: mumbai india, los angeles, india, vietnam, london ...
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We Were Tomorrow (2024)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: How many lifetimes will alter tomorrow? In attempt to salvage humanity, alchemists relocate a small group to an alternative world and grant them three lifetimes to restart the population. Now, after only a few centuries, those in the new world face ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: fight, survival, justice, end of the world, violence, equality, rescue, evacuation, chase, vestiges of humanity, civilization, culture clash ...
Time: 1920s
Place: australia
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 7.6
 47K
Timeless (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the ...
Style: romantic, exciting, light, surprise ending, intellectual ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate reality, alternate timeline, murder, female scientist, fighting crime, betrayal, mother daughter relationship, team, shooting, conspiracy ...
Place: san francisco
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 5.3
 7K
Flashback (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a chance encounter with a man forgotten from his youth, Fred literally and metaphorically journeys into his past.
Style: mind bending, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: time traveler, sent to the past, time loop, midlife crisis, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, life turned upside down, painter, drug, choice, moral dilemma, dealing with the past, uncover truth ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.4
 64K
Mirage (2018)
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: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: parallel universe, time travel, time paradox, time, uncover truth, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, fantasy world, alternate timeline, investigation, disappearance, alternate universe ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 1989, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place: spain
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, man versus machine, killer robot, dark future, terminator ...
Time: future, year 1984, 2010s, year 2017, year 1997 ...
Place: san francisco, los angeles
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, repeated event, military, danger, soldier, time paradox, space and aliens ...
Time: future, year 2014, near future, 2010s, 2020s ...
Place: france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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 7.8
 383K
About Time (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, time loop, life philosophy, fall in love, true love, couple relations, looking for love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, life, father son relationship, young woman ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
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 7.1
 326K
Deja Vu (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tricky, confusing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, date night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, twists and turns, investigation, terrorism, deja vu, time, police investigation, danger, changing the past or future, parallel universe, shooting ...
Time: year 2006, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
Style: humorous, not serious, psychotronic, retro, absurd
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, sent to the future, changing the past or future, hallucinogenic drug, virtual reality, buddy, disorder, friends, buddies, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, future
Place: new orleans, usa
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All About Christmas Eve (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 'Tis the Season for Evelyn Wright...literally, she is a party planner in NYC. At the last minute Eve finds out that one of her agency's top clients is throwing a HUGE Christmas event, in LA, on Christmas Eve! Eve must decide whether to ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good
Plot: christmas eve, christmas, dating, holiday, christmas season, christmas romance, alternate timeline, airplane trip, love and romance, relationship vs career, couples, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, new york
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La Belle Époque (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients ...
Style: romantic, humorous, contemplative, psychological, touching ...
Plot: husband wife conflict, actress, nostalgia, sex orgy, theater, orgy, dinner, romanticism, party, husband wife relationship, drug, memories ...
Place: france
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 7.4
 142K
What If...? (2021)
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: anthology, anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, multiverse, villain, twists and turns, power, female martial artist, fight, battles, universe, agent, superheroine, zombie ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Style: sweet, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: time travel, high school reunion, alternate timeline, nerd, alternate history, young mother, teenager, time loop, destiny, unlikely friendships, high school, hopes ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1960
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 8.0
 64K
Travelers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: time travel, time traveler, artificial intelligence, time machine, consciousness, police detective, time paradox, changing the future, sent to the past, post apocalypse, teamwork, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: north america
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 6.2
 7K
Retroactive (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Style: suspense, tense, road movie, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, changing the past or future, serial killer, time, alternate reality, alternate timeline, witnessing a crime, destiny, twists and turns, changing the future ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: texas, usa, arizona
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
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 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
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, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
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Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min.
Story: In 1999, an enormous meteor crashed onto Earth carrying extraterrestrial creatures known as Worms within it. These creatures took on the identities of real humans and then killed them. In order to counter this new threat, ZECT was formed, who in ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, futuristic, scenic ...
Plot: superhero, alternate timeline, superpower, kamen rider, good versus evil, post apocalypse, warrior, power rangers, evil alien, fantasy world, battles, morphing ...
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Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, heroes, martial arts, chase, superhero, heroic mission, undercover, danger, alternate timeline, psychopath, kickboxing ...
Time: 19th century, year 1929, 1920s, year 1988, year 2002 ...
Place: germany, europe, los angeles, texas, california ...
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 7.6
 579K
Watchmen (2009)
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, visually stunning, visually appealing, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, alternate reality, vigilante, anti hero, distopia, good versus evil, moral dilemma, mars, masked vigilante, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place: usa, new york, america, washington d.c., los angeles ...
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, breathtaking, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, manly, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, time travel, terminator, robot, cyborgs, man versus machine, apocalypse, androids and robots, end of the world, violence, child in peril, time traveler ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1991, near future ...
Place: california, los angeles, america, persia, usa ...
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