Top Alternative World Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Tu00e9a Leoni

Don Cheadle

Jeremy Piven

The Family Man (2000)

6.8 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.

Plot: businessman, workaholic, midlife crisis, holiday, second chance, magic realism, first love, lost love, ...

Cast

Freddie Highmore

Sarah Bolger

David Strathairn

Mary-Louise Parker

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

6.7 2.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

Plot: sibling relationship, parent child relationship, elves, fairy, twin brother, family relationships, single mother, twins, ...

Cast

Himesh Patel

Lily James

Sophia Di Martino

Ellise Chappell

Yesterday (2019)

6.7 4.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten.

Plot: musician, pop singer, liverpool, england, music festival, rock concert, alternative reality, moral dilemma, ...

Place: united kingdom

Cast

Ezra Miller

Sasha Calle

Michael Keaton

Michael Shannon

The Flash (2023)

6.6 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

Plot: secret identity, superhero, time travel, based on comic, superhuman, super power, aftercreditsstinger, time paradox, ...

Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! Movie BANG!

Cast

Yasuhisa Furuhara

Shinwa Kataoka

Rina Aizawa

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Masahiro Usui

Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! Movie BANG! (2008)

6.6 9 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Family

Country: Japan

Duration: 35 min.

Story: The Go-Ongers intercept the Recycle Barbaric Machine Beast Army in their Engines, managing to scrap the 13. However, trio of mysterious warriors appear and their actions result in the Go-Ongers losing the primary Engine Casts while being sucked into the Braneworld known as Samurai World, a dimension similar to Edo Japan where power is essential.

Plot: samurai, alternate dimension, superhero team, talking car, based on tv series, super sentai, cars, tokusatsu

Cast

Laurence Fishburne

Sam Neill

Kathleen Quinlan

Joely Richardson

Event Horizon (1997)

6.6 3.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

Plot: space marine, nightmare, insanity, delusion, hallucination, space travel, cryogenics, gore, ...

Time: 2040s

The Giver (2014)

6.6 4.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

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.

Plot: new love, based on novel or book, dystopia, anti conformity, memory, alternative reality, color, based on young adult novel

Time: 2040s

Cast

Jerry Lewis

Stella Stevens

Del Moore

Henry Gibson

The Nutty Professor (1963)

6.5 471 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Plot: professor, chemistry, nerd, alter ego, teacher, love, potion, jekyll and hyde, ...

Cast

Yasuhisa Furuhara

Shinwa Kataoka

Rina Aizawa

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Masahiro Usui

Engine Sentai Go-Onger (2008) TV Show

6.5 20 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 50

Story: The Barbaric Machine Clan “Gaiark” was exiled from the Machine World by the Engines, who are huge machines that have their own will. With the exile, the Gaiark switched their target to the world of humans and attacked to pollute the Earth in order to make it more habitable for them. This is when three young individuals with hearts of justice stand up as Go-Ongers.

Plot: monster, pollution, superhero, alternate dimension, racing, mecha, giant robot, giant monster, ...

Cast

Jeffrey Combs

Barbara Crampton

Ken Foree

Ted Sorel

From Beyond (1986)

6.5 674 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Italy

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.

Plot: experiment, transformation, mad scientist, alternate dimension, parallel world, lovecraftian

Cast

Heather Langenkamp

Robert Englund

Miko Hughes

Wes Craven

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

6.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

Style: satirical, intense

Plot: fire, dreams, nightmare, sadism, kidnapping, psychopath, movie business, supernatural, ...

Cast

Josh Hutcherson

Jonah Bobo

Dax Shepard

Kristen Stewart

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

6.4 3.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

Plot: fire, based on novel or book, killer robot, house, space travel, wish, meteor, challenge, ...

Cast

Farhan Akhtar

Deepika Padukone

Shefali Shah

Ram Kapoor

Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)

6.4 106 votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 135 min.

Story: A much abused loner achieves success, and even wins the heart of his gorgeous co-worker, after getting early morning mysterious phone calls from someone.

Plot: schizophrenia, childhood trauma, alter ego, mental control, haunted by the past

Cast

Adam Sandler

Kate Beckinsale

Christopher Walken

David Hasselhoff

Click (2006)

6.3 7.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

Plot: dying and death, regret, workaholic, heart attack, architect, liposuction, time travel, remote control, ...

Upside Down (2012)

6.3 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

Style: exploitation

Plot: amnesia, upper class, forbidden love, planet, class differences, alternative reality, gravity, cosmetics, ...

Cast

Jason Segel

Rooney Mara

Robert Redford

Jesse Plemons

The Discovery (2017)

6.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 102 min.

Story: In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

Plot: suicide, alternative reality, life after death, detached, ambiguous, bewildered

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Dennis Quaid

Jaboukie Young-White

Gabrielle Union

Strange World (2022)

6.2 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.

Plot: monster, coming of age, harmony, farmer, explorer, lgbt teen, alternative world, 3d animation, ...

Cast

Paul Rudd

Evangeline Lilly

Michael Douglas

Michelle Pfeiffer

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

6.2 5.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope's parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

Plot: hero, superhero, ant, based on comic, sequel, alternate dimension, family, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Emily Browning

Abbie Cornish

Jena Malone

Vanessa Hudgens

Sucker Punch (2011)

6.2 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical items, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.

Style: surreal

Plot: samurai, escape, asylum, brothel, surrealism, sword fight, dragon, robot, ...

Cast

Rebel Wilson

Liam Hemsworth

Adam Devine

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Isn't It Romantic (2019)

6.2 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

Plot: new york city, satire, romcom, parody, romance, spoof, low self esteem, alternative present, ...

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