Top Alternative World Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Burt Reynolds

Julianne Moore

John C. Reilly

Boogie Nights (1997)

7.6 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

Style: melancholy

Plot: new year's eve, adultery, pornography, robbery, husband wife relationship, drug abuse, cocaine, porn actor, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

B: The Beginning (2018) TV Show

7.6 184 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Genius investigator Keith Flick rejoins the royal police force just as serial killer "B" emerges. Mysterious youth Koku may be an ally, or a target.

Style: psychological

Plot: detective, anti hero, secret organization, immortality, police, supernatural, revenge, brainwashing, ...

Cast

Jude Law

John Malkovich

Silvio Orlando

Cu00e9cile de France

The New Pope (2020) TV Show

7.6 308 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Italy

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-MA

Story: As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

Plot: vatican (holy see), pope, europe, controversy, religion, miniseries, church, alternative world

Place: italy

Cast

Alexa Davalos

Rufus Sewell

Joel de la Fuente

Jason O'Mara

The Man in the High Castle (2015) TV Show

7.5 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

Plot: based on novel or book, resistance, nazi, dystopia, alternate history, post world war ii, alternative reality, antagonistic

Cast

Brit Marling

Jason Isaacs

Emory Cohen

Kingsley Ben-Adir

The OA (2016) TV Show

7.5 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

Style: intimate

Plot: alternate dimension, surrealism, disappearance, blind, dimensional travel, near-death experience, science fiction, thriller

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (2018) TV Show

7.5 76 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Fourth-grade friends George and Harold have a shared love of pranks and comic books -- and turning their principal into an undies-wearing superhero.

Plot: underwear, elementary school, alter ego, superhero, best friend, principal, baldness, 3d animation

Cast

Trey Parker

Matt Stone

April Stewart

Kimberly Brooks

South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)

7.5 291 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 49 min.

Audience: R

Story: Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), satire, social satire, adult animation, political satire, class struggle, gender swap, alternate universe, ...

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Cast

Michael Keaton

Emma Stone

Zach Galifianakis

Edward Norton

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

7.4 13.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Plot: new york city, midlife crisis, show business, superhero, dark comedy, times square, alter ego, aging actor, ...

Cast

Chris Pine

Zachary Quinto

Leonard Nimoy

Eric Bana

Star Trek (2009)

7.4 10.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: spacecraft, teleportation, san francisco, california, space battle, time travel, space mission, parachute, ...

Time: 23rd century, 24th century

Cast

Eoin Macken

Chiku00e9 Okonkwo

Zyra Gorecki

Rohan Mirchandaney

La Brea (2021) TV Show

7.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-14

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 but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.

Plot: time travel, alternate dimension, survival

Ressha Sentai ToQger (2014) TV Show

7.4 14 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 47

Story: The evil empire, Shadow Line appeared to cover the world in darkness. Five childhood friends who have great imaginations were selected as the ToQgers to fight the Shadow Line.

Plot: monster, amnesia, superhero, alternate dimension, mecha, giant robot, giant monster, train, ...

Cast

Junko Takeuchi

Chie Nakamura

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Emi Shinohara

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012)

7.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Sixteen years ago, a mysterious masked ninja unleashes a powerful creature known as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox on the Hidden Leaf Village Konoha, killing many people. In response, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki, the Demon Fox's living prison or Jinchūriki, manage to seal the creature inside their newborn son Naruto Uzumaki. With the Tailed Beast sealed, things continued as normal. However, in the present day, peace ended when a group of ninja called the Akatsuki attack Konoha under the guidance of Tobi, the mysterious masked man behind Fox's rampage years ago who intends on executing his plan to rule the world by shrouding it in illusions.

Plot: fight, village, love, ninja, dead parents, alternative reality, shounen, anime, ...

Cast

Rufus Sewell

William Hurt

Kiefer Sutherland

Jennifer Connelly

Dark City (1998)

7.3 3.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: beach, amnesia, experiment, paranoia, dystopia, sleep, manipulation, mad scientist, ...

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Sofie Gru00e5bu00f8l

Su00f8ren Malling

The Last Viking (2025)

7.3 174 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 116 min.

Story: After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.

Plot: dark comedy, childhood trauma, alter ego, jail, bank robbery, mental illness, danish, brothers, ...

ChalkZone (2002) TV Show

7.3 54 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 110

Audience: TV-Y

Story: When anything is erased from a chalkboard, it’s not really gone – it just enters a realm called the Chalkzone. And fifth grader Rudy Tabootie found a way to go there! With a piece of “White Lightning” chalk, he can enter the Chalkzone any time he likes. In the Chalkzone, Rudy befriends Snap, a bold superhero Rudy drew years ago. But Rudy soon discovers not every doodle is friendly.

Plot: chalk, alternate universe, exhilarated

Sonny Boy (2021) TV Show

7.3 89 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: On August 16, midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation, middle school third-year student Nagara, transfer student Nozomi, classmates Mizuho, Asakaze and their entire class are suddenly transported from their tranquil lives to a school adrift in an alternate dimension. They must survive with the super powers that have awakened within them.

Style: psychological

Plot: utopia, alternate dimension, romance, survival, school, another dimension, super power, junior high school, ...

Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir

Cast

Antoine Tomu00e9

Anouck Hautbois

Benjamin Bollen

Fanny Bloc

Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir (2024)

7.3 547 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: France

Duration: 48 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ladybug and Cat Noir discover the existence of a parallel universe in which they're supervillains determined to seize the Butterfly Miraculous.

Plot: paris, france, magic, superhero, butterfly, alternative reality, kids, based on tv series, ...

Cast

Tobey Maguire

Reese Witherspoon

William H. Macy

Joan Allen

Pleasantville (1998)

7.3 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Plot: sibling relationship, dystopia, diner, satire, book burning, coming of age, racism, bathtub, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Dylan O'Brien

Eliza Scanlen

Caroline Falk

Lauren Ambrose

Caddo Lake (2024)

7.2 532 votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

Plot: time travel, missing child, alternative reality, alternate timeline, broken family, mysterious disappearance, grieving mother, unexplained events, ...

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch

Xochitl Gomez

Elizabeth Olsen

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

7.2 10.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

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.

Plot: magic, superhero, based on comic, alternative reality, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, marvel cinematic universe (mcu)

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