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, exciting, atmospheric, interesting, clever and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with parallel world, parallel universe, alternate reality, suspense, danger, supernatural, time travel, technology, time and imaginary plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as parallel world: The Gateway (2018), Another Earth (2011), Coherence (2013), Upside Down (2012), Sliders (1995), Inception (2010), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Pleasantville (1998), Stranger Things (2016), Kill Switch (2017).
Best films
List of parallel world movies
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:
thought provoking, futuristic, atmospheric, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
parallel world, time travel, parallel universe, alternate universe, research, lookalikes, portal, couple relations, discovery, suspense, time portal, relationship problems ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, 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:
thought provoking, surreal, artsy, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
parallel world, guilt, loneliness, space, tragedy, redemption, nasa, grief, space travel, solar system, cosmology, mysterious planet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, boston, mojave desert, yale university
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133K
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:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, tense, confusing ...
Plot:
parallel world, twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel universe, time loop, friends, disorder, paranoia, suspense, dinner party, confinement indoors, comet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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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, romantic, touching, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
alternate reality, fantasy world, forbidden love, gravity, parallel world, love, true love, imagination, love story, chase, beautiful scenery, amnesia ...
Time:
future
Place:
latin america
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19K
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:
exciting, atmospheric, clever, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
parallel world, alien invasion, alternate reality, hopes, alternate dimension, getting home, portal, life changing experience, time portal, time travel, experiment gone awry, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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2.4M
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, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
suspense, memory, virtual reality, alternate reality, dream, subconscious, architecture, existentialism, fictional reality, mind control, imagination, lucid dream ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
paris france, japan, los angeles, new york, kenya ...
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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, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot:
alternate reality, virtual reality, twists and turns, cyberpunk, cyberspace, time travel, computer system, parallel universe, parallel world, distopia, dystopic future, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
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132K
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, surreal, talky ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, time travel, alternate reality, coming of age, parallel world, utopia, symbolism, distopia, fish out of water, fantasy world, parallel universe, teenager ...
Time:
50s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
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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, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot:
supernatural, monster, small town, telekinesis, experiment, parallel world, supernatural power, friendship, super powers, missing person, government conspiracy, boy ...
Time:
80s, future, year 1983, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place:
indiana, usa, ussr
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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, exciting, tense, futuristic, psychological ...
Plot:
parallel world, disaster, distopia, experiment, escape, fear, murder, laboratory, deception, cyberpunk, scientist, betrayal ...
Time:
near future
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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
Plot:
parallel world, teenager, twists and turns, young heroes, friendship, rivalry, technology, getting home, youth, escapades, disorder, adaptation ...
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238K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, preschoolers ...
Plot:
monster, children, parallel world, alternate reality, stop motion, secret place, weirdo, fantasy world, clue, loneliness, heroine, family relations ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, michigan, texas
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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, urban fantasy
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
young heroes, supernatural ability, parallel world, friendship, youth, lost, chosen one, good versus evil, teenage boy, supernatural, magic, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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354K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, jungle, childhood, magic, monkey, time travel, board game, animals, disappearance, getting home, children, parallel world ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, year 1969, year 1995, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
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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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12K
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:
captivating, exciting, dorama, sentimental, tense
Plot:
parallel world, fall in love, heroes, alternate reality, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fantasy world, surrealism, friendship, happy ending, parents and children, destiny, supernatural ...
Place:
korea
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1.9M
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, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
space, time travel, space travel, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, distopia, survival, scientist, space station, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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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 ...
Plot:
time travel, alternate reality, destiny, time loop, death, parallel world, dealing with death, memory loss, twists and turns, foreknowledge, family problems, couples ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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777K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Style:
anime, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, colourful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, magic, surrealism, supernatural, dragon, witch, parallel world, ghost, human becoming an animal, fantasy world, rescue, bathhouse ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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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, surprise ending
Plot:
parallel world, protagonist as suspect, memory loss, hospital, alternate reality, uncover truth, life is a bitch, siblings relations, mistaken identity, paranormal phenomena, sister sister relationship, mother love ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
After dying as a result of God's mistake, the main character finds himself in a parallel world, where he begins his second life. His only possessions are the body that God gave back to him and a smartphone that works even in this new world. As ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel world, travel, new life, magic, obsessive quest, life after death, love, friends, harem, life & death, fantasy world, super strength ...
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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, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
parallel world, twists and turns, supernatural, memory loss, healing power, murder, suspense, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, dealing with death, time loop, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
There is a popular saying: "you can never be too careful." It is very important to prepare for every situation you may face, even if it seems like an unnecessary waste of time. Also, in games like RPGs, it is good to exceed the level of ...
Style:
anime, exciting, disturbing, stylized
Plot:
battles, goddess, parallel world, friendship, god, heroes, magical, demon, monster, suspense, magic, team ...
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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, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
parallel world, time travel, failed pilot, parallel universe, hospital, mysterious character, space and aliens, benign alien, doctors, fbi, fbi agent, chase ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A mecha otaku is reincarnated into another world as Ernesti Echevarria, also known as Eru. In this world, huge humanoid weapons known as Silhouette Knights exist. Dreaming of piloting those robots, Eru and his friends, Archid Olter and Adeltrud ...
Style:
anime, mecha, clever, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
giant robots, dream, friends, parallel world, robot vs. robot, robot, dream world, battles, technology, creativity, monster, magic ...
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237K
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, thought provoking, surreal, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
destiny, time, philosophy, alternate reality, surrealism, depression, butterfly effect, utopia, multiple outcomes, life changing experience, twists and turns, bittersweet ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
Style:
ambiguous ending, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
deadly creature, time travel, science, parallel world, experiment gone awry, suspense, tentacle, alternate dimension, monster, experiment, scientist, space ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
When ordinary teenager Kyra touches a mysterious book, she is transformed into a Tri-ling-–part-human, part-fairy and part-elf. In addition to acquiring amazing magical powers, Kyra discovers a secret world of magic all around her.
Style:
feel good, exciting, captivating, light
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
magic, friendship, magical power, elf, parallel world, fairy, research, magical creature, teenager, magical, temple, wizards and magicians ...
Place:
asia, vietnam, thailand
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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, apocalypse, human nature, dark humor, chaos, rivalry, society, new world order, political satire, suspense, nuclear radiation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
space travel, time travel, space and aliens, alien planet, parallel world, alien race, save the world, ancient mystery, parallel universe, space, alien, back from the dead ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
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