Parallel world movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant parallel world movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with parallel world, alternate reality, parallel universe, time travel, danger, supernatural, imaginary, time, murder and twists and turns plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as parallel world: The Gateway (2018), Upside Down (2012), Coherence (2013), Another Earth (2011), Pleasantville (1998), Sliders (1995), Mr. Nobody (2009), Inception (2010), Kill Switch (2017), The Thirteenth Floor (1999).

List of parallel world movies

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 5.4
 5K
The Gateway (2018)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
Style: atmospheric, suspense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: time travel, parallel world, parallel universe, alternate universe, portal, lookalikes, couple relations, discovery, research, universe, relationship problems, time portal ...
Time: future
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 6.3
 74K
Upside Down (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, romantic, touching, stylized ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fantasy world, true love, forbidden love, gravity, parallel world, alternate reality, imagination, love story, beautiful scenery, chase, fighting the system, parallel universe ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2012, year 2013
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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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 6.9
 100K
Another Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style: surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place: usa, mojave desert, boston, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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 7.5
 136K
Pleasantville (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, visual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, utopia, siblings relations, american dream, fantasy world, small town life, parallel universe ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: america, france, paris france
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 7.4
 20K
Sliders (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Wells and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an ...
Style: clever, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: parallel world, alien invasion, alternate reality, danger, alternate dimension, getting home, hopes, life changing experience, time portal, time travel, portal, experiment gone awry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california
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 7.7
 245K
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style: psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: time, philosophy, destiny, alternate reality, surrealism, butterfly effect, depression, choice, utopia, twists and turns, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2011, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: canada
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 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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 4.7
 9K
Kill Switch (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, exciting, futuristic ...
Plot: parallel world, cyberpunk, disaster, distopia, experiment, science runs amok, deception, fear, murder, betrayal, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: near future
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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style: mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Plot: virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, time travel, cyberspace, computer system, parallel universe, twists and turns, artificial intelligence, parallel world, consciousness, imaginary ...
Time: future, 90s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.0
 3K
Nowhere Boys (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Four teenage boys get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, children's program ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: young heroes, parallel world, friendship, youth, good versus evil, chosen one, supernatural ability, teenage boy, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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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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 8.7
 1.3M
Stranger Things (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, telekinesis, small town, parallel universe, experiment, parallel world, friendship, supernatural power, super powers, missing person, government conspiracy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, future, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: indiana, chicago, usa, soviet union
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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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 8.7
 2.1M
Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
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Correspondence (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.
Style: captivating, exciting, thought provoking, sentimental
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, male female relationship, female nudity, scientist, twists and turns, mind game, parallel world, relationships, porn, sex in a hotel, girl man relationship, cemetery ...
Place: edinburgh scotland
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 5.9
 81K
Premonition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: time travel, destiny, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, life & death, foreknowledge, deja vu, death, family problems ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.0
 31K
Counterpart (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.
Style: suspenseful, serious, melancholic, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parallel universe, espionage, spy, parallel world, secret service, twists and turns, doppelganger, time travel, deception, blackmail, betrayal, murder ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: germany
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 5.4
 322
Doorways (1993)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Doorways is a proposed science fiction series from writer George R. R. Martin. A pilot was shot in May 1992, starring George Newbern, Anne Le Guernec, Robert Knepper, Kurtwood Smith, Max Grodenchik and Carrie-Anne Moss,[1] but was not picked up, and ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: parallel world, time travel, parallel universe, hospital, special agent, space and aliens, chases and races, benign alien, mysterious character, chase, fbi, fbi agent ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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 7.4
 11K
Lost in Austen (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London with her boyfriend Michael, until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennett.
Style: period piece, light, costume drama, colorful, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: time travel, prejudice, parallel world, eligible bachelor, romanticism, fall in love, twists and turns, imaginary, family relations, parents and children, initially antagonists, verbal byplay ...
Time: 1800s, regency period, 19th century, 2000s, georgian era ...
Place: england, europe, united kingdom, london, britain
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A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min.
Story: Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: guardian angel, youth, good versus evil, time travel, space and aliens, supernatural, parallel world, heroic mission, daring rescue, young heroes, escapades, danger ...
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 5.8
 16K
La Brea (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot: parallel world, struggle for survival, alternate dimension, alternate reality, alternate world, cave, cocaine, family relations, survival, pilot, secret, alternate universe ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
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W: Two Worlds Apart (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Han Hyo-joo plays a surgeon whose father is a famous comic book creator. One day Dad goes missing and she rushes to his workshop to look for him, and instead finds a strange man bathed in blood. She gets kidnapped by the bloody man, which is where ...
Style: dorama, captivating, exciting, sentimental, romantic drama ...
Plot: parallel world, friendship, surrealism, happy ending, fantasy world, parents and children, heroes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, alternate reality, fall in love, supernatural, investigation ...
Place: korea
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The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
Style: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: parallel world, supernatural, memory loss, murder, supernatural ability, time loop, haunted by the past, dealing with death, ghost, monster, groundhog day, time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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The Midnight After (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climbs aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse as the city: there’s ...
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, twisted, surreal ...
Plot: survival, parallel world, danger, apocalypse, human nature, dark humor, chaos, rivalry, society, asian, new world order, political satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, China, Belgium, Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, exciting, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, kids
Plot: alien, space travel, outer space, alien planet, space station, government agent, creature, mission, alien race, marriage proposal, space adventure, space pirate ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2017, year 1975, 70s ...
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 4.4
 49
901 km (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Pupils go on a trip to St. Petersburg. The next morning they wake up in the middle of an unknown terrain. The pupils try to find a way out.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, surprise ending
Plot: parallel world, teenager, danger, monster, murder, computer game, saving a life, missing person
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 8.2
 2K
Spellbinder (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Spellbinder is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, ...
Style: exciting, tense, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen fantasy
Plot: parallel world, danger, teenager, technology, young heroes, friendship, getting home, imaginary, youth, escapades, disorder, time travel ...
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 6.2
 687
Awaken (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alex's dreary life is reignited when he meets Rachel, the woman of his dreams. The only thing that stands in the way of their perfect, serendipitous relationship is that Rachel has recently passed away.
Style: touching, sincere, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, parallel world, bittersweet, unfulfillment, hopes, supernatural, afterlife, couples, love and romance, unfulfilled love, imaginary, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
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