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 5.8
 5K
Parallel (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.
Style: surreal, intellectual, thought provoking, independent film, psychotronic ...
Plot: alternate reality, mirror, existentialism, time travel, evil, time, nerd, visceral, real world, philosophy, destiny, transformation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: seattle
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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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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
Style: suspense, entertaining, action adventure, anamorphic, disgusting ...
Audience: family friendly, kids
Plot: robot, alien, alien invasion, shapeshifting, giant robot, culture clash, artificial intelligence, transforming robot, revenge, survival, alternate reality, violence ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future, medieval times, middle ages ...
Place: tower bridge london, detroit, havana cuba, pentagon, china ...
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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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The 10th Kingdom (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 417 min.
TV show
Story: Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White's grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself ...
Style: fairy tale, exciting, scenic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot: magical, magic, good versus evil, fairy, journey, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, friendship, imaginary, supernatural, parallel universe, supernatural ability ...
Place: usa, virginia, new york
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot: hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, amnesia, stream of consciousness, uncertainty, alternate reality, haunted by the past, hopes, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: france, europe
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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 Sky Crawlers (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, because they fight a war as entertainment, organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the ...
Style: anime, exciting, dieselpunk, manga, entertaining ...
Plot: alternate reality, battles, airplane, military, danger, rivalry, society, supernatural, haunted by the past, mortal combat, eternal youth, teenager ...
Place: japan, seattle, asia
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 6.2
 265K
Total Recall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, memory loss, dystopic future, post apocalypse, technology, on the run, dystopian future, mars, false memory, secret agent ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle, big ben london
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 7.6
 391K
The Others (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mansion, supernatural horror, mysterious character, haunting, spiritualism, macabre ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 2000, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place: persia, america, europe, english channel, england
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 6.7
 71K
Sliding Doors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Gwyneth Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, clever, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: infidelity, choice, road not taken, love, time travel, breakup, parallel universe, multiple outcomes, butterfly effect, destiny, love story, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: london, england, europe, usa, tower bridge london ...
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Nightmare Street (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After saving her daughter from an accident Joanna wakes up in the hospital in an alternate world where nothing is as it should be. Someone else lives in her house, her daughter is gone and everyone calls her Sarah. The problem is Sarah is suspected ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: parallel world, protagonist as suspect, memory loss, hospital, uncover truth, life is a bitch, imaginary, siblings relations, mistaken identity, paranormal phenomena, sister sister relationship, mother love ...
Time: 90s
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, dystopia, protest, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria
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 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
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A Snow Globe Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While clasping her favorite Christmas snow globe, a cynical, overworked TV executive rants about how the movies she produces lie, making you think dreams come can come true. Upset, she tries to smash the globe, but instead it bonks her on the head, ...
Style: sweet, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: christmas, santa claus, alternate reality, holiday, family problems, road not taken, love and romance, husband wife relationship, winter, adaptation, male female relationship, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.6
 10K
Occupied (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.
Style: political, suspense, disturbing, serious, exciting ...
Plot: oil, occupation, alternate reality, infiltration, danger, greed, anxiety, resistance, invasion, spy, nordic, save the world ...
Place: europe, russia
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 6.8
 293K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, hotel, fear, stephen king, isolation, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, writers ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
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 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
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 6.6
 6K
Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
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 6.7
 78K
Ghost Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, haunted by the past, doctor, psychic, selflessness, self involved, untimely death, supernatural ability, character change ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
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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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 6.6
 196K
Event Horizon (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, supernatural, space station, spaceship, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, cosmic horror, hallucination, nightmare, rescue team ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1997, 2040s, 21st century
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 6.4
 125K
The Giver (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, atmospheric, exciting, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: distopia, youth, dystopia, community, utopia, post apocalypse, society, life is a bitch, humanity, memory, danger, rebelliousness ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2014, 2040s
Place: peru
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his ...
Style: philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, suspense, mind blowing ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, astronaut, ape, planet of the apes, space and aliens, time travel, end of the world, trial, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, plot twist, survival ...
Time: future, stone age, 20th century, distant future, year 1968 ...
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For All Mankind (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Style: realistic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: space program, astronaut, space race, nasa, space travel, lesbian, mining, moon, u.s. president, moon landing, space, lgbt ...
Time: year 1969, future, 70s, 60s, 80s ...
Place: usa
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 7.1
 387K
Snowpiercer (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: britain, south korea, east asia
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 6.4
 64K
New Nightmare (1994)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, psychopath, filmmaking, blood, serial killer, monster, nightmare on elm street, hospital, alternate reality, supernatural horror, murder, writers ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, los angeles, california
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 6.8
 337K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place: america, usa
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 7.2
 248K
The Fountain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style: surreal, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: metaphysics, spirituality, afterlife, cancer, buddhism, immortality, surrealism, multiple storylines, obsession, loneliness, love, death ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place: spain, tibet, latin america, europe, central america ...
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 7.1
 119K
The Jacket (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychology, time loop, mental institution, supernatural, murder, hallucination, mental illness, memory loss, butterfly effect, supernatural ability, parallel universe ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place: iraq, vermont
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